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Rossiyskaya Gazeta called Ukrainian tanks hopelessly outdated

The technical characteristics of Ukrainian tanks correspond to the characteristics of the 1980s, and most of the equipment has not undergone major repairs. The publication of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta called outdated Ukrainian tanks.

The Drive: Russia used X-101 stealth missiles during a special operation to protect Donbass

The American edition of The Drive told about high-precision missiles used by Russia during a special operation to protect Donbass.

The head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said that funds have also been allocated for new lunar vehicles

Funding for the Venus-D mission will begin this year, and funds have also been allocated for new lunar vehicles. This was announced today by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

As part of the exercises, the ships were put on alert for the use of air defense systems, combat crews received and analyzed data on the air situation

More than 10 surface ships of the Baltic Fleet were involved in air defense exercises in Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region, the press service of the fleet reported on Friday.

HSE scientists have developed a model of the behavior of charged particles of lunar dust

Russian HSE scientists have developed a mathematical model explaining the levitation and movement of charged dust particles over the sunlit lunar surface. One of the key factors is the tail of the Earth's magnetosphere, which stretches from the night side of the planet. This is reported in an article published in the journal Physics of Plasmas.

The Russian Su-27 and Su-30SM of the Southern Military District worked out the interception of the intruder and the battle during the exercises

During the planned exercises, Russian Su-27 and Su-30SM fighters were used. Fighter pilots of the Southern Military District (SE) worked out the interception of a conditional border violator and an air battle over the Rostov region. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Southern Federal District.

The main crew includes Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov, the backup crew includes Sergey Prokopyev, Anna Kikina and Dmitry Petelin

The interdepartmental commission at the meeting recommended approving the main and backup crews of the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft and continuing their preparations for the flight to Baikonur, Roscosmos said on Friday.

The Ukrainian army currently operates infantry fighting vehicles inherited from the Soviet military districts located on its territory.

In total, the ground forces have about nine hundred BMP-2 and more than two hundred BMP-1. The newest of them is more than thirty years old, and there are copies that have changed even the fifth decade.

A set of compatibility tests of the Termidesk virtual workplace connection manager with the zVirt virtualization system versions 4.3 and 4.4 has been completed, the press service of the Astra Group of companies reports.

The ships of the Baltic Fleet have worked out the destruction of air targets of a conditional enemy

During the exercises on air defense (air defense) in Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region, surface ships of the Baltic Fleet were involved. The crews of the ships worked out countering the means of a simulated enemy raid. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the fleet.

As specified in the IPM, on March 12 at 16:54:16 Moscow time, the Luch-5B space repeater is expected to approach the space debris object - the Titan 3C upper stage at a distance of about 6,464 m

By March 15, Russian satellites will approach the spacecraft of the USSR and Russia three times by less than 3 km. This is stated in the message of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPM).

The work will take several more years

Work on the re-equipment of the strategic nuclear Forces (SNF) will continue in 2022. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft is scheduled for 18:55 Moscow time on March 18

The crew of the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft will hold a volleyball match on the ISS. This was announced at a press conference in TASS by the flight engineer of the ISS-67 expedition Denis Matveev.

February 25 would have been the 53rd anniversary of the outstanding analyst in the field of the global military-industrial complex and military-technical cooperation who died prematurely last year and co-founder of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (TSAST) Konstantin Makiyenko.

The height of the ISS orbit was raised by 1.3 km before the arrival of Soyuz MS-21 and Soyuz MS-19 in March

The height of the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was adjusted before the arrival of the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft and the return of the Soyuz MS-19, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Roscosmos.

So, the launches of the navigation satellites Glonass-M, Glonass-K and the first promising Glonass-K2 spacecraft have been postponed to 2022

Roscosmos has postponed about 10 space launches since 2021. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in an interview with the magazine "Russian Space".

The Director General of Roscosmos said that the mission will be implemented by Russia independently or with the participation of China

The US participation in the Venus-D joint project with Roscosmos may be excluded due to the sanctions imposed by the United States affecting the Russian space industry. This was announced to TASS by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Saturday.

The Director General of Roscosmos also stated that since the Soyuz launch at the Vostochny cosmodrome is not adapted for the launch of manned Soyuz spacecraft, the issue of redundancy arises

Soyuz-2 launch vehicles will cease to be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome after the completion of the operation of the International Space Station. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in an interview with the magazine "Russian Space".

A column of Yars missile systems has traveled more than 400 km and arrived from a permanent deployment point in Alabino near Moscow to participate in training for the Victory Day Parade on May 9, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Saturday.

Roscosmos called it impossible to implement the Venus-D project together with the United States

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin called it impossible for the United States to participate in the Russian Venus-D project. The head of the state corporation told TASS about this.