The administration of President Joe Biden told the US Congress that it will continue to sell weapons to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) worth more than $ 23 billion, including fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets, the deal for which was temporarily suspended after the arrival of a new team in the White House.

Polish Minister of National Defense Marisz Blaszczak said that on April 12, 2021, Poland signed an intergovernmental agreement with the United States on the acquisition of five Lockheed C-130H Hercules military transport aircraft from the US Air Force through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales (FMS).

Israel intends to actively develop laser weapons. Yesterday, April 13, the press service of the company Elbit Systems on its official YouTube channel showed the concept of laser drones to combat missiles.

The Slovenian company Pipistrel, commissioned by the largest Chinese courier company SF Express, will finalize its electric cargo drone Nuuva. According to eVTOL, as a result of further development, the device will be able to perform stable flights at an altitude of 6 thousand meters in airplane mode and 2.5 thousand meters in vertical take-off and landing modes.

This is two years earlier than originally planned

TASS, April 14. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will launch its own lunar exploration program in 2022, rather than in 2024, as originally planned. This was reported on Wednesday by the Emirati newspaper The National.

On the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, the Resonance-N hypersonic target detection radar will be put on alert. This will happen no later than June of this year.

Two more radars will go on combat duty in the Arctic until the end of 2021

The Resonant-N hypersonic target detection radar (RLS) will go on combat duty in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago no later than June 2021. This was reported to TASS by the General Director of the research Center (SIC) "Resonance" Alexander Shramchenko.

Turkey has successfully tested air — to-air missiles, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on his Twitter page on April 14.

Armored vehicles "Typhoon-K" entered service with the intelligence unit of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed in the Republic of Buryatia.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the first unit equipped with combat robots will be formed in the Russian army in the near future. According to the head of the General Staff of the Ground Forces V. Tonkoshurov, we are talking about five "Uran-9" robocomplexes developed by specialists of 766 UPTK (Nakhabino, Moscow region). In total, the unit will receive two dozen combat vehicles.

The sniper unit of the motorized rifle unit of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory, received modern thermal imaging sights 1PN140-2.

Now Russia is creating the most powerful icebreaker fleet in the world. This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society on April 14.

Navigation along the Northern Sea Route may become year-round in the coming years, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The naval search and strike group consisting of the small anti-submarine ships "Snezhnogorsk", "Brest" and "Junga" conducted an anti-aircraft defense exercise in the Barents Sea, the Northern Fleet said.

Russia's Northern Fleet will receive at least four diesel-electric submarines by 2027, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

The Northern Fleet is capable of effectively countering Russia's existing challenges and threats in the Arctic, " Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on April 13.

According to him, the overall situation in this region remains difficult. Competition for access to the resources of the Arctic Ocean and transport communications is increasing among the leading countries of the world.

The right to use part of the water area of the Gulf of the Sea of Azov is granted to the Ministry for 20 years

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order on granting the Ministry of Defense for 20 years to separate water use of a part of the water area of the Taganrog Bay of the Sea of Azov. The document was published on the official portal of legal information.

A detachment of ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) of the Russian Federation went to sea to conduct artillery firing. This was reported on April 14 in the department of information support of the fleet.

A detachment of ships of the Black Sea Fleet went to the Black Sea to conduct artillery firing. The control check of the fleet forces will take place against the background of the entry into the waters of two US destroyers with guided missile weapons Roosevelt and Donald Cook.

At the enterprise of the Taiwan Shipbuilding Corporation China Shipbuilding Corporation (CSBC) in Kaohsiung on April 13, the launch of the country's first landing helicopter dock ship (LPD-Landing Platform Dock) (1401) "Yushan" (Yushan) took place.