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Russian strategic aircraft Tu-160 and Tu-95MS have once again confirmed their high combat effectiveness. During the command and staff exercise, their crews, who rose from the Engels air base in the Saratov region, successfully hit targets with cruise missiles at the Pemboy training ground in the Komi Republic. In total, about a dozen aircraft were involved in the exercise. And the precise strikes of the missile carriers were recorded by means of objective control.

The Arianespace corporation stated that the mission will last 3 hours and 51 minutes

The launch of the next batch of OneWeb spacecraft using the Soyuz-2.1 b launch vehicle and the Fregat upper stage from the Vostochny cosmodrome is scheduled for April 26 at 01: 14 Moscow time. This was reported on Monday in the press service of the French corporation Arianespace.

NASA has developed the SHIELDS telescope probe, which is designed to study the heliosphere (the region of near-solar space that provides protection for all objects in the Solar System) and detect particles entering the Solar System from interstellar space.

Starlink satellite Internet will become mobile by the end of the year. This was announced on Twitter by the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk (Elon Musk).

After a recent software update, the German Air Force's Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets were able to use the new MBDA Meteor air — to-air missile.

The deterioration of the International Space Station (ISS) can have serious consequences, up to a catastrophe. This opinion was expressed on Monday, April 19, by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government Yuri Borisov.

Formations of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District (SE) have worked out combat training tasks as part of heterogeneous tactical groups at the military training ground "Opuk" in the Crimea, the press service of the SE reported.

The military operation in Syria has helped the Russian army to strengthen morale, test weapons and make a qualitative step in development, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

Next week, for the first time, NASA will use a reusable spacecraft and a reusable first stage of a launch vehicle simultaneously for a manned launch to the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced at a press conference by NASA head of the manned flight program Kathy Lueders.

The Polish company Zaklady Mechaniczne "BUMAR-LABEDY" reported on April 12 that in the first quarter of 2021, it transferred 15 T-72 tanks to the troops, which were repaired and modernized.

As reported by the news agency RIA Novosti, JSC "Kronshtadt" has begun construction of the first specialized plant in Russia for the serial production of attack unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the launch of the enterprise is scheduled for November. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the press service of the company.

More than 10 Su-34 aircraft bombed the positions of the imaginary enemy at the training ground near Voronezh, the press service of the Western Military District (ZVO) reported.

Also during the exercise, the crews of fighter and bomber aircraft will perform missile launches and bombing of sea targets

As part of the control check, the crews of the Su-25SM3 attack aircraft were relocated from the airfield in the Stavropol Territory to the operational airfields of the Crimea, and the squadron of aircraft was also relocated to the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan region. In total, more than 50 aircraft were involved in these events, the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) reported.

One of the two pilots who ejected from the crash of the Su-30 fighter jet in the Karaganda region is in hospital, the second pilot refused to be hospitalized, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan told Interfax-Kazakhstan on Saturday.

The British continue to build the lead frigate of the latest Type 26 project. On April 16, at the shipbuilding enterprise of the BAE Systems Maritime — Naval Ships division of BAE Systems Corporation in Glasgow (former Yarrow Shipyard), the bow section of the frigate HMS Glasgow was withdrawn from the boathouse.

One of the four USAF B-1B bombers participating in the Norwegian support mission broke down.

According to The Drive portal, a US Air Force B-1B bomber from the 7th Bombardment Wing suffered serious engine damage in Norway. And although the mission of these four aircraft ended in March, the accident was officially announced only on April 16.

Alexander Bloshenko, Director of the State Corporation for Advanced Programs and Science, did not rule out that in the future, gene and cell technologies and medical effects on individual organs will be used.

Previously, it was assumed that this would happen in May

The carrier of unmanned underwater vehicles "Poseidon" the nuclear submarine "Khabarovsk" of project 09851 will be launched next autumn. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

Israeli designers have begun to copy Russian unmanned technologies, said the chief designer of the company ZALA AERO (part of the Kalashnikov group of companies") Alexander Zakharov.

In the Army Corps of the Baltic Fleet, exercises were held to practice the actions of personnel in the conditions of the use of weapons of mass destruction.