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The Biden administration returned to the issue of the early decommissioning of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. The ship should serve for at least another 25 years, but most likely, it will be cut into metal much earlier. However, this is not the first time that the fierce discussions around the US aircraft carrier fleet have arisen. About how to decide the fate of the "symbols of democracy" - in the material of RIA Novosti.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has presented a robot-caver DAEDALUS, which in the near future will be engaged in the study of lunar caves.

is Japan blocking the coveted islands?

One of the main news of March was the proposal of Japanese experts to implement the blockade of the Kuril Islands. The initiative in his article for the Internet portal Japan Newsweek was put forward by former diplomat Akio Kawatao.

The Defense Ministry has released a video for the first time showing three Russian submarines surfacing in the Arctic, breaking through the ice.

As reported by the newspaper "Kommersant" in the material of Anastasia Vedeneeva, "Siberia" was not immediately built. The delivery of the nuclear icebreaker has been postponed from August to December", the first serial nuclear icebreaker "Siberia" of project 22220 (LK-60YA) will not be delivered in August, the new deadline is December.

Director of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops – Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation, Army General Viktor Zolotov, held an extended meeting of the final board of the Rosgvardiya with the leadership of the department, district commanders, heads of territorial bodies, commanders of military units and formations of the National Guard troops of the Russian Federation, during which the results of the service and combat activities of the Rosgvardiya in 2020 were summed up, as well as the tasks for the current 2021 were clarified.

The exercise with the withdrawal of autonomous launchers of the Yars PGRK to combat patrol routes began in the Strategic Missile Forces in Yoshkar-Ola (Republic of Mari El) and Teikovsky (Ivanovo region) missile formations.

The United States intends to modernize the missile defense software due to the appearance of hypersonic weapons in Russia, RT reports, citing a document from the American Missile Defense Agency.

As a response to the NATO exercises in the Black Sea, Russia sent six submarines on combat duty at once. Bulgarian readers are wondering how one of them — Rostov-on-Don-managed to "disappear" from the NATO radar.

MEDIA: US secretly exports nuclear bombs from Europe

The US has secretly reduced its nuclear arsenal in Europe from 150 to 100 B61 nuclear gravity bombs. The reduction affected military bases in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey, the media reported, citing sources.

There are two pieces of news for Europe. The good news is that at least some part of the nuclear threat has passed. And the bad news is that they forgot to warn her about it. And well, as well as not have time. After all, the US has started the wrong move, which is equal to two fires. One would have been enough. The projectile.

Shoigu promised to respond to US medium-range missiles in Europe

Russia will respond if the United States places medium-and shorter-range missiles in Europe, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. The minister also noted that Moscow considers it possible to restore a normal dialogue with NATO.

The British authorities intend to significantly increase the number of nuclear warheads in the country's arsenal. Konstantin Blokhin, a leading researcher at the Center for Security Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, commented on these plans on the air of Sputnik radio.

The Japanese were excited by the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry about the inadmissibility of the deployment of American missiles

Russia has warned that the deployment of US missiles in Japan could threaten security in the region. In response, Japanese users were divided in their opinion. Some said that it is necessary to send "not simple missiles" in the direction of Russia, while others noted that it is time for Japan to act independently, and not rely on the help of the United States.

The British magazine Navy Lookout showed a possible image of the Russian nuclear submarine K-329 "Belgorod" project 09852 with the nuclear deep-water station (AGS) AS-31 "Losharik" project 10831.

Statements by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov about Russia's retaliatory actions in the event of the US deployment of medium-range missiles in Japan caused hysteria on the Japanese islands. The media was flooded with hundreds of aggressive and malicious comments from Japanese readers. Some even suggest turning Russia "into a sea of fire."

The US Air Force and Northrop Grumman have released the first images of the new B-21 Raider bomber. The photos were taken in combination with artistic renderings against the background of the hangars of Ellsworth Air Force Bases (South Dakota), Whiteman (Missouri) and Dice (Texas).

According to a TASS source, after launching the submarine will be completed afloat

The second serial nuclear submarine of the project 885M cipher "Yasen-M" Krasnoyarsk will be launched by the shipbuilders of "Sevmash" in August this year. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

Scientists of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - the All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics (RFNC-VNIITF), located in the city of Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region, have come up with a device for combating drones, which is a rocket from which a network of drones is released, it follows from a document published on the website of Rospatent.

Rare footage of a Soviet railway-based nuclear missile has appeared online.

The Drive portal drew attention to a fragment of a video about the Soviet RT-23 UTTH ICBM "Well Done" (in the NATO classification SS-24 Scalpel), published on March 9 on Twitter. The author recalls that the Soviet Union was the only country that created a railway mobile intercontinental ballistic missile.