Only ground operations guarantee victory in modern conflicts

The center for analysis of strategies and technologies (cast) held for the third time a very productive and very informative conference "Ogarkov readings".

Dmitry Litovkin-whether the fear of a large-scale conflict is justified

First, the chief of the British defense Staff, Nick Carter, and then the Czech intelligence service, in their annual report, said that the world is on the verge of a global cataclysm.

Moscow should treat its "allies" extremely pragmatically

The coincidence in time (at least partially) of the conflicts in Belarus, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Kyrgyzstan does not necessarily mean that they are United by a single external anti-Russian plan. Each case is different. Although, of course, you can trace many common features.

The war in Karabakh has shown that the tank is an easy target for attack drones. In just a few weeks of fighting, Yerevan lost more than 120 combat vehicles. What conclusions Russia should do at the end of this conflict and how now the Russian tanks are protected from the shock drones and loitering munitions of the enemy?

The end of the second Karabakh war gave rise to many riddles and conspiracy theories. Indeed, some of the circumstances of this conflict are extremely mysterious, or at least paradoxical from the point of view of conventional military logic. Apparently, the Armenian leadership itself provoked a political catastrophe.

The Azerbaijani armed forces are ready to deploy in the Kelbajar region after the Armenian population leaves, head of the Department of international military cooperation of the defense Ministry Huseyn Makhmudov said.

Another spy scandal has affected an employee of a leading Russian airline. An Aeroflot representative in the UK has been arrested on suspicion of high treason. How could this treason have been committed, what information did the accused allegedly have access to – and who should be held accountable along with him?

How to protect yourself from any misfortunes? And who will manage measures to protect and eliminate from all sorts of troubles? The response prepared by the Russian Ministry of emergency situations to these questions can be reduced to one short formula: the same people should be responsible for eliminating all troubles at any time according to the same unified rules. In other words, the response system should be unified, whether it is wartime or peacetime.

In the hush-Kit blog, former us Navy instructor and f-14 weapons systems operator Dave " Bio " Baranek described the brief evolution of the fighter's cockpits over 65 years, starting with the f-106A interceptor, which was in service from the 1960s to 1988, and up to the F-35.

The Severnaya Verf plant, which is part of the United shipbuilding Corporation, plans to transfer the lead Corvette of project 20385 "Gremyashchy"to the Russian Navy on December 25. This was stated to journalists on Thursday, November 12, the General Director of the company Igor Orlov.

The Northern fleet's missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov completed a set of combat training tasks in the Barents and Norwegian seas and returned to its permanent base in Severomorsk.

The frigate of the Northern fleet "Admiral Kasatonov" hit a target with a Kalibr missile at a training ground in the Arkhangelsk region from The white sea. On Thursday, November 12, the press service of the fleet reported.

Dmitry Litovkin-about a new safe Harbor for the Russian Navy

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a submission addressed to Vladimir Putin, suggesting the opening of a logistics support point for our warships in this country in Sudan.

Satellite Internet of the Starlink system of the American company SpaceX may be restricted in order to protect national security, Vladimir Korovkin, head of the Innovation and digital technologies Department at the Moscow school of management SKOLKOVO, told Nezavisimaya Gazeta.

for the Leopard 2 tanks in Switzerland in the late 80-ies created a powerful 140-mm gun. It still surprises with its characteristics and size.

Many data about it have not yet been made public, but even from the published photographic materials, it can be understood that the length of this weapon significantly exceeds those already in service.

There will be no American inspectors at Russia's nuclear weapons factories, as was the case in the 1990s, Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters.

Vladimir Putin said that Russia is completing the creation of a nuclear forces control center, which is almost completely protected from nuclear attacks and equipped with the most advanced equipment and communications facilities. Moscow has already seriously modernized its nuclear triad in recent years. Now it's time to update its management system, which Russia inherited from the USSR and was developed on the territory of Ukraine.

The Ethiopian authorities launched a military operation against the opposition party" people's liberation front Tigray", which controls the region of The same name. The reason for this was the separatist attack on the military government base in Tigray.

Turkish Korkut anti-aircraft self-propelled guns were transferred to Libya in mid-January this year. During all this time, only a few photos appeared on the Network confirming the presence of this technique in this hot spot.

More than 80 units. BUK-M3 SAMS entered service in the anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Central military district, stationed in the Altai territory. The latest weapons arrived at the point of permanent deployment as part of the military echelon after performing live firing at the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region.