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Lieutenant General of the US Air Force Thomas Boussier predicted the superiority of China over Russia in the capabilities of nuclear weapons. His words during an online forum on nuclear deterrence are reported by RIA Novosti.

The planned re-equipment of military units and formations of the Strategic Missile Forces allowed to increase the share of modern missile weapons to 81 percent by January 1, 2021 and give the Strategic Missile Forces group new opportunities to perform nuclear deterrence tasks.

Only a nuclear space tug can become a transport space system for the movement of large scientific stations, said the general director of the corporation

The testing of a drip refrigerator-emitter for the Zeus nuclear tug on board the International Space Station (ISS) is an important topic for Roscosmos, in which there may be breakthrough results. This opinion was expressed by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

As reported in the center of them. Keldysh, the project documentation has already been developed

The Keldysh Research Center (part of Roscosmos) plans to test a drip refrigerator-emitter for the Zeus nuclear tug on board the International Space Station (ISS)in 2024-2025. This was announced to TASS by the general director of the enterprise Vladimir Koshlakov at the International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

At the Army-2021 forum, a contract was signed for the supply of a mobile command missile system to the Russian Defense Ministry. The contract was signed with the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering (MIT).

One device will stand on the Progress, the second-on the ISS, and the communication procedure will be worked out between them

The creation of a prototype of equipment for space laser communication is planned to be completed at the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod Region, part of the Rosatom state Corporation) by 2024. This was reported on Monday by the newspaper "Strana Rosatom".

The principal difference of the development is the ability to control the key technological parameters that determine the quality of synthesized products

JSC "Science and Innovation" (part of the state corporation "Rosatom") presented at the forum" Army-2021 " a mock-up of an existing 3D printer that demonstrates the capabilities of the domestic software and hardware platform (PAP) for managing and controlling the additive process.

The United States of America will impose new sanctions against Russia in September in connection with the incident with the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to a statement issued on Friday by the State Department.

In Russia, there are projects for the global development of the bottom of the world ocean with the help of robots, says TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin.

Russia may be going to test a cruise missile with a nuclear power plant "Burevestnik", CNN reported on Thursday, citing experts who studied satellite images.

The IAEA is sounding the alarm because of the rapid acceleration of Iran's uranium enrichment process. After reports emerged in April that Iran had raised its enrichment level to 60%, new data from the Natanz plant suggests that Tehran is on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon.

According to the web resource "Mediapaluba", the lead new nuclear icebreaker "Arctic" of project 22220 (LK-60YA) on August 12, 2021, got up for repair in the Veleshchinsky dry dock of JSC "Kronstadt Marine Plant". The vessel will have to replace the rowing electric motor on the right shaft, which failed during the commissioning of the electric propulsion system.

Since Soviet times, the practice of preparing for protection against chemical, biological and nuclear threats has not only been preserved in Russia, but is also developing well. This can be judged at least by the contents of first-aid kits intended for the provision of first aid by the civil defense forces. In NATO countries, much less attention is paid to this, including in military conditions. Charlie Gao, a defense expert at The National Interest, writes about this.

On Tuesday, August 17, a group of inspectors from Russia visited one of the military facilities in Lithuania. The head of the Russian National Center for Reducing Nuclear Danger, Sergey Ryzhkov, explained that such business trips are organized to check information about the military forces and plans for the deployment of major weapons systems and military equipment. Such international control is provided for in the Vienna Document of 2011 on Confidence-and Security-building Measures.

Russia poses the main military threat to the United States, this opinion was expressed on Tuesday, August 17, by the head of the Northern Command of the United States Armed Forces, General Glen Vanherk.

Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that he had discussed with his Iranian counterpart the prospects for resuming negotiations on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Russia is currently the world's leading country in the field of hypersonic weapons and missile defense systems (ABM), the head of the Strategic Command (STRATCOM)said US Armed Forces Admiral Charles Richard.

The Russian Federation avoids direct confrontation to strengthen its international role, but resorts to pressure against other countries and to cyber operations, the head of the US Strategic Command, Admiral Charles Richard, said on Thursday.

In September 1999, American researchers discovered a near-Earth asteroid with a diameter of just over 500 m and a mass of 85.5 million tons, which orbits the Sun in an elliptical orbit for 1.2 years. The asteroid was named Bennu after a bird from Egyptian mythology.

In August 2007, Russian scientists and the military used a deep-water descent vehicle "Klavesin-1R" to study the Lomonosov Ridge in the Arctic Ocean, on the basis of which an autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicle "Klavesin-2R-PM" was subsequently developed, Zvezda recalls.