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After a recent software update, the German Air Force's Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets were able to use the new MBDA Meteor air — to-air missile.

Roscosmos announced the delivery to the United States of the last batch of RD-180 engines from among the previously ordered ones. Recall that the Americans use them for the first stage of the Atlas V launch vehicle.

Northrop Grumman has announced the first flight of a Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle built for the Japanese. In total, the Country of the Rising Sun should receive three such UAVs.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called the work of the Republican army and police, which were equipped with Russian anti-aircraft missile and gun systems (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S1" and Mi-35 helicopters, very effective, RIA Novosti reports.

The decision to continue work on the Russian segment of the International Space Station will be made after 2024. This was announced on Sunday, April 18, by the press service of Roscosmos.

The head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, said that the United States will continue to provide assistance to Ukraine so that it is capable of self-defense. We are talking about the continuation of the supply of certain types of weapons and the sending of American military instructors to the country.

PJSC "State Transport Leasing Company" (STLC, owned by the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation) plans to deliver 45 aircraft of domestic production to the United Far Eastern airline "Aurora" by 2025, said the General Director of STLC Evgeny Dietrich.

Poland's Foreign Ministry has signed an agreement with the US government for the supply of five BTA C-130H "Hercules" aircraft from the US Air Force under the "Surplus Military Equipment" (EDA) program.

The Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina reported on the ceremony of gratuitous transfer of 15 units of engineering vehicles and vehicles by the military department of the People's Republic of China to the armed forces of the country held at the Rylovac base in Sarajevo.

This summer, the Russian and Belarusian military will begin joint combat duty on air defense (air defense) at one of the airfields in Belarus.

Russian armored vehicles for airborne units began to be promoted on the world market. We are talking about the BMD-4M combat landing vehicle and the BTR-MDM armored personnel carrier.

Japanese startup ispace will deliver the first lunar rover of the Arab world to the moon, using its Hakuto-R lander. Thus, in 2022, the list of countries that managed to land their spacecraft on the Moon can be replenished with two at once, according to the website Space.com.

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.

The launch of the MS-21 aircraft on the market is "slowing down" due to sanctions, the work on import substitution has not yet been completed, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said.

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

The consortium Belgium Naval and Robotics, created by the Naval Group and the ECA Group, has chosen the SCANTER 6000 radar of the Danish Terma group to equip 12 new-generation minesweeping ships of the Belgian and Dutch navies.

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

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).

A meeting of the CSTO Military Committee was held in Moscow under the leadership of the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov. Despite the difficult epidemiological situation, all the chiefs of the General Staffs of the countries participating in the Treaty took part in this event. By the way, last year, the coronavirus pandemic did not allow the members of the Military Committee to meet, so two meetings were held via videoconference.

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.