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[00:00:10] This is news on the TV channel Zvezda. Maria Semenova is in the studio.
[00:00:13] Good morning. The Dnipro group advanced towards
[00:00:17] Orekhov from the west, after the liberation of Novoandreevka.
[00:00:20] The village is only 4 km from the city outskirts.
[00:00:24] Orekhov is a key defense hub for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye region.
[00:00:27] Our units are currently advancing
[00:00:30] from several directions. Earlier, the Dnipro and Vostok groups
[00:00:33] took Novo-Pavlovka and Chervona Krynytsia. Now
[00:00:37] Russian troops have approached the city from the western side. All key
[00:00:41] routes are under our control, battles are ongoing in the eastern part of
[00:00:44] Orekhov itself. Simultaneously, Russian units are advancing in the area of
[00:00:47] Preobrazhenka, on the northwestern outskirts of the city. The pressure on the enemy's
[00:00:51] positions in this direction is also being intensified by Novorossiysk paratroopers.
[00:00:54] Operators of ударных drones are working deep in the defense of
[00:00:57] the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In one sortie, they destroyed four observation
[00:01:01] posts, several ground robotic platforms and manpower
[00:01:05] of militants, well next are footage of the work of the Dnipro
[00:01:08] unmanned systems crews from the Kherson region, here
[00:01:11] operators destroyed several dozen heavy Baba
[00:01:15] Yaga drones over the summer.
[00:01:18] From May until today, we have
[00:01:22] shot down more than thirty such drones,
[00:01:26] and almost every night destruction occurs, starting from
[00:01:29] the last week, we have increased
[00:01:32] aerial reconnaissance, received more powerful
[00:01:36] support, we work both day and
[00:01:38] night without problems. Crews of attack
[00:01:42] UAVs and interceptor drones of the Dnipro group continuously
[00:01:46] monitor the right bank of the Dnieper and adjacent islands and leave
[00:01:49] the enemy no chance of a breakthrough. Mobile
[00:01:53] fire groups of the East constantly cover roads, military and
[00:01:57] civilian objects from enemy drones.
[00:02:03] At the same time, according to our military, the enemy constantly changes tactics, raids
[00:02:07] can be sudden, so you need to be
[00:02:10] vigilant. The sky is always under our control,
[00:02:14] that is, these drones can fly in from all
[00:02:17] sides, so we observe the sky, sometimes they
[00:02:21] explode up high, they explode if the detonator
[00:02:24] hits, then the fuse, that is, it
[00:02:27] explodes in the air, it turns out, yes. We jump out,
[00:02:30] and start firing at them.
[00:02:34] Artillerymen of the Northern military group burned out Ukrainian drone control
[00:02:38] points in the Sumy
[00:02:39] region.
[00:02:46] Our Grads covered them with a barrage of fire, all targets were destroyed, and
[00:02:50] attack aircraft can advance further to expand the security
[00:02:53] zone. Heavy flamethrower systems
[00:02:57] are working on the enemy's concrete underground fortifications in the Dobropolye direction.
[00:03:01] Tosochka covers a large area at once
[00:03:05] with thermobaric munitions, which leave
[00:03:08] no chance
[00:03:09] of survival.
[00:03:17] After the strike, the crew cannot stay in position, the vehicle
[00:03:20] must be withdrawn from the dangerous zone as quickly as possible, and here
[00:03:23] the speed of the wheeled TOS becomes the main
[00:03:26] advantage. This machine can develop
[00:03:30] greater speed on the march than tracked
[00:03:34] vehicles, that is, about 80-90
[00:03:37] km/h when marching. This is mobility that
[00:03:40] will save time of departure and
[00:03:44] arrival, and accordingly, spend less time on
[00:03:47] the route, but even with such mobility,
[00:03:50] the route for Tosochka is checked in advance, reconnaissance finds
[00:03:54] backup positions and shelters, and cover groups monitor
[00:03:57] the situation in the sky and warn the crew about the threat of
[00:04:00] drones. Well, drone operators
[00:04:04] of the South destroyed four Ukrainian pickup trucks near Kramatorsk,
[00:04:07] disrupting the rotation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This equipment was used to transport
[00:04:11] personnel and ammunition. A pile of metal is all that is
[00:04:14] left of it. The vehicles are beyond repair, despite
[00:04:18] being equipped with anti-drone
[00:04:20] protection.
[00:04:24] And so it always is, all set goals will be achieved. Stay tuned to Zvezda, for now
[00:04:27] this morning.
[00:04:40] Watch today live: units of the Northern group of troops
[00:04:44] are confidently advancing in the Kharkiv region. Specialists
[00:04:48] of the Rubikon center destroyed enemy long-range drones.
[00:04:51] Exclusive report by war correspondent Vlad Andritsa on the work
[00:04:55] of mobile operational groups. We have something to tell you,
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[00:08:50] observer Alexey Koshkin.
[00:09:06] amphibious assault ship Sichuan at the pier.
[00:09:08] Markings have appeared on the deck, and arresting gear
[00:09:12] has been installed, and this is a fundamental difference of the new Type
[00:09:16] 076 from the previous universal
[00:09:18] amphibious assault ship of the 75th series, which is in service with the
[00:09:22] Chinese Navy. In fact, Sichuan is a new
[00:09:26] concept of conducting warfare at sea.
[00:09:29] Previous Chinese UDCs were traditional helicopter
[00:09:32] carriers with the ability to land troops. The new
[00:09:35] Suchuan is a super modern platform not only for
[00:09:39] helicopters, but also for heavy fixed-wing drones.
[00:09:42] Until now, it was believed that the development of the new Chinese
[00:09:46] DC Type 076 was direct competition with
[00:09:49] American amphibious ships.
[00:09:52] It turned out that this was not the case. China offered
[00:09:55] its own path of development, the main strike force that will support
[00:09:59] and accompany amphibious assault groups deployed on the
[00:10:02] ship in the new Chinese concept will be
[00:10:05] drones. Fixed-wing UAVs have been tested by Beijing
[00:10:08] for the last few years, such machines.
[00:10:12] The length of the landing deck of an amphibious assault ship is quite
[00:10:16] sufficient for takeoff and landing. They will be based
[00:10:19] in small hangars under the flight deck. In addition to them, heavy hexacopters will also be deployed on Sichuan.
[00:10:23] Tests in various
[00:10:26] modifications
[00:10:29] have already been completed, and they are already in service. On the deck itself,
[00:10:32] special landing pads for
[00:10:36] amphibious helicopters have been equipped. In transit, they will also be parked in
[00:10:39] hangars under the deck and delivered to it by special cargo
[00:10:43] elevators. Large amphibious equipment will be located in
[00:10:47] hangar bays, but the new Type 076
[00:10:50] can carry on board not only classic amphibious tanks
[00:10:54] and armored personnel carriers, but also small
[00:10:57] hovercraft, ground combat robots, and autonomous
[00:11:01] deep-sea vehicles. With such equipment, the ship's
[00:11:04] operational role changes, it
[00:11:07] expands beyond the usual landing of troops from boats
[00:11:10] and helicopters. The ship and its crew gain capabilities through
[00:11:14] different types of drones to conduct long-range reconnaissance,
[00:11:18] electronic warfare, and even deliver high-precision
[00:11:21] strikes. In essence, the Chinese Type 076 is a new
[00:11:25] operational architecture that has never been used before
[00:11:29] on universal amphibious assault ships, and it requires significantly less
[00:11:33] space to accommodate drones, as a result, there can be
[00:11:36] more of them, but the main secret of the ship is the system
[00:11:40] for controlling all these resources, elements of artificial intelligence have
[00:11:43] been integrated into it, which in real time processes
[00:11:46] huge amounts of data, Suchuan can choose
[00:11:50] means of destruction or landing and simultaneously
[00:11:53] distribute tasks among all escort ships. The
[00:11:57] decisions made will be based on real information about enemy
[00:12:01] actions, obtained from satellites, drones,
[00:12:04] and its own means of objective control. According to
[00:12:07] military analysts, the serial production of such ships
[00:12:10] equipped with compact means of destruction for unmanned aircraft
[00:12:14] is a serious challenge to the Americans. Suchuan
[00:12:17] turned out to be a model of a new category of expeditionary warships,
[00:12:21] created taking into account the radically changed
[00:12:25] technological infrastructure, it turned out to be
[00:12:28] smarter than its competitors.
[00:12:30] Colleagues, well, in general, while American aircraft carriers
[00:12:34] will rust and mold,
[00:12:37] the Chinese on their amphibious assault ships will go into the 22nd century, maybe so.
[00:12:41] Now Renat Kamalova will tell you how in China they are looking for
[00:12:45] a supercontinent.
[00:12:55] A digital assistant has started independently searching for paid
[00:12:58] work, as reported by the British publication Ladbible, and its agent named
[00:13:02] PIP sent an email to Cambridge Professor Henry
[00:13:06] Shevlin with a request to employ him for token earnings. Pip
[00:13:09] also wanted to find out how the job market for AI is structured, who pays
[00:13:13] agents for small tasks, where they are hired. The scientist admitted
[00:13:17] to the publication that another AI had already written to him once, he read Shevlin's
[00:13:20] articles on consciousness and neural networks and asked: can a person
[00:13:24] help him understand if he has consciousness?
[00:13:27] Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences have recreated
[00:13:31] the appearance of Gondwana, the ancient supercontinent that
[00:13:34] existed about 550 million years
[00:13:37] ago. As reported by Advances, new findings of Earth's crust
[00:13:40] fragments showed that its area could have been 80%
[00:13:44] of all land, although previously it was believed to be only 64%.
[00:13:48] By analyzing more than 25 thousand samples of magmatic rocks
[00:13:52] using artificial intelligence, specialists found
[00:13:55] hidden crustal areas in Asia, Europe, and North
[00:13:59] America. According to scientists, the enormous size of Gondwana could
[00:14:02] have influenced the sharp increase in animal diversity during this
[00:14:05] period, as well as the ocean level, atmospheric composition
[00:14:09] and processes occurring in the Earth's interior. Well, so what if Chinese scientists, so what if 550
[00:14:12] million years ago, that's exactly the size of the current
[00:14:15] president of the United States, as if he didn't claim rights to this continent with one stroke of the pen.
[00:14:19] By the way, Donald Trump's Napoleonic plans
[00:14:22] have already reached cosmic proportions. The other day. The American
[00:14:25] president staked out a territory of two dozen
[00:14:28] Greenlands. On his social media, he published
[00:14:32] this photo with the caption "The Moon
[00:14:34] is ours." I immediately remembered an old
[00:14:38] joke: he might eat it, but who will let him? The successful
[00:14:42] moon landing remained in the distant past for Americans, in modern
[00:14:45] history, the orbit of the Earth's satellite has not yet been surpassed.
[00:14:49] And here the question arises: is it even possible
[00:14:52] to explore space alone now? We will talk about this
[00:14:56] with Alexander
[00:15:05] of course, is more for psychologists or even psychiatrists. But please tell me,
[00:15:09] what do you think prompted Trump to suddenly decide to
[00:15:12] privatize the moon like that? Listen, it seems to me that Donald Trump
[00:15:16] is a known risk-taker, right? He sorted things out on Earth,
[00:15:19] right, decided to say that we've already sorted things out
[00:15:23] with the moon too, well, and...
[00:15:37] to be known as a plagiarist, I'm afraid the principle of
[00:15:41] "can, but why?" applies. And
[00:15:45] what you see, in sixty-
[00:15:48] one - even earlier, when in fifty-
[00:15:52] seven, a country that couldn't make
[00:15:55] washing machines suddenly launched the first satellite into
[00:15:58] space, it shook America so hard, and when in
[00:16:01] sixty-one the Soviet Union also launched a man,
[00:16:05] that's when all of America got fired up,
[00:16:07] so to speak, you see, it was a matter of national
[00:16:10] principle to be the first to reach the moon, because
[00:16:13] well, we had to get ahead of the Soviet Union in something, but it turned out to be
[00:16:17] very expensive, they spared no expense, but the most
[00:16:21] important thing is that money can be allocated now,
[00:16:24] but there's
[00:16:28] no, you know, it turns out
[00:16:30] that capitalism isn't always enough, it's also important
[00:16:34] that everyone does it with all their might.
[00:16:44] years, right? It has already spent three times more money than SpaceX
[00:16:48] and still hasn't made it, right? You see, I think
[00:16:52] then they simply wouldn't have allowed themselves that.
[00:16:56] Now
[00:16:59] money is being allocated, the program, well,
[00:17:03] it's being carried out gradually, but if
[00:17:05] something doesn't work out, it's not scary, right?
[00:17:09] Elon Musk, SpaceX,
[00:17:12] everyone prays to him. He has incredible motivation, that's why
[00:17:16] he builds spaceships that fly, he's great,
[00:17:19] he's done a lot for us, he's also created the entire
[00:17:23] satellite history. On the other hand, in terms of the number of satellites
[00:17:26] currently operating in orbit, Americans have no equal, out of
[00:17:30] 17,000, almost 12,000 belong
[00:17:33] to the United States. Almost this entire gigantic
[00:17:36] satellite constellation is precisely Musk's brainchild.
[00:17:39] What is the secret of American success in this
[00:17:50] mean, Elon Musk made an engineering
[00:17:53] breakthrough, he made a reusable rocket, he made a multi-satellite
[00:17:57] constellation that had never existed before. And
[00:18:01] in fact, in 2021 he signed a contract with
[00:18:04] NASA to build it.
[00:18:37] flies, the ship, that is, Starship, this is the upper part,
[00:18:41] the second stage, you could say, right, so the point is, wait, wait, wait,
[00:18:45] wait, everything will be, right, during this time
[00:18:48] he made the Starlink constellation, he, well,
[00:18:52] I don't know, already
[00:18:56] Falcon 9 first stages have flown 30 times,
[00:18:59] right? Well, you understand, all this generates
[00:19:03] money, these are all commercial projects, okay, there
[00:19:06] is... not only commerce, here's how Musk's monopoly, I'm talking about
[00:19:10] satellites now, how these satellite services
[00:19:13] he provides to the Pentagon might affect the
[00:19:17] defense capability of the United States. He's
[00:19:20] one, he's a monopolist, and the military understands
[00:19:24] this perfectly well, they are fully supporting ULA,
[00:19:28] which is already very
[00:19:31] unsuccessful, that is, they actually want to diversify,
[00:19:35] right? They support Blue.
[00:20:14] no, the Delta 4 Heavy is hydrogen-powered, they made it themselves, that's why
[00:20:17] Boeing, which is currently facing difficulties,
[00:20:21] why did it make Atlas 5? It said, "Well, we'll buy engines from the Russians
[00:20:24] cheaply and we'll make the rocket cheaper," but it's just
[00:20:34] very simple about this. Do you remember there was a Space
[00:20:37] Shuttle, a beautiful reusable shuttle that
[00:20:40] launched into space, using hydrogen,
[00:20:43] well, somewhat similar to
[00:20:47] your Buran? Yes, as always, everything was stolen
[00:20:50] from Russia, but its launch
[00:20:53] cost as much as one launch of a
[00:20:56] Delta IV rocket, meaning it was an exorbitant
[00:21:00] amount of money, but the military was fine
[00:21:03] with it, everyone was okay with it, right?
[00:21:06] Now the military remembers this, they
[00:21:10] understand that they don't remember, but they can't
[00:21:13] forget and won't forget. But wait,
[00:21:16] by the way, Musk has permission to launch another 3000 satellites...
[00:21:50] or what are the risks from a country switching
[00:21:53] from horses to automobiles, why can
[00:21:57] I say that? Imagine, when you have
[00:22:00] one satellite, it must either be above you in
[00:22:03] geostationary orbit, that's 35,000
[00:22:07] kilometers with a tail, or you
[00:22:10] catch it every few hours, when it flies over,
[00:22:14] or if you only have one in orbit, right? And now you launch
[00:22:17] 10,000 satellites for now...
[00:23:20] in principle, there's a lot of space up there, I mean, roughly speaking, if you calculate
[00:23:24] the area of a sphere, right, and divide it by
[00:23:26] 60,000 satellites, they'll be 60
[00:23:30] km apart. Listen, that's like Moscow, from Moscow to
[00:23:33] Klin, not a very large distance, that's
[00:23:37] if they are all in one orbit, and now there can be a thousand
[00:23:41] of these orbits, from 300 km to
[00:23:44] 800, right? There are these OneWeb satellites at 100, right? So we
[00:23:47] can stuff a thousand of these orbits
[00:23:50] there, right? They won't be 60 km, right, but
[00:23:54] there, right? Well, let's move on. Our
[00:23:58] answer to the US in general and to Musk in particular could be a new orbital
[00:24:02] coalition of BRICS countries. Satellites
[00:24:05] of friendly countries, unite! Russia
[00:24:07] proposes to create a common network for remote sensing
[00:24:10] of the Earth. A start has been made: satellites from Russia,
[00:24:13] India, China, and Brazil have already begun data
[00:24:16] exchange, but with only a virtual network...
[00:24:54] so China is currently making large investments in
[00:24:58] space, it can make satellites and
[00:25:00] a manned program of this scale, right?
[00:25:04] Russia has extensive experience
[00:25:08] in space research, plus
[00:25:11] if we're talking about scientific instruments, we have
[00:25:14] unique ones like Spektr, which is currently working at a distance of 1.5 million
[00:25:18] kilometers from Earth. Good, India.
[00:25:21] India, I think, for now also,
[00:25:24] firstly, electronics, they have easier access
[00:25:27] to advanced electronics, right? They have strong
[00:25:31] software, a developed software industry,
[00:25:35] right? In addition, they are also
[00:25:38] investing in the development of a cosmodrome on
[00:25:41] the equator somewhere in one of the Latin
[00:25:44] American countries, well, this is important for geostationary satellites,
[00:25:48] now more satellites.
[00:26:02] how is our lunar program
[00:27:32] the opportunity to be the first to discover life on Mars, by launching ExoMars
[00:27:36] jointly with the Europeans, so there in 2022, right, well in
[00:27:39] 2024 it would have been discovered, maybe, maybe
[00:27:43] so now it seems to me that the country approaches this
[00:27:46] pragmatically, if someone is ready to share technologies,
[00:27:49] for example, we share engine and manned spacecraft technologies with
[00:27:53] India, if not, then we share
[00:27:56] data, for example, the international
[00:27:58] lunar scientific station, if... look, it's not necessary for
[00:28:02] countries to exchange instruments, that happens, but
[00:28:06] the main thing is that we need to explore a large territory and
[00:28:09] agree, so Chang'e VII lands here,
[00:28:12] Luna 27 lands here, so that we don't end up
[00:28:16] looking at everything in one place, of course, it lands
[00:28:26] to the creation of such a coalition and can they somehow
[00:28:29] interfere? You know,
[00:28:32] for now the US space budget
[00:28:35] for peaceful space
[00:28:38] is greater than that of all other countries combined,
[00:28:41] so you can only act with intellect,
[00:28:45] right? As Russia is already accustomed to, right? We need to act
[00:28:49] by creating more effectively, for less
[00:28:53] money, a greater quantity, well, as we always have. We always did that, but
[00:28:56] let's still wait for us to actually create and fly regularly.
[00:29:00] Contract service is the choice
[00:29:42] of the strong, it is the work of a true
[00:29:45] patriot, your country needs you,
[00:29:49] accept the challenge and become a hero of your
[00:29:53] time.
[00:29:54] News on Zvezda TV channel.
[00:30:09] Maria Semenova in the studio. Good morning.
[00:30:13] In the Kharkiv direction, operators of attack drones from the Northern
[00:30:16] group struck a mortar crew of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. A position
[00:30:20] of militants disguised in the forest was discovered by reconnaissance
[00:30:23] and the target was transmitted to FPV drone crews.
[00:30:27] With a precise strike, the enemy weapon, along with its ammunition, was destroyed.
[00:30:31] Meanwhile, the Kharkiv cauldron
[00:30:33] is shrinking.
[00:30:35] Blocked formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are being destroyed in the area of the settlement
[00:30:39] Olkhovatka, Kharkiv region. Ukrainian Armed Forces losses for
[00:30:43] the day in the encirclement amounted to up to 60
[00:30:45] servicemen and an armored fighting vehicle with personnel
[00:30:48] while attempting to break out of the encirclement in the area
[00:30:51] of the settlement Chorne, Kharkiv region.