The russian navy has launched this Friday a Kalibr cruise missile from a submarine in the sea of japan towards a target on the coast, as reported in a statement by the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
In the estimated time, according to the Russian Armed Forcesthe missile left the submarine ‘Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky’ and reached an objective located in the region of Khabarovsksouthwestern Russia.
“The ‘Kalibr’ missile hit the designated target in the tactical field syurkum in the Khabarovsk region at the expected time,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in its letter, sharing a video of the launch.
Russia is carrying out modifications to its submarine-launched ‘Kalibr’ missiles in an effort to improve their accuracy, the agency has reported. TASS.
In his last state of the country address, Putin advocated the introduction of more modern technologies in weapons production and drawing on the experience of the military campaign in Ukraine.
“We will actively introduce the most advanced technologies that will ensure the increase in the qualitative potential of the Army and Navy. We have samples of weapons and equipment in each of the areas,” said the head of the Kremlin during the speech before the two houses of Parliament.
According to his vision, many of these samples “exceed their foreign analogues” and he assured that the level of equipment of the Russian nuclear forces with modern weapons is greater than 91%, and that the same high level must be achieved in all sectors of the Forces. Russian navies.
The UK doubts Russia’s ability
On the other hand, the UK intelligence services They have pointed this Friday to an “inability” on the part of Russia to manufacture on a large scale some high-tech systems that it promotes at arms sales conventions due to the impact of sanctions.
“In spite of the war in UkraineRussian Defense companies continue to show their products at major international arms sales conventions”, they said, before specifically pointing to the active protection system ‘Sand-E‘, according to a series of messages published by the British Ministry of Defense on its Twitter account.
Thus, they have indicated that this system is designed to “improve the survivability of armored vehicles”, according to the brochure itself, before stressing that “there is no evidence” that these systems are being installed in Russian vehicles deployed in Ukraine.
The British Intelligence services have stressed that Russia “has lost more than 5,000 armored vehicles” since the start of the invasion and has argued that “it is likely” that the Russian military industry will not be able to manufacture these systems on a large scale, “an exacerbated problem due to the effects of international sanctions.
More tension on the Korean peninsula
On the other hand, the Seoul and Washington Air Forces they did today maneuvers with at least one US long-range B-1 strategic bomber and south korean fighter jets at a time marked by enormous tension on the peninsula and the holding of great maneuvers of the allies starting in 10 days.
The exercises were performed on the yellow sea (called the West Sea in both Koreas) and the central region of South Korea and involved at least one B-1 and F-15 and F-15 fighters of the Asian country, as explained by the South Korean Ministry of National Defense in a statement.
The announcement comes just hours after the allies revealed that they will hold their big spring maneuvers freedom shieldsome war games to which Pyongyang has promised to give a “unprecedented” responsefrom March 13 to 23.
Today’s drill “demonstrates the US willingness and ability to implement its commitment to maintain a strong and credible extended deterrence against North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats,” the text added.
(With information from Europa Press)
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