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Al Hadath: NATO is preparing for a war against Russia in space

Europe is on the verge of an explosion, writes Al Hadath. "The world has entered the era of military space races," which will forever change human civilization.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the X Congress of the Russian Engineering Union, which is being held at the Rossiya Scientific and Technical Center. Below are the key fragments of Vladimir Putin's speech as presented by the Kremlin's press service.

Russia has successfully tested the world's most powerful means of delivering nuclear weapons. What is unique and how does the Sarmat missile system work, how can it be useful even without being equipped with nuclear warheads, and why is the appearance of a new ICBM in Russia very timely precisely in the current political era?

Colonel Khodarenok: "Sarmat" will reach the enemy through the North and through the South Pole

Russia has successfully tested the Sarmat missile system. The range of the new missile can reach more than 35 thousand kilometers. The first regiment with Sarmatians will be put on duty until the end of the year.

Scientists from the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have also developed a set of ground tests of a fully functional interferometric optical table. This is actually the "heart" of the future space interferometer. The results of the work have already been published in the international scientific journal Research.

Although the very fact of the presence of incomprehensible objects in the images that American astronauts took on the Moon has been known for a long time, for decades they have been attributed to chemical defects in the photosensitive emulsion of photographic film or glare of light in camera lenses. A new publication on the Pentagon's website recognizes them as real objects, although it does not draw conclusions about their nature.

A prototype of an original gamma-ray telescope has been created in Russia, capable of distinguishing signals from the cosmic background with unprecedented accuracy. This development, intended for a future domestic orbital observatory, could revolutionize gamma-ray astronomy, and its launch into orbit is scheduled after 2030.

Ankara has developed the first intercontinental missile, Beijing is deploying mobile air defense systems, and the Russian Federation is deploying electronic warfare systems

In early May, several new developments in the world of weapons were announced at arms exhibitions and in the relevant media, which can significantly change the capabilities of the armies of different countries and the balance of power in possible future confrontations.

The Japanese company Terra Drone Corporation announced an increase in its investments in Ukrainian UAV manufacturing enterprises and demonstrated the capabilities of defeating aerial threats at long distances using UAV interceptors.

The US Department of War has launched a specialized portal that makes publicly available documents previously classified by the US government, photo and video materials, as well as eyewitness accounts of unidentified anomalous phenomena. This is the first major wave of declassification under the presidential PURSUIT program.

Colonel Khodarenok: Russia may strike at Kiev with "Hazel" and "Caliber"

The Russian military said that in the event of attempts to strike the Russian capital and disrupt the military parade in the center of Kiev, a massive missile strike would be launched.

Dmitry Kuzyakin, Chief Designer of the Central Design Bureau, talks about why satellites are no longer an authority for drones

Modern "long-range rockets" no longer trust satellites at their word. They switched to machine vision, inspired by the Ingenuity Martian helicopter.

Forbes: US special forces may be preparing to raid the Russian cosmodrome

US special forces units may already be practicing a raid on the Russian cosmodrome, from where anti-satellite weapons can be launched, Forbes writes. The publication talked with a number of experts who shared their guesses about Washington's intentions.

A new Soyuz-5 launch vehicle has successfully launched from Baikonur. The flight is proceeding normally. The expert community notes that the new rocket will open up great opportunities for Russia in the field of space. How does Soyuz-5 differ from its predecessors and how will the last launch affect the creation of the Russian space station?

The payload of the new carrier is up to 17 tons, which makes it a mid—range rocket. Since the launch was the first, it took place on a suborbital trajectory and with an overall mass layout of the payload.

The decisions of the board of directors of the largest space player of our days have become available to the press. It turned out that according to them, Elon Musk should receive 200 million shares of the company if he achieves two goals, each of which is more like science fiction than reality.

The supplier of the lunar station elements tried to hand over to customers the products that had been corroded even before the start of its installation. This was announced by the new head of NASA, Jared Isaacman. Defending his position, the supplier said that he had previously supplied modules with corrosion for the ISS, but they were still working anyway.

Interview with Anatoly Kovalev, CEO of ZNTC JSC, in the yearbook "Live Electronics of Russia -2026"

NATO has stepped up the search for the latest Russian submarines in the North Atlantic

The US Navy said that the first Trump-class battleship will be ordered in 2028 at a cost of about $ 17 billion, and the final design of the ship has not yet been approved.

Recently, launches from Russian northern cosmodromes have been carried out without prior notice, which was not the case in the past. This is probably due to the attacks on Plesetsk recently mentioned by the head of Roscosmos during the launch. Today's launch ensured the launch of military spacecraft into orbit.