Land formations and units of the Far Eastern Military District (Far Eastern Military District) are reinforced with modern T-80BVM tanks. These combat vehicles, in particular, first entered service with the motorized rifle division stationed in the Khabarovsk Territory. Several dozen T-80BVMS were delivered to its garrisons by rail. The Far East prepared for the reception of equipment in advance - in the parks they equipped places for storing and servicing new tanks.

The representative of the US Department of Defense, Mike Howard, said that the US army can not yet completely abandon the use of anti-personnel mines during combat operations. This is reported by The New York Times on Tuesday, April 6.

In an interview with Kommersant, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, drew attention to the fact that new biological laboratories under the control of the United States are growing by leaps and bounds in the world. And by a strange coincidence-mostly at the Russian and Chinese borders.

[b]The Ministry of Defense reported that in total, more than 15 thousand military personnel and about 3 thousand pieces of equipment will be involved in the inspections following the results of the winter training period in the Strategic Missile Forces]

Final control checks have begun in more than 80 units of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

A fundamental decision has been made to deploy the latest Bal coastal complexes in the Arctic, which will be located along the entire Northern Sea Route. Together with the Bastion systems previously deployed in the Arctic, they will take control of almost the entire coastal zone in the Arctic. According to experts, with the development of a powerful defense, maritime navigation in the region will become much safer.

Against the background of the NATO exercises, the Black Sea Fleet held joint missile firing by the crews of the small anti-submarine ships " Suzdalets "and" Kasimov "and the combat crew of the coastal missile complex (DBK) of the mine-based"Utes". They were held on the so-called sudden introduction, when the rocket scientists were given the task to prepare two missiles in a short time.

The Kalashnikov Concern has prematurely completed the implementation of the state defense order for 2021 for the supply of the Russian Defense Ministry of guided missiles "Vikhr-1". This is stated on April 7 in a message on the website of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

North Korea has moved a submerged missile test bench to a shipyard on its east coast, the project of the think tank center for Strategic and International Studies Beyond Parallel reported on Wednesday.

Calculations of the S-300PS anti-aircraft missile systems division repelled a missile and air strike by a simulated enemy on the objects of the 201st Russian military base at an exercise in Tajikistan, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Wednesday.

The training to repel a simulated enemy air raid was conducted on Sakhalin by the calculations of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Eastern Military District, the press service of the department reported on Wednesday.

The development is designed for round-the-clock detection of small-sized UAV-type targets

The Chameleon anti-drone television system, which can detect drones flying in radio silence mode, was presented at the thematic exhibition "Innovation Day of the Russian Defense Ministry" in the Era technopolis. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the Russian Defense Ministry.

[b]It was launched from the Cape Canaveral spaceport.]

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle with 60 Starlink microsatellites on Wednesday. The broadcast is conducted on the company's website.

The Chinese space program is very ambitious, said Alexander Lutovinov, Deputy Director for Scientific Work at the ICI RAS, during a press conference at the Izvestia Research Center on Wednesday, April 7.

At the exhibition in the military technopolis "ERA" presented a new multifunctional robot manipulator. According to its creators, it, in particular, can become a good assistant for astronauts and Navy sailors.

The State Corporation "Roscosmos" supported the scientific project of OmSTU to create new samples of electrothermal engines for nanosatellites weighing 4 kg or more. The scientists plan to develop and manufacture new samples of fuel automation elements of the corrective propulsion system and new samples of micro-motors based on the NTC "Cryogenic Technology".

The American company Aurora showed a multicopter to fight other drones. The MIDAS device is paired with a ground-based portable radar and is able to shoot down small multicopters using a grid without operator intervention. The information is available on the company's website.

The unobtrusive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) XQ-58A Valkyrie ("Valkyrie") of the Research Laboratory of the US Air Force (Air Force), which is claimed as a potential slave of the fifth-generation F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II fighters, for the first time released its ALTIUS-600 slave drone from the internal compartment, reports The Drive.

On April 4, Korea Aerospace Industries Co. (KAI) announced its intention to develop transport and multi-purpose aircraft for the country's Armed Forces.

As expected, in the near future, a group of representatives of the Malaysian Air Force will arrive in India to evaluate the LCA "Tejas" light combat aircraft in the Mk.1A version.

The crew of the Russian fighter identified the object as a Falcon-20 radio-technical reconnaissance and electronic warfare aircraft

A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet escorted a Norwegian Air Force Falcon-20 radio reconnaissance and electronic warfare aircraft over the Barents Sea. This was reported on Wednesday in the National Center for Defense Management of the Russian Federation.