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.

The promising Russian planning aircraft bomb "Drill" has passed tests that confirmed its combat effectiveness. This, as reported by "Interfax", said the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Yuri Borisov. According to him, the new aircraft munition is planned to be adopted by the Russian Aerospace Forces by the end of 2021.

The Listva remote mine-clearing vehicle will be presented at the Army-2021 International Military-Technical Forum.

For the Tornado-S multiple launch rocket system, the first high-precision guided missile of 300 mm caliber with a homing head is being created.

Despite the fact that the production of American Abrams tanks began in 1980, they still remain one of the most dangerous opponents. The fact is that these combat vehicles are constantly being improved. For example, in the publication "Armor is strong and tanks are fast... about the prospects for creating new combat tanks in the United States", published in the 5th issue of the magazine "Army Collection" for 2021, it is reported that more than 20 major upgrades have been carried out over 40 years.

Estonian company Milrem Robotics has announced the signing of a distribution and maintenance agreement with the Australian company XTEK Ltd., as well as the delivery of the first ground-based remote-controlled machine THeMIS.

The Belgian company FN Herstal has created a machine gun that should outshine their previous legend Minimi. The new light machine gun was named FN EVOLYS and a number of unique features, with which the Belgians intend to "write a new chapter in the history of machine guns".

In China, an improved QSB-11 shooting knife for scouts and special forces was publicly demonstrated. Weapons in action showed the national television of the People's Republic of China in a report from the training of the special forces.

In connection with the tragedy in Kazan in Russia, it is necessary to create a system that will respond to trigger phrases that indicate criminal intentions. This proposal was made by Anton Gorelkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications. He gave an example of how it works in the commercial sector on the Internet.

The scientific and Production association "Vavilov State Optical Institute" (NPO GOI) is developing the production of infrared optical glasses of a special composition, the press service of the Shvabe holding, which includes the enterprise, reports.

A series of mine defense ships under construction for the Navy of the project 12700 will have a high level of automation, said the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, following a working meeting at the Admiralty, where issues of surface shipbuilding were considered.