NATO allies should seriously address the strategic objectives of the alliance, in particular, on the issue of Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday.

In early June, the United States delivered $ 14.9 million worth of 155-mm artillery ammunition to the Estonian Armed Forces, and $ 2.7 million worth of AN/TSQ – 288 mobile radars to the Estonian Navy to support the country's defense capabilities and increase situational awareness at sea.

Negotiations on the preparation of joint special exercises "Echelon-2021", "Search-2021" and "Interaction-2021"were held in Dushanbe. The organization noted that all the necessary issues were discussed, the venue itself was inspected and the landfills were studied, as they say, by foot. This is important because the troops will have to operate in the difficult terrain of the mountainous desert area.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko visited the Smolino test site in the Nizhny Novgorod Region during a working trip, where he checked the progress of the state defense order.

The agreement on the logistics support point may be amended prior to its ratification

Russia confirms its readiness to strengthen military-technical cooperation with Sudan, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Russian warships will be able to enter the Congo, and planes will be able to land on the territory of this country. This provides for an intergovernmental agreement on military cooperation.

The explosion of a high-pressure air cylinder on board the Indian Navy's nuclear submarine "Chakra" (INS Chakra) of the project 971U "Pike-B", which occurred in the spring of 2020 and damaged both hulls of the submarine, caused its early return to Russia by India from the lease.

From June 23 to 27, 2021, the tenth International Naval Salon "MVMS 2021"will be held in St. Petersburg. The salon is held in accordance with the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1906-r of 19.07.2019. The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has been designated as the organizer of the "MVMS-2021".

In Ukraine, they do not give up hope to bring to mind the long-suffering BTR-4, which has already been rejected by several states. The Ukrainian military department reported on the allegedly successful tests of the version "with improved characteristics for overcoming water obstacles."

The main striking force of the Venezuelan ground forces is currently the Russian-made T-72B1V and the AMX-30V purchased in France. The

"Seventy-second" has 92 pieces. According to some reports, they differ from conventional vehicles of this modification by new means of communication, a different type of track belts, which received asphalt shoes.

The servicemen of the amphibious assault regiment in Stavropol received a battalion set of the latest equipment - 31 BMD-4M combat vehicles and eight BTR-MDM "Shell" armored personnel carriers. By the end of the year, three more sets of combat vehicles will be delivered under the rearmament program.

Qatar and Russia are exchanging military delegations for training and gathering information, but there is no progress on the issue of supplying S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to Doha. This was announced on June 9 by the Qatari Ambassador to Russia, Sheikh Ahmed bin Nasser Al Thani.

The Myanmar military delegation came to Russia to get acquainted with the production of the Pantsir air defense systems, an informed source told Interfax.

The device is intended for shooting the landing sites of Soviet lunar rovers and American astronauts on the moon

Igor Potashny, director of the Roscosmos research and Analytical Center, said during the presentation of a private lunar microsatellite that the state corporation will monitor the fate of the project.

Russian engineers-enthusiasts announced the completion of the design of the lunar microsatellite, which will be able to view the "Apollo" and "Lunar Rovers" on the surface of the natural satellite of the Earth. Funds for its development were collected through crowdfunding, and the device will be launched into space as a passing payload, according to the developers ' message received by the editorial office of N + 1.

The State Space Research and Production Center named after M. V. Khrunichev (part of the state Corporation Roscosmos), representatives of NASA and Boeing have resumed work in offline mode within the framework of existing contractual obligations for the International Space Station project, Roscosmos reported on Tuesday following a meeting at the Khrunichev Center with customers for the ISS program.

According to the Director General of Roscosmos, there is a problem with satellites, because sometimes there are not enough of their elements

The number of space launch vehicles in the Russian Federation is enough to come out on top in terms of the number of launches. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Wednesday.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, announced the government's plans in June to consider the concept of a new Russian space station.

The Russian rocket and space industry must be forever cleansed of "filth" and "rot", said on Wednesday, June 9, the head of "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin on the radio station "Vesti FM".

According to an informed source in the military-industrial complex, the new Russian stealth bomber will be reliably protected from all types of weapons. The aircraft's armament will be placed inside the fuselage.