Elbit Systems Ltd. announced the successful completion of the acceptance tests of the new patrol boats of the Greek Coast Guard.

The Russian military has begun tracking a ship of the French Navy that entered the Black Sea. This was announced on May 11 by the Russian Defense Ministry.

A detachment of ships of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) has arrived with a business call in Singapore, the press service of the Eastern Military District told reporters on Tuesday.

The exercises were held in accordance with the plan of combat training and daily activities of the fleet forces in the sea ranges of the Black Sea

The crew of the patrol ship "Vasily Bykov" conducted a set of exercises in the Black Sea, repelling a simulated missile attack and conducting artillery firing. This was reported on Tuesday in the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet (BSF).

A series of mine defense ships under construction for the Navy of the project 12700 will have a high level of automation, said the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, following a working meeting at the Admiralty, where issues of surface shipbuilding were considered.

The scientific and Production association "Vavilov State Optical Institute" (NPO GOI) is developing the production of infrared optical glasses of a special composition, the press service of the Shvabe holding, which includes the enterprise, reports.

In connection with the tragedy in Kazan in Russia, it is necessary to create a system that will respond to trigger phrases that indicate criminal intentions. This proposal was made by Anton Gorelkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications. He gave an example of how it works in the commercial sector on the Internet.

In China, an improved QSB-11 shooting knife for scouts and special forces was publicly demonstrated. Weapons in action showed the national television of the People's Republic of China in a report from the training of the special forces.

The Belgian company FN Herstal has created a machine gun that should outshine their previous legend Minimi. The new light machine gun was named FN EVOLYS and a number of unique features, with which the Belgians intend to "write a new chapter in the history of machine guns".

Estonian company Milrem Robotics has announced the signing of a distribution and maintenance agreement with the Australian company XTEK Ltd., as well as the delivery of the first ground-based remote-controlled machine THeMIS.

Despite the fact that the production of American Abrams tanks began in 1980, they still remain one of the most dangerous opponents. The fact is that these combat vehicles are constantly being improved. For example, in the publication "Armor is strong and tanks are fast... about the prospects for creating new combat tanks in the United States", published in the 5th issue of the magazine "Army Collection" for 2021, it is reported that more than 20 major upgrades have been carried out over 40 years.

For the Tornado-S multiple launch rocket system, the first high-precision guided missile of 300 mm caliber with a homing head is being created.

The Listva remote mine-clearing vehicle will be presented at the Army-2021 International Military-Technical Forum.

The promising Russian planning aircraft bomb "Drill" has passed tests that confirmed its combat effectiveness. This, as reported by "Interfax", said the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Yuri Borisov. According to him, the new aircraft munition is planned to be adopted by the Russian Aerospace Forces by the end of 2021.

The United States and its NATO allies have significantly stepped up biological research in many countries around the world in recent years. This was stated by the First Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Yuri Averyanov in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The rearmament units of the Strategic Missile Forces continue to receive the latest equipment of the RCB protection troops. Modern machines, including the ARS-14KM, RHM-6 and the first samples of the UTM-80M, allow you to fully solve the entire range of tasks from conducting reconnaissance to complete special processing of weapons, military and special equipment, including autonomous launchers.

The Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) receive a unique simulator designed to train the personnel of the security and intelligence units.

The spent stage of the Long March-5B launch vehicle entered the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean on May 9

The defense departments of the United States and China did not contact the situation with the fall of the wreckage of the Chinese launch vehicle Long March-5B ("Changzheng-5B", CZ-5B) to the Ground. This was announced on Monday by the press secretary of the US Defense Department, John Kirby.

The American interplanetary station OSIRIS-REx successfully turned on the engines for the subsequent exit from the orbit of the asteroid Bennu to return to Earth, the space operation was broadcast by NASA.

Voyager 1 detected plasma waves — the hum of interstellar gas. The NASA space probe is now 22.5 billion km from Earth, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The new data will help estimate the plasma density between the stars. Scientists analyze the impact of the solar wind on space. The Voyager-1 probe has been transmitting information from space for 44 years. About 9 years ago, the spacecraft crossed the heliopause — the outer boundary of the distribution of matter in the Solar System. The data is expected to stop coming in around 2025.