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Valery Polovinkin: Russia is capable of resisting the drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Black Sea

What is still missing to effectively combat unmanned enemy boats that periodically try to "nightmare" Navy ships, civilian vessels and ports in the Black Sea; how are the new Poseidon nuclear drone and Sakharov's Tsar torpedo connected, does Russia need aircraft carriers and which fleet of the future are the leading maritime powers building - in an interview The scientific director of the Krylov State Scientific Center, Valery Polovinkin, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Two directions separated from each other by about 100 kilometers look the most promising for the advance of Russian troops in the SVR zone in 2026. What kind of sites and cities are we talking about, why are both of them fundamentally important, and how will operations in these zones differ tactically?

At the end of 2025, North Korea showed a colossal achievement – an almost finished nuclear submarine with ballistic missiles. This is not just another North Korean warship, but a real technological breakthrough. And besides, it's a big military-political mystery. What is it about?

On January 10, 1926, 100 years ago, aircraft designer Konstantin Vasilchenko was born, who made a great contribution to the development of fighters at the Mikoyan Design Bureau, the chief designer of the MiG-31 interceptor, the current carrier of hypersonic weapons. TASS is about a man and the warplanes he paved the way for in the sky.

In early January of this year, the 70th anniversary of the Hero of Russia, cavalier (knight) Order of the Legion of Honor (France) to Sergey Vasilyevich Avdeev. The 74th cosmonaut of Russia, he spent 747 days in space during his three flights, setting a world record. He went into outer space ten times.

On January 10 of this year, the SPUTNIK Aerospace Scientific and Educational Museum hosted a meeting with cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation, cosmonaut pilot Alexander Ivanovich Lazutkin, a man whose flight to the Mir station became one of the most difficult and heroic in the history of world cosmonautics.

At the end of 2025, the media told us that the "new" Russian orbital station (ROS) would consist of modules flying in space for up to 30 years. "And so it will do!": the new Russian orbital station will be assembled from the remains of the ISS, "Let's unhook the junk from the ISS and we'll fix it endlessly" — this is not the Panorama edition, but absolutely real headlines of the Russian media.

Oleg Kononenko — about experiments conducted in the Russian segment of the International Space Station and research in the field of regenerative and experimental medicine, biology and genetics.

"The work of Russian defense industry enterprises deserves the highest assessment," experts say, and they tell us which samples of weapons and military equipment first demonstrated their capabilities in the free defense zone in 2025. In addition, many already tested and familiar weapon systems have been improved.