The trip of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to the Northern Fleet has begun. Military expert Vasily Dandykin told Sputnik radio about the tasks facing this fleet at the moment.

The Rubin Design Bureau has developed the first Russian export-oriented submerged patrol ship, the Sentinel. It can be used as a guard ship, as well as as a rescue or research vessel. The ship will be exported under the BOSS brand.

Artillery boats of the Bumblebee project and landing craft of the Dugong and Serna types of the Caspian Flotilla passed through Rostov-on-Don in the direction of the Taganrog Bay. 15 ships and support vessels of the Caspian Flotilla are involved in the transition from Makhachkala to the Black Sea.

The large landing ship (BDK) of the Russian Black Sea Fleet "Novocherkassk" on Monday, after passing the Bosphorus, entered the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, local information portals reported, publishing photos of its passage through the Strait.

The completion of the work will allow the ships at the berths to be fully supplied with communications, water, high-pressure air and high-purity water

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday inspected the construction of infrastructure facilities of the mooring front for the deployment of the submarine forces of the Northern Fleet in the city of Gadzhievo, Murmansk region.

Coastal warships of the Freedom ("Freedom") and Independence ("Independence") types») The US Navy is proving too expensive, writes Defense News.

On April 13, 2021, at the shipyard of the Taiwan Shipbuilding Corporation CSBC in Kaohsiung, in the presence of the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Tsai Ing-wen held a solemn ceremony of launching the main landing helicopter ship-dock "Yushan" (tail number 1401), which is being built for the Taiwanese Navy under the Hong Yun program.

At the Nalal Group shipyard in Cherbourg, the operation of docking the bow of the decommissioned nuclear submarine Saphir with the aft compartments of the same type of submarine Perle, which was severely damaged during a fire at the shipyard, began.

The US Department of Defense in 2022 will receive no more opportunities than in the current year. April 11, portal defensenews.com He said that the budget request of US President Joseph Biden for the 2022 fiscal year indicated $753 billion to finance national security.

Advanced low-visibility strategic bomber B-21 Raider of the Air Force (Air Force) The US can change power in the Pacific, writes United States Marine Corps (USMC) veteran Alex Hollings in the Sandboxx blog.

Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers have received new suspended universal reconnaissance systems. As a result, the strike capabilities of the "4++" generation aircraft have significantly increased, and it is now possible to conduct combat operations in a single information space.

Five Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft of the Pacific Fleet worked out the destruction of submarines of the imaginary enemy, which managed to get close to the coast of Kamchatka, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The Military Transport Aviation Command conducted a research flight-tactical exercise on the basis of one of the VTA aviation regiments stationed in the Southern Military District as part of a control check following the results of the winter training period.

A new Russian multi-purpose Mi-38 helicopter has arrived at the Arkhangelsk Vaskovo airport. It will be tested in conditions of natural icing.

South Korea has unveiled a prototype of its own fifth-generation KF-21 combat aircraft, Die Welt reports. According to the publication, its stealth technology is superior to the similar technology of the Eurofighter fighters. In addition, the KF-21 costs $65 million, which is significantly less than the price of the American F-35.

Britain has confirmed that it plans to establish a joint unit with Qatar to operate BAE Systems ' advanced Hawk AJT training aircraft as part of an expanded military cooperation agreement signed by the two countries on April 1.

The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is currently the primary heavy military transport aircraft of the United States Air Force.

They are actively used for the delivery of troops, military equipment, and other cargo. Such intensive exploitation is accompanied by various incidents. Like what happened at the end of last week at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina.

The Chinese company Zhongtian Feilong conducted the first flight tests of a promising unmanned aerial vehicle-a carrier of small reconnaissance drones. According to Jane's, flight tests of the new device took place on March 20, 2021 and were recognized as successful.

As cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky noted, in order to understand whether Russia needs its own space station in the event of the closure of the ISS, it is necessary to understand its ultimate task

Private space companies can create a new space station. This opinion was expressed in an interview with TASS by Russian cosmonaut and scientist Sergei Ryazansky.

Earlier, the General Director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that private space companies in the next 10 years will begin a powerful integration with the companies of the state corporation

Russian private companies are not yet able to perform major tasks of Roscosmos, said the General Director of Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov on Monday in an interview with the RBC TV channel.