Why the Russian Navy relies on diesel submarines of the Varshavyanka project

Admiralty Shipyards launched a diesel-electric submarine (DPL) of the 636.3 Varshavyanka project, which was named Ufa. As part of the project, this submarine will become the fourth in the Pacific Fleet and the tenth in the entire Russian Navy. "Newspaper.Ru" understood the peculiarities of "Varshavianok".

US warships will not return to the Black Sea until the mine danger created in the region by the Armed Forces of Ukraine is completely eliminated, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council (SB) of the Russian Federation Mikhail Popov believes.

On March 31, 2022, at the Spanish naval base La Carraca in San Fernando in Cadiz, a ceremony was held for the transfer of the Avante 2200 project built by the Spanish shipbuilding association Navantia in the ordered series of five units of the large corvette Al Jubail (tail number "828", construction number C546) to the Saudi Arabian Navy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the spring recruitment of conscripts into the army. "To carry out, from April 1 to July 15, 2022, conscription of citizens of the Russian Federation aged 18 to 27 who are not in reserve and are subject to conscription in accordance with federal law, in the amount of 134,500 people," the document published on Thursday, March 31, says. on the official Internet portal of legal information.

A twenty-volume almanac about the history and traditions of Russian cadetship has been published

In April, the unique exhibition "Cadet Roll Call", dedicated to the 290th anniversary of primary military education in Russia, which has been working for six months, is coming to an end. Against the background of the exhibition in the Moscow Museum of Military Uniforms, a presentation of the book series of the same name took place. The multi-volume almanac was published as part of the literary and historical project "Cadet Heritage".

On Wednesday evening, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that Russian troops, developing an offensive, broke through the enemy's well-fortified defenses, crossed the Shaitanka River and are fighting with units of the 53rd mechanized Brigade on the approaches to the settlement of Velikaya Novoselka.

Russian troops, as well as units of the DPR and LPR, moving towards each other from the north, east and south, will soon have to close a huge cauldron in which the 50-thousandth Donbass group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be. These are the most trained units of the Ukrainian army – they have been in the combat zone since 2014, well trained and strengthened. But only the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donbass will allow us to solve other military and political tasks in Ukraine. How will the offensive develop?

The Russian Defense Ministry continues to expose cynical fakes that the Kiev nationalist regime massively stamps and uses to preserve power in Ukraine, as well as mislead its population and the world community.

Foreign Policy (USA): the cold war on two fronts is beyond America's strength

The Ukrainian crisis gave Biden "leverage" to achieve peace, according to the authors of the FP article. Washington should take into account Moscow's concerns and "quietly and calmly" start working with it and with Kiev. At the same time, we should not forget about China. Otherwise, the United States risks sliding into the abyss of the Cold War on two fronts, the authors warn.

The New York Times (USA): Europe redistributes expenses amid a special operation

The Russian special operation in Ukraine is forcing Europe and the United States to restructure their spending and prepare for threats that seemed to be in the past, writes The New York Times. The author of the article tells what money will be spent on in the West now.

Rand predicted the situation in Europe after the end of the conflict

Russia's special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine continues in accordance with the approved plan and will be completed, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation says.

Experts explained why London supplies NLAW complexes to Kiev

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to transfer another 6,000 NLAW complexes to Kiev. Before that, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed videos where Russian servicemen received complexes as trophies. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out for what purpose NLAW is being transported to Ukraine.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers should join the ranks of the Polish Army in the coming years, and even more Poles should undergo special military training. For all this, Warsaw allocates unprecedented money for the country. Of course, what is happening is explained by the events in Ukraine, but this is only the outer part of the iceberg. In fact, Polish ambitions go much further.

The newspaper "Kommersant" under the heading "There cannot be a low-cost airline in such a situation." The ex-head of Pobeda, Andrey Kalmykov, about his resignation, sanctions and ticket prices," published an interesting interview with the former CEO of the low-cost airline Pobeda (part of the Aeroflot group) Andrey Kalmykov on the prospects for the existence of Russian civil aviation in the conditions of total Western sanctions imposed against it.

Development of Chinese fighter aircraft

The basis of the PLA Air Force (as well as all the air forces of the main military powers in the world) are fighters and fighter-bombers ("Through the thorns to the fifth generation", "HBO", 25.02.22). Naturally, they are part of the aviation of all five regional commands and all three fleets of the Chinese Armed Forces.

Anti-missile weapons are as diverse as the missiles themselves. Among the many complexes and systems there is a very unusual sample. And a successful one, which shot down a real ballistic missile warhead during an intercontinental launch. Perhaps soon this unique system will be adopted. Naked Science reveals all the details about her.

Russia is ready to massively use missiles that have no analogues

Mass use of high-precision weapons is becoming one of the main trends of the Russian Armed Forces. Its use began from the first minutes of the special operation in Ukraine. And if at first these were infrastructure facilities, now we are talking about well-protected ammunition depots and area targets.

It takes 600 nuclear units to deter the Americans

On March 23, 2022, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, answering questions from CNN, said that if, as a result of NATO aggression against our country, there is a threat to the existence of the Russian Federation, we will be forced to use nuclear weapons - in strict accordance with the provisions of Military Doctrine and the Concept of National Security. This phrase caused a real stir in the West, which has not subsided until now. Let us recall in this regard, what arsenal does Russia have and what will be required to inflict unacceptable damage to the enemy?

About the US nuclear policy in the new conditions

At the very beginning of March 2022, the US Congressional Research Service published a report "Russia's Nuclear Weapons: doctrinal foundations, organization of troops and modernization". The head of the team of authors of this document was Amy F. Wolf, a nuclear weapons specialist and consultant to the US Department of State and the US Department of Defense.

Despite the fact that in recent weeks, against the background of events in Ukraine, the United States has taken several steps towards Iran and continued negotiations on a return to a multilateral nuclear deal, Washington has remained faithful to the policy of sanctions. This time they were introduced against several organizations that, according to the American authorities, are involved in the supply of materials for the Iranian ballistic missile program.