As the well-known observer of underwater vehicles and special means H. I. Sutton reports on his resource "Covert Shores", more information is gradually emerging about small submarines being built in Italy for the Qatari navy. It is known that the contract worth 190 million euros provides for the supply of two small submarines to Qatar and the corresponding training of personnel.

The continuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may lead to the destabilization of the situation in the region and other negative consequences, said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Mark Milley.

The Israeli army recorded six rockets fired from Lebanon towards the northern part of the country. This was announced on Tuesday, May 18, by the army press service on Twitter.

Military personnel of the special forces unit of the Pskov Guards Amphibious Assault Unit and the Center for Special Parachute Training of the Airborne Forces from Ryazan made jumps from a height of six thousand meters. They jumped in special oxygen equipment.

In his opinion, this is due to the lack of ideology

As part of his speech at the forum "Youth and Science" in Nizhny Novgorod, the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Alexander Sergeev criticized the level of knowledge of graduates of Russian universities. This is reported by the press service of the Lobachevsky National Research University.

[b]The units and personnel involved in the exercises were alerted, their movements were masked from the air defense of the imaginary enemy, the Ministry of Defense of the republic said.]

The Azerbaijani Armed Forces have started command and staff exercises in Nakhichevan. This was reported on Monday by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic.

The State Duma Defense Committee recommended that the house denounce the Open Skies Treaty, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Yuri Shvytkin told Interfax on Monday.

It is reported that the military is on full alert around the clock in the areas of concentration, and in the event of an aggravation of the situation, they are always ready to respond adequately to a military threat.

Ukraine's accession to NATO will become an unnecessary burden and reduce the security of existing members of the North Atlantic Alliance. The priorities of the United States should be to avoid an unnecessary war with an enemy with nuclear weapons, and to ensure the prosperity of the Americans.

During the demonstration flights, NATO aircraft, with a high degree of probability, are practicing strikes on Belarus and the Russian Federation, said the first Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus, Major General Igor Korol.

The Nagurskoye Arctic airfield on Franz Josef Land, after the construction of a new runway, can accommodate any class of aircraft, including strategic bombers. As the chief of staff of the Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, Major General Igor Churkin, told reporters, the airfield was put into operation last year. The length of its runway is 3.5 thousand meters. "This allows the airfield to accept all classes of aircraft," Churkin said.​

Starting with the Eastern European beggars, the fashion for "digital" camouflage coloring of combat aircraft continues to spread around the world, capturing Russia, and now, perhaps, reaching the United States. An emerging photo of a Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor fighter from the 3rd Fighter Wing of the US Air Force from Elmendorf-Richardson Air Force Base in Alaska, while refueling in the air on May 7, 2021 from a McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender tanker aircraft during exercise Northern Edge 21.

The Marine Corps has begun decommissioning the Bell AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters, a modern version of the AH — 1 Super Cobra. Purchases of new cars of this type will continue.

The Ukrainian medium rocket "Cyclone-4M" in 2023 will fly from the Canso space center in the province of Nova Scotia (Canada), reports CBC.

The spacecraft should be launched in 2029

Roscosmos has signed a contract with the Lavochkin NPO for the development of a technical proposal for the new generation Venera-D space complex for basic space research. This is stated in the documents on the public procurement website.

Interplanetary missions will be included in the national planetary exploration program

China plans to launch new missions to Mars and Jupiter to explore these planets and return rock samples to Earth. This was stated by the chief designer of the national Mars mission "Tianwen-1" Zhang Rongqiao.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to sign an agreement with Tajikistan on the creation of a unified regional air defense system.

The latest Buk-M3 air defense systems, which entered service with the anti-aircraft missile unit in the Altai Territory, made it possible to increase the combat capabilities of the unit by more than 5 times without increasing the staff and official composition of the military personnel.

Russia is completing tests of the latest hypersonic missile "Zircon", which will be used both on submarines and on ships, Vladimir Pospelov, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission and a member of the Marine Board under the Russian government, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

During the upcoming military-technical forum "Army-2021 "at the Vostochny airfield in Ulan-Ude, at the site of weapons and military equipment, it is planned for the first time to demonstrate the latest armored vehicle" Typhoon", which this year entered service with the combined arms association of the Eastern Military District.