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As reported in the press service of the Black Sea Fleet, the flights were performed at extremely low altitudes in difficult hydrometeorological conditions

The exercises, which involved more than 20 ships and boats of the Black Sea Fleet and three squadrons of attack aircraft of the Southern Military District's Air Force and Air Defense Association, were held as part of a control check of the fleet's forces during the winter training period. This is stated in a statement issued on Tuesday by the press service of the Black Sea Fleet.

Rostec enterprises are accelerating the development of domestic radio-electronic products due to the fact that foreign supplies can be stopped at any time, said the head of the state corporation Sergey Chemezov.

The Minister of Defense noted that the Northern Fleet is constantly practicing the use of fighter aircraft from the airfields of the Arctic archipelagos

The development of Russian military infrastructure in the Arctic and on the coast of the Arctic Ocean will continue, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting of the board of the military department on Tuesday.

The Northern Fleet will receive almost 250 units of modern weapons in 2021, and its share in the fleet will reach 62.3% by the end of the year, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The facilities will provide camouflage equipment from satellite surveillance and fire exposure

More than three hundred shelters will be built for the deployment of advanced aviation equipment, including fifth-generation aircraft, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.

In Syria, the firepower of the old BTR-152 was significantly increased. If earlier these wheeled armored personnel carriers were armed with 7.62-mm SGBB, now they can see 14.5-mm CPV.

The Vladimirov heavy machine gun, despite the fact that it was created in the second half of the 40s, is still considered one of the most powerful in the world.

The Russian Defense Ministry has built a runway for all types of aircraft on the Arctic island of Alexandra Land (Arkhangelsk Region), Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.

First Deputy head of Roscosmos for the development of the orbital group and promising projects Yuri Urlichich noted that budget and extra-budgetary investments in the program will be equal

Roscosmos expects that the program for the creation of the multi-satellite group "Sphere" will be approved in the first half of the year.

In the Leningrad region, the calculations of unmanned aerial vehicles of the combined-arms army of the Western Military District (ZVO), as part of a control check for the winter training period, worked out tasks to search for command posts of a conditional enemy.

The use of mathematical modeling in the aircraft industry using supercomputer technologies can already significantly reduce the time of work and financial costs.

Command and staff training (KSHT) with military authorities, formations and military units has started on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, the headquarters of the Eastern Military District (VVO) reported on Monday.

The MiG-31BM interceptor fighters worked out the elements of air combat and conducted missile firing over the Pacific Ocean.

According to the press service of the Pacific Fleet, the training was attended by aircraft of a separate mixed aviation regiment of Troops and forces.

Earlier, the press service of Roscosmos reported that the decision to continue the operation of the International Space Station by Russia will be made after 2024, based on its technical condition

Russia will launch the Nauka module into orbit and will not reduce the program of experiments in orbit until the national space station appears. This was written by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in the comments on his Facebook page.

Within the framework of the test tactical exercises, the military personnel of the units of the signal troops and mobile communication nodes (PUS) of the Caspian Flotilla (CFl) organized a stable secure communication between the units, command posts and ships performing tasks at sea ranges.

Special forces units continue to equip Typhoon-K armored vehicles with a remote-controlled combat module. Several such vehicles, recently received by the combined-arms army of the Eastern Military District stationed in Transbaikalia, will be shown for the first time on May 9 at the military parade in Chita.

The Northern Fleet began training exercises involving ships, submarines, aircraft and air defense systems. The main purpose of the maneuvers is to ensure the security of Russia's economic activities in the Arctic, the Russian Defense Ministry said. They noted that during the training, rescue operations, assistance at sea, crisis resolution, as well as the protection and defense of maritime communications will also be practiced.

"Orlan-10E" transmitted the coordinates of the target to the control machine, which calculated the settings for firing and sent them to the crew

Specialists of the Uralvagonzavod State Corporation Rostec demonstrated to the representatives of the foreign customer the interaction of the Msta-S self-propelled howitzer, upgraded to the NATO 155 mm caliber, and the Orlan-10E reconnaissance drone. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the press service of Rostec.

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.