On May 29, the Russian Navy will accept the small sea tanker "Vice-Admiral Ferries", built at the Nizhny Novgorod enterprise "Volga" under the project 03182, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The Ministry of Defense reported that this is the largest vessel built in the entire history of the Vympel enterprise

The latest naval armament transport "Gennady Dmitriev" of the 20360M project will be launched on June 1 at the Vympel shipyard in Rybinsk. This was reported on Thursday to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The company "Stankoprom", which is under the management of "RT-Capital" of the State Corporation Rostec, and the German manufacturer TRAWEMA GMBH signed an agreement on the localization of production of mobile turning and milling complexes that have no analogues in Russia. 

An optical system with an enlarged relative aperture has been patented, which, with high image quality, has a shorter optical system length and a simplified design, the press service of the Shvabe holding company said on Thursday.

A video from the training of a special purpose unit of the People's Liberation Army of China appeared on the Network.

US President Joe Biden, in a statement after the shooting in California, which killed at least eight people, called on Congress to stop the "epidemic of armed violence" in the country. The text was distributed by the White House press service on May 26.

Upgraded small-sized automatic CP.The 3M is designed to hit targets protected by personal armor protection equipment, as well as unarmored equipment, the Rostec press service reported.

In the Moscow region, on the basis of the Patriot Park, Russian sappers showed how the latest means of engineering weapons work and how to train specialists in humanitarian demining. The participants of the 4th International Conference on Mine Clearance looked at what protective equipment Russian sappers use, how they search for mines and explosive objects, as well as what tools are used in mine clearance and clearing the area.

The company SberAutoTech, part of the Sber ecosystem, has presented a prototype of an autonomous electric transport FLIP, which can become a prototype for the taxi of the future, the company said in a statement received by the editorial office of <url>.

According to the Ministry of Energy, Industry and Communications of the Stavropol Territory, a prototype of a small-sized armored car was developed and created by JSC "YUTEK", located in the city of Mikhailovsk (Stavropol Territory). Judging by the inscription on the front, the car has a highly politically correct name "Mercenary".

Military experts note that after a long fascination with wheeled armored vehicles, there is again a significant interest in tracked IFVs in the world. Currently, several countries hold tenders for the selection of such equipment.

The detachment of the International Mine Action Center (MPC) of the Russian Armed Forces found and destroyed more than 105 thousand explosive objects and trained more than 1,200 Syrian soldiers during the tasks of clearing the territory of Syria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the armed forces should receive sufficiently high-precision long-range weapons.

Analysis of military conflicts shows that the use of cruise missiles is playing a growing role. This was announced on May 27 by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to the MBDA group, the UK Ministry of Defense has signed a contract for the purchase of Sea Ceptor air defense systems, which will provide air defense for the new Type-31 class frigates of the country's Navy.

The joint communique adopted following the meeting of the Defense Ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in Siauliai (Lithuania) on May 21, 2021, among other things, contained a provision on studying the possibility of joint acquisition of multiple Launch Rocket Systems by the three countries in the period after 2025.

The Kalashnikov Group of companies published footage of flight tests of guided missiles "Whirlwind". 22 launches from the Ka-52 Alligator helicopter took place at the Russian Defense Ministry training ground.

"Kalashnikov" boasted of its improved missiles. On May 26, the press service of the company announced the successful completion of flight tests of guided missiles "Vortex".

The Igla man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) units intercepted an unmanned "swarm" of a simulated enemy during the All-Army Field Training competition among the air defense units of the military air Defense named after Colonel General B. I. Dukhov.

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Wednesday successfully launched another batch of 60 mini-satellites into low-Earth orbit, designed to continue the deployment of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX said.