serial delivery of Russia's new Broneboyschik (armour piercer) air-launched missiles to the country's army is planned for 2021

The serial delivery of Russia's new Broneboyschik (armour piercer) air-launched missiles to the country's army is planned for 2021, documents for making it operational will soon be drafted, the CEO of Tecmash arms industry company (part of state corporation Rostec) has said in an interview.

"Everything is ready for producing Broneboyschik. Moreover, we have created a batch of these missiles for test exploitation by troops at our own expense. We hope that all the matters will be settled this year, and batch deliveries to the troops will start in 2021", Alexander Kochkin said.

After state tests of the new air-launched missile were finished in 2019, the state customer updated some of the requirements outlined in the design specification, Tecmash CEO recalled.

"All these issues have already been settled with the Defence Ministry. In the next few days, the preparation of documents for passing Broneboyschik into service will start", Kochkin said.

Broneboyschik is designed for planes of the Su-25 family and for Mi-8 military helicopters. These missiles are expected to complement the 80 mm-caliber S-8 unguided missile family.

New Cluster Glide Bomb Drel

Tecmash CEO also revealed that serial deliveries of Russia's new cluster glide bomb Drel to the country's army will start in 2021.

"We are now completing the state tests, we should finish this year. I believe the state customer will order some refinement, but the serial purchase of this item is planned for 2022", Alexander Kochkin said.

Drel can be launched by a carrier without entering the destruction envelope of the enemy weapon, and this is what makes the new cluster bomb unique, Kochkin noted. Apart from that, Drel is capable of reaching a target independently. It is equipped with self-aiming combat elements.

"Even if the bomb cannot find the target, it will destroy itself routinely and will present no threat for the population when combat operations are over", Kochkin explained.

The PBK-500U Drel stealth cluster glide bomb, which can be used round-the-clock regardless of the weather and does not require the aircraft to enter air defense facilities' coverage area, is designed to destroy armored vehicles, ground-based radar stations and control centers.

United States and Saudi Arabia are holding week-long joint military exercises at islands in the northern Persian Gulf

The United States and Saudi Arabia are holding week-long joint military exercises at islands in the northern Persian Gulf, the Navy said on Tuesday.

"The US and Saudi forces are conducting routine and joint sustainment training on and around Karan and Kurayn islands, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 24-30 May 2020", the Navy said in a statement.

US forces in the still ongoing exercise are comprised of the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (BATARG) and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and they are performing mission-essential training and planning with their Saudi partners, the US Navy said.

"The ability to plan and operate with other forces supports our ability to rapidly deploy aviation, maritime, and ground combat elements – all from over the horizon – at a moment’s notice in order to support maritime security, freedom of navigation, and the free flow of commerce”, 26th MEU commander Colonel Trevor Hall said in the report.

In coordination with their Saudi partners, US Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) Task Force (TF) 52 and TF 56, the BATARG and 26th MEU are also conducting well deck operations, underwater beach surveys, maritime patrolling, boat lane security operations in the area, the report said.

French High Council for Public Health (HCSP) and the Agency for the Safety of Health Products (ANSM) had suspended the use of hydroxychloroquine as a means to combat COVID-19

On Tuesday, the French High Council for Public Health (HCSP) and the Agency for the Safety of Health Products (ANSM) had suspended the use of hydroxychloroquine as a means to combat COVID-19
for both the treatment of patients and clinical trials.

The French government has cancelled a decree permitting hospital doctors to administer hydroxychloroquine as a treatment to patients suffering severe forms of coronavirus.

Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) paused an extended trial of the malaria drug due to safety concerns.

At the end of March, France decided to allow the use of hydroxychloroquine in specific situations, and exclusively in hospitals.

The study, published last Friday in The Lancet medical journal, revealed that there was an increased risk of death when the drug was used for patients with COVID-19. The publication prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to halt its clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine on Monday as a precautional measure.

The number of people who have died in France from coronavirus-related complications has reached 28,530, an increase of 315 since the latest previous reported figures last week, the French Public Health Agency (DGS) said.

The last time the DGS released a situation report on the death toll in France was last Thursday. The report stated 28,215 deaths linked to COVID-19.

According to the update, 100,841 people in total have been hospitalized since the beginning of the pandemic, and 16,264 currently remain in hospitals, down from 18,468 last week, including 1,555 patients in intensive care units.

Chaos in DRC law making institution!!Thabwe Mwamba,what went wrong

Over a phone conversation,Defense and security among the points mentioned by Félix Tshisekedi and Benjamin Netanyahu the Prime Minister of Israel. 27/05/2020

The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Félix Antoine Tshisekedi tshilombo exchanged ideas over the phone on

Tuesday, May 2020, 26 with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to the presidential press, the exchanges between the two personalities have focused on the coronavirus pandemic, which has been shaking the world for a few months already.
Félix Tshisekedi and Benjamin Netanyahu also mentioned Israeli investments in the DRC, finance as well as defense and security.
According to the same source, cybersecurity, agriculture, agri-food and watertechnology  were also discussed.
As a reminder, President Tshisekedi had taken advantage of his visit to the United States last March as part of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, (AIPAC), to announce the resumption of diplomatic relations between the DRC and Israel, as well as his support to Donald Trump's controversial peace plan.

Félix Tshisekedi meets and teaches military leaders to "reflect deeply on how to restore security" in the DRC

As a prelude to the meeting of the Superior Council of National Defence, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi, supreme commander of FARDC and police, gathered the officials of the civil and military security services, Monday, May 2020, 25,.
For more than 4 hours, issues related to the establishment of security permanently throughout the national territory have been discussed..
Around the Head of State, " All security officials, both civil and military, have thought deeply to prepare for the next meeting of the High Defence Council said Aimé Ngoy I, Minister of National Defence, reporting of the meeting.
" It was a question of thinking deeply to see how to bring security back to other parts of the country, where armed groups still operate he said.
Minister of National Defence and all the other persons responsible for security met on Tuesday, May 2020, 26, on instructions from the Head of State, around the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister from the interior to "think deeply" on how to permanently restore security throughout the national territory, by strengthening the central views that the Head of State has made available to them.

143 new cases confirmed in 6 different provinces of DRC, the accumulation rises to 2546 cases

The response team against the-19 in the DRC, reports 143 new confirmed cases of the disease out of the 410 samples tested, including 95 registered in Kinshasa, 20 in North Kivu, 12 in South Kivu, 11 in Central Kongo, 4 in Haut-Katanga and 1 at Kwilu. The accumulation is now increasing to 2.546 confirmed cases.
On Tuesday,twenty-five (25) new people were declared healed, bringing the total winners to 365. In the rank of death, no additional reports were reported. 67 is so far, the number of deaths in the country.
The newsletter also shows that 567 suspect cases are being investigated and 1679 evolving patients.
Seven of the twenty-six provinces in the country are affected by this pandemic declared in the DRC on March 10th. This is Kinshasa with 2.293, Ituri with 2 cases, of with 2 cases, Haut-Katanga with 21 cases, North Kivu with 35 cases, from South Kivu Kivu with 16 cases and Kongo Central with 176 cases.
.....thanks to our sources.......