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In the United States, the B-52 Stratofortress bomber failed to launch the ARRW hypersonic launch vehicle. The first flight tests of the new weapon took place on April 5 over the Point Mugu sea ridge off the coast of California.

On Tuesday, the Pacific Fleet frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov launched a Kalibr cruise missile at a ground target for the first time. This shooting was conducted by the crew of the ship from the waters of the Sea of Japan.

The press service of the Pacific Fleet reported that at the estimated time, the missile successfully hit the target position at the test site in the area of Cape Surkum. The range of fire at the same time exceeded 1 thousand kilometers.

The task of destroying a detachment of warships of a simulated enemy was fulfilled at the exercises by the calculations of the Bastion coastal missile systems( DBK), the Baltic Fleet (BF) said on Monday.

The destruction of strategic objects of the imaginary enemy was worked out in the Leningrad region by the military personnel of the missile brigade of the combined arms Army of the Western Military District (ZVO).

A quarter of a century ago, the Su-37, an experimental fighter with super-maneuverability, took to the skies for the first time. It did not go into production, and the only one built crashed during tests in 2002. But the Su-37 fulfilled its task.

The crews of two submarines off the coast of the Kaliningrad region attacked and counterattacked each other with the mutual use of weapons and sonar equipment.

The next Avangard complex will be delivered to the troops this year, Alexander Leonov, General Director and General Designer of the NPO Mashinostroyeniya, told reporters on the sidelines of the academic readings on cosmonautics on Friday.

According to Alexander Leonov, General Director of the NPO Mashinostroyeniya, there is nowhere to go further than hypersound, according to the characteristics of the Avangard known to him in terms of speed

Hypersonic technologies will be used in new weapons systems, said on Friday the General Director, General Designer of the NPO Mashinostroeniya (part of the corporation " Tactical Missile Weapons") Alexander Leonov.

The Russian Advanced Long-range Aviation Complex (PAK DA), which is being created, can receive subsonic X-101 missiles, the editor-in-chief of the site told Izvestia MilitaryRussia.ru Dmitry Kornev.

According to him, the missiles will replace the Yars complexes that are in service with the Strategic Missile Forces

Development work (R & D) on the creation of the latest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Cedar" will begin at the turn of 2023-2024. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

A wireless system for monitoring the state of silo launchers with intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) is being developed in Russia, according to the materials of the Royal Readings on Cosmonautics, available to RIA Novosti.

The American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower ("Dwight Eisenhower"), having passed the Suez Canal, entered the Red Sea, which is part of the area of responsibility of the US Central Command, the Egyptian information site Cairo24 reported.

Russian warships conducted live-fire exercises in the Sea of Japan, the Pacific Fleet said on Saturday.

In the Network there was a video from the large exercises of the Strategic Missile Forces in the Altai Territory. For the first time, mobile ICBM launchers "Yars" were used in the maneuvers and the microwave gun of the remote mine-clearing vehicle "Foliage"was used.

In Syria, a new technology for aiming tactical strike drones "Pacer" at terrorist targets was tested with the help of an upgraded wearable intelligence, control and communications complex (KRUS) "Strelet-M". As a source in the Russian military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti, the coordinates of the targets were transmitted from the ground using a tablet.

The British rocket artillery will hit further and more accurately. April 3, portal defence-blog.com He reported that the British Ministry of Defense has begun to modernize its MLRS.

Russia's strengthening of the land defense of the Kaliningrad region puts NATO in a "deadly dilemma", says columnist Sebastien Roblin in the pages of the American magazine The National Interest, justifying, in particular, the potential need for a" physical occupation " of the Russian region.

The competition for the Russian Su-35 generation 4++ fighter in the international arms market from foreign combat aircraft today can only be made up of fifth – generation fighters produced by the United States-the F-22 and F-35, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of the Russian Federation told RIA Novosti, commenting on media publications about the superiority of the Russian aircraft over the F-22.

In the Barnaul compound (Altai Territory), the latest remote mine clearance vehicle (MDR) "Foliage" was used to accompany the mobile ground missile system "Yars"on the combat patrol routes.

On March 29, the Polish company Zaklady Mechaniczne Tarnow (ZMT) announced the signing of a contract with an unnamed foreign customer for the supply of 100 units of 23-mm ZU-23-2CP anti-aircraft guns.