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The Indian Navy has issued an RFI-Request for Information, which provides for the lease of 24 NUH – Naval Utility Helicopters for 5 years.

Contractors are required to notify the Pentagon about the use of microelectronic components made in China, Russia, Iran and North Korea in their systems, Defense News reports, citing a bill introduced by Republican Senator Joshua Hawley of Missouri.

MEPs on Thursday approved a 7.9 billion euro fund project designed to strengthen the defense of EU countries, European media reported.

The Pentagon plans to spend nearly $18 billion to develop, manufacture and support interceptor missiles from North Korea or Iran, the first major defense government purchase of the administration of President Joe Biden, according to Bloomberg.

The promising strategic low-visibility B-21 Raider bomber of the US Air Force, called the killer of the Russian S-400 "Triumph" anti-aircraft missile systems, is a ray of light in the Pentagon budget, the American magazine Popular Mechanics admits.

The Russian Defense Ministry plans to create a special department for the development of artificial intelligence in its structure. This was reported on the website of the Russian government on April 26.

Delivery of objects to the agency is planned in October 2022

The Vostochnaya Verf plant in Primorye, under contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry, will build two berths for parking submarines and surface ships and a universal ramp ramp that allows you to install floating berths on an unequipped shore. This was reported on Tuesday by the press service of the company.

[b]According to the company, the solution eliminates opportunities for competition, significantly narrows the supply base and threatens America's return to the moon.]

The aerospace company Blue Origin of the American entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, who is the richest man in the world, on Monday challenged the decision of NASA to grant a contract for the development and creation of a lunar lander worth $2.9 billion to the American company SpaceX.

Global defense spending continues to grow. Yesterday, April 26, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published a report that shows global defense spending for 2020.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree on the establishment of the Federal state-owned Institution "The Main Information Technology Center of the National Guard of the Russian Federation".

A Ukrainian spy who tried to buy spare parts for S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems in Russia for 163 thousand dollars was sentenced to 10 years in a penal colony in Kuban, the FSB of Russia reported on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on conscription of citizens who are in reserve for military training. "To call in 2021 the citizens of the Russian Federation, who are in reserve, to pass military training in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the bodies of the Federal Security Service," the presidential decree says, published on the official portal of legal information.

On April 22, the Department of Public Procurement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation held an interdepartmental conference on the specifics of procurement, including within the framework of the state defense order, at the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center (Kubinka).

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has revealed the facts of the failure of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the terms of import substitution in some areas of the defense industry, it is planned to conduct a large-scale audit, said the head of the supervisory department Igor Krasnov.

Influential representatives of the US Democratic Party will not support an increase in funding for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fifth-generation fighter program in the budget of the upcoming fiscal year 2022, if it does not move forward in solving an extensive list of problems, writes Defense News.

In Ukraine, an order was received for the first batch of T-64BM2 "Crab". This is reported by the Defense Express portal with reference to the agency "Ukrinform". So far, we are talking about 12 combat vehicles that have undergone a deep modernization.

It is assumed that the "Crab" will be the last version of the tank, which was put on the conveyor more than 55 years ago. Instead of the old 5TDF engine, a more modern 6TD-1 with a capacity of 1000 hp, previously used on the T-80UD, will be installed on it. However, this will require a redesign of the engine and transmission compartment.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law that allows reservists to be called up for service in a day without declaring mobilization. This was reported on April 21 by the press service of the Ukrainian President.

As reported in Roscosmos, the court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles

The Court of Appeal overturned the decision to suspend construction work on the launch complex "Angara" of the Vostochny cosmodrome. This was reported to TASS in the press service of Roscosmos on Wednesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his address to the Federal Assembly, named the share of modern weapons in the country's nuclear triad. The statement of the head of state is reported by RIA Novosti.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on April 20, 2021, a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was held in Moscow at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu.