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According to a TASS source, the repair and modernization of the Admiral Vinogradov BOD will begin in 2021

The large anti-submarine ship (BOD) of Project 1155 "Admiral Vinogradov "of the Pacific Fleet (TOF), following the example of a similar BOD" Marshal Shaposhnikov", will become a frigate by 2025, having received Kalibr-NK cruise missiles to increase its strike capabilities.

A unique aircraft with a new electronic warfare system was used in a planned tactical flight exercise of the Air Force units stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

The crew of the small rocket ship "Grad Sviyazhsk" of the Caspian Flotilla (CFl) conducted a training for the fight for the survivability of the ship on special simulators of the training complex "Caspian".

This number will meet the needs of the Ministry of Defense in military transport aircraft of this type, said the Deputy General Director of the United Aircraft Corporation, which is part of Rostec.

As training targets, target missiles such as "Strizh", "Armavir", "Pischal" and "Saman"were used

The Ministry of Defense showed footage of combat firing of S-400 anti-aircraft systems and Buk-M2 complexes at an exercise in Buryatia.

The first heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A entered service with the Iraqi army in July 2014.

They were taken to the airport in Baghdad by the heavy transport aircraft AN-124-100 "Ruslan". The next shipments began to arrive by sea, at the port of Umm Qasr.

Mobile missile systems "Yars" began to carry out combat duty during the command and staff exercises (KShU) with the Barnaul division of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

The first spacecraft of the new satellite system "Arktika-M", launched at the end of February and already sending unique images of northern latitudes from a highly elliptical orbit, will also make it possible to predict space weather.

The squadron of the Kursk Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Western Military District (ZVO) carried out night launches of aviation guided weapons at the Ladoga training ground in Karelia, the press service of the ZVO reported on Monday, March 29.

By the beginning of the operation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani ground forces were armed with about a hundred T-90S main battle tanks. This technique in its tactical and technical characteristics significantly surpassed not only the old modifications of the T-72 available to the Armenian side, but also the Azerbaijani T-72 "Aslan"modernized with the help of the Israelis.

Large-scale tactical exercises with military personnel of motorized rifle, tank and artillery formations of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District (VVO) ended with large-scale combat shooting at the Sergeyevsky training ground in Primorye, the press service of the VVO reported on Monday.

The Biden administration returned to the issue of the early decommissioning of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. The ship should serve for at least another 25 years, but most likely, it will be cut into metal much earlier. However, this is not the first time that the fierce discussions around the US aircraft carrier fleet have arisen. About how to decide the fate of the "symbols of democracy" - in the material of RIA Novosti.

A video of the work of the crew of a Russian submarine in preparation for the use of its main weapon, the Kalibr cruise missiles, has appeared on the Network. The training was held on the submarine of the Black Sea Fleet "Veliky Novgorod".

Artillery fire to suppress invisible coastal targets hidden by the terrain was conducted in the Sea of Japan by the corvette "Perfect".

In accordance with the task of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, project 636.3, which is building a series of non-nuclear submarines for the Russian Navy, has been thoroughly modernized and meets all modern requirements.

More than 12 thousand military personnel are involved in the exercises, which will work out the use of groups of troops to ensure military security in the east of Russia, the Eastern Military District (VVO) said on Monday.

The data transmitted by the telescope was combined into a single catalog

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 2,241 potentially habitable planets in two years in orbit, in addition to those NASA already knew about. This was reported on Friday by the Internet portal Space.com with reference to the statement of a group of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who are working together with NASA on the implementation of this project.

The Directorate-General for Armaments (DGA) of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces has signed a contract with MBDA for the supply of 367 new-generation MICA NG guided air-to-air missiles.

At the request of the Engineering Department of Rosgvardiya, experimental design work is being carried out to ensure the actions of the reconnaissance and mine clearance groups. As reported in the Federal Service of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, within their framework, the Krasnodar Instrument Factory "Cascade" on the basis of the armored bus "Federal-M" created a prototype of a special engineering vehicle SIM-4.

In the Pskov region, at the "Strugi Krasnye" training ground, a tactical exercise will be held, in which more than one and a half thousand soldiers of the Black Sea Guards Amphibious Assault Regiment of the Pskov Airborne Forces will take part. The exercises will take place from March 30 to April 1.