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Diesel-electric submarines "Volkhov" and "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" conducted training exercises in the Baltic Sea, the press service of the Baltic Fleet (BF) reported on Thursday.

The Mars helicopter "Ingenuity" has successfully completed its seventh flight on Mars, which was the first after a serious change in the navigation system. The drone successfully flew to a new work site, covering a distance of 106 meters, according to NASA's Twitter account.

The Ukrainian complex of protection of military transport aircraft of the An-26 type from guided missiles with infrared homing systems has passed state tests. According to Defense Express, it includes combined devices for the release of false thermal targets and an optoelectronic suppression station.

Green energy giants are facing a shortage of skilled workers to help them implement ambitious development plans, writes Bloomberg.

The State Space Research and Production Center named after M. V. Khrunichev (part of the state Corporation Roscosmos), representatives of NASA and Boeing have resumed work in offline mode within the framework of existing contractual obligations for the International Space Station project, Roscosmos reported on Tuesday following a meeting at the Khrunichev Center with customers for the ISS program.

The air group of the Baltic Fleet is planned to be strengthened with the latest super-maneuverable Su-30SM fighters. "Drying" will be able not only to fight in the sky, but also, if necessary, to hit sea and land targets. Strengthening the Western Military District this year has been declared a priority task against the backdrop of NATO's activation in the region and the bloc's large-scale Baltops exercises.

According to the Director General of Roscosmos, there is a problem with satellites, because sometimes there are not enough of their elements

The number of space launch vehicles in the Russian Federation is enough to come out on top in terms of the number of launches. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Wednesday.

The servicemen of the amphibious assault regiment in Stavropol received a battalion set of the latest equipment - 31 BMD-4M combat vehicles and eight BTR-MDM "Shell" armored personnel carriers. By the end of the year, three more sets of combat vehicles will be delivered under the rearmament program.

Multifunctional Su-34 fighter-bombers of the mixed Aviation Division of the Central Military District will use air-to-air missiles for the first time.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, combat missile launches will take place as part of a tactical flight exercise in the Astrakhan region.

The explosion of a high-pressure air cylinder on board the Indian Navy's nuclear submarine "Chakra" (INS Chakra) of the project 971U "Pike-B", which occurred in the spring of 2020 and damaged both hulls of the submarine, caused its early return to Russia by India from the lease.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, met with the Governor of the region Igor Rudeney during a working trip to the Tver region.

The main striking force of the Venezuelan ground forces is currently the Russian-made T-72B1V and the AMX-30V purchased in France. The

"Seventy-second" has 92 pieces. According to some reports, they differ from conventional vehicles of this modification by new means of communication, a different type of track belts, which received asphalt shoes.

Russian engineers-enthusiasts announced the completion of the design of the lunar microsatellite, which will be able to view the "Apollo" and "Lunar Rovers" on the surface of the natural satellite of the Earth. Funds for its development were collected through crowdfunding, and the device will be launched into space as a passing payload, according to the developers ' message received by the editorial office of N + 1.

The control check of the Russian Armed Forces was carried out this spring in accordance with international standards and in a planned mode, but for some reason it frightened Western countries, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The exercise of the Northern Fleet of Russia with the participation of more than 20 ships and submarines has begun. Captain of the 1st rank of the reserve, military expert Vasily Dandykin, spoke about the need for such exercises on Sputnik radio.

As reported, for a year and a half after launching, the border patrol ship Rasul Gamzatov (the 14th and last in the Project 22460 series), which is being defended at the Almaz Shipbuilding Company in St. Petersburg and has not yet been put into operation, received a new combat module on the forecastle, which the previous ships of this project were not equipped with.

Currently, active protection systems are being created in many countries, in some of them, for example, Israel and Turkey, tanks with KAZ have already taken part in battles.

The newest corvette of the project 20386 " Mercury "is the first of the Russian ships to be built entirely according to the"stealth" concept. This was told to RIA Novosti by two knowledgeable sources.

The new Russian space station, designed to replace the International Space Station (ISS), will be able to stay in low-Earth orbit forever, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin told Komsomolskaya Pravda.

At the same time, the corporation called the issue of import substitution in the production of gas turbine units for Russian frigates of project 22350 by the engine-building company UEC-Saturn completely resolved.