Russia's intentions are still unclear, but its actions near the border with Ukraine and rhetoric have recently forced NATO to prepare for the worst, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during a meeting of the foreign ministers of NATO member countries in Riga, according to State Department spokesman Ned Price.

What is happening along the eastern borders of the North Atlantic Alliance is under the close attention of the allies, Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets said, summing up the results of the first day of the meeting of NATO Foreign ministers in Riga.

Many Finnish officers support NATO membership, according to the MTV news portal. This was revealed by the results of a survey conducted by him together with the Finnish "Union of Officers". The article provides specific figures, an explanation of such a position of the military and a comment by the chairman of the Union of Officers.

According to the current state of the armed forces, Poland is similar to Armenia, and Russia and Belarus are similar to Azerbaijan, writes Defence24, analyzing the last major conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, in which Baku, which had strike-reconnaissance drones, won a landslide victory over Yerevan.

During combat training, modern aircraft and aviation weapons were actively mastered, which greatly contributed to the growth of qualification and professional training of specialists, the head of the Ministry of Defense noted.

On Monday, November 29, Russia announced preparations for testing a new-built Tu-160M strategic bomber. The Polish edition of Defence24 suggested that this indicates that Russian strategic aviation is lagging behind the United States.

In Russia, the first MC-21-300 aircraft was built with a wing made of Russian-made composite materials. The aircraft was transferred to the flight test unit. This is reported by Rostec.

The Ka-62 multipurpose helicopter is certified in Russia, which allows it to begin serial deliveries, said Denis Manturov, head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.

The system includes a server, a set of workstations, a place for an instructor, software, a video projector and other equipment

Technodinamika Holding (part of Rostec) delivered the first serial batch of an automated training system (AOS) to the Russian Aerospace Forces for the training of Mi-8AMTSh crew members. This is stated in the message of the holding, distributed on Wednesday.

For the first time, the US Navy and the American company Raytheon have dropped a Stormbreaker planning bomb from an F-35B fighter jet that is insensitive to weather conditions. The flight of the bomb was tracked by another fighter - F/A-18F - over a shared network.

Science fiction stories about flying soldiers are becoming a reality. November 30, portal armyrecognition.com He reported that the French Special Operations Forces are preparing to test an updated version of Frank Zapata's Flyboard Air device.

The American company AeroVironment presented the configuration of the Jump 20 tactical drone with two Switchblade 300 barrage ammunition — it is called the "Little Predator". According to FlightGlobal, the developers tested the Jump 20 together with the inactive Switchblade 300 in August to confirm the operability of the concept.

The Norwegian company Nammo is testing a drone with an M72 anti-tank grenade launcher mounted on it. The new weapon can operate in a swarm, the company said in a statement.

American heavy helicopters Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion found the first foreign buyer. Yesterday, November 30, the portal flightglobal.com He reported that the Israeli government approved the purchase of new helicopters for the IDF.

The Ministry of Defense of Bangladesh is holding a tender for the purchase of new specialized attack helicopters to equip the army aviation of the Ground Forces.

The anti-covid measures taken will protect Russian cosmonauts from the new strain of the Omicron coronavirus, the Cosmonaut Training Center told Interfax on Wednesday.

At the same time, the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation expressed hope that Washington would see "contradictions in its own position" on preventing an arms race in space against the background of Western accusations against Russia

Russia hopes that cooperation between Moscow and Washington in the space industry will continue on a mutually beneficial basis, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters on Wednesday.

Landing is expected at 06:18 Moscow time in the steppe of Kazakhstan

The crew of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft, consisting of cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, who will become the first special correspondent of TASS in orbit, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano, will return to Earth on the morning of December 20. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Roscosmos on Wednesday.

Due to bad weather, the European aerospace company is postponing the launch of the Soyuz rocket with Galileo navigation satellites on board, previously planned on Wednesday, for December 3," the company's CEO Stefan Israel said on Twitter.