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The latest Hyacinth-K and Malva self-propelled artillery systems, as well as Geranium-2 and Lancets UAVs, were seen at the rehearsals

On the anniversary Victory Day parade on May 9, the participants of the SVO will march along Red Square. However, in general, the units involved in the special operation zone do not distract from combat work.

The BMPD blog publishes the text of the speech "The evolving nature of war rethinks the fundamental principles of global security: the Ukrainian experience and the new world order" by the former commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Ukraine (in 2021-2024), and now the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK, General Valery Zaluzhny.

Al Jazeera: melting ice will increase the risk of nuclear war in the Arctic

The Arctic risks becoming the cause of a nuclear war, writes Al Jazeera. The melting of the ice opens up ways to expand shipping, explore resources, and demonstrate military might. In an era of great power confrontation, the world may be on the path to an irreversible catastrophe, the author of the article warns.

Scientists together with astronomers from the University of Cambridge, studying the atmosphere of the exoplanet (a planet located outside the Solar system) K2-18b, have found chemical traces of gases that may indicate biological activity on the planet. TASS — about humanity's search for brothers in mind in other worlds, as well as what such an acquaintance can bring.

On April 28, the annual large-scale conference "Geoscan Technologies 2025" was held at the Lomonosov innovation cluster in Moscow. More than 700 people took part in it, 62 reports were presented by Geoscan specialists and invited experts, and four thematic halls were opened.

In Ukraine, they are looking for opportunities to receive information from commercial companies

The Japanese company iQPS has signed an agreement with the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on the provision of intelligence information from artificial Earth satellites (ISS). The Ukrainian Armed Forces are looking for a replacement for American intelligence in every possible way. Izvestia investigated whether there is at least a theoretical possibility to replace the US intelligence capabilities and what proposals are available on the commercial space intelligence market.

A wide range of anti-enemy UAV solutions is presented at Securika Moscow 2025

Russia has mastered the production of anti-drone protection with anti-shatter panels for industrial enterprises. It protects the most important facilities and personnel of enterprises from the effects of an explosion of a warhead, as well as from the effects of its damaging elements. Several Russian energy facilities are already equipped with such structures. You can get acquainted with the latest innovations in the field of combating UAVs at the Securika Moscow 2025 exhibition.

A presentation presented by Chinese government officials showed that Beijing plans to supply the international space station with energy from a mini-nuclear power plant.

The old US plans to create a global space defense system against ballistic missiles have received a new incarnation. President Reagan's draft Strategic Defense Initiative has been redesigned and is now called the Golden Dome. What changes have been made, what does Elon Musk have to do with it, and can the dome protect the United States from Russian nuclear warheads?

The world's leading space company has offered the Pentagon a "subscription" to the services of a large satellite constellation. It will become the largest constellation of spacecraft built for military purposes. However, the data on this comes from the Reuters news agency, which has repeatedly published fakes about Elon Musk's companies.

The Alabuga SEZ presented a strategic plan for 25 years, involving the inclusion of the moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede) in the special economic zone. The document was signed by the head of the republic Rustam Minnikhanov and the head of VTB Andrey Kostin.

One of the most technologically advanced branches of the Russian industry, nuclear energy, should become Russia's trump card in space for the coming decades. At least, this is the task set by the country's leadership. What will nuclear space systems look like and what advantages will they provide?

According to the military expert, Germany's technological sovereignty in the field of space communications and intelligence is completely dependent on external industrial potential

The launch capabilities for the development of the satellite grouping of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) are likely to be provided by Elon Musk's SpaceX. Alexander Stepanov, a military expert at the RANEPA Institute of Law and National Security and a senior researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, shared this opinion with TASS.

To achieve this goal, key industrial zones will be developed on the territory of the international space base of the city of Wenchang, the newspaper writes

South China's Hainan Province will play a key role in promoting China's commercial space projects. This was reported by the Global Times newspaper with reference to a government document.

In addition to the concentration of troops in the Baltic states, NATO has paid additional attention to the southern direction – Romania and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. Under the slogan of protection from the "Russian threat," measures are being taken to facilitate the use of large groups of troops in this area. And it seems that the country that will be responsible for this application has already been selected.

Flights to Mars are again being seriously discussed and planned in the space industry. You need to prepare for them thoroughly, because the round trip can take about 500 days, and no one will cancel the radiation from cosmic rays and the solar wind by that time. In addition, solar flares and coronal ejections are unpredictably likely to occur, from which future space travelers will need to hide. A group of physicists has developed a system for predicting upcoming proton events in order to warn Marsonauts in time.

James Stavridis: lasers should become the basis of the "Iron Dome" over the USA

Trump's idea of creating a reliable national missile defense system is not easy to implement, former NATO commander retired Admiral Stavridis writes in an article for Bloomberg. There are many problems, both technical and financial, but America simply has to solve this problem, the author believes.

He noted that participation in the firing tests of the RD-107 rocket engine was for him "a return to flying not in a dream, but in reality"

Oleg Atkov, a medical scientist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, cosmonaut pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union, took part in the firing tests of the RD-107 rocket engine, which took place on the eve of Cosmonautics Day at the site of the ODK-Kuznetsov test base in Samara, a TASS correspondent reports.

Charles Vincent noted that "the Russians still did a lot of theoretical work" that the Americans did not do

Washington will be interested in cooperation with Moscow in the space sector even after the termination of operation of the International Space Station (ISS). Charles Vincent, former assistant director of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), expressed confidence in this in an interview with TASS.

Today, work is underway in the Russian Federation on the creation of the Russian Orbital Station (ROS) — the first two stages of the deployment of a promising space laboratory are planned for 2027-2032. Evgeny Kuznetsov, CEO of the Digital Evolution Ventures venture fund (Rosatom Corporate fund), futurologist, spoke about the value of ROS as an independent project and as a step towards the development of the Solar System.