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Valery Falkov, the Minister of Science and Higher Education of Russia, told TASS in an interview about whether Russian science has withstood the pressure of sanctions, whether it is worth punishing students for using artificial intelligence in their studies and whether sanctions have affected the development of Russian science.

Russia will launch a new drone, much faster than the currently used "Iranian" Shahed drones, which received the name "Geranium" in the Russian army. A new plant will be opened in Tatarstan. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal.

ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" anti-aircraft self-propelled guns have been used for several decades to combat ground targets. In this capacity, they were used during the stay in Afghanistan of the Soviet 40th army, as well as during the Iran-Iraq War. Moreover, these combat vehicles served on both sides of the front.

The Brazilian Navy officially announced that on the evening of February 3, 2023, the aircraft carrier A 12 São Paulo (formerly French Foch), decommissioned from the Brazilian fleet, was routinely flooded in a given area of the Atlantic Ocean 350 km off the coast of Brazil at a depth of about 5,000 meters. The aircraft carrier was excluded from the Brazilian Navy in 2020.

The company will produce 6000 drones per year

A kamikaze drone factory may appear in Yelabuga - the American Wall Street Journal writes about this. According to the newspaper, in January, a delegation from Iran visited the city in Tatarstan, which will help launch the production of drones. The plant's capacity will be 6,000 drones per year, it will produce faster and longer-range versions of Iranian Shahed-136 UAVs. The United States has repeatedly stated that Tehran supplies them to Moscow for use in a special operation. The Kremlin denied these reports.

Events in Russia and the world. Analytical publications. Materials of press conferences. Video and photo reports

The frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov", performing the tasks of a long-range campaign, for the first time in the framework of international exercises will perform a combat training launch of a hypersonic missile "Zircon". This will happen during the exercises of the naval forces of the Republic of South Africa (South Africa) and China, a source close to the military-industrial complex told TASS.

From February 7 to 8, Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region JSC will take part in the jubilee X National Exhibition and Forum of Civil Aviation Infrastructure NAIS 2023.

According to experts, the results of the analysis indicate that the base of the solar plasma emission is very different in properties from all other parts of it

The American solar probe Parker Solar Probe flew through the base of the coronal ejection for the first time in history and received the first information about the properties of its matter during one of the approaches of this device to the Sun. The results are published in the Astrophysical Journal.

On February 2, 2023, FSUE Atomflot and JSC Baltiyskiy Zavod (as part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation) signed a contract for the construction of the sixth and seventh (fifth and sixth serial) universal nuclear icebreakers of Project 22220 (LK-60YA). The construction and financing of the fifth and sixth serial universal nuclear icebreakers (UAL) will be carried out in a 50-50 ratio from the federal budget and at the expense of FSUE Atomflot. According to the terms of the contract, the commissioning of the fifth serial UAL is scheduled for December 2028, and the sixth - for December 2030.

The state Corporation Roscosmos showed the festive decoration of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket in honor of the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad. Photos of the rocket are posted on the official Telegram channel of Roscosmos.

General Barrons: British shells will run out in a day in the event of a conflict with Russia

The reserves of shells in the British army will be exhausted in a day in a direct military clash with Russia, British General Sir Richard Barrons said for The Sun. He also said that the incorrect distribution of the state budget relative to the Ministry of Defense led to such a situation in the British army.

PGRK "Yars" went on patrol routes in the Barnaul compound in the Altai Territory

The launchers of the Yars mobile ground-based missile systems (PGRK) have entered the combat patrol routes in the Barnaul missile compound, strategic rocket launchers will perform the tasks of making a march of up to 100 kilometers, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The special military operation in Ukraine shows that domestic aerial bombs remain one of the most effective means of destruction in the arsenal of the Aerospace Forces. With their help, you can deliver a high-precision strike on critical infrastructure, cut off supply routes, destroy the accumulation of equipment and manpower of the enemy. About the most powerful and high—tech aerial bombs of the Russian Aerospace Forces - in the material of TASS.

A detailed map of the supplies of two weapons systems that changed the course of the conflict in Ukraine shows a complex network of companies experiencing an increasingly significant burden as [American - approx. bmpd] industry is returning to the rails of wartime, the authors of the Financial Times newspaper write in an article titled "How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defense industry."

Norway, following Sweden, can transfer CV90 infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine, this issue is under consideration by the government of the country. As stated in Oslo, Norway is constantly consulting with Kiev on possible arms supplies.

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has experimentally selected the shape of a toroidal screw, which creates the lowest sound volume in the frequency range 1-5 kHz. This is the most sensitive area for the human ear — babies cry and nasty multicopter motors squeal at this frequency. The latter has become an incentive for research – if people want to see a lot of useful drones around in the future, they should be quiet.

Sky News: the British army is in serious decline

The British armed forces have ceased to be a "top-level fighting force," Sky News reports. The author of the article emphasizes that, according to sources, the army, navy and Air Force of the kingdom are experiencing unprecedented difficulties with numbers and combat readiness over the past two centuries.

The Manul infantry fighting vehicle created in Kurgan can carry a variety of weapons. For example, there is an option with a 57-mm automatic cannon installed in an uninhabited module of the Nizhny Novgorod Central Research Institute "Burevestnik".

There are reports that a variant of the promising Russian BMP "Manul" with an automatic gun of 57 mm caliber has appeared. We are talking about such a variant of the weapon, which is installed on an uninhabited module created by the Central Research Institute "Burevestnik". In addition to the 57-mm cannon with 80 rounds of ammunition, the module is equipped with a machine gun (7.62 mm caliber) and an anti-tank missile system.

According to the interpretations of Western sources, strategic bombers are designed for deep penetration into enemy airspace in order to destroy particularly important targets and, as a result, significantly weaken the combat potential and will of the enemy. Although the term "strategic bomber" is often used as a synonym for a bomber with nuclear weapons, aircraft with conventional weapons are equally capable of striking strategically important targets deep in enemy territory.