In the waters of the Baltic Sea on Monday, the traditional spring exercises of NATO minesweepers Open Spirit will start. The exercise will involve 21 ships from 11 countries, including the ships of the First Permanent Mine Action Group of NATO. The Estonian Navy is leading the exercises, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic reported.

Amid tensions between Ukraine and Russia, Britain will send two warships to the Black Sea in May, The Sunday Times reported, citing a representative of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense.

Within the framework of the test tactical exercises, the military personnel of the units of the signal troops and mobile communication nodes (PUS) of the Caspian Flotilla (CFl) organized a stable secure communication between the units, command posts and ships performing tasks at sea ranges.

The ground forces of Saudi Arabia began to actively use heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A against supporters of the Ansar Allah movement.

In social networks, there were shots of night shooting of one of these combat vehicles. The installation was deployed in a desert area and fired five 220-mm rockets at the enemy.

"Orlan-10E" transmitted the coordinates of the target to the control machine, which calculated the settings for firing and sent them to the crew

Specialists of the Uralvagonzavod State Corporation Rostec demonstrated to the representatives of the foreign customer the interaction of the Msta-S self-propelled howitzer, upgraded to the NATO 155 mm caliber, and the Orlan-10E reconnaissance drone. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the press service of Rostec.

Special forces units continue to equip Typhoon-K armored vehicles with a remote-controlled combat module. Several such vehicles, recently received by the combined-arms army of the Eastern Military District stationed in Transbaikalia, will be shown for the first time on May 9 at the military parade in Chita.

Starlink satellite Internet will become mobile by the end of the year. This was announced on Twitter by the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk (Elon Musk).

NASA has developed the SHIELDS telescope probe, which is designed to study the heliosphere (the region of near-solar space that provides protection for all objects in the Solar System) and detect particles entering the Solar System from interstellar space.

The Arianespace corporation stated that the mission will last 3 hours and 51 minutes

The launch of the next batch of OneWeb spacecraft using the Soyuz-2.1 b launch vehicle and the Fregat upper stage from the Vostochny cosmodrome is scheduled for April 26 at 01: 14 Moscow time. This was reported on Monday in the press service of the French corporation Arianespace.

The deterioration of the International Space Station (ISS) can have serious consequences, up to a catastrophe. This opinion was expressed on Monday, April 19, by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government Yuri Borisov.

Earlier, the press service of Roscosmos reported that the decision to continue the operation of the International Space Station by Russia will be made after 2024, based on its technical condition

Russia will launch the Nauka module into orbit and will not reduce the program of experiments in orbit until the national space station appears. This was written by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in the comments on his Facebook page.

[b]In the event of a failure of one of the engines, it will be turned off, and the others will be forced, said Igor Pshenichnikov, chief expert of the Department of Advanced Programs and the Sphere Project of Roscosmos.]

The system of withdrawal from the launch pad is being created for the new Russian methane launch vehicle "Amur", it will be triggered in the event of a launch accident.

After a recent software update, the German Air Force's Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets were able to use the new MBDA Meteor air — to-air missile.

Russian strategic aircraft Tu-160 and Tu-95MS have once again confirmed their high combat effectiveness. During the command and staff exercise, their crews, who rose from the Engels air base in the Saratov region, successfully hit targets with cruise missiles at the Pemboy training ground in the Komi Republic. In total, about a dozen aircraft were involved in the exercise. And the precise strikes of the missile carriers were recorded by means of objective control.

The MiG-31BM interceptor fighters worked out the elements of air combat and conducted missile firing over the Pacific Ocean.

According to the press service of the Pacific Fleet, the training was attended by aircraft of a separate mixed aviation regiment of Troops and forces.

In the Center for Combat Use and Retraining of the flight personnel of the Russian Navy's Naval Aviation in Yeisk, the cadets of the training battalion were released, who completed the training cycle.

The use of mathematical modeling in the aircraft industry using supercomputer technologies can already significantly reduce the time of work and financial costs.

SBU: in some areas, the temporary introduction of a special regime is possible

The Security Service of Ukraine conducts and plans large-scale multi-stage anti-terrorist exercises in most regions of Ukraine, during which critical infrastructure facilities, including the energy and transport system, are under increased protection, the press center of the SBU reports.

Command and staff training (KSHT) with military authorities, formations and military units has started on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, the headquarters of the Eastern Military District (VVO) reported on Monday.

The Northern Fleet began training exercises involving ships, submarines, aircraft and air defense systems. The main purpose of the maneuvers is to ensure the security of Russia's economic activities in the Arctic, the Russian Defense Ministry said. They noted that during the training, rescue operations, assistance at sea, crisis resolution, as well as the protection and defense of maritime communications will also be practiced.