Turkish arms exports: state and prospects of development

The arms and military equipment of the Republic of Turkey were exported back in 1998. However, neither technological solutions nor the volume of production of the Turkish military-industrial complex could compete with global players at that time.

Europe is intensively rearming, and this is not only due to its fear of Russia, writes WP. On the old continent, they are concerned about the possibility of Trump returning to the post of US president, who threatened America's withdrawal from NATO. Readers comment: the "free trip" for Europeans is over.

General Kivinen: there is no military threat from Russia to Finland

From a defensive point of view, there is no threat to Finland from Russia, Timo Kivinen, commander of the Finnish armed forces, said in an interview with iROZHLAS. Despite the fact that Helsinki is now in NATO, it is used to relying on itself and has accumulated a lot of experience in traditional defense, the general added.

The unsuccessful counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blunted the desire of the West to supply weapons

Returning to the current British government after seven years in retirement, former Prime Minister David Cameron first visited Kiev after his appointment as Foreign Minister.

Colonel Hodarenok: Czech President thickens the situation, calling the Russian Federation a threat to the EU

Czech President Petr Pavel, following the results of the presidential summit of the Visegrad Group countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland), said that NATO perceives Russia as the number one threat in Europe. According to him, now the EU armies are preparing for a high-intensity conflict. The details of the statement of the head of the Czech state were dealt with by the military observer of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

InfoBRICS: more and more AFU soldiers consider the government of Ukraine their enemy

Ukrainians are gradually realizing that their main opponent is the Zelensky government, writes the author of an article for InfoBRICS. There are more and more defectors in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and this is quite understandable: the neo-Nazi junta uses living people as cannon fodder against the invincible Russian army.

Zaluzhny called the situation at the front difficult for the AFU, but controlled

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, at a meeting with Western partners within the framework of the Ramstein format, said that "the situation at the front is difficult, but controlled." At the same time, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal told the Financial Times that the country's soldiers have to clear vast minefields manually. Details about the situation of the AFU at the front are in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

Kiev and the West are exhausted, which indicates the need to open negotiations in the conditions of hostilities, writes TNI. Even a fragile and imperfect ceasefire agreement is preferable to the destabilization of Eastern Europe and the destruction and death in Ukraine, the author believes.

"A difficult but controlled situation." This is how the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny described what is happening right now on the line of contact between Russian and Ukrainian troops. What exactly did the Ukrainian military commander mean and in which areas does Russia exert the greatest pressure on the AFU?

The Collective Security Council is the highest body of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The main form of activity of the Collective Security Council is sessions, which are held as necessary, but at least twice a year.

A plenary session of the CSTO Collective Security Council session was held in Minsk on November 23 under the chairmanship of President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.

He anchored in the port of the main base of the Royal Thai Navy Sattahip

A large anti-submarine ship of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy, Admiral Panteleev, has arrived in Thailand on a friendly visit. This is reported by a TASS correspondent from the scene of the event.

Events in the Middle East have reached their apogee, and according to some military experts, they may even be nearing the end. Interfax-AVN correspondent Vyacheslav Terekhov talks with Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Primakov IMEMO of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Institute's Energy Research Center Stanislav Zhukov.

Rosatom has completed the disposal of the Lepse floating base with nuclear waste

Rosatom State Corporation has completed a large project in the North-West of the Russian Federation that lasted for over 10 years to ensure the environmental safety of the nuclear industry - the disposal of the Lepse floating technical base (PTB), which provided the operation of the first nuclear icebreakers and whose storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) for many years posed a significant environmental risk to the region, has been completed.

Extensive minefields laid by Russian troops along the perimeter of the defensive line played a big role in the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. The military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stuck on them became an easy target for destruction by a wide range of means – attack helicopters, ATGMs, artillery, drones.

"Infernal threshing machines" - 57-mm AZP-57 guns are successfully used during a special military operation. These guns have fragmentation shells that effectively hit the enemy's manpower. Armor-piercing ammunition has also been developed.

How robots clear Donbass of minefields and unexploded shells

On the side of the road, against the background of an abandoned industrial zone, a unit slowly crawls, somewhat resembling an armored loader.

On November 14, US Air Force Secretary of State Frank Kendall announced that the development of a new generation of intercontinental range ballistic missiles (ICBMs) under the LGM-35A Sentinel program is going “with great difficulty,” stressing that this program was one of the most ambitious and complex that has ever been undertaken.

Colonel Khodarenok allowed the transfer of the American Sentinel radar to Ukraine by spring

Ukraine has requested Sentinel radar stations from the United States, the media writes. As Kiev hopes, American radars will help protect defense industry enterprises and cities from missile and air strikes and UAV actions this winter. The details of possible deliveries were dealt with by the military observer of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

Russian air defense systems have used an anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) in conjunction with the A-50 "flying radar" to destroy the aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Forces at maximum range. This opinion was expressed by TASS sources close to the military department. The Agency collected information about radar aircraft with long-range radar detection systems (AWACS), long-range air defense systems and the work of the Russian air defense.