The Philippine Navy will receive one or two more Pohang-class corvettes from the Republic of Korea Navy in addition to the two corvettes approved for transfer earlier.

How many warships should there be in the U.S. Navy? This issue has turned into an occasion for heated political discussions in the American leadership today. Representatives of Congress, the presidential administration and the Pentagon have different points of view on this issue. Therefore, the US Congress is going to create a special commission that should determine the necessary number of ships in order for the American fleet to be combat-ready and able to solve the tasks assigned to it.

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On December 14, the day of raising the naval flag is celebrated on the largest nuclear submarine in the world - the heavy nuclear submarine of strategic purpose (TAPKSN) "Dmitry Donskoy". This day is considered the beginning of the ship's combat service.

According to a government official who wished to remain anonymous, scientists at the federal nuclear weapons facility have made potentially significant progress in research on thermonuclear fusion, which in the future could lead to the creation of an abundant source of energy.

In recent years, research on the study of neutrino particles and their possible interaction with substances has intensified, which was a direct consequence of the awarding of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald, the heads of two experimental groups, Super-Kamiokande and SNO, studying the properties of neutrinos.

A branch of JSC "AEM-technologies" Izhora (part of the engineering division of Rosatom — Atomenergomash) completed the shipment of hydraulic capacities of the passive core bay system (SPZAZ) for the second power unit of the Akkuyu NPP (Turkey).

The first batch of FV103 "Spartan" armored vehicles purchased in the UK by the Petro Poroshenko Foundation has arrived in Ukraine. According to reports, it included six armored cars command and staff FV105 "Sultan" and armored personnel carriers FV103 "Spartan". Eight more British armored vehicles of the CVR(T) Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) family are awaiting shipment.

In the Kozelsky missile compound, the Yars ICBM was loaded into a mine launcher

The Kozelsky missile compound loaded the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile into a mine launcher, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) received another intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Yars", it was loaded into the mine for putting on combat duty, the Russian military said on Wednesday.

The US Air Force reported that on December 9, 2022, a successful flight test of a fully complete combat prototype of a promising American air-based hypersonic missile AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) was carried out for the first time.

European countries are vying to complain about the depletion of arsenals due to supplies to Ukraine, but at the same time, for some types of weapons provided to Kiev, they bypass even the main ally of the United States. While the Pentagon cannot decide in response to the pleas of the Kiev authorities to send Patriot air defense systems to protect against Russian missiles and drones, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said yesterday that Paris has already supplied Ukraine with part of the air defense systems, another batch will be delivered in the near future.

According to Andrey Bystritsky, Chairman of the Board of the Valdai International Discussion Club Development and Support Fund, they will further complicate Russian-American relations

Possible deliveries of Patriot missile defense systems to Kiev will not have a radical impact on the course of hostilities in Ukraine, but they will further complicate Russian-American relations. This opinion was expressed in an interview with TASS by Andrey Bystritsky, chairman of the Board of the Foundation for the Development and Support of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

As reported by the American TV company CNN in the Barbara Starr article "Exclusive: US finalizing plans to send Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine" ("Exclusive: the United States is finalizing plans to supply Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine"), with reference to the words of two US officials and a senior representative of the US government, the administration of US President Joe Biden is completing preparations There are plans to supply Ukraine with American Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, which may be announced as early as this week.

The United States this week may announce the dispatch of Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine. Joe Biden will make the final decision on supplies, but the tone of publications in the Western media hints that this issue looks resolved. How will such actions by Washington affect the course of its military operations and what can the Russian Aerospace Forces oppose to the American air defense systems?

Scientists are constantly looking for ways to cope with global warming, and one of the most ambitious projects is the construction of an "umbrella" that will cover our planet from the Sun. The idea seems unattainable, but Luxembourg scientists claim that it can be made easier if you build not one "umbrella", but several small ones.

In Ukraine, they continue to announce the creation of new drones. In recent days, the Ukrainian press has posted a record number of publications about new developments in the field of unmanned aircraft for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. While it has come only to announcements, the "hardware" only promises to show new items.

The head of the administration of the Mykolaiv region Vitaly Kim told about the next attack of kamikaze drones. At the same time, the Nikolaev governor said that Russia "puts silencers on Iranian drones," at least on some of them.

MWM: Su-35SM fighter uses Su-57 technology

The Su-35 will be upgraded to the Su-35SM standard, MWM reports. It is noted that it uses a number of technologies and solutions used in the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter. Special attention is drawn to the radar station and the missiles that the aircraft will receive.

The escalation between the United States and China in the field of high technology continues to grow. Washington is acting in the usual manner of sanctions restrictions, thereby trying to at least slow down the development of Chinese technology companies competing with American ones. Bloomberg, citing its own sources, reports that this week Washington intends to impose sanctions on more than thirty Chinese enterprises in this industry. The list also includes the state-owned Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC), which is the country's largest manufacturer of semiconductor integrated devices and flash memory chips.

The Republic of Korea became the eighth largest arms exporter in the world by value in the period 2017-2021. It accounted for almost 3% of global defense exports.