The Russian diesel-electric submarine Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (built for the Pacific Fleet) has carried out training torpedo firing from an underwater position in the Baltic Sea, the Russian Baltic Fleet said on Wednesday.

On Tuesday evening, the National Center for Defense Management of the Russian Federation reported that the forces and means of the Black Sea Fleet began tracking the actions of the US Coast Guard patrol ship Hamilton. It entered the Black Sea on April 27.

France on Wednesday conducted a test launch of the M51 submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missile, the country's defense ministry said.

The US wants to de-escalate tensions at sea with Iran in order to prevent possible miscalculations in the future. This was announced on April 27 at a briefing by Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby.

Russian aircraft are carrying out intensive strikes on underground shelters and firing positions of the Daesh terrorist group (IS – banned in the Russian Federation) in the Syrian desert.

The militants of the "Islamic State" (banned in Russia) defeated the garrison of the Armed Forces of Nigeria in Borno State.

According to the ISIL-controlled Al-Amak news agency, when attacking a military unit in the village of Mainok, the terrorists killed fourteen soldiers and destroyed some equipment, including BTR-4EN armored personnel carriers supplied from Ukraine.

Global defense spending continues to grow. Yesterday, April 26, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published a report that shows global defense spending for 2020.

The crews of the Mi-8AMTSh-V "Terminator" transport and combat helicopters and the MI-24 attack helicopters of the Central Military District returned to their permanent deployment points in the Novosibirsk region after tactical flight exercises, the press service of the Central Military District reports.

The number of people vaccinated against coronavirus by the first component of the Sputnik V vaccine exceeded 667.3 thousand people in the army and navy. Many of them were also vaccinated with the second component of the drug. In total, the Armed Forces delivered almost 706 thousand doses of the vaccine against a life-threatening infection.

A car carrying Russian peacekeepers was blown up by an anti-tank mine in Nagorno-Karabakh, two people were injured. This was announced on Tuesday, April 27, by the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the unrecognized republic, Unan Tadevosyan.

Russia's withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty (DON) will be a logical step that will not lead to risks in the field of defense and security, former head of the international treaty Department of the Russian Defense Ministry, retired Lieutenant General Yevgeny Buzhinsky, told Interfax on Tuesday.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, while on a visit to the Kherson region, checked the combat readiness of units on the border with Crimea. On Tuesday, April 27, the press service of the office of the head of state writes.

At the site of the future exhibition of military products World Defense Show in Saudi Arabia, the second stage of construction of an 800 thousand square meter site near Riyadh has officially begun, where the world's first take-off and landing strip, specially built for the defense event, will be presented.

The crews of the Su-25 "Grach" attack aircraft of the Air Force and Air Defense Army of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory, performed night training flights.

The company demonstrated to the representatives of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission the implemented methods of mathematical computer modeling, with the help of which it is possible to almost halve the debugging and testing processes of aircraft components and components.

The start of testing of the prototype of the domestic light aircraft "Baikal" is scheduled for the end of 2021. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.

At the request of the French Navy, the companies Naval Group and Airbus Helicopters have expanded the range of flight modes of the VSR700 helicopter-type unmanned aerial vehicle demonstrator during recent tests.

Near the borders of the Crimea in the north of the peninsula, the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle was spotted. This is reported by Defense Express with reference to the data of the Flightradar portal.

For two and a half years, Russia has made 58 trouble - free launches of space rockets in a row, which allowed us to repeat the record set back in 1992-1993. This was reported on April 27 by RIA Novosti.

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The aerospace company Blue Origin of the American entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, who is the richest man in the world, on Monday challenged the decision of NASA to grant a contract for the development and creation of a lunar lander worth $2.9 billion to the American company SpaceX.