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For the second year in a row, the equipment involved in the area of its is not attracted to participate in the solemn ceremony

Judging by the dress rehearsal, the Victory Day Parade on May 9 will be relatively modest. Participants in a special military operation will also pass through Red Square, but in general, the units involved in the conflict zone did not distract from combat work.

MP: Warsaw's agreement to deploy nuclear weapons endangers the lives of Poles

President Duda expressed readiness to deploy American nuclear weapons on the territory of Poland, MP writes. These plans are causing concern in Russia. If they are implemented, Moscow will "take the necessary steps." Will the Poles survive as a nation then? This is the question asked by the author of the article.

According to a number of developments, the republic has reached the level of the leading world powers

Rocket science in North Korea is making incredible progress — hypersonic developments, intercontinental missiles with mobile launchers, the world's most powerful multiple launch rocket systems and other unique products. The most advanced achievements of rocket scientists from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are in the Izvestia review.

The White House continues to inflame the atmosphere around the plans allegedly existing in Moscow for the use of nuclear weapons in space, invented by the American authorities themselves. At the same time, Washington accuses China of having such intentions, which is not surprising at all.

Russia and China are the undisputed leaders in the development and adoption of hypersonic weapons. In the United States, so far, everything is not very good with this, most test launches of hypersonic missiles end in failure. The American program is regularly postponed due to deadlines, including due to significant budget growth.

As reported by the Xinhua News Agency, on May 1, 2024, the third Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian (Fujian, tail number "18") first went to sea from Shanghai for factory sea trials. The aircraft carrier Fujian, designated as Project 003, was built at the shipbuilding enterprise of Jiangnan Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd. (as part of the Chinese State Shipbuilding Corporation China State Shipbuilding Corporation - CSSC) on Changxing Island in Shanghai and will become the largest warship of the PLA Navy.

The development and adoption of documents related to the national security of any State is an integral part of its strategy, directly related to the current geopolitical conditions. Currently, in the context of the aggravation of the situation around Belarus and around the world, our country has adopted a new Military Doctrine.

"The choice is simple: either we will deal with the defeated Russian army, thrown out of Ukraine, or with the victorious Russian army standing at the borders of Poland," the head of the Polish Foreign Ministry, R.Sikorsky to the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag.

The nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great was launched 35 years ago

This pennant still remains the largest in the combat formation of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy. Thirty-five years ago, on April 29, 1989, Soviet shipbuilders launched the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Yuri Andropov, which became Peter the Great after the collapse of the USSR. And they are in no hurry to write it off. Moreover, the ship should receive new weapons that expand its tactical capabilities. About the future of the flagship — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The General director of the Baltic Shipyard (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation), Yuri Gordienkov, will leave the company in the week from April 22 to 26. This was told to RBC by two sources at the St. Petersburg shipyards and an interlocutor at USC. According to them, Alexander Konovalov, who holds the position of director of production at the shipyard, will receive the position of head of one of the key shipbuilding plants.

Russia begins testing the first specialized patrol military icebreaker "Ivan Papanin" in the history of the Russian Navy. The Navy urgently needs ships of this class. "Ivan Papanin" will be an ideal tool to deter American attempts to pressure Russia in the Arctic.

The Pentagon has deployed medium-range missiles in the Philippines for the first time

For the first time since the Cold War, the Americans deployed land-based medium-range missiles abroad. They were transferred to the Philippines at the end of last week. It is not known how much. Officially, to participate in the exercises. In fact, it was to test the mechanisms of operation of the multi—domain tactical groups (MDTF — Multi-Domain Task Force), created recently to contain China. About Washington's new strategy in the region – in the RIA Novosti article.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on April 23, 2024, a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

On April 23, a meeting of the Board of the Russian Defense Ministry was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

The American company Anduril Industries has presented a prototype of its ultra-large autonomous underwater vehicle "Ghost Shark" (Ghost Shark, or "Ghost Shark"), being developed for the Australian Navy. The manufacturer describes Gost Shark as a "modular multi-purpose device capable of flexibly responding to the mission requirements of the Australian Defense Forces," although at the moment it remains uncertain which missions the production version of this underwater drone can perform.

After years of delay due to COVID-19 and budget issues, the Dragonfly space project has finally been officially approved by NASA. The mission to send a research vehicle to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, will start in 2028. She will become the ideological heir to the Mars Ingenuity Mars project, a new milestone in the use of rotorcraft to explore other worlds.

In the unfolding battle for the North, only Canada remained the "Dark Horse" in the region. Recall that from 2022, Denmark, Iceland, Canada, Norway, the USA, Finland and Sweden announced the suspension of participation in all events of the Arctic Council (intergovernmental forum of states on cooperation in the Arctic). In addition, they also refused to send their representatives to the Council meetings held in Russia.

Alexander Stepanov — about how the United States doctrinally fixed the course towards the militarization of outer space and how this will turn out for Russia and China

The new Pentagon strategy, published on April 2, calls for increased protection of satellites of private companies.

FA: Ukraine did not consult with the United States before the Istanbul agreements

Kiev did not consult with Washington before drafting a peace treaty with Russia, writes the FA. This follows from the documents reviewed by the authors of the article. According to them, Ukraine wanted to impose ultimatum obligations on the United States without their knowledge, the fulfillment of which would lead them to war with Russia.

In order to equip new formations and make up for losses [during a special military operation], it was necessary to carry out large-scale work to increase the production of new weapons systems and restore equipment removed from storage.