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During the tests, the upgraded frigate of the Pacific Fleet "Marshal Shaposhnikov" conducted artillery fire from the waters of the Sea of Japan at coastal targets - including invisible ones.

According to the Brazilian Navy Command, on March 30, the Federal Official Gazette published Resolution No. 90 / MB/MD of March 29, 2021 on the creation of the 1st squadron of reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (EsqdQE-1).

The M. L. Mil and N. I. Kamov National Helicopter Center (part of the Russian Helicopters holding company of the Rostec State Corporation) will accelerate the creation of new helicopters by introducing digital technologies into production.

Serbia continues to improve its own anti-aircraft missile and gun system PASARS-16 Terminator.

It is reported that he received an upgraded version of the missile from the Strela-10 military air defense system. Local defensemen carried out its refinement, installing a more advanced homing head and a launch accelerator. It is assumed that these innovations will significantly increase the capabilities of the ZRPC to combat various targets, including unmanned aerial vehicles of various types.

The Americans called their "new" fighter Eagle II. The aircraft was previously known as the Boeing F-15EX. According to a number of analysts, the car can be considered the pinnacle of the development of fourth-generation fighters.

Artillery boats and landing craft of the Caspian flotilla began the transition from Makhachkala to the Black Sea. More than ten boats of the project 1204 "Bumblebee" and landing craft of the class "Dugong" and "Serna"take part in the campaign.

On the coast of the Crimea, a large-scale operation was launched to defend the peninsula from a simulated enemy.

For training battles at sea, in the air and on land, the command of the Southern Military District attracted about one and a half thousand motorized infantry. As well as units of electronic warfare, radiation, chemical and biological protection, air defense calculations and specialists in the destruction of enemy unmanned aircraft.

The weapons are capable of fighting both air opponents, ground armored targets, and long-term firing points, said Kirill Kulakov, head of the Kazan Higher Tank Command School.

A fundamental decision has been made to deploy the latest Bal coastal complexes in the Arctic, which will be located along the entire Northern Sea Route. Together with the Bastion systems previously deployed in the Arctic, they will take control of almost the entire coastal zone in the Arctic. According to experts, with the development of a powerful defense, maritime navigation in the region will become much safer.

As reported in the information support department of the Pacific Fleet, the missile successfully hit the target at a distance of 100 km

The frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov successfully fired a Kalibr cruise missile in the Sea of Japan, hitting a surface target at a distance of 100 km. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the Department of information support of the Pacific Fleet.

The training to repel a simulated enemy air raid was conducted on Sakhalin by the calculations of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Eastern Military District, the press service of the department reported on Wednesday.

The representative of the US Department of Defense, Mike Howard, said that the US army can not yet completely abandon the use of anti-personnel mines during combat operations. This is reported by The New York Times on Tuesday, April 6.

Calculations of the S-300PS anti-aircraft missile systems division repelled a missile and air strike by a simulated enemy on the objects of the 201st Russian military base at an exercise in Tajikistan, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Wednesday.

The patrol ship "Ladny" of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) left for the sea training range from Sevastopol after completing scheduled repairs at the ship repair enterprise, the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet reported on Wednesday.

The unobtrusive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) XQ-58A Valkyrie ("Valkyrie") of the Research Laboratory of the US Air Force (Air Force), which is claimed as a potential slave of the fifth-generation F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II fighters, for the first time released its ALTIUS-600 slave drone from the internal compartment, reports The Drive.

[b]The Ministry of Defense reported that in total, more than 15 thousand military personnel and about 3 thousand pieces of equipment will be involved in the inspections following the results of the winter training period in the Strategic Missile Forces]

Final control checks have begun in more than 80 units of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

The Chinese space program is very ambitious, said Alexander Lutovinov, Deputy Director for Scientific Work at the ICI RAS, during a press conference at the Izvestia Research Center on Wednesday, April 7.

Land formations and units of the Far Eastern Military District (Far Eastern Military District) are reinforced with modern T-80BVM tanks. These combat vehicles, in particular, first entered service with the motorized rifle division stationed in the Khabarovsk Territory. Several dozen T-80BVMS were delivered to its garrisons by rail. The Far East prepared for the reception of equipment in advance - in the parks they equipped places for storing and servicing new tanks.

The Kalashnikov Concern has prematurely completed the implementation of the state defense order for 2021 for the supply of the Russian Defense Ministry of guided missiles "Vikhr-1". This is stated on April 7 in a message on the website of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

[b]It was launched from the Cape Canaveral spaceport.]

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle with 60 Starlink microsatellites on Wednesday. The broadcast is conducted on the company's website.