The Israeli army has not confirmed the data on the beginning of a ground operation in the Gaza Strip

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues for the third day in a row. The parties exchange rocket attacks, the Israeli army used more than 160 aircraft and artillery to attack Hamas positions. There is no ground invasion of the Gaza Strip yet, although the IDF has previously announced " ground and air strikes." In three days, at least 1,800 rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip, Tel Aviv said.

The Philippine Navy prefers to purchase the recently decommissioned US Coast Guard Cyclone-class coastal patrol ships instead of the additional Hamilton-class boats.

The US State Department has approved a potential supply to Canada under the Foreign Military Sales program of the Aegis multifunctional Weapon Control System (Aegis) and related equipment.

The forces of the Russian Black Sea Fleet began tracking the actions of the British patrol ship "Trent", which entered the Black Sea. This was reported on Sunday, May 16, by the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Russian military conducted a training exercise of the anti-sabotage forces and Means Unit (PDSS) in the Crimean naval base, the Black Sea Fleet said on Saturday.

Off the coast of the Kaliningrad Region, the Baltic Fleet's naval minesweeping group conducted exercises.

The naval minesweeper Alexander Obukhov, the base minesweeper Leonid Sobolev, and the raid minesweeper Leonid Perepech took part in the maneuvers. The crews were ordered to defuse the mines placed by the imaginary enemy.

The large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Panteleev" performed artillery firing in the waters of the Peter the Great Bay, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reported on Saturday.

The Northern Fleet will receive 345 units of weapons this year, the share of modern equipment will be more than 62 percent, the commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, said at a briefing for Russian and foreign journalists on the nuclear missile cruiser "Peter the Great".

A detachment of ships of the Pacific Fleet completed a visit to Singapore, where it arrived on May 11, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reports.

The large sea tanker of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) "Boris Butoma" has entered the port of Cam Ranh (Vietnam), the navy said on Saturday.

The grouping of forces and means of the Russian army deployed in the Arctic is capable of ensuring Russia's military security – " Admiral Alexander Moiseev, Commander of the Russian Federation, said at a briefing for Russian and foreign journalists on the nuclear missile cruiser Peter the Great.

Exercises to repel hacker attacks will be held at five cyberpoligons of Rostelecom in 2021, they will allow coordinating the work of various structures, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.

Work continues on the creation of a promising means of protecting the respiratory organs of military personnel from harmful substances, chemical and bacteriological weapons.

The weapons are intended for special purpose units

Rosoboronexport of the Rostec State Corporation has completed the delivery of 4.5 mm special underwater pistols SPP-1M and special underwater submachine guns APS caliber 5.66 mm to a foreign partner. This was reported on Friday to journalists in the press service of Rostec.

Military personnel of the combined arms association of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed in the Republic of Buryatia, perform control shooting exercises on a unique interactive laser shooting range "Rubin-110". This shooting range is installed in the headquarters of the combined arms association.

It is no secret that the" service life " of modern military technologies is limited to a few years, after which they are replaced by new ones, and this creates enormous problems when upgrading existing equipment and weapons.

The Turks "crossed" the machine type MRAP with MLRS. On May 13, the head of the Defense Industry Department under the Turkish presidential administration, Ismail Demir, posted a video of testing a new modification of the Vuran machine on his official Twitter page.

Russian protected armored vehicles of special purpose K-43269 "Shot" continue to improve. At the parade in Nizhny Novgorod dedicated to the 76th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, among the new products from the Central Research Institute "Burevestnik" you could see the latest version.

On May 13, 2021, JSC "Ural Plant of Transport Engineering" (JSC "Uraltransmash", part of JSC "Research and Production Corporation "Uralvagonzavod") reported that as part of the state defense order, it delivered the first batch of 152-mm self-propelled howitzers 2S3M "Acacia" to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation after major repairs.

Modern armored personnel carriers BTR-82A and BTR-82AM with improved combat and driving characteristics will enter service with the Ground Forces. This was announced on Saturday, May 15, by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry.