On Friday, the Kostroma Military Academy of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection named after Marshal of the Soviet Union S. K. Timoshenko held solemn events dedicated to the 90th anniversary of its formation.

The latest BMPT "Terminator" was involved in a special operation in Ukraine.

The TG channel of the ANNA-News news agency posted a video of the Terminator BMPT with the symbol "V" moving through a settlement in the area of Severodonetsk. These combat vehicles were first seen in Ukraine since the beginning of the special operation.

One of the six T-84U "Oplot" available to the APU was seen on the front line near Nikolaev. As noted by "RG: Russian weapons", earlier a tank of this model was first lit up in Kharkov, but there is no specific data on its participation in hostilities.

The armed formations of Ukraine for the first time received NATO tracked military equipment. We are talking about the YPR-765 infantry fighting vehicles supplied by the Netherlands. A video clip has appeared on the Network showing such "gifts" with the AFU militants riding on them.

Ukrainian nationalists are installing Brimstone land-based missile launchers supplied by the UK on the platforms of conventional low-tonnage trucks. In the event of a threat, the calculation can quickly cover the guides and get lost among civilian vehicles. Such tactics are often practiced by militants of various terrorist groups.

The Ukrainian military received Swedish automatic anti-aircraft guns. Pictures have appeared on the network that demonstrate an outdated Bofors Lvakan 40/60 gun in the location of one of the Ukrainian units. This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

The United States has delivered towed M777A2 155-mm howitzers to Ukraine, some of the guns are already in the Donbas and are participating in combat operations against the Russian army and units of the NM People's Republics. This was evidenced by multiple photos and videos with howitzers taken by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On May 11, 2022, Slovenian Defense Minister Matej Tonic signed a memorandum of understanding in Munich with the European Procurement Organization for Joint Cooperation in the field of armaments (Organization Conjointe de Coopération en matière d'Armement - OCCAR) on Slovenia's accession to the Boxer wheeled armored personnel carrier program.

The American company Oshkosh Defense intends to install new Cockerill CPWS combat modules on its JLTV SUVs, armed with the M242 Bushmaster automatic cannon of 25 mm caliber. Tests are planned to be carried out in the near future.

The American ground forces and Marines are going to revise the basic requirements for the training program for drivers of military vehicles. This is reported by the Army Times. The main reason for this decision is the frequent accidents involving military vehicles, including rollovers, sometimes with fatal outcomes for military personnel in cars.

The Power of the Future – military AI

Foreign Affairs is sounding the alarm – the United States is beginning to seriously lag behind China and Russia in the field of military artificial intelligence. The Pentagon is unnecessarily resting on its laurels, not understanding the enormous importance of AI. The authors write that a number of new US developments with AI have failed. America can cede military primacy in the world to its opponents.

The new platform proved to be very, very promising at the start: a single electron on solid neon maintained a superposition state for a long time.

In Russia, the Day of the Black Sea Fleet is celebrated on May 13. Political scientist Vladimir Kornilov told a story on Sputnik radio about how Russian officers and sailors managed to keep the Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol after the declaration of independence of Ukraine.

The strategic submarine missile carrier "Prince Oleg" (project 955-A) during training pierced the Arctic ice with a torpedo and created a wormwood to practice surfacing before launching a missile strike, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported on Friday.

The Australian edition of The Australian Financial Review published Andrew Tillett's article "Crew feared aging Australian submarine would sink in deep sea mishap" ("The crew feared that the aging Australian submarine would sink at great depth as a result of the incident"), which reports on a previously unreported serious incident with an Australian diesel-electric submarine SSG 77 Sheean type Collins boat.

The present material is the publication ИнВоен.info The publication of an article by Harry Lye, a senior reporter at Shephardmedia Publishing house, on the prospects for the concept of coastal response groups (LRG, Littoral Response Group; hereinafter - PGR) as part of the British Navy. The concept is published in the document of the British Military Command for 2021 (UK's 2021 Defense Command Paper).

Israel launched a missile strike on the outskirts of the city of Masyaf in the Syrian province of Hama. The Israeli rocket attack on Syria led to the death of people.

Vladimir Putin is holding a meeting with members of the Cabinet of Ministers via videoconference today. Among other things, the discussion of the economic situation in the country.

Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec Group) actively promotes modern Russian weapons and military equipment to the world market, which were presented during the solemn events dedicated to the Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

In the era of global disorder, Russia needs a "higher strategy"

In the conditions of the crisis of the unipolar world, the tasks of forecasting and taking into account radical changes in the military-political, economic and financial spheres, taking into account the impact of explosive development of technologies, developing strategies and counter-strategies of hybrid warfare as a new form of interstate confrontation, expanding the practice of waging war with "someone else's hands" are of particular importance.