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Details of the US Air Force operation Cannikin, which took place 50 years ago, have emerged. In the bowels of the island of Amchitka near Alaska, a five-megaton nuclear charge designed for use in space was detonated.

The newest battalion complex of electronic warfare (EW), which is in service with a unit of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District (VVO), will be presented at the main site of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

Raytheon Missiles and Defense (a division of Raytheon Technologies) has announced the successful launch of the first AMRAAM-ER surface-to-air warhead equipped with an equipped warhead, together with Norway's Kongsberg.

The machine is capable of destroying enemy objects while being outside the air defense strike zone, said Vitaly Shcherbina, chief designer of the Combat Helicopters program at the Mil and Kamov National Helicopter Center.

Chinese experts have tested the main module of a promising space station. This brings the long-awaited moment of its commissioning closer.

As the chief designer of the "Combat Helicopters" program Vitaly Shcherbina noted, the appearance of an effective air - to-air guided weapon as part of the aviation complex made the use of such a figure relevant.

Specialists of the rocket troops and artillery of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District (SE) in North Ossetia prepared the Iskander operational and tactical missile systems for the summer operation mode and went on combat duty.

In Belarus, a sudden check of the combat readiness of Missile troops began. This was reported on May 18 in the Ministry of Defense of the country. It is specified that up to 100 units of equipment and more than 500 military personnel will be involved in the inspection.

The Pacific Fleet will receive this submarine in November

Mooring tests of the diesel-electric submarine of the project 636.3 "Magadan" for the Pacific Fleet will be completed in early June of this year, the crew of the submarine is involved in them, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

The Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighter could be made a carrier-based aircraft. A member of the board of the Russian Military-Industrial Commission, a member of the Marine Board under the Government of Russia, Vladimir Pospelov, told RIA Novosti about such an idea.

The SBIRS GEO 5 satellite was launched into orbit by an Atlas V launch vehicle

The US Space Force sent the SBIRS GEO 5 early detection system satellite into orbit on Tuesday using an Atlas V launch vehicle. The launch was broadcast on the website of the creators of the launch vehicle - the United Launch Alliance company.

A successful physical launch of the T-15MD tokamak took place at the Kurchatov Institute, which became the first new thermonuclear installation in Russia in 20 years. It is expected that it will carry out both experiments in the framework of the ITER thermonuclear reactor project, and experiments in the framework of the development of a hybrid reactor, TASS reports.

According to Admiral Alexander Nosatov, NATO plans to conduct more than 20 exercises in the region, during which the ship grouping can be increased to 30-40 ships

The US Navy's Arleigh Burke-class URO destroyers are on permanent combat duty in the Baltic and North Seas. This was announced by the commander of the Baltic Fleet, Admiral Alexander Nosatov, in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

Russia can continue the construction of nuclear-powered strategic missile submarines of the project 955 ("Borey") after all ten such submarines contracted for today are ready, Vladimir Pospelov, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, a member of the Marine Board under the government, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The Russian Navy will receive about 40 ships and support vessels of various classes this year, Vladimir Pospelov, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission and a member of the Marine Board under the government of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti in an interview.

The construction of the Borey-A project 995A strategic missile submarines can be continued after the execution of the contract concluded with the Ministry of Defense for the supply of 10 ships.

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.

The Ukrainian medium rocket "Cyclone-4M" in 2023 will fly from the Canso space center in the province of Nova Scotia (Canada), reports CBC.

Military personnel of the special forces unit of the Pskov Guards Amphibious Assault Unit and the Center for Special Parachute Training of the Airborne Forces from Ryazan made jumps from a height of six thousand meters. They jumped in special oxygen equipment.

The ships of the Baltic Fleet will make seven long voyages this year. Russian sailors will visit ports in Syria, Cyprus, Sudan and Oman. The fleet's personnel will conduct more than 34 combat training sessions of various directions, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The most large-scale event will be the Russian-Belarusian exercise "West-2021".