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If a ballistic missile is fired from a cannon, it will still remain a missile

On the eve of serious geopolitical upheavals, the world's leading countries are seeking to acquire breakthrough weapons systems that should provide them with military and technical superiority on the fields and seas of future battles.

the theory of electromagnetic weapons is well known, but the practice is not given in hand

In the current century, scientists and engineers working for the defense industry are working with increasing energy to create "anti-electronic" weapons that involve non-contact energy effects.

The Russian President held a number of meetings with the heads of the Russian military-industrial complex. They, in particular, announced the creation of a super-protected command post in Russia. This bunker, as reported by the media, will allow you to give the command to strike retribution even after a nuclear attack on our control centers.

The world's most powerful Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika has left Murmansk on its first working voyage. The voyage will take three weeks. In the Arctic, there is a process of ice formation, which will allow you to "run in" the car.

Dmitry Litovkin-whether the fear of a large-scale conflict is justified

First, the chief of the British defense Staff, Nick Carter, and then the Czech intelligence service, in their annual report, said that the world is on the verge of a global cataclysm.

Nebenzia assessed the prospects for extending the start-3 Treaty under Biden

Democrat Joseph Biden, who is now considered the most likely winner of the us presidential election, is aware of the importance of extending the Treaty on strategic offensive arms reduction, said Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia.

Vladimir Putin said that Russia is completing the creation of a nuclear forces control center, which is almost completely protected from nuclear attacks and equipped with the most advanced equipment and communications facilities. Moscow has already seriously modernized its nuclear triad in recent years. Now it's time to update its management system, which Russia inherited from the USSR and was developed on the territory of Ukraine.

There will be no American inspectors at Russia's nuclear weapons factories, as was the case in the 1990s, Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters.

Dmitry Litovkin-about a new safe Harbor for the Russian Navy

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a submission addressed to Vladimir Putin, suggesting the opening of a logistics support point for our warships in this country in Sudan.

the Drive was impressed by the photos of Tu-160, Tu-95 MS and Tu-22 M3 bombers, showing off fully armed.

The Drive portal was impressed by a photo report from the Engels long-range aviation unit (Saratov region, published recently by the Russian defense Ministry). It presents strategic bombers Tu-160, Tu-95 MS and Tu-22 M3 with the layout of their weapons. As the journalist notes, so far there have been very few opportunities to see these aircraft with a potential payload.

On November 5, 2020, the US Navy signed a $ 9.474 billion contract with the General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard (GDEB, part of the General Dynamics Corporation) in Groton, Connecticut, for the construction and testing of the first two us nuclear - powered missile submarines of the new generation-SSBN 826 Columbia and SSBN 827 Wisconsin.

Alexander Lukashenko opened the belaes In Ostrovets on Saturday, November 7. "A historic moment: the country becomes a nuclear power," he said. The author recalls that in early September, the Baltic States agreed that after the launch of the nuclear power plant in Ostrovets, they would stop buying electricity from Belarus.

at the Ogarkov readings held at the end of last week, sensational statements were made. One of them concerned the inevitable revision of existing military doctrines.

Marshal Ogarkov of the Soviet Union, who was chief of the General staff of the armed forces of the USSR from 1977 to 1984, became the face of such readings because in his theoretical works he anticipated the development of the armed forces on a global scale, which is only beginning now. This is also known abroad, so the event is attended by leading Western military analysts.

In September 2020, India announced a successful test of ramjet technology. The engine was designed specifically for installation on a hypersonic technology demonstrator (hypersonic technology demonstrator vehicle, HSTDV).