More than 10 ships of the Caspian Flotilla, including small missile ships, entered the Caspian Sea as part of a control check of combat readiness for the winter training period, the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) told reporters on Thursday.

The project of construction of the destroyer "Leader" for the Russian Navy is unlikely to be implemented, said in an interview with RIA Novosti General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov.

The crews of the newest corvettes "Sharp" and "Zealous" after the stage of theoretical training at the Joint Training Center of the Navy in St. Petersburg begin to practice practical actions on training and training complexes as part of the ship's combat crews.

As reported by the TASS news agency on April 13, 2021, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu demanded to increase the pace and quality of work during the reconstruction and technical re-equipment of the dry dock of the 35th ship Repair plant located in Murmansk, the project is implemented by the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center (part of the USC Group of companies).

The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) called Washington's statements about the service's involvement in the cyberattack on SolarWinds nonsense.

The Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation conducted an exercise on the use of electronic warfare units (EW) in the Arctic zone, the press service of the fleet reported on Thursday.

The resident of the special economic zone of the capital "Special Design and Technological Bureau of Applied Robotics" ("SKTB PR") has delivered a batch of eight mobile robotic complexes MRK-15 for the Russian law enforcement agencies, designed to neutralize explosive objects, said the head of the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy of Moscow Alexander Prokhorov.

In 1969, during the border conflict over the island of Damansky, the Soviet side very successfully used the new BM-21 Grad MLRS. The Chinese military was very impressed with the power of the new weapon. When a captured BM-21 fell into their hands ten years later, they immediately copied it and began to improve it in stages.

The Russian army may be armed with a new light multiple launch rocket system. This weapon is developed by specialists of the NGO "SPLAV", which is part of the concern"Techmash".

Russian armored vehicles for airborne units began to be promoted on the world market. We are talking about the BMD-4M combat landing vehicle and the BTR-MDM armored personnel carrier.

A new column of Ukrainian armored vehicles has been spotted near Mariupol.

Interestingly, most of the samples in it were previously intended for export, but after the events of 2014, they appeared in the units of the National Guard of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian authorities intend to build at least two cartridge factories in the country, Alexey Arestovich, adviser to the Kiev delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on the Donbas, said on April 14.

Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Melnyk in Berlin called on Western countries to think about returning his country's nuclear status. He said this on the radio station Deutschlandfunk.

The first team of recruits of the Strategic Missile Forces arrived in the Tatishchev rocket compound (Saratov region) for military service on conscription. Many of the recruits have higher education and sports categories in various sports.

The Smerch 9M55K5 and 9M531 multiple rocket launchers are effective weapons against lightly armored vehicles and enemy personnel. The difference between them is in the range of the flight. The first one can hit 70 km, and the second one can hit 90 km.

This summer, the Russian and Belarusian military will begin joint combat duty on air defense (air defense) at one of the airfields in Belarus.

As part of the tactical exercise, the air defense units of the Southern Military District conducted live firing from S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems at air targets at the specialized Telemba training ground in Buryatia.

Specialists in electronic warfare of the 49th Army of the Southern Military District for the first time used the latest complex "Field-21" in the system of the reconnaissance and strike circuit. The impenetrable interference dome allows you to control the airspace within a radius of more than 50 kilometers.

The reusable American rocket New Shepard, created to send people to the edge of space and back, on Wednesday made another successful test suborbital flight, said the developer company Blue Origin.

Japanese startup ispace will deliver the first lunar rover of the Arab world to the moon, using its Hakuto-R lander. Thus, in 2022, the list of countries that managed to land their spacecraft on the Moon can be replenished with two at once, according to the website Space.com.