The United States has called on the UN Security Council to hold a meeting on Thursday to discuss North Korea's latest missile launch, the Associated Press reports, citing diplomats.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the launchers of the Yars mobile nuclear missile complex of the Teikov Division of the Strategic Missile Forces were brought to the combat patrol routes. As reported to the correspondent of "RG" in the Ministry of Defense, during the exercise, strategic rocket scientists, among other things, will work out the covert transfer of missile systems to field positions.

The Tagil Division of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) began exercises with the withdrawal of autonomous launchers of strategic complexes "Yars" on combat patrol routes, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

19FortyFive: the biggest threat to Russia in Europe is nuclear weapons

The biggest threat from Russia in Europe, which the United States is not ready for, is nuclear weapons, say the authors of the American edition of 19FortyFive, James Ragland and Adam Lowther. Observers admitted that Moscow could detonate a tactical atomic bomb in front of the advancing NATO forces.

The joint nuclear mission of NATO countries will continue as long as Russia has the appropriate weapons, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, head of the German Bundestag Defense Committee, said at a briefing in Berlin.

Specialists of the RCB protection troops of the Yelninsky Motorized Rifle Division of the Western Military District (ZVO) received a batch of reconnaissance chemical vehicles RHM-6.

The Military Industrial Complex has prepared a right-hand drive version of the Tiger armored car for a foreign customer

In Russia, a special version of the SBM MIC-233136 Tiger armored car with right-hand drive was shown. A batch of right-hand drive cars was prepared for shipment to a foreign customer. This was reported on the Instagram account of the "Military Industrial Company" (MIC).

Four dozen special armored vehicles SBM VPK-233136 "Tiger", painted in sand camouflage, are ready for shipment to a foreign customer.

As reported on the page of LLC "Military Industrial Company" on Instagram, these versions of the special vehicle are made with the right handlebar and do not belong to military products.

In accordance with the plan to provide troops with new military and special equipment, at the end of last year, modern military equipment of the rear service, in particular the ADCPT-10 tankers, was received by the troops of the Air Defense Forces.

FAR EAST - Infantry fighting vehicles BMP-1AM will replenish the motorized rifle unit of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District (VVO) in the Jewish Autonomous Region, the press service of the district reported on Wednesday.

Infantry fighting vehicles "Basurmanin" will replenish the motorized rifle unit of the Eastern Military District (VVO) in the Jewish Autonomous Region (EAO) in February, the press service of the district reports.

In the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates, heavy infantry fighting vehicles could appear, created on the chassis of the main battle tank OF-40 using a turret from the Russian BMP-3.

At the end of February 1995, in the cemeteries of military equipment at the Chervlennaya station and in the vicinity of Grozny, where combat vehicles that had failed for various reasons were collected from all over Chechnya, one could see the damaged T-72A tanks with the remnants of white camouflage on the towers. There were quite a lot of them.

Italy has begun testing the C1 Ariete AMV tank with an upgraded engine

An upgraded version of the Italian C1 Ariete tank, which received an improved engine and an updated fire control system, has been put to the test. This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

According to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) of the Ministry of National Defense of South Korea, on February 1, 2022, with its participation, the South Korean company Hanwha Defense (the defense division of the Hanwha Group) signed a contract in Cairo with the Egyptian Ministry of Defense for the supply and joint production in Egypt of South Korean 155-mm/52 self-propelled howitzers K9 Thunder. The contract value is more than 2 trillion won ($1.65 billion).

The office of the head of operational testing of the Pentagon concluded that the light SUVs of the US Army ISV are ineffective in combat and security cooperation and deterrence missions against almost equal threats. According to Breaking Defense, they slow down the firing of soldiers at the enemy.

The armed forces of the Russian Federation in the remaining period of the current State Armament Program (2022-2024) will purchase more than 3 thousand of the latest self-loading pistols "Boa" in standard and special modifications, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

The use of the Belarusian light grenade launcher complex "Sapphire" was shown on video. Unlike heavy analogues, the new grenade launcher does not unmask the shooter with the sound of a shot and does not leave a trajectory trace.

The next cycle of training and research activities of operators of the 1st Scientific Company of the Navy has begun in St. Petersburg.

More than 10 Russian ships and support vessels went on exercises off the coast of Kamchatka, the press service of the Eastern Military District told reporters in the information support department of the Pacific Fleet (TOP).