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More than 120 retired American generals questioned the reliability of the results of the US presidential election in 2020, as well as the mental and physical condition of the elected leader Joe Biden. An open letter from the military was published on May 12 on the Flag Officers 4 America portal.

The first batch of upgraded 2S3M "Acacia" self-propelled artillery units has been handed over to the Russian Defense Ministry.

The commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, noted that the Northern Sea Route almost everywhere runs either in Russian territorial waters or in the economic zone of the country

Russia insists on using the Northern Sea Route to its advantage, as it runs through Russian territory. This was announced by the commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, at a briefing for Russian and foreign journalists on the nuclear missile cruiser "Peter the Great".

The general leadership of the troops of the joint regional air defense system of Russia and Tajikistan will be carried out by the commander of the Central Military District of the Armed Forces of Russia, follows from the text of the agreement between Russia and Tajikistan on the creation of a Joint regional air Defense system.

Roscosmos plans to launch 16 launch vehicles from the Baikonur and Vostochny cosmodromes by July 2022. This was reported on Wednesday, May 12, "RIA Novosti", referring to the data of the public procurement website.

Russia plans to start mass production of MS-21, Baikal and IL-114-300 aircraft, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said, speaking at the State Duma with a report on the work of the government for the year.

Major American technology companies have come up with a way to keep prices on their products low for consumers, The New York Times reports.

The company " Ural Boeing Manufacturing "(Sverdlovsk region), which is a resident of the special economic zone "Titanium Valley", in 2020 received a record loss in the entire history of its existence. This is stated in the company's financial report for the past year.

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 Council of the European Union (EU) has instructed the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrel, to submit a draft of the EU's first military concept, the Strategic Compass, by November 2021 for further discussion. This was announced on May 10 by the press service of the EU Council.

The Council of the European Union reaffirmed its determination to move forward with the establishment of its own security and defence system.

To develop a computer program for the needs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, recognizing the substitution of faces in videos (the so-called "deepfake" technology), the scientific and industrial company "High Technologies and Strategic Systems"will have to.

The failures with the Altay tank only encourage Turkey to reduce its dependence on imported military technologies. Yesterday, May 3, portal defenceturk.net he reported that the company Aselsan has started testing a new tank fire control system VOLKAN-M.

The President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, against the background of the beginning of the withdrawal of US troops from the country, stated the need in the current circumstances to fully finance the National Security and Defense Forces of the Republic (ANDSF).

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday, May 4, signed a decree on the deprivation of more than 80 former servicemen and employees of the country's law enforcement agencies of military and special ranks for discrediting actions during the aggravation of the situation in the republic. This was reported by the press service of the Belarusian leader.

Since December last year, the New York Police Department (NYPD) has decided to use a modified Spot robot to perform explosive disposal missions so as not to endanger police officers. It was used several times to check the interior of a home that had been burglarized before police officers entered.

Senator Josh Hawley proposed requiring contractors to tell the Pentagon whether they had embedded printed circuit boards made in Russia, China, Iran or North Korea. This follows from the bill published on April 28 on the website of the Congress.

The governor of the Primorsky Territory Oleg Kozhemyako held a working meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, as the head of the region himself announced on his Instagram page.

The US Federal Aviation Administration has approved three launches of technology demonstrators of the Starship space system. The nearest of them may take place very soon.

The US Space Agency decided to suspend the contract issued earlier by SpaceX and implying the creation of the lander. The reason was protests from the company's competitors — Dynetics and Blue Origin.