In the Chinese social network Weibo, the first photo of a new type of submarine appeared. The ship is ready to be launched in Wuhan. Presumably, this is the head sample of the upgraded Type-039C Yuan project.

The Israeli military said it had eliminated key Hamas intelligence figures. Israel launched strikes on Gaza earlier this week in response to rocket attacks on Israeli cities from there.

The Palestinian movement Hamas reported on May 12 that at least 130 rockets were fired at the Israeli cities of Ashkelon, Netivot and Sderot.

The leader of the Palestinian movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, said that his fighters managed to defeat Israel by conducting rocket attacks on cities.

Terrorist attacks against the military and the civilian population were prevented

With the support of Russian aviation, the Syrian government army has destroyed 338 militants in the Syrian desert since April 23, and dozens of terrorist targets have been eliminated, a representative of the Russian group of troops in Syria said.

In 2021, work will continue on the development and improvement of the objects of the training and material base of the training grounds of formations, military units and institutions of the Airborne Forces.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation received 850 thousand doses of the drug "Sputnik V", more than eight hundred thousand people have already been vaccinated in the army. This was announced by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, speaking at the board of the military department.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted to the State Duma a bill on the denunciation of the Open Skies Treaty. On Sputnik radio, military expert Igor Korotchenko stressed that the US decision violated the balance of interests and made Russia's participation in it meaningless.

The Su-30 fighter intercepted three aircraft of the French Air Force over the neutral waters of the Black Sea. This was reported in the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet of the press service of the Southern Military District. They said that air targets approaching the State Border of the Russian Federation were detected by Russian air space control systems.

A Russian Su-30 fighter intercepted two Dassault Mirage 2000 fighters and a French Air Force tanker aircraft approaching the Russian border over the Black Sea. On the air of Sputnik radio, the actions of the Russian pilots were evaluated by military expert Yuri Knutov.

A Russian MiG-31 fighter intercepted a Norwegian Air Force R-3C Orion base patrol aircraft over the Barents Sea. This was announced on Tuesday, May 11, by the press service of the Northern Fleet.

Russia is gradually increasing the combat capabilities of its unmanned aircraft. Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov in an interview with Interfax spoke about the work on the Altius-RU drone.

The Teledroid robot can be placed not on the ISS, but on a promising Russian orbital station

The first prototype of the scientific equipment of the robot project "Teledroid", designed to work in outer space, will appear in February 2022. This is stated in the message of the NGO "Android Technology", distributed on Tuesday.

Voyager 1 detected plasma waves — the hum of interstellar gas. The NASA space probe is now 22.5 billion km from Earth, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The new data will help estimate the plasma density between the stars. Scientists analyze the impact of the solar wind on space. The Voyager-1 probe has been transmitting information from space for 44 years. About 9 years ago, the spacecraft crossed the heliopause — the outer boundary of the distribution of matter in the Solar System. The data is expected to stop coming in around 2025.

The American interplanetary station OSIRIS-REx successfully turned on the engines for the subsequent exit from the orbit of the asteroid Bennu to return to Earth, the space operation was broadcast by NASA.

The spent stage of the Long March-5B launch vehicle entered the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean on May 9

The defense departments of the United States and China did not contact the situation with the fall of the wreckage of the Chinese launch vehicle Long March-5B ("Changzheng-5B", CZ-5B) to the Ground. This was announced on Monday by the press secretary of the US Defense Department, John Kirby.

The Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) receive a unique simulator designed to train the personnel of the security and intelligence units.

In the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), the creation of training facilities for the Yars missile system has been fully completed, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

The rearmament units of the Strategic Missile Forces continue to receive the latest equipment of the RCB protection troops. Modern machines, including the ARS-14KM, RHM-6 and the first samples of the UTM-80M, allow you to fully solve the entire range of tasks from conducting reconnaissance to complete special processing of weapons, military and special equipment, including autonomous launchers.

The United States and its NATO allies have significantly stepped up biological research in many countries around the world in recent years. This was stated by the First Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Yuri Averyanov in an interview with RIA Novosti.