The US Department of Defense has rejected a contract for the provision of JEDI cloud computing services worth about $10 billion, which was claimed by the largest American corporations Microsoft and Amazon. This is stated in a statement published on Tuesday, July 6, on the department's website.

In the interests of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the UPVS-5 installation for obtaining water in the Arctic is being developed.

The Russian Navy will receive a "mini-cruiser missile carrier". On July 6, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Ministry of Defense agreed on a plan to modernize the Admiral Chabanenko BOD under a project similar to the one under which the Marshal Shaposhnikov BOD was updated.

The crew of the minesweeper "Valentin Pikul" conducted exercises with the development of mine action in the Kerch Strait, the Black Sea Fleet reported.

The Russian Navy is introducing new tactical techniques for using mine defense ships of the 12700 project. The newest minesweepers have the most modern weapons, sailors consider them ships of the XXI century.

According to the commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, three nuclear submarines of the Northern Fleet will arrive in Kronstadt from July 8 to 10.

Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov checked at the Sevmash plant (Severodvinsk) the course of modernization of the nuclear cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" and said that the military expects to receive the nuclear submarines planned for delivery this year.

Danish television has published a video taken by the installer Mads Christensen from the bridge over the Great Belt Strait at the moment when the nuclear submarine of the Northern Fleet "Eagle" was passing under it.

The patrol ship Rayo of the Spanish Navy has entered the Black Sea, the Russian fleet is watching it. This was reported on Wednesday, July 7, at the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation.

By 2022, Ukraine, with the help of the United States and Great Britain, will probably receive a fleet of small ships with combat capabilities. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the country Andrey Taran.

The head of the Crimean Parliament's committee on people's diplomacy and interethnic relations, Yuri Hempel, called British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab a provocateur of the highest rank after words about new ship passages off the coast of Crimea.

About 1,500 Afghan military personnel during armed clashes with the Taliban (the Taliban movement, a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) crossed into the territory of Tajikistan over the past two weeks, Permanent and Plenipotentiary representative of Tajikistan to the CSTO Hassan Sultonov said.

Russia is ready to use the capabilities of the 201st military base in Tajikistan to protect its allies in connection with the situation in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference in Laos, RIA Novosti reports.

Afghan Defense Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi described the military situation in the country as critical.

Military instructors of the 201st military base of the Russian Federation are conducting intensive training of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Tajikistan, a total of 1 thousand servicemen of the republic will be trained this year, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Wednesday.

The peak of arms deliveries under the state defense order has been passed, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov said. "We have passed the peak of deliveries of weapons and military equipment under the state defense order, and the Russian defense industry has moved to a rhythmic delivery schedule," Borisov said.

The new version of the National Security Strategy will allow solving issues related to arms trafficking and combating the use of digital currencies for illegal purposes, said Alexander Grebenkin, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council.

Former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, retired General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vilen Martirosyan on Sunday, July 4, on the air of the NASH TV channel, compared the military capabilities of Russia and Ukraine with a giant and a dwarf and called on them to stop deceiving the people.

A new goal has been set - the development of GSU for marine applications, the general designer said

The first milestone has been passed for the project " Creation of a hybrid power plant (GSU)", the main contractor of which is JSC "UEC-Klimov", the press service of the United Engine Corporation reports.

The Central Institute of Aviation Engine Building (CIAM) named after Baranov will show at the MAKS-2021 salon aircraft-flying laboratories with hybrid and fully electric power plants, the press service of CIAM told RIA Novosti.