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The United States has revived a Cold War unit in Europe

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The US Army has revived the 56th Artillery Command in Germany, which was based in the country during the Cold War. This was reported on November 8 by The Washington Times.

The main reason for the reactivation of the command is the growing tension between NATO and "a more assertive Russia," the article says.

"This is a key command in the European region. We really missed him. Very good news," the author quotes the words of the commander of American troops in Europe and Africa, General Christopher Cavioli.

The 56th command will ensure further synchronization of the armed forces of European countries, US weapons in Europe will have a much larger area of destruction of potential targets, said the head of the unit, Major General Stephen Maranian, speaking on November 8 in Wiesbaden, Germany.

This formation of the US army ceased to operate in 1991, four years after the ratification of the Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles Treaty (INF Treaty), the unilateral withdrawal from which the White House announced in 2019.

On October 21, The Telegraph reported that Washington was far behind in the hypersonic race, in which Moscow and Beijing are leading.

American aircraft carriers have lost their former importance with the advent of new weapons, the article says. First of all, we are talking about hypersonic weapons, the authors of the article specify.

On October 20, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the US military had begun active work on the modernization of tactical nuclear weapons and their storage bases in European countries. The White House is acting in this direction with the full support of NATO allies, Shoigu stressed.

Russia has repeatedly stated that due to the strengthening of NATO's military infrastructure near the Russian borders, Moscow is forced to improve weapons systems in order to resist possible aggression by unfriendly countries. Now in the Russian Federation, according to Izvestia sources in the military department, work is underway on several hypersonic weapons projects at once. Some of them are already in a high degree of readiness.

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