MiG-31 planes will intercept ballistic missiles, Izvestia reports, citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 recent days, a lot of video and photo materials of railway trains with various military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have appeared on the Network. However, according to military experts, most of it belongs to the same unit - the 25th separate airborne brigade, stationed in the urban-type settlement of Gvardeyskoye, Dnipropetrovsk region.

The People's Liberation Army of China uses models of various foreign armored vehicles during exercises, as well as tests of the latest models of military equipment.

For example, at the end of last year, an imitation of the American main battle tank Abrams appeared on the Network filmed on one of the highways of the Middle Kingdom. Military experts attribute this fact to the supply of real M1A2T from the United States to Taiwan.

Rosgvardiya can arm itself with new pistols. On March 9, the press service of the Kalashnikov concern reported that the Lebedev modular pistol (MPL) successfully passed state tests.

Russian anti-personnel grenade launchers are increasing their caliber. On March 9, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported that the 40-mm automatic grenade launcher "Balkan" successfully passed state tests.

The idea of using animals as weapons does not leave humanity throughout its history. The United States was no exception: MilitaryWatch told about the most insane (and failed) projects of the local military.

New army glasses for the US Army-Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) will help soldiers get important visual information without leaving the APCs and other combat vehicles. The command plans to purchase tens of thousands of such points.

Missile boats of the Baltic Fleet conducted a complex of artillery firing off the coast of the Kaliningrad region.

During the planned sea launch, the strike group consisting of the missile boats "Morshansk" and "Zarechny" successfully hit all large and small shields that mimic the ship's detachment of a simulated enemy

The Indian company GRSE announced the ceremony of laying the keel of the third low-profile frigate (serial number Yard 3024) of the Nilgiri class, which took place on March 5 at its enterprise in Kolkata" ("Project-17A" / P-17A).

Diesel submarines Kolpino and Veliky Novgorod have put to sea for maneuvers, the Russian Black Sea Fleet said on Wednesday.