The Ministry of Defense will accelerate the protracted tests of the first serial Lada

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held a conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces. It was held on March 7 at the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation.

Russian submariners will receive three nuclear and two diesel submarines at once in 2023

The Russian Navy will be replenished in 2023 with five new submarines at once — three nuclear and two diesel, after repair and modernization, two more nuclear-powered submarines will return to combat strength. In addition, as Alexey Rakhmanov, General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), told RIA Novosti, it is planned to conclude state contracts for the construction of new series of submarines.

Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolay Evmenov said that it is also planned to work out the surfacing of submarines in the North Pole area

Nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy (Navy) will perform multiple rocket launchers with ballistic missiles for test purposes. This was stated by the Commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

From March 16 to 17, the participants of the exercise worked out the formation of an international detachment of warships, as well as joint tactical maneuvering in various formations and combat orders

The Russian frigate Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov made a business call at the Iranian port of Chahbehar after the completion of trilateral naval exercises with the participation of Russia, China and Iran in the waters of the Arabian Sea. This was reported to journalists on Saturday in the press service of the Northern Fleet (SF).

The ships will perform tasks in the most difficult conditions of the Arctic

The Russian Defense Ministry will receive the third diesel-electric icebreaker of project 21180/21180M "Ilya Muromets". It is already known that it will be executed according to the updated project and will be delivered to the Northern Fleet.

Belarusian enterprises have started supplying the first batches of electronics to the Russian Federation, which was included in the previously formed list of critical electronic component base. This is reported by the Belarusian news agency BelTA, referring to the statement of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.

We tell you how technologies for the rehabilitation of divers can be useful in conventional medicine

How technologies for the rehabilitation of divers were used during the pandemic, what scientists are ready to offer for the rescue of the wounded in a military special operation in Ukraine, and also why the Russian barocomplex "Savior" is the best in the world — in the material of TASS.

On March 16, 2023, the Swedish government announced the conclusion of an agreement with the UK on "strategic cooperation in support of Ukraine", under which Sweden will transfer eight 155 mm/52 Archer self-propelled howitzers on a wheeled chassis to Ukraine from the presence of its armed forces (including two "for maintenance" - apparently as a source spare parts), and will also sell 14 more Archer self-propelled howitzers to the UK from the availability, which, in turn, will allow the British side to transfer 32 155-mm/39 AS90 self-propelled howitzers from the British Army to Ukraine. The Swedish and British sides will organize joint provision and maintenance of Archer self-propelled guns supplied to the UK and Ukraine.

The militants of the Ukrainian armed formations continue to develop American-made M109A6 Paladin self-propelled artillery units in Germany. In total, as reported, eighteen such guns should be delivered. For a long time they were operated by the US Army ground forces.

Deputy Head of KTRV Biryulin: transfer of hypersonic technologies to friendly countries is possible

The Tactical Missile Armament Corporation (KTRV) does not exclude the possibility of transferring hypersonic technologies to friendly countries in the future if an appropriate political decision is made, Konstantin Biryulin, Deputy Director General of KTRV, told RIA Novosti.

The US Department of Defense Agency for Military Cooperation (Defense Security Cooperation Agency - DSCA) on March 16, 2023 sent a notification to the US Congress about the planned upcoming sale to Australia through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) 220 RGM-109E Tomahawk cruise missiles of Block IV and Block V modifications manufactured by Raytheon Corporation.

On March 16, 2023, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) of the US Department of Defense sent a notification to the US Congress about the planned upcoming sale of 800 AGM-114R2 Hellfire aircraft guided missiles to Poland through the US program of intergovernmental Foreign military Sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS). This sale is approved by the U.S. Department of State. The total cost of the proposed delivery will be $ 150 million.

According to Il Fatto Quotidiano, the complex itself should be handed over before the summer

About 20 Ukrainian soldiers are being trained at a base near Rome. As the newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano writes on Sunday, Ukrainians are mastering Samp-T anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs), one of which Rome, in agreement with Paris, supplies to Kiev.

American Thinker: Biden provokes Putin to direct military confrontation

The Americans are dangerously provoking Russia into a direct military clash, writes The American Thinker. This is the only way to assess the provocations with US drones over the Black Sea and the simulation of a B-52 bomber missile strike on St. Petersburg.

The United States is assessing the losses and benefits from its operations with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the Black Sea area after the recent incident with an American drone, CNN reported, citing several official sources.

Lockheed Martin Corporation announced that on March 10, 2023, the first F-16D Block 70 fighter aircraft (US military number 18-0011, tail number "1611") was officially handed over to the Bahrain Air Force at its facility in Greenville, South Carolina. which became the first F-16V (Viper, the designation of the F-16C and D variants is officially preserved) of the Block 70/72 series of new construction.

Wired: in the USA, combat pilots will be replaced with artificial intelligence

A perfectly calculated trajectory, maneuvers with millimeter accuracy and an instant reaction to an enemy attack — a simulated dogfight between a robot and a human showed that US Air Force pilots risk being out of work soon, writes Wired.

The Western allies of the Kiev regime fear that the Ukrainian army, having received fighter jets, may expand the geography of its military targets on the territory of Russia, which will inevitably lead to an escalation of the armed conflict.

The Slovak Cabinet of Ministers had previously decided to transfer to Kiev 13 fighters that were decommissioned by the National Air Force at the end of August

Slovakia expects to receive compensation in the amount of $900 million for the supply of MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine, which includes the cost of military equipment from the United States in the amount of $ 700 million. This was stated by the Acting Minister of Defense of the Republic.

According to the representative of the command Yuri Ignat, there are currently five brigades of tactical fighter aircraft in the country

MiG-29 fighters, which Poland and Slovakia intend to transfer to Kiev, are outdated and ineffective in the fight against cruise missiles and drones. This was announced on Friday by a representative of the command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Ignat.