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This year, the ships of the Pacific Fleet were 1.5 times more at sea
The Pacific Fleet headquarters summed up the results of combat training in the past academic year. It, we recall, in the Armed Forces begins in December, and ends in October.
It is reported that the largest event at the Pacific Fleet was an operational exercise in the Central Pacific Ocean - the first in the recent history of the fleet. There, the command involved more than 20 warships, submarines and vessels, as well as aircraft and helicopters of naval aviation. In two months, the detachment of ships overcame more than 20 thousand nautical miles and performed about fifty combat exercises.
Equipped with Kalibr missiles, two new Russian submarines and a corvette entered the South China Sea
A detachment of ships of the Russian Navy consisting of the corvette "Gremyashchy", the submarines "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" and "Volkhov", performing the transition from the Baltic to the place of permanent deployment to the Pacific Fleet, passed the Singapore Strait, the Alert 5 Twitter account, which publishes photos of the ships, reported.
The military announced the completion of the exercises of the motorized rifle division in the Voronezh region
A control check with live firing of tanks of the Vistula Motorized Rifle Division has been completed in the Voronezh Region, the Western Military District (ZVO) reported on Saturday.
Su-34 and Su-24 aircraft performed air refueling flights in the Urals
Su-34 bombers and Su-24MR reconnaissance aircraft performed flights in the Chelyabinsk region with refueling in the air, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Saturday.
Marder: modernization after half a century in the ranks
The modernization of the German Marder infantry fighting vehicles announced last year is in full swing. Yesterday, November 5, the portal thedrive.com He reported that Rheinmetall has revealed the details of updating combat vehicles to the 1A5A1 level.
Sea trials of a new Russian cruise missile ship will be held in the Black Sea
The new Russian small rocket ship Cyclone will undergo sea trials and weapons preparation for test firing in the Black Sea in mid-November, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
Intuitive Machines has decided on the landing site of the lunar drilling rig
NASA and the private company Intuitive Machines have announced that they have chosen a landing site for the Nova-C lander, which will go into space at the end of 2022. It will deliver a drilling rig and an experimental communication system from Nokia to the area near the Shackleton crater in the southern polar region of the Moon, according to NASA's website.
Ground forces: 2.5 thousand units of new equipment and weapons per year
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation told what new equipment and weapons the Ground Forces have already received and will receive this year. According to the agency, we are talking about more than 2.5 thousand samples of modern arsenal.
The first crew of the Chinese National Space Station has fully recovered after returning to Earth - CMSA
The taikonauts of the first manned mission on China's Shenzhou-12 national space station under construction have undergone a recovery course after spending three months in space and have adapted to Earth conditions again, the China Manned Flight Program Administration (CMSA) reported on Saturday.
Russian cosmonaut became head of the ISS
European Space Agency astronaut Tom Peske handed over command of the International Space Station (ISS) to Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, according to the Roscosmos website.
Cross-flights will solve the problem with the possible absence of US representatives on the ISS - NASA
The cross-flights of American astronauts on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and Russians on SpaceX Dragon ships to the International Space Station (ISS) will solve the problem with the possible absence of US representatives on the station, Joel Montalbano, head of NASA's ISS program, said during a teleconference.
The crews of the surface ships of the BF completed more than 400 combat exercises in a year
The crews of the ships of the Baltic Fleet (BF) have carried out 430 combat exercises this year, including rocket, artillery and torpedo firing, mine laying, depth bombing, anti-mine exercises. This was announced on Sunday, November 7, by the press service of the BF.
Chinese cosmonauts at the orbital station conducted emergency evacuation exercises
They worked out the steps to exit the main module of the Tianhe into the return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft
Cosmonauts of the Chinese orbital station conducted emergency evacuation exercises in case of an unforeseen collision with an object. This was announced on Sunday by the Administration of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China.
About $1 billion will be allocated in 2022 to strengthen Azerbaijan's defense capability - Finance Ministry
In 2022, the Azerbaijani government will allocate 1.6 billion manats ($941.2 million at the current exchange rate) for projects to strengthen the country's defense potential and improve the material and technical base of the armed forces, the Ministry of Finance told Interfax-Azerbaijan.
Video: a special forces knife "Needle" dissected a flying bullet
The unique capabilities of the new knife of combat swimmers of the Navy "Igla" were shown on video.
The next program "Military acceptance" on the TV channel "Zvezda" was dedicated to the knives of Russian special forces.
Borisov: defense industry enterprises cannot go to lockdown due to obligations under the state defense order
As the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation noted, that is why it is so important to comply with all measures to combat coronavirus
Enterprises of the military-industrial complex (MIC) cannot go to lockdown due to obligations under the state defense order, therefore it is so important for them to comply with all measures to combat coronavirus. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov.
Americans invest billions in aging "Predators"
The F-22 Raptor fighters will undergo the last large-scale modernization during their military career. November 6, portal defensenews.com He reported that the US Air Force had signed a contract with Lockheed Martin to modernize the Predator fleet.
The United States suspected the presence of a nuclear triad in China
The Army of the People's Republic of China, presumably, already has a nuclear triad. This is stated in the report of the US Department of Defense, distributed on Wednesday, November 3.
"Varshavyanka" worked out the launch of "Calibers" after the US destroyer entered the Black Sea
The crews of the Russian submarines Rostov-on-Don and Veliky Novgorod of the Varshavyanka project worked out the launch of Kalibr-PL missiles during the exercises. Conditional defeat of surface targets was made after the entry of the US Navy destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78) into the Black Sea. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) of Russia.
"Unexpectedly and harshly." Military expert on sea-based "Zircons"
The upcoming equipping of the Russian Navy with Zircon missiles will be a powerful deterrent to any potential enemy, military political analyst Alexander Perendzhiev expressed this opinion on Sputnik radio.