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TNI: The United States will never send F-35 fighter jets to Ukraine

The United States will definitely not supply Ukraine with F-35 fighter jets, writes TNI. This plane is too expensive to just give it away. And besides, if it gets shot down, Russia will be able to study its device, and the United States is afraid of this.

Russian industry has mastered the production of all types of drones

Currently, more than ten types of drones, from small to heavy attack ones, are in service and are actively used. Even at the beginning of the special military operation, the troops faced a shortage of them. However, in many ways this problem has been solved.

On January 9, 2024, a Su-22M4 fighter-bomber of the Vietnamese Air Force crashed during a training flight. The corresponding footage of the car crash has been published online.

A military transport helicopter Mi-171SH of the Niger Air Force crashed on January 8 in the city of Kanchari, located in eastern Burkina Faso. The helicopter was transporting military personnel and equipment to support the counter-terrorism operation in the region.

MWM: Russia uses A-50 aircraft more often to detect AFU fighters

Russia has become more likely to use A-50 long-range radar detection and control aircraft, which are "flying radars," writes MWM. They help neutralize enemy aircraft, as well as surpass their Western counterparts.

Colonel Khodarenok: Biden will seek the complete defeat of the Houthis

On the night of January 12, the United States and its allies launched missile and air strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.

MWM: the Russian army deployed Mi-28N helicopters in the Donetsk direction

The successful attack of Mi-28N helicopters in the Donetsk direction confirmed their advantages over Western equipment, writes MWM. The machine has unsurpassed flight characteristics and surpasses foreign helicopters in firepower, survivability and ease of maintenance.

The speaker of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ignat confirmed the shortage of anti-aircraft missiles

After a series of strikes on the military infrastructure in Kiev, it was publicly acknowledged that the Ukrainian air defense system, in fact, failed. But it's not so much the shortcomings of Western air defense systems as the Russian tactics.

In 2024, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will continue a special military operation, the total number of troops will increase, the number of contractors will also increase, the formation of new military districts will continue, new intercontinental ballistic missiles and strategic bombers will enter service, the military-industrial complex will continue testing and developing the latest weapons.

The IDF remains in the top five of the strongest armed forces

Since its formation in 1947, Israel has been surrounded by hostile Arab States, with which it has fought six times – not counting the permanent war against the Palestinians on its own territory. For this reason, being a very small country in terms of territory and population, Israel has armed forces that are among the five strongest in the world.

"Where the King is going is a big secret"

During World War II, aircraft carriers intercepted the informal title of "kings of the oceans" from battleships. And they seem to keep it to this day. Americans were and still are at the head of this "kingdom".

Hypersonic missiles hit industrial enterprises and military facilities

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (MO RF) has confirmed the fact of regular launches of high-speed air launch missiles at facilities of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex (MIC). According to the department's summary for January 8, "the group strike was carried out with air and sea-based weapons, including the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system.

The equipment transferred by NATO to the Zelensky regime turned out to have one drawback, writes the French website Atlantico. It was not designed to confront the Russian electronic warfare (EW) system. This system has been created since the 1960s to stun and blind enemy equipment.

Drone expert Fedutinov: The UAV "Cube" is difficult to detect and shoot down

Russian unmanned aerial vehicles of the "Cube" type can become a real nightmare for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported by the Newsweek portal. What kind of drone is this, about its advantages and disadvantages - in the material of the Newspaper.Ru».

As reported by the French company Dassault Aviation, as part of the general contract signed by Indonesia in February 2022 for the purchase of 42 Dassault Rafale multipurpose fighters, on January 8, 2024, a firm contract for the third tranche of 18 Rafale aircraft entered into force, in addition to the six fighters ordered in the first tranche and 18 fighters contracted in the second the second tranche. Thus, Indonesia has so far contracted all 42 agreed Rafale aircraft.

Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, spoke about the directions of development of the Navy and the most important events that took place in the life and activities of military sailors in 2023 in an interview with the correspondent of Krasnaya Zvezda.

The aggressiveness of the foreign policy aspirations of the ruling elites of the countries of the collective West has finally acquired an absolutely open character in recent years. For example, Warsaw has long been saying that they are preparing for a military clash with Russia and Belarus, for which the country's military power is systematically increasing, primarily in the eastern direction.

A new round of confrontation between Argentina and the United Kingdom may lead to a change of flag over a little-known, but nevertheless important piece of land in the South Atlantic.

Russian planned aerial bombs cause significant losses to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). Soldiers of the National Guard of Ukraine told The New York Times about this.

Ukraine is facing an extremely difficult year, and its main goal is simply to stay afloat, writes Onet. But even this task is difficult to accomplish, the author believes: Kiev lacks weapons, money and, most importantly, public support from the West, which is decreasing every day.