The Russian Defense Ministry will speed up the renewal of the training and material base of combined arms and aviation ranges. This was announced on June 17 at the training camp of specialists for the maintenance of landfills, the head of the Department of Training and Material Base of the Main Directorate of Combat Training of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel Sergei Nikitushkin.

The Russian Black Sea Fleet has sent 1.5 thousand troops to help the population of Crimea, which was affected by flooding, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

Specialists of the Russian Ministry of Defense have started developing a new drug aimed at combating coronavirus infection. It is noteworthy that it will not be in the form of tablets or injections, but in the form of chewing gum.

The North Atlantic Council of NATO has expressed its "deep regret" over Russia's decision to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty (DON).

The calculation of Western countries on technical superiority in terms of the implementation of the Open Skies Treaty (DON), from which the United States and later Russia withdrew, did not justify itself, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

NATO activity near the Russian borders does not decrease, the military-political situation remains tense

Modern dangers and threats require Russia to take new approaches to ensuring the country's national security and defense, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said on Friday at a graduation ceremony for graduates of the Military Academy of the General Staff.

Small European states are determined to remain useful to NATO. June 17, portal luxtimes.lu he said that Luxembourg and Belgium are going to form a joint army battalion.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on his Greek colleagues to abandon "provocative actions" in the Mediterranean. "Greece needs to abandon provocative actions," Cavusoglu said at a press conference on the occasion of the end of the Diplomatic Forum in Antalya.

According to the assessment of the SF command, all the tasks assigned to the anti-submarine aviation LTU were completed successfully

The Northern Fleet (SF) held flight tactical exercises (LTU) of a separate mixed aviation regiment to provide long-range anti-submarine protection of the fleet forces. The crews of anti-submarine aircraft practiced bombing on conventional submarines at the naval training ground, the press service of the SF reported on Saturday.

Ten Su-34 bombers conducted an exercise in the Voronezh Region with practical rocket and bomb attacks, the press service of the Western Military District reported.

In the Kaliningrad region, the pilots of the Baltic Fleet worked out one of the most difficult types of flight training - refueling in the air.

As part of the Baltops 2021 exercise, the US army "tested" a new Challenger 650 Artemis reconnaissance and target designation aircraft in Russia, Izvestia reports, citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

Since the beginning of the Cold War, unmanned US reconnaissance balloons have become a real headache for the Soviet air defense system. To solve the problem, the M-17 Stratosphere interceptor was developed under the guidance of designer Vladimir Myasishchev.

The launch of the MS-21-400 project in development will depend on the demand after the start of operation in airlines of the MS-21-300/310 aircraft. This was reported to journalists by the General director of the Irkut Corporation Ravil Khakimov.

Soviet military aircraft are living out their last years in Ukraine. Another confirmation of this was the proposal to equip the Air Force of this country with F-16 fighters. What are the chances that Ukrainian pilots will fly in American cars, what price will Ukraine have to pay for this decision – and what threat will these cars pose to Russia?

Created under the Next-Generation Air Dominance program, the new-generation fighter may exist in two versions. One of them is intended for the actions of Europe, the second-for work in the Indo-Pacific region.

Poland will strengthen the security of NATO's eastern borders with the help of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said. In May, the country's Minister of National Defense, Mariusz Blaszczak, already reported on Warsaw's plans to purchase 24 foreign drones.

Russian experts continue to find out the cause of the formation of cracks in the Zvezda module on the International Space Station (ISS), but the version of metal fatigue has been ruled out, said Sergey Krikalev, adviser to the General Director of Roscosmos, in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Russia can help Turkey build a spaceport and create a rocket engine, RIA Novosti reports the statement of the head of the National Space Agency of Turkey, Serdar Hussein Yildirim.

The launch of OneWeb satellites from the Vostochny cosmodrome will take place on July 1, the state corporation Roscosmos confirmed on Sunday.