The Brazilian Air Force Command and Embraer signed a memorandum of understanding providing for joint requirements development, conceptual design and development of a multi-purpose UAV.

The American company GE Aviation has completed testing of the first prototype of the promising XA100 adaptive aircraft jet engine, which has been under development since 2007 by order of the US Air Force. According to Flightglobal, bench tests of the power plant have been conducted since December 2020. During the tests, the power plant demonstrated characteristics that correspond to the mathematical forecasts obtained at the design stage.

German fighters will be able to "invade" the territory of Poland in case of danger, and vice versa. May 14, portal janes.com reported that Germany and Poland have agreed to allow combat aircraft to cross their national borders in the event of a Quick Reaction Alert (QRA).

The fourth-generation J-10C multirole fighters, equipped with local WS-10B Taihang engines instead of the Russian AL-31F series, began to enter service with the People's Liberation Army Air Force, the Defense News publication reports, commenting on the pictures of the aircraft with the new power unit that appeared on the network.

The Chagall drone, developed by Kazakh military scientists, has successfully passed the next test, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the republic reported on Saturday.

Calculations of unmanned aerial vehicles "Orlan-10" of the Krasnoselsky motorized rifle brigade of the combined-arms army of the Western Military District have started performing tasks to monitor the foci of wildfires since the beginning of the week.

First-class pilot Andrey Krasnoperov explained why one Russian Su-30 fighter was able to drive away three French Air Force planes that appeared over the Black Sea. His words are transmitted by the portal "Tsargrad".

Specialists of the Ministry of Defense will go on an expedition to find places for hydroaerodromes. This was stated in an interview with the Zvezda TV channel by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

"A large expedition is now being planned," he said. "We are identifying hydroaerodromes all over the north, then Kamchatka and our entire eastern coast, where Be-200 aircraft can land."

More than 90 retired French police officers have addressed President Emmanuel Macron with an open letter, where they set out a demand to pay attention to the security situation in the country, according to Valeurs Actuelles.

The military leadership of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and representatives of the US Embassy on Friday will solemnly welcome the participants of the stage of the largest NATO exercise Defender Europe 21, the Ministry of Defense of the country said.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov said that in the near future, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky may sign a decree on the creation of cyber forces in the country, this issue was discussed at a meeting of the NSDC in closed mode on Friday, May 14.

The head of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, Vasily Piskarev, said that measures against the Czech Republic and Washington as unfriendly countries will work until they reconsider their policy towards Russia.

In the Southern Military District (SE) in the Volgograd region, more than 320 junior specialists of the training battalion of the railway troops passed final exams in 7 military accounting specialties.

The Armed Forces have created a multifunctional system for training qualified specialists in the interests of the country's defense. It is closely connected with military-patriotic work. "The projects, the programs that the Ministry of Defense is conducting in this direction - they are all interconnected," the head of the department, Sergei Shoigu, said on a conference call on Friday.

"The President of the country supported our initiative to develop a network of centers for military-patriotic education of young people "Avangard". It is planned to create them not only at the regional level, but also in cities with a population of more than one hundred thousand people, " Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday at a conference call with representatives of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

The special Operations forces of the Russian Defense Ministry plan to go on expeditions to the Kemerovo Region, Altai and Gorny Altai next year. This was stated by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in an interview with the Zvezda TV channel. As TASS emphasizes, during such expeditions, special forces are trained in survival skills in a variety of conditions.

The Russian military conducted a patrol in the Syrian city of Nubol. The patrol route was 15 km. Their task was to inspect the area and take tough measures in case of detection of armed militants.

The United States opposes the repatriation of Syrian citizens and the post-war reconstruction of the country, destabilizes the social and economic situation in the republic, and illegally occupies the territories of the state, the interdepartmental coordination headquarters of the Russian Federation and the Syrian Arab Republic say.

More than 1.5 thousand rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel over the past three days, the Israeli military said.

On May 4, Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems announced the official handover ceremony of the second (of the four ordered) URO corvette of the Saar-6 class, the Oz, to the Israeli Navy command.