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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.

Dmitry Rogozin said that the ISS will be able to work in orbit no longer than 2028

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, in an interview with the Russian Cosmos magazine, outlined the new service life of the International Space Station (ISS).

Glavkosmos expects that the demand for space tourism services will continue, work on the manufacture of rockets for tourists continues, said the head of the company Dmitry Loskutov.

SpaceNews: the American Cygnus ship can become an alternative to the Russian Progress

The American Cygnus cargo ship can become an alternative to the Russian Progress if it is necessary to correct the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceNews says.

Dmitry Loskutov, General Director of Glavkosmos JSC, stated that the devices are already under the fairing

The launch of the British OneWeb satellites, scheduled for March 5, on a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome will take place. This was announced on Saturday on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station by Dmitry Loskutov, General Director of Glavkosmos JSC.

Dmitry Loskutov, General Director of Glavkosmos JSC, also said that the launch of the European Galileo satellites from the Kourou cosmodrome is likely to be postponed

It will take several days to preserve the Russian equipment at the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana. This was announced on Saturday on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station by Dmitry Loskutov, General Director of Glavkosmos JSC.

The Odintsovo small rocket ship carried out electronic missile launches with Kalibr cruise missiles against a detachment of warships of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Baltic Fleet reported on Saturday.

Representatives of the fleet clarified that the ship's search and strike training group consisting of the small anti-submarine ships Brest and Snezhnogorsk was the first to return to the Polar

The ships of the Northern Fleet (SF) completed combat training missions in the Barents Sea and returned to their bases in the Murmansk Region. The large landing ship "Alexander Otrakovsky" took shelter from the weather in one of the bays on the coast of the Kola Peninsula, the press service of the fleet reported on Saturday.