Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to sign an agreement with Tajikistan on the creation of a unified regional air defense system.

Interplanetary missions will be included in the national planetary exploration program

China plans to launch new missions to Mars and Jupiter to explore these planets and return rock samples to Earth. This was stated by the chief designer of the national Mars mission "Tianwen-1" Zhang Rongqiao.

The spacecraft should be launched in 2029

Roscosmos has signed a contract with the Lavochkin NPO for the development of a technical proposal for the new generation Venera-D space complex for basic space research. This is stated in the documents on the public procurement website.

The Ukrainian medium rocket "Cyclone-4M" in 2023 will fly from the Canso space center in the province of Nova Scotia (Canada), reports CBC.

The Marine Corps has begun decommissioning the Bell AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters, a modern version of the AH — 1 Super Cobra. Purchases of new cars of this type will continue.

Starting with the Eastern European beggars, the fashion for "digital" camouflage coloring of combat aircraft continues to spread around the world, capturing Russia, and now, perhaps, reaching the United States. An emerging photo of a Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor fighter from the 3rd Fighter Wing of the US Air Force from Elmendorf-Richardson Air Force Base in Alaska, while refueling in the air on May 7, 2021 from a McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender tanker aircraft during exercise Northern Edge 21.

The Nagurskoye Arctic airfield on Franz Josef Land, after the construction of a new runway, can accommodate any class of aircraft, including strategic bombers. As the chief of staff of the Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, Major General Igor Churkin, told reporters, the airfield was put into operation last year. The length of its runway is 3.5 thousand meters. "This allows the airfield to accept all classes of aircraft," Churkin said.​

During the demonstration flights, NATO aircraft, with a high degree of probability, are practicing strikes on Belarus and the Russian Federation, said the first Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus, Major General Igor Korol.

Ukraine's accession to NATO will become an unnecessary burden and reduce the security of existing members of the North Atlantic Alliance. The priorities of the United States should be to avoid an unnecessary war with an enemy with nuclear weapons, and to ensure the prosperity of the Americans.

It is reported that the military is on full alert around the clock in the areas of concentration, and in the event of an aggravation of the situation, they are always ready to respond adequately to a military threat.

The State Duma Defense Committee recommended that the house denounce the Open Skies Treaty, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Yuri Shvytkin told Interfax on Monday.

[b]The units and personnel involved in the exercises were alerted, their movements were masked from the air defense of the imaginary enemy, the Ministry of Defense of the republic said.]

The Azerbaijani Armed Forces have started command and staff exercises in Nakhichevan. This was reported on Monday by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic.

In his opinion, this is due to the lack of ideology

As part of his speech at the forum "Youth and Science" in Nizhny Novgorod, the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Alexander Sergeev criticized the level of knowledge of graduates of Russian universities. This is reported by the press service of the Lobachevsky National Research University.

Military personnel of the special forces unit of the Pskov Guards Amphibious Assault Unit and the Center for Special Parachute Training of the Airborne Forces from Ryazan made jumps from a height of six thousand meters. They jumped in special oxygen equipment.

The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan does not contribute to the normalization of the situation and reconciliation in this country, it may affect the stability in the region, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

The Pentagon does not comment on the statements of the Russian Defense Ministry about the violation of the protocol of deconfliction in Syria and that the American convoy was stopped by the Russian military police in the north-eastern Syrian province of Hasakah.

The US military violated the rules of deconfliction in Syria, said the deputy head of the Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties (CPVS) in the Arab Republic, Rear Admiral Alexander Karpov.

The United States believes that in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israel has the right to self-defense, will ensure its military superiority.

Israeli Defense Minister Beni Gantz said that if the shelling continues, the country will stop providing support to the Palestinians, which is designed to ease their economic situation. This is reported on Saturday, May 15, The Jerusalem Post.

The Israeli authorities handed over to the United States intelligence proving the validity of the strike on a building in Gaza, where foreign media were based, writes the Jerusalem Post, citing sources close to the head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry.