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Another regiment equipped with Yars missile systems has entered combat duty in the Barnaul compound of the Strategic Missile Forces in the Altai Territory, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry told RIA Novosti.

[b]The threats to world security posed by India and Pakistan are quite real.]

The issue of extending the validity of the Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States on Measures for Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, known as START-3, remains in the focus of the world community's attention at the beginning of 2021.

Russia needed an asymmetrical strategy of influence on the geopolitical opponents

For many years, the US leadership has been considering nonviolent and cost-increasing options that Washington and its allies could use in the economic, political, information and military spheres in order to stress – excessively stretch and unbalance-the Russian economy, the Armed Forces and the political positions of the government at home and abroad.

Japanese media report in chorus about the launches of the Bulava ICBM from the Sea of Okhotsk. The proximity of the launch area to Japan is particularly noted, which is seen as a signal not only to Washington, but also to Tokyo. Japanese readers are outraged. "This is a challenge to Japan! ""Our salvation is a military alliance with the United States! "" It's time for Japan to get its own nuclear weapons and submarines!»

Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin on the successful launch of four Bulava Intercontinental ballistic missiles during strategic forces training, the Russian defense Ministry said.

launch of hypersonic missile "Zircon" made in the White sea

Two days after training and combat tests of Intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Russian military conducted another maneuver in the White sea. This time, the combat readiness of the Zircon hypersonic missile was checked. It was first tested when hitting a coastal target. Before that, in October and November, the missiles were tested on sea targets.

Russia has started developing a nuclear tug " Nucleon "for flights to deep space," Roscosmos "and KB" Arsenal " signed a contract, according to the public procurement website on December 11.

the British appreciated the training of Russian nuclear forces

The British media dubbed the" preparation for nuclear war " held in Russia earlier exercises, which involved the strategic missile forces, strategic aviation and a nuclear submarine. As a result of the past maneuvers, the Russian military Department released a number of videos showing cruise missile launches.

the united states has opened a new military structure in the baltic states-a base for special operations forces, special forces. what will this military unit do, what combat tools will it use, and why is it potentially extremely dangerous for the defense of russia, especially in the possible pre-war period?

The distributor of Microsoft products, Softline, will no longer be able to supply software to Bauman Moscow state technical University due to new US sanctions. Microsoft refuses to sell its SOFTWARE to a University that trains weapons specialists.

Three nuclear-powered icebreakers of the Leader project, which are the most powerful in the world, will be commissioned in 2027-2032, Deputy Minister of industry and trade of the Russian Federation Alexey Besprozvannykh said.

the Aircraft used the latest air-launched cruise missiles X-101 and X-555, which were carried in the fuselage compartments

The Russian defense Ministry released a video of ballistic and cruise missile launches during a strategic nuclear forces training session led by the Supreme commander, Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday.

French President Emmanuel macron, speaking on December 8, 2020 at the head enterprise of the French nuclear industrial Corporation Framatome in Le Creusot, announced the beginning of the practical implementation of the Porte Avion Nouvelle Generation (PANG) program for the design and construction of a promising aircraft carrier for the French Navy, and that this ship will be equipped with a nuclear power plant.

the US is pushing Iran to develop nuclear weapons, stealing its hope to fight back in a different way

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blamed Israel for the murder of one of the creators of the Iranian nuclear program, the "father of the Iranian atomic bomb" Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, who served as the head of the research and innovation Organization of the Ministry of defense of Iran, on the afternoon of November 27 in the vicinity of the city of Absard, 50 kilometers from Tehran. What circumstances indicate this?

It makes no sense to extend start-3 at the cost of abandoning the most promising weapons

When in 2018, the Russian President first announced the development of new types of weapons in Russia, Western experts unanimously claimed that this is fiction, "Putin's cartoons".

China has successfully launched its own "artificial sun" -the HL-2M thermonuclear reactor. This is a great achievement for the state and for the entire nuclear energy sector of the country.

More than half of Russians feel the threat of nuclear war

The majority of Russians believe that the probability of a nuclear war is real, according to the survey. To a greater extent, this opinion is held by the adult generation-older than 46 years. The possibility of starting such a war became particularly acute last summer, when the Treaty on intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles was torn up.

The fourth serial Russian nuclear icebreaker "Chukotka" project 22220 will be built at the "Baltic plant" in St. Petersburg on December 18, the company said.

Prospects for the development of situations in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India

Acting us Secretary of defense Christopher Miller at his first briefing at the Pentagon announced to the media that by January 15 next year, the United States will reduce its military contingents in Afghanistan and Iraq – the number of troops in each of the countries will be 2.5 thousand people. Currently, there are about 4.5 thousand American troops in Afghanistan, and 3 thousand in Iraq.

Military Watch Magazine presented a rating of the best warships. The Russian cruiser Admiral Nakhimov is also in the top five.

As noted in the publication, the most powerful classes of surface ships are destroyers and cruisers, the latter are in service exclusively with Russia and the United States.