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During the upcoming military-technical forum "Army-2021 "at the Vostochny airfield in Ulan-Ude, at the site of weapons and military equipment, it is planned for the first time to demonstrate the latest armored vehicle" Typhoon", which this year entered service with the combined arms association of the Eastern Military District.

Russia is completing tests of the latest hypersonic missile "Zircon", which will be used both on submarines and on ships, Vladimir Pospelov, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission and a member of the Marine Board under the Russian government, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The latest Buk-M3 air defense systems, which entered service with the anti-aircraft missile unit in the Altai Territory, made it possible to increase the combat capabilities of the unit by more than 5 times without increasing the staff and official composition of the military personnel.

Israel and the United States signed a deal for the supply of American weapons amid the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This is reported on May 17 by the Jerusalem Post.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has criticized his American counterpart Joe Biden for selling $735 million worth of precision weapons to Israel. He said this on May 17 during a press conference in Ankara, broadcast on the politician's Twitter.

The Israeli army has not confirmed the data on the beginning of a ground operation in the Gaza Strip

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues for the third day in a row. The parties exchange rocket attacks, the Israeli army used more than 160 aircraft and artillery to attack Hamas positions. There is no ground invasion of the Gaza Strip yet, although the IDF has previously announced " ground and air strikes." In three days, at least 1,800 rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip, Tel Aviv said.

The US State Department has approved a potential supply to Canada under the Foreign Military Sales program of the Aegis multifunctional Weapon Control System (Aegis) and related equipment.

During the latest tests, the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), called the "killer" of Russian air defense systems (for example, the S-400 "Triumph"), flew more than 400 kilometers, breaking its own range record, the Defense News publication reports, citing Lockheed Martin.

Russian protected armored vehicles of special purpose K-43269 "Shot" continue to improve. At the parade in Nizhny Novgorod dedicated to the 76th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, among the new products from the Central Research Institute "Burevestnik" you could see the latest version.

The Turks "crossed" the machine type MRAP with MLRS. On May 13, the head of the Defense Industry Department under the Turkish presidential administration, Ismail Demir, posted a video of testing a new modification of the Vuran machine on his official Twitter page.

Israel's Iron Dome air defense system consists of a radar, a control center, and an installation for hitting enemy missiles. It recognizes incoming missiles and can calculate their trajectory and estimated target in a few seconds. The principle of operation of the system was revealed by Deutsche Welle.

The latest anti-aircraft artillery complex ZAK-57 "Derivation-AIR DEFENSE", armed with an automatic gun of 57-mm caliber, successfully hit unmanned aerial vehicles of various types during tests, the press service of the Uralvagonzavod Research and Production Corporation (UVZ, part of Rostec) told RIA Novosti.

The large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Panteleev" performed artillery firing in the waters of the Peter the Great Bay, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reported on Saturday.

The new Chinese ballistic missile JL-3 Type 094 submarines can have a range of 10 to 14 thousand kilometers and surpass the existing American and Russian counterparts, writes TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin, commenting on the report of the newspaper The South China Morning Post.

It is no secret that the" service life " of modern military technologies is limited to a few years, after which they are replaced by new ones, and this creates enormous problems when upgrading existing equipment and weapons.

At the Kapustin Yar test site, the modernization of the measuring complex for testing various types of weapons has been completed, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The "Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering" reported that work on the reconstruction of the monorail section is already being completed, where they will demonstrate the layout

The model of the magnetic cushion train will be demonstrated for the first time by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering Corporation (MIT, which is the developer of the Yars complex, part of Roscosmos) in August. This was reported to TASS in MIT on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the enterprise.

More than 1.5 thousand rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel over the past three days, the Israeli military said.

Unable to acquire modern combat aircraft, Ukraine decided to focus on unmanned aircraft. It is expected to receive about fifty "Bayraktar TB2".

The innovative foam plastic "Akrimid" is used in the production of space, aviation and land equipment, the state corporation specified

Innovative foam plastic "Akrimid", used in the production of space, aviation and land equipment, began to be mass-produced in Russia. It replaced imported materials, the press service of the state corporation Rostec told TASS.