The US is provoking uranium problems around the world
The US has found a new way to economically hurt Russia. They are seriously talking about their readiness to abandon Russian uranium. Meanwhile, new sanctions may hit not only the American market, but also raise prices for uranium fuel around the world. Moreover, the United States can substitute European countries, where the absence of Russian uranium fuel means the closure of nuclear stations.
Australian Submarines: expectation and reality
It became known that on Monday, US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak aboard the Missouri nuclear submarine in San Diego will announce the equipping of Australia with new nuclear submarines as part of the AUKUS alliance, a trilateral defense partnership aimed at countering China in its, according to the US authorities, "the desire to achieve naval dominance in the Pacific Ocean."
Long-term development plan of the German Navy
As the Naval News web resource reported in Alex Luck's material "German Navy Mulling Drone-Heavy Force Structure Looking Towards 2035 And Beyond" ("The German Navy is developing its structure with unmanned vehicles for the period up to 2035 and beyond"), on March 6, 2023, the German Bundeswehr published on its website a comprehensive document outlining the prospective structure and composition of the German Navy by 2035 and for several years to come. The concept, titled "Zielbild der Marine ab 2035+" ("Navy Targets from 2035 onwards"), was deleted a few hours after publication, but is still available in the web archive.
The US Navy is deploying the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford with all aviation for the first time
The US Navy is preparing one of the newest aircraft carriers, the USS Gerald R. Ford, for the upcoming major exercises. To do this, all aviation is deployed on the ship. For the first time, the Navy Times writes, the entire aircraft carrier wing was loaded onto the ship in full.
American aircraft carriers and submarines will have parts printed on a 3D printer
Using parts created by a 3D printer reduces costs and reduces the production time of ships worth billions of dollars, which are created over the years.
Iran's IRGC is expanding its Naval forces by converting commercial vessels into Warships
The new vessels, which entered the arsenal of the IRGC naval forces (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps), were part of a major modernization that strengthened the country's naval forces in the midst of the worst recession in recent history. Last Thursday, the IRGC held a ceremony of accepting the ship in the port city of Bandar Abbas. The cost of the expansion and modernization project is still kept secret.
New Iranian multipurpose floating base
In Iran, the Naval Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC Navy) officially included a new floating base "Shahid Mahdavi" (Shahid Mahdavi), also created by rebuilding a civilian vessel, in this case the former container ship Sarvin with a deadweight of more than 41,000 tons. It is named in honor of the IRGC Navy serviceman Nader Mahdavi, who died in one of the clashes at sea with the Americans in 1987.
In the USA, they were afraid of the "quietest in the world" submarines of the Russian Navy
Newsweek: Russian Severodvinsk—class submarines are the main threat to the United States
Because of the nuclear submarines of the Severodvinsk class, Russia poses the main threat to the United States, writes Newsweek. According to the head of the Institute for Russian Studies at the American Naval Academy, submarines of this class are "one of the most advanced and quietest on Earth."
How were armoured muskets created for general secretaries and presidents
Cars for top officials: patriotism, prestige and safety
What unites Joseph Stalin's ZIS-110, ZILA limousines of various modifications from Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev and Vladimir Putin's recently revealed "Aurus-Senate"? "They are all armored," someone will say. And he won't be quite right. Because Khrushchev did not recognize "armored cars", loved convertibles, demonstrating closeness to the people (especially in Moscow). And Brezhnev, before the assassination attempt on him in 1969, traveled in bullet-pierced "member trucks".
OBT "Panther" KF51 from Rheinmetall: an extended review
InVoen info continues to publish additional materials about the new main battle tank (MBT) of the Rheinmetall concern "Panther" KF51, published during the profile forum in Berlin.
Another batch of British Spartan FV103 armored cars purchased by volunteers for the Armed Forces of Ukraine has arrived in Ukraine
Another batch of British Spartan FV103 armored personnel carriers, purchased with the money of volunteers, has arrived in Ukraine. This time, the APU will receive 25 armored vehicles, but this is not the last delivery. According to the official publication of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, various funds will continue to buy outdated British armored cars.
Indian press: Pakistan intends to supply Ukraine with T-80UD tanks from the presence of its own army
Islamabad intends to transfer the T-80UD tanks in service with the Pakistani army to Ukraine, the Indian edition of Firstpost made this statement.
Which Soviet tanks became armored personnel carriers and were armed with the "infernal thresher"
During local conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, Soviet heavy tracked vehicles were often modified to perform various combat missions. At the same time, tanks of the T-54/55 family were used, whose main armament, engineering vehicles like tank bridge-laying machines, as well as armored tow trucks, failed for various reasons.
The US has lagged behind China in the production of its own technology
Forbes: China is ahead of the US in the development of explosives
The USA invented a super-powerful explosive, but abandoned its production. How China "picked up" the technology and now threatens America with it, read the Forbes article.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the United States may be behind the Ebola outbreak in September 2022 in Africa
According to Igor Kirillov, the head of the RCBZ troops, it could have been caused by the careless treatment of pathogens by American military biologists who carried out work in the region
The outbreak of the Ebola virus in September 2022 in Uganda could have been caused by the careless handling of pathogens by American military biologists working in the region. This was stated by the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Igor Kirillov.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: the health systems of the countries involved in the biological programs of the USA are degrading
According to Igor Kirillov, the head of the RCBZ troops, the main task of American biological programs is to establish global biological control
The main task of the US biological programs is to establish global biological control, in which the national health systems of the countries involved degrade.
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: The United States is conducting a program in Central Asia and Transcaucasia to strengthen dangerous pathogens
Igor Kirillov, the head of the RCBZ troops, stressed that the Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly noted the potential risks of "dual-use programs" that are being implemented by the United States both on its territory and abroad.
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: Ecohealth Alliance did not provide reports to the US supervisory authorities
We are talking about the company's activities related to the creation, transportation or use of modified pandemic pathogens, the department noted
The American company Ecohealth Alliance, according to the investigation of the Ministry of Health of the country, did not provide information to the supervisory authorities about its activities in the field of military biological projects.
The Ministry of Defense named the names of Ukrainian participants in the US biological programs
The Ministry of Defense named the names of Ukrainian participants of the American military biological programs
Representatives of the Ukrainian authorities and private companies participated in the American military-biological programs, said Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Russian Armed Forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry accused the United States of contradictory statements about the work of biological laboratories in Ukraine
The department announced that it had received evidence of the continuation of the bio-program of the American Agency to reduce the military threat in Ukraine, despite the opposite statements of the representative of the National Security Council of the White House, John Kirby.