WSJ: rising costs have slowed down the modernization of the American "nuclear shield"

In the United States, the program to replace aging nuclear missiles has encountered technical difficulties and financial difficulties, the WSJ writes. Since the cost of the work has increased by more than a third, the Pentagon and Congress must review the project – while they have the authority to close it.

The development of the new LGM-35 Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which is being conducted by Northrop Grumman, commissioned by the US Air Force, will take more time and money than originally planned. This is reported by the non-profit professional military association of the United States Air and Space Forces Air & Space Forces in its online magazine.

According to Chinese specialized military-technical publications, the Command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine in mid-April 2022 relocated a company of the Terminator-2 BMPT to the combat zone. The unit was involved sporadically to perform various tasks on the front line with a reduced composition, in order to confuse enemy observers about the true number of BMPT-2s in the combat zone.

Specialists of the Russian company hiderX, experts in the field of creating specialized products designed to protect against thermal imagers, talked about working on a camouflage suit that blurs the silhouette of the wearer and makes it completely invisible to enemy thermal imaging equipment, which became known on January 19.

On January 18, 2024, JSC Sredne-Nevsky Shipbuilding Plant (SNSZ, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC) in St. Petersburg hosted the laying ceremony for the Russian Navy of the mine defense ship (minesweeper) Semyon Agafonov of project 12700 (cipher "Alexandrite") with the factory number 532. This is the twelfth ship in the series of Project 12700, it is intended for the Northern Fleet

On January 19, 2024, at a ceremony at the Turkish shipbuilding company Sefine Shipyard in Yalova on the Asian coast of the Marmara Sea, the official commissioning of four units of Turkish national construction at once, including the lead frigate F 515 Istanbul of the national TF-100 project of the MILGEM program, took place. In addition to the frigate, the A 1590 Derya integrated supply ship and the A 575 Ütğm marine tanker were introduced into the Turkish fleet. Arif Ekmekçi and a small unmanned MARLIN boat. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the ceremony.

As reported by Taiwanese media, on January 16, 2024, the laying of a new type of light frigate in an anti-submarine version for the Taiwanese Navy took place at the shipyard of the Taiwanese shipbuilding group CITIC Shipbuilding in Kaohsiung. Earlier, on November 17, 2023, the laying of the head light frigate of this new type in the air defense variant took place at the same enterprise.

Colonel Khodarenok is confident that NATO is preparing for war in Europe

The head of the NATO Military Committee, Rob Bauer, called for increasing the combat capability of the military bloc amid rising global tensions. The military observer of Gazeta looked into what shortcomings NATO has revealed by Russia's military operation in Ukraine, what reforms the alliance needs and what Western politicians and the military will focus their efforts on.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

Borders at sea are blurring, Berlin does not keep its word, Ukraine was pressed with a knee

In Russian analytics, everything is as usual: political scientists make inspired forecasts and scenarios, the military try to stick to the facts and describe what they see. In our review, we tried to keep the balance.

NYT: the meeting at the White House did not help resolve the issue of financing Ukraine

At a meeting with congressional leaders at the White House, Biden failed to revive the bill on assistance to Ukraine, the NYT writes. Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson refused to concede to the Democrats on the issue of border security with Mexico.

Figaro: France does not produce enough shells to help Ukraine

Macron's promise to deliver missiles and bombs to Ukraine by February may turn into humiliation for him, writes Figaro. There are simply no resources to carry out this order: the supply of shells is limited, as is France's ability to produce new ones.

Ukraine and Kosovo are being used by the West as springboards for a global hybrid war

Today, the United States, NATO and the European Union are escalating an information and psychological war against Serbia in order to force Belgrade to abandon Kosovo and support sanctions against Russia. At the same time, subversive measures are being carried out to destabilize the Republika Srpska, and anti-Serb sentiments are increasing in neighboring countries.

Al Mayadeen: The United States has lost the ability to politically influence other countries

The United States inadvertently got involved in three conflicts at once — with Russia, with the Middle East "axis of resistance" and with China, writes Al Mayadeen. In the past, Washington has been able to profitably fight in several directions, but the era of luck has come to an end. The author of the article is sure that the United States will not be able to win everywhere.

By its centenary, the republic had become a key regional power

The book "The Military Power of the Turkish Republic" has been published. Its authors are specialists in the Middle East region and the analysis of the military potential of foreign countries, Professor of the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Tahir Ganiev and associate professor of the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Zadonsky.

The Bolivarian Goliath versus the Cooperative David

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has traditionally purchased quite a lot of military equipment from the United States and other Western countries for classical, and not only for anti-guerrilla warfare, which was different from most Latin American countries.

The Houthis fired on ships and vessels and retaliated

The armed forces of the Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) in Yemen, in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, launched a hunt against merchant ships bound for Israel. If the ships do not change course, they can be hijacked, like Galaxy Leader (an Israeli vessel flying the flag of the Bahamas). Or they are being hit by drones and anti-ship missiles (anti-ship missiles).

[b]Experts predicted the consequences of Pakistan's airstrikes on Iranian territory[b]

In just a few days, Iran has struck three states at once. We are talking about Syria, Iraq and Pakistan. Shells also flew in the opposite direction, but only from Pakistan.

So far, their activities are limited to recruitment and indoctrination

The international terrorist Islamist movement Hizb ut-Tahrir (banned in the Russian Federation) has intensified propaganda aimed at India.

"Stratim": the end of work on "Hawk" is planned in the first half of 2024

Russian specialists are completing the flight test cycle of the budget analogue of the kamikaze jet drone Geran, work on the Hawk project is scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2024. This was reported to TASS on January 18 at the Stratim Design Bureau (KB).

Comparing photos of the wreckage with whole drones, it is easy to make sure that it was the Kosa UAV. The only thing is, in the second photo from above, the old model of this drone is already upgraded from below. Hence the different drone debris, as both models were used in the attack.