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The United States cannot continue to deter Russia and China with the "remnants of the Cold War" - the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), they are too old to extend their life, the head of the Strategic Command, Admiral Charles Richard, said on Tuesday during a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Moscow rejects Washington's accusations of non-compliance with Russia's moratorium on nuclear tests

The United States groundlessly accuses Russia of non-compliance with the moratorium on nuclear tests, while they themselves are silent about their plans to deploy new nuclear weapons, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his address to the Federal Assembly, named the share of modern weapons in the country's nuclear triad. The statement of the head of state is reported by RIA Novosti.

Israeli military intelligence and senior Mossad officials believe that talks in Vienna between Iran and other world powers will lead to the return of the United States to the 2015 nuclear deal, Axios reported on Monday, citing knowledgeable sources.

The French nuclear submarine Perle, which was badly damaged in a fire in June last year, will be able to return to service in three years. However, this will not be quite an ordinary repair: the submarine will be cut in half, the damaged part will be separated from it, and the "healthy" half from the exact same, but decommissioned boat will be installed instead.

Previously, it was assumed that this would happen in May

The carrier of unmanned underwater vehicles "Poseidon" the nuclear submarine "Khabarovsk" of project 09851 will be launched next autumn. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The Iranian authorities announced on Saturday that they had identified the person who carried out the sabotage at the nuclear facility in Natanz, the Associated Press reports.

The resident of the special economic zone of the capital "Special Design and Technological Bureau of Applied Robotics" ("SKTB PR") has delivered a batch of eight mobile robotic complexes MRK-15 for the Russian law enforcement agencies, designed to neutralize explosive objects, said the head of the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy of Moscow Alexander Prokhorov.

Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Melnyk in Berlin called on Western countries to think about returning his country's nuclear status. He said this on the radio station Deutschlandfunk.

Ukraine renounced its status as a nuclear power after the collapse of the USSR. Earlier, President Vladimir Zelensky said that the rejection of nuclear weapons is a big mistake, but it is wrong to seek to return the nuclear status. But the infamous Ukrainian ambassador to Germany does not agree with the Ukrainian leader.

Judging by the dimensions of the lower part of the Chinese aircraft carrier Type 003, its dimensions do not differ much from the latest American ships of the Gerald R. Ford type. This conclusion was reached by the experts of Naval News, having studied satellite photos of the shipyard in Shanghai, where the aircraft carrier is being built.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Iran needs to "cool down" after the recent operation at the Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz, allegedly committed by Israel.

Twenty-seven US Senate Democrats support US President Joe Biden's efforts to return to the Iran nuclear deal.

The trip of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to the Northern Fleet has begun. Military expert Vasily Dandykin told Sputnik radio about the tasks facing this fleet at the moment.

Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu on April 9, during an inspection of the state defense order of JSC "766 Department of Production and Technological Equipment" (UPTK) in the Moscow region, instructed to increase radiation protection for Russian military robots.

The Poseidon nuclear submarine strikes the target in three stages, Alexander Mikhailov, director of the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis, told Izvestia on Thursday, April 8.

The British Dreadnought-class nuclear submarines, which will replace the Vanguard submarines, will have an electric remote control system (EDSU), like aircraft. It automates the control of the course, pitching, depth of immersion and buoyancy of the ship and will allow operators to simply set the desired indicators, according to BAE Systems.

[b]The Ministry of Defense reported that in total, more than 15 thousand military personnel and about 3 thousand pieces of equipment will be involved in the inspections following the results of the winter training period in the Strategic Missile Forces]

Final control checks have begun in more than 80 units of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

According to the newspaper "Sea News of Russia", after 2030, Russia can continue to build up the nuclear icebreaker fleet. And in particular, to build four icebreakers: two nuclear-powered vessels of the project 22220 type "Arctic" and two vessels of the project 10510 type "Leader".

As the Kommersant newspaper reports in the article by Anastasia Vedeneeva, " Nuclear icebreakers will find a dock in Turkey. Kyzey Star will build it for Atomflot for 5 billion rubles, " the Turkish shipyard Kyzey Star Shipyard became the winner of the competition for the construction of a floating dock for 5 billion rubles for nuclear icebreakers of Atomflot.