BAE Systems has received a $ 90.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the maintenance and modernization of the San Diego-class amphibious assault dock ship.

The US Department of Defense is considering deploying a permanent naval task force in the Pacific to counter China. This was announced on Tuesday, June 15, according to the newspaper Politico, citing sources in the Pentagon.

Vadim Kulit, deputy Head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria, said that they intend to accuse the Syrian government forces of using toxic substances against the civilian population.

The majority of Russian citizens (86%) expressed confidence in the ability of the Russian army to ensure the security of the country. This is evidenced by the data obtained during the survey of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), provided on Tuesday, June 15.

FAR EAST - The international Russian-Lao exercise "Laros-2021" will take place at one of the training grounds in the Primorsky Territory - the military personnel of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District (VVO) will take part in it.

In order to ensure advanced training of specialists, modern models of weapons and military equipment are delivered to the universities of the Land Forces as a matter of priority.

Kiev expects to receive an action plan for NATO membership in 2022, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said. He said that Kiev has carried out enough reforms to get an action plan for NATO membership, the main obstacle to getting it is " unwillingness to send such a signal to the Russian Federation."

Relations between Russia and China are developing, threatening to turn into a semblance of an alliance, and Washington is concerned about such a development, Politico reported on Monday, citing an unnamed senior White House official.

Two Russian Tu-160 strategic missile carriers conducted a patrol over the Baltic Sea. This was reported on Tuesday, June 15, by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Italian, Danish and Swedish fighter jets took to the air due to the eight-hour flight of two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers over the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Intensive flights of the Russian Aerospace Forces and naval aviation near Alaska are ruining American combat aviation. To counter it, it is necessary to constantly maintain F-22 Raptor fighters in combat readiness and send them into the sky for a long time, which costs the US Air Force very expensive, the US military complained.

Ukrainian developers have presented the concept of an attack drone that can, among other things, hit air targets. In the presentation video, the device hits the Orion UAV rocket.

As reported by TSAMTO, on May 24, the Polish Ministry of Defense announced the signing of a contract for the purchase of four sets of Bayraktar TB2 MALE class attack UAVs of Turkish production for the country's Armed Forces.

The General Director of the state corporation recalled that the Russian side has a decision to extend the operation of the station until 2024

The fate of the International Space Station (ISS) remains the subject of fierce debate in Roscosmos. This was stated on Tuesday by the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin at the Global Conference on Space Exploration GLEX-2021.

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin spoke about the agreement with NASA CEO Bill Nelson to hold the first face-to-face talks in the fall.

Roscosmos has not yet concluded a bilateral agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA) on flights of European astronauts on Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Sergei Krikalev, an adviser to the head of Roscosmos, told Interfax.

According to the head of Roscosmos, planetary protection is one of the most important tasks for cosmonautics

No country can independently create a system capable of changing the trajectory of celestial bodies threatening the Earth.

The program of the global satellite constellation "Sphere "will be submitted to the government for consideration in June, said Yuri Urlichich, First Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for the development of the orbital constellation and promising projects.

At the moment, the Arctic monitoring system, designed to monitor the climate and environment in the Arctic region, has already been partially deployed

The Northern Sea Route will be constantly monitored by various satellites of the Russian space project "Sphere" by 2024-2025.

The device will be a demonstration

The first demonstration spacecraft of the Skif system will be launched in the fall of 2022. This was announced on Tuesday by the Deputy General designer of the ISS im. Reshetneva Alexander Kuzovnikov in the framework of the XIV International Navigation Forum in Moscow.