Serve my Homeland 18.08.2013 (2013)

Our report: the cadets of the Borisoglebsky Air Force Center were the first in Russia to start flying on the latest Yak-130 combat training aircraft.

The pilots had already nicknamed it the computer with wings.

The shooting took place at the training air base, where the correspondents were shown not only the plane, but also the simulator, on which the pilots undergo initial training.

Ilya Adamenko, a cadet of the Zhukovsky and Yuri Gagarin branch of the VVA, Alexey Shapovalov, an instructor pilot of the 2nd squadron of the training air base, Vasily Shchegolev, a senior navigator, Major Sergey Pozdnyakov, Sergey Piskarev, the head of the technical and operational part, and Alexander Grun, the base commander, talk about the advantages of the Yak-130.

Our report: August 12, 2013 marked the 60th anniversary of the test of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.

Dozens of research teams and hundreds of thousands of people took part in its creation.

One of the main links in this work was KB-11, now the Russian Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov.

The work of the KB-11 is remembered by the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Radiy Ilkaev and the developer of the RDS-6s thermonuclear bomb Alexander Fedotov.

In the preparation of the plot, the chronicles of different years were used, including the test of the RDS-6 bomb on August 12, 1953 and the test of the first atomic bomb on August 29, 1949.

The report also includes an excerpt of the speech of the director of the RFNC-VNIIEF, Valentin Kostyukov, at the conference "Nuclear Shield and Sword of Russia".

Our report: reconnaissance of combat patrol routes, engineering support during the march, equipment of launch positions, protection of personnel from the effects of chemical, nuclear and bacteriological weapons - this is only part of the tasks that the soldiers of the combat support battalion of the Strategic Missile Forces are called upon to solve.

They demonstrated their skills and abilities during the field trip;

the shooting of the military exercises took place at the location of the 54th Guards Missile Division in Teikovo, report by Sergey Gubanov.

Interview: commander of the support battalion Sergey Sychugov, platoon commander of the RCB intelligence Ilya Babich, miner Maxim Kulikov, technician Sergey Cherepanov.

Recently, discussions on the topic of civilian weapons have become more and more heated in society.

Unfortunately, the criminal situation in our country remains dangerous, and many believe that in order to protect themselves, it is necessary to immediately distribute small arms to citizens.

Others object, saying that if this happens, the situation will become much worse.

Both turn for support to the experience of America, where almost every person has a personal weapon.

As a guest of the program, small arms expert Brian Skinner, the conversation focuses on the current situation of gun owners in the United States, adopted and rejected amendments to gun legislation, and the conflict between the civil and government positions of the United States on this issue.