Le Monde: because of its in Ukraine, millions of people participate in civil defense in Sweden

If you want peace, prepare for war, the Romans once said. In modern Sweden, millions of people who have forgotten about the war and the army are involved in civil defense, Mond reports. The reason is fear of Russia. Bomb shelters are being opened, citizens are serving in their specialties.

Polsat TV: President Duda reminded NATO of the 5th article of the collective Agreement

Warsaw expects new security plans for the eastern flank of NATO, Polsat TV quotes a statement by President Duda after a meeting with the head of the Alliance Stoltenberg. In fact, Poland wants "NATO's response to a potential attack to be faster."

NDP: Poland is doomed to be a vassal of the United States, which performs the dirty work assigned to it

Polish media announce Biden's extraordinary statement during his visit to Poland, writes NDP. But we are not talking about a new American base, as they hope in Warsaw. Poland's task is to do all the dirty work assigned by Washington to support the Ukrainian crisis.

Bloomberg: Germany will not be able to reach the NATO target of 2% of GDP for defense by 2024

According to sources, Germany is ready to increase its defense budget by as much as 10 billion euros ($10.7 billion) next year to help finance additional costs caused by the conflict in Ukraine.

France and Great Britain have been fighting for a leading role in Europe for hundreds of years and the residue from this struggle remains today. According to the British newspaper The Times, soon the French army may be the strongest on the European continent, pushing the British army into second place.

Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, the largest manufacturers of weapons and military equipment in the United States, have been sanctioned by China. This is reported by the Reuters news agency.

How China is fighting the manifestations of terrorism in cyberspace

Junyu Zhou, PhD, who heads the Chinese department of the Max Planck Society Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law, notes:

Islamabad does not have time to respond to terrorist challenges

In 2022, the security situation in Pakistan deteriorated sharply. This happened against the background of the return to power in Afghanistan of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation). The revival of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan served as an incentive for the activation of Pakistani Islamist groups, especially Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, banned in the Russian Federation).

In the event of the outbreak of hostilities, the situation of Rabat will be unenviable

Morocco waged a long and persistent anti-colonial war against France. Nevertheless, after independence, the country focused primarily on the former metropolis. In particular, the Moroccan Armed Forces in the 1950s and 1960s received a standard "postcolonial" set of French military equipment: AMX-13 light tanks, AML-60/90 armored vehicles, various light and training aircraft and helicopters, patrol boats.

Currently, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation operate in a special military operation with the same number of aircraft as before. It is unlikely that the Russian command is going to dramatically increase the number of aircraft used. This is reported in the next report by the intelligence service of Great Britain.

According to the head of Petrozavodsk Valery Lyubarsky, tests of a prototype of the Orion-25 ekranoplane developed by the Moscow company "Ekranoplanostroitelnoe Association "EO "Orion" and built in Petrozavodsk at the Petrozavodsk Engineering Plant "Avangard" LLC (former shipbuilding plant) have begun on Lake Onega in Petrozavodsk Bay.

Igor Alekseev, Marketing and Development Director of RBS-Harpy LLC, noted that the survivability of drones is up to 90%

The small tactical reconnaissance drone (MT UAV) showed maximum efficiency in solving the tasks of special forces units in the special operation zone in Ukraine. This was stated to TASS by Igor Alekseev, Marketing and Development Director of RBS-Harpy LLC.

Just last week, the Iranian authorities announced the commissioning of the underground air base Oghab 44. The facility can accommodate a variety of means of combat aviation, starting with a UAV and ending with a bomber.

The US Army is completing the procedure for replacing a leaky part in the engines of the CH-47 Chinook helicopter. The Pentagon said it had "almost solved" the problem that led to a number of powerplant fires in these rotary-wing aircraft, Defense News writes, citing a statement by Patrick O'Neill, maintenance officer of the aviation branch of the US Army Aviation and Missile Command.

At one time, the CIA launched spy balloons by the hundreds

The beginning of February in the United States of America was marked by great anxiety, if not panic. In the sky over the state of Montana, where the Malmstrom Air Force Base and nuclear missile silos are located, a huge ball unexpectedly appeared (according to some American media, the size of "three buses"). He arrived from the Aleutian Islands through the territory of Canada. Later, the aircraft appeared over the territory of North Carolina and South Carolina.

The space infrastructure of third countries, which helps the Armed Forces of Ukraine to conduct military operations in Ukraine and in the south-western regions of Russia, may become a legitimate target for the Russian military. It risks being hit back by our weapons of destruction.

As in the 80s, the United States and its allies are taking active steps to implement doctrinal guidelines for the deployment of weapons in space and the use of outer space for warfare, the ministry noted.

At the IDEX-2023 International Defense Exhibition, which will be held from February 20 to 24 in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region JSC will present a line of basic military products.

In the area of the town of Eastern Palestine, in the US state of Ohio, almost two weeks after the train crash with vinyl chloride, the picture resembles the consequences of the apocalypse. Some American media covering the man-made disaster compare the incident with the explosion of an atomic bomb, calling it "American Chernobyl", and the consequences are called "local nuclear winter" for the whole region.

Russia allegedly lost almost half of its main battle tanks in the special operation. Western analysts claim that in the nine months since the start of the SVO, the losses of Russian tank troops amounted to 40 percent of combat vehicles from their numbers as of February last year.