Month: October 2016

© Nikolai Moshkov/TASS TASS-FILE. 55 years ago, October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union has tested on Novaya Zemlya (Arkhangelsk oblast) the world’s most powerful fusion device – pilot aviation hydrogen bomb capacity of about 58 megatons of TNT (“a product 602”; unofficial title: “the Tsar bomb”, “gruel”). Thermonuclear charge was dropped from a converted strategic bomber Tu-95 and undermined at the height of 3.7 m above the ground. Nuclear and thermonuclear weapons The basis of nuclear (atomic) weapons is put an uncontrolled chain reaction of fission of heavy nuclei.

© TASS NIZHNY NOVGOROD, October 29. /TASS/. Test the most powerful weapon in the history of mankind shocked the world – both in a figurative and literal sense. And has caused mixed reactions, from panic fear, to a misunderstanding of the appropriateness of such explosions.

© JSC “Admiralteiskie Verfi” SAINT-PETERSBURG, 26 October. /TASS/. The first submarine of project 636.3 for the Pacific fleet will be laid on the “Admiralty shipyards” in St. Petersburg in the autumn of next year, told reporters on Wednesday, the CEO of the company Alexander Buzakov.

© Marina Lystseva/TASS MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Flying laboratory for a new Russian aircraft, airborne early warning and control A-100 “Premier” first took to the air. On Wednesday reported TASS the representative of the United instrument Corporation (OPK, is included in the state Corporation “rostec”).

Fighter su-30CM © Marina Lystseva/TASS MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Fighter aviation regiment of the 4th army, air force and air defense of the southern military district were armed with two new multi-purpose fighter su-30CM, the press service of the district.

Military transport aircraft Il-76MD © Igor Rudenko/Agency “Voeninform” MO RF MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. The defense Ministry signed the first production contract for the modernization of military transport aircraft Il-76MD to Il-76MDM, said Wednesday in a press-Department service.

The Russian heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov” © Marina Lystseva/TASS MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. The Russian defense Ministry denied speculation in foreign media about the alleged planned approach for refuelling in the Spanish port of Ceuta heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov”. “Any requests from the defence Ministry to address the Spanish authorities about the arrival of a heavy aviabearing cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov” for the refueling in the port of Ceuta was not sent”, – said the official representative of the Ministry of defense of Russia major-General Igor Konashenkov.

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Ka-31 © wikipedia.org MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/. New Russian helicopter radar picket (RLD) of Ka-35 (another designation – Ka-31СВ) first seen during the operation of the Armed forces against the terrorist groups in Syria. This is reported by sources in the network. The photographs published in his Twitter account, captured the helicopter with tail number “232 blue”, according to open sources, which is the second aircraft built under the program, the Ka-35. These machines are part of helicopter complex radar reconnaissance of ground targets 1К130.

The Russian heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov” © Marina Lystseva/TASS MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/. Russian aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov”, bound to the Mediterranean, does not need to visit ports for refueling or resupply, consider to experts interviewed by TASS.