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The us Department of Commerce has included several dozen Russian enterprises and organizations in the list of those to be subject to export restrictions. The us authorities consider these companies "military end-users", which makes them subject to export control rules. This means that they will need a license to export or re-export certain goods.

In 2020, the Russian Navy adopted the main nuclear-powered submarine of the Borey - A project, the Knyaz Vladimir, armed with Bulava ballistic missiles with a modern complex of means to overcome missile defense. On Monday at the Board meeting, the defense Ministry said the head of Department Sergey Shoigu.

In 2020, the aviation strategic nuclear forces of Russia were replenished with five upgraded Tu-95MS missile carriers. This was announced on Monday at the Board of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation by the head of the Department Sergey Shoigu.

Two regiments of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) will be re-equipped with mobile and mine-based Yars missile systems in 2021, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev, told reporters on the sidelines of an expanded meeting of the board of the Russian Defense Ministry.

Flight tests of the latest intercontinental ballistic missile "Sarmat" will be conducted in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. A special training ground will be built there for this purpose next year. This was announced on Monday, December 21 at a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation by the head of the Department Sergey Shoigu.

the truth and myths about the light scalpel

In February 2020, near the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, an American anti-submarine aircraft P-8A Poseidon was illuminated and blinded by a laser from a Chinese destroyer. This incident, some believe, marked the beginning of the open use of laser weapons as an independent system. From that moment on, they started talking about the rapid spread of laser weapon combat systems (LO).

The President spoke about the "antidote" at the annual press conference

At the final press conference on December 17, Vladimir Putin said that Russia is "actively working" on an "antidote" to the future hypersonic weapons (GZO) of other countries. The President did not specify which systems are in question, but information about some of them has previously appeared in open sources. Experts note that protection against such weapons is an extremely difficult, but feasible task. how it is going to be solved in our country-izvestia understood.

on december 16, 2020, the fifth universal nuclear icebreaker of project 22220 (lk-60ya), named "chukotka" (construction number 05712), was laid in st. petersburg at jsc "baltic plant" (part of jsc "united shipbuilding corporation" - usc).

A huge speed, a titanium hull and a world record that has not been broken so far — on December 18, 1970, the experimental nuclear submarine of Project 661 "Anchar" accelerated under water to almost 45 knots (83 kilometers per hour). However, despite the successful tests, this nuclear-powered ship did not go into production and remained the only one of its kind. Why high-speed submarines were not useful to the fleet - in the material of RIA Novosti.

the president also said that work on the hypersonic missile "zircon" is mostly completed

russia is currently working on ways to counter hypersonic weapons, which other countries do not yet have. This was announced on Thursday at the final press conference by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Work on the new Sarmat intercontinental missile is in its final stage, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "We are actively working on a heavy rocket - the Sarmat. At the final stage, " Putin said at a press conference on Thursday.

[b]the president answered questions from journalists about arms control, relations with foreign leaders, and shared his views on other international processes.]

Russian President Vladimir Putin held another big press conference. we have selected the most significant statements from the speech of the russian leader concerning international relations.

The US Air Force Research Laboratory conducted ground tests of the warhead of a promising hypersonic missile and an electronic precision detonation system. According to Flightglobal, the tests took place at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico and were considered successful. The tests were carried out using a trolley with rocket boosters mounted on rails.

Fuel is also planned to be used on other planets

the united states intends to process uranium for the use of this fuel on the surface of the moon and planets, as well as for space energy. this is stated in the strategy approved on wednesday by us president donald trump in the field of space nuclear energy.

ni believes that the "old" russian weapons are capable of "destroying the world" [/b]

The four-engine Tu-95MS propeller bomber was created in the USSR in the middle of the last century, but it is still capable of" destroying the world", according to the material of The National Interest magazine. This aircraft was compared to the American B-52, while noting that most of the Tu-95 was developed in the 1980s, so the Soviet aircraft are relatively young.

the avangard combat unit is capable of flying in the dense layers of the atmosphere at hypersonic speed, maneuvering along the course and altitude and overcoming any missile defense

The next two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) UR-100N UTTH with hypersonic combat equipment "Avangard" can take up combat duty in one of the regiments of the Yasnensky compound of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) in the third decade of December.

New Doomsday aircraft to replace the Il-80 will be created on the basis of the Il-96 airliner, First Deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia Andrey Yelchaninov said in an interview with Interfax.

The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile will take up combat duty of the Strategic Missile Forces in 2022, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev, said in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on Wednesday, December 16.

popular mechanics evaluated the launch of four russian bulava missiles]

american media drew attention to the launch of bulava missiles from the russian submarine vladimir monomakh a few days earlier, presenting it as a"preview of the end of civilization." this launch was made from the sea of okhotsk at a landfill in the arkhangelsk region.

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.