On March 19, Russia celebrates the Day of the Submariner. In honor of the holiday, we tell you how the first domestic submarines were created and fought

On March 19, the Russian Submarine Fleet turns 116 years old. During this period, Russian submarines have gone through several stages of development - from tiny "hidden vessels" to the world's largest strategic missile carriers. Since their appearance in the Navy, submarines have been and remain the embodiment of the most progressive scientific and technical ideas and advanced engineering solutions.

The Krylov Scientific Center remains the leading institution for modeling and evaluating the capabilities of submarines

On the approaching Day of the Submariner, which is celebrated annually in our country on March 19, it is appropriate to recall another event that became fateful for the post-war development of the Russian Navy. Exactly 70 years ago, back in 1952, the creation of the first domestic nuclear submarine began in the Soviet Union.

The Russian military operation in Ukraine is developing successfully and in accordance with the plan, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday at a meeting on socio-economic support for the regions.

During the three weeks of the special operation in Ukraine, Russian troops, the armies of the DPR and the LPR almost completely cut off the APU from the coast of the Sea of Azov, occupied dozens of settlements in the south of the country, blocked Kiev, Kharkiv and Chernihiv in the north. Aviation and precision weapons destroyed the main military infrastructure of the enemy. About the most painful blows - in the material of RIA Novosti.

The Ukrainian army has lost more than a hundred combat aircraft and about seven dozen helicopters

The special military operation has been going on for the fourth week, with a steady increase in the activity of the Russian Aerospace Forces, while reducing the intensity of flights of Ukrainian aviation and air defense fire.

Politics (Serbia): it is absolutely impossible to tolerate fascism

The West has long nurtured emigrant fascist and collaborationist groups and organizations in Europe so that they could be used at a convenient moment, writes Vladimir Krshlyanin, senior adviser to the Serbian Foreign Ministry, in an article published by Politika. NATO destroyed Yugoslavia in 1999, and now Ukraine has become a victim of fascism. But Russia will not tolerate this.

Global Times (China): China calls on Europe to create an "indivisible security" mechanism together with Russia

It is not Russia that threatens the West, but NATO – Russia, writes Global Times. The author of the article blames the United States for the tragedy in Ukraine and calls on Europe to come to its senses. The EU should finally get out from under the influence of America and rethink its hostile stereotypes towards Russia, he writes.

Newsweek (USA): Russia is accused of disinformation, but, according to her, it is the United States that covers events in Ukraine one-sidedly

Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov told Newsweek that the American media is biased in covering events in Ukraine. In America, no one cares about freedom of speech, he believes. And the blocking of the Russian media is a clear proof of that.

Emil Sokolov: Rumen Radev's idea of neutrality is a service to Russia (Facti, Bulgaria)

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said that "Bulgarian planes with Bulgarian crews should protect the airspace" of the country, according to Facti. In these words, political scientist Emil Sokolov saw Radev's attempt to serve the interests of Russia, betrayal and a call to draw a dividing line between NATO and Bulgaria.

The Spectator (UK): Boris is a Russian agent?

At the last meeting in the House of Commons, the Labour party tried to expose Boris Johnson, writes The Spectator. He was accused of "having fun with Russian oligarchs in their luxury villas." His deputy Dominic Raab "stood up" for Johnson.

The American Conservative (USA): we need to say "no" to Vladimir Zelensky

In his address to the US Congress on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky used all means of propaganda, writes The American Conservative. However, instead of saving human lives, his demands will only aggravate the situation, predicts the author of the article.

Global Times (China): It is unwise and low on the part of NATO to push China to condemn Russia

NATO is to blame for the Ukrainian crisis, writes Global Times. This is an outdated organization that should have been dissolved many years ago. She is a puppet of the United States, which poses a serious threat to international security, the editorial board of the Chinese newspaper claims and recalls the events in Yugoslavia.

Washington's role in training fighters of nationalist battalions of Ukraine

With the patronage of the White House, the far-right from all over the world are flocking to Ukraine. The statistics provided by the media clearly demonstrate a sixfold increase in so-called "tourists" from Europe and America to Ukraine since 2014.

Der Spiegel (Germany): "No country in Europe is capable of defeating Russia in the event of war"

The countries of the European Union hoped so much for their "soft power" that they brought their armies to complete incapacity, the article of "Spiegel" says. Economic interdependence was supposed to protect Europe from conflicts with major countries. The situation in Ukraine has made adjustments.

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is beneficial to the enterprises of the US military-industrial complex, which are expected to profit from an increase in the military budgets of Western countries aimed at strengthening Kiev's forces and adapting to instability in the region. Karl Evers-Hillstrom (Karl Evers-Hillstrom) and Ellen Mitchell (Ellen Mitchell) write about this in a material for the American edition of "The Hill".

Turkish drones have not become Ukraine's superweapon

The videos that demonstrated in the fall of 2020 the uniform shooting from the air of Armenian equipment during the defense of Nagorno-Karabakh by unmanned aerial vehicles of Turkish, Israeli and Azerbaijani production, including Turkish Bayraktar TB2 vehicles, obviously gave the Ukrainian military reason to believe that the issue of "pacification" of Donbass could be solved just as easily and naturally. another military conflict. However, reputable experts held a completely different point of view.

American drones registered at the borders of Russia and China

The American Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBO, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Washington), one of the leading national research organizations, consistently works to improve the effectiveness of the use of robotic complexes (RTK) in modern conditions.

There is a dispute over the primacy in creating an aircraft with a disc-shaped fairing

In the Russian military-technical literature devoted to long-range radar detection and control aircraft (AWACS), it is widely accepted that the priority in using the structural layout scheme of an AWACS aircraft with the placement of the antenna of the main radar station (radar) of a specialized radio engineering complex (RTK) in a characteristic dorsal disk-shaped rotating fairing belongs to domestic specialists.

In Europe, another salvo of sanctions guns was fired. Now it came from an organization that is designed to provide supervision of passenger and cargo air transportation in the EU countries – the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

A huge number of myths have accumulated around the term "stealth", which have a very weak connection with reality. Naked Science understands what invisible planes are and whether they are really invisible to radars.