The Russian military received a batch of new T-90M tanks
The motorized rifle brigade in New Moscow received eight T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks - the latest modification of the Russian T-90 main battle tank.
In "Rosatom" came up with a trap rocket for drones
Scientists of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - the All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics (RFNC-VNIITF), located in the city of Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region, have come up with a device for combating drones, which is a rocket from which a network of drones is released, it follows from a document published on the website of Rospatent.
From Toulouse to orbit: French conduct military exercises in space
France conducts first military exercises in space
The French military is conducting exercises to test the capabilities of its space command in dealing with threats to its satellites. Near-Earth space has become the" real national security problem " of the Fifth Republic. The exercise is part of France's strategy to become the world's third-largest space power.
Roscosmos said that the flight of a US astronaut on the Soyuz will be a one-time event
Earlier, the state corporation reported that cosmonaut Sergei Korsakov was removed from the main crew of the Soyuz MS-18 manned spacecraft, and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hai was appointed instead.
US strategic bomber lands in the Arctic for the first time
The US Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber landed for the first time in history above the Arctic Circle. It happened at the Norwegian air defense base Bude.
Combat drones have conquered the Middle East
Experts say the recent spate of attacks using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) targeting Saudi Arabia underscores the growing era of "war at a distance" in the Middle East, as the region's regular armies and numerous paramilitary groups operating within it increasingly use drones for various purposes.
American F/A-18C decommissioned
American carrier-based fighters of the fourth generation F/A-18C Hornet officially decommissioned, according to Popular Mechanics. According to the magazine, the last such aircraft completed their mission on the aircraft carrier Nimitz. In the near future, the F/A-18C Hornet should be replaced by the fifth-generation F-35B Lightning II fighters.
Factory tests of the upgraded Tu-160M with new engines have been completed
The first deeply modernized strategic missile carrier-bomber Tu-160M with NK-32 engines of the second series is entering a new stage of testing, the press service of Rostec reports.
MiG-31 fighters showed interception of the "intruder" over the Arctic Circle
The crews of the MiG-31BM fighters of the naval aviation of the Pacific Fleet worked out the interception of a conditional border intruder, in the role of which the MiG-31 also acted. The video of the interception was published by the Russian Defense Ministry on Wednesday, March 10.
Russian MiG-31s will intercept ballistic missiles
MiG-31 planes will intercept ballistic missiles, Izvestia reports, citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.
Soviet nuclear missile with an inflatable fairing shown on video
Rare footage of a Soviet railway-based nuclear missile has appeared online.
The Drive portal drew attention to a fragment of a video about the Soviet RT-23 UTTH ICBM "Well Done" (in the NATO classification SS-24 Scalpel), published on March 9 on Twitter. The author recalls that the Soviet Union was the only country that created a railway mobile intercontinental ballistic missile.
Another Russian military base will appear in Syria
The Syrian news portal Zaman Al-Wasl, citing its sources, reported that Russian troops in Syria are preparing to establish a "permanent military base" near the historic city of Palmyra (Tadmor) in the province of Homs.
Source: nuclear submarine missile carriers "Dmitry Donskoy" and "Prince Potemkin" will be laid in May
The deadline for the delivery of ships to the fleet is 2026 and 2027, the agency's interlocutor said
The nuclear-powered strategic missile cruisers Dmitry Donskoy and Prince Potemkin of Project 955A (code "Borey-A") will be laid down at Sevmash in May 2021. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.
The submarine "Dmitry Donskoy" was called in the United States "an underwater monster»
Soviet nuclear submarines of the project 941 type "Shark" (according to the NATO classification - "Typhoon") frighten with their size, writes the American edition of Popular Mechanics on March 3.
The expedition of the Northern Fleet will take pictures of the bottom relief in the Arctic
The icebreaker Ilya Muromets has entered the Barents Sea to solve a number of tasks within the framework of the integrated expedition of the Northern Fleet (SF) and the Russian Geographical Society (RGS).
The icebreaker "Ilya Muromets" went to sea to search for the famous convoy PQ-17
The icebreaker of the Northern Fleet "Ilya Muromets" went to the Barents Sea to participate in a complex expedition of the Northern Fleet and the Russian Geographical Society. It is held as part of the patriotic campaign "Remember the War". A little later, the icebreaker will be joined by the logistics support vessel "Elbrus".
A large landing ship of the Russian Navy "Saratov" entered the Mediterranean Sea"
A large landing ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet "Saratov" has entered the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, local information portals reported, publishing photos of its passage through the Bosphorus Strait.
NI: Upgraded "Admiral Nakhimov" can sink any ship
The Admiral Nakhimov heavy nuclear cruiser will become the most dangerous ship of the Russian Navy thanks to new weapons, radars and electronic warfare equipment. After modernization, the project 1144 ship will be able to sink vessels of any displacement.
The characteristics of the Russian ships of the project 23900 are named
The universal landing ships of the project 23900 "Ivan Rogov" and "Mitrofan Moskalenko" under construction in Kerch will be able to carry four reconnaissance and attack drones and up to 16 helicopters.
The project of a universal transport and hospital ship has been unveiled
The project of a universal hospital transport vessel has been published. It was developed in the "Nevsky Design Bureau".
An important feature of the vessel is its versatility. It can work in the interests of both military and civilian consumers of medical services.