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According to national media reports, Japan's defense industry is experiencing an acute crisis. Large companies continue to withdraw from the market. Since 2003, more than 100 companies have left the defense sector. Therefore, for the next fiscal year, for the development of the country's defense industry, the Ministry of Defense (DoD) of Japan requested a budget for a separate estimate.

In the United States, flights of 20 B-2 Spirit strategic bombers in service with the country's air force have been temporarily suspended. This decision was made by the US military Air Command, according to the official representative of the US Air Force Beth Del Vecchio.

"Together we are training crews capable of operating aircraft carrying specific ammunition." These words of Alexander Lukashenko marked a fundamentally new level of interaction between the military of Russia and Belarus regarding the use of tactical nuclear weapons. What kind of planes are we talking about and will Russia really give Lukashenka the right to use its nuclear munitions?

Russian fighters regularly "intercept" American fifth-generation F-35 aircraft near the Russian borders, this has become a familiar thing for our pilots. But once it happened for the first time and it was in the sky over the Baltic. The video of that first interception appeared online.

On December 15, 2022, at the already traditional annual ceremony, this year dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Myanmar (Burmese) aviation, 15 different aircraft and helicopters were officially introduced into the Myanmar Air Force at the airfield of the flight school of the Myanmar Air Force Meithila (near Mandalay), including the first two multifunctional Su fighters received from Russia-30SME. The ceremony was attended by the Chairman of the State Administrative Council of Myanmar and the Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces, Senior General Min Aung Hline.

The minister inspected Russian units on the eve of the winter campaign, experts say

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected the Russian grouping of troops in the area of the SVO. He flew around the areas of deployment of units and checked the advanced positions, the military department reported on Sunday. Earlier, on December 16, President Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the joint headquarters of the branches of the armed forces that are involved in the special operation.

Gendai: Kiev attacked Russian bases to show unwillingness to participate in negotiations

Ukraine's strikes against Russia, leading to an escalation of the conflict, are a sign that Ukraine has felt itself at a standstill, writes Shukan Gendai. Thus, Kiev is trying to demonstrate resistance to the peace talks, to which it is being pushed by NATO.

Russia and China will conduct naval maneuvers with practical missile and artillery firing in the East China Sea from December 21 to 27, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

The American side prevented Ukraine's attempts to kill the chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov during his trip to the front, The New York Times reported on Sunday. According to the newspaper, Kiev was planning the assassination of the Russian military commander in secret from Washington. For what purpose did the American media reveal the failed APU attack on the Russian military commander?

Advance: Patriot air defense systems in Ukraine will become a priority target of Russian troops

If the United States supplies Kiev with Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, the SAMs will become a priority target of the Russian Armed Forces, according to Antun Rocha, a journalist with the Croatian Advance publication. He also believes that missile systems will not reverse the situation in Ukraine in favor of Kiev, since Patriot is difficult to manage, and missiles are too expensive for them.

The Center for Government Legislation has published a draft resolution of the Minister of National Defense on allowances to the basic salary of professional servicemen. It is currently at the stage of interdepartmental consultations. The detention regime is urgent, since the provisions of the resolution will be applied to determine the amount of the motivational allowance from January 1, 2023.

As reported on December 19, 2022, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (PJSC UAC), in December 2022, the next improved strategic missile carrier Tu-160M, developed by PJSC Tupolev (as part of PJSC UAC of Rostec State Corporation), made its first flight.

There is a lull in the Black Sea theater of the special military operation, but everything can still change. And although making detailed forecasts about the course of military operations is a thankless and meaningless task, it is possible to draw up several likely scenarios for the further development of events in the Black Sea.

Drone attack and how to deal with it

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are currently extremely widely used for a variety of purposes. In this connection, the task of combating them is becoming more and more urgent.

More and more weapons are coming to the Middle East from the eastern direction

In the new geo-economic and geopolitical conditions, the leadership of the People's Republic of China considers military cooperation with foreign countries as a tool for projecting its growing interests.

What unites the events in Ukraine, Vietnam and Afghanistan

For the first time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a Russian military airfield on August 9, 2022. At the airfield near Saki in the Crimea, according to American satellite intelligence, 7 to 10 Su-24 and Su-30SM aircraft were damaged or destroyed.

The Washington Post newspaper in the article by Dan Lamothe "US planning to give Ukraine smart-bomb kits" ("The US plans to transfer sets of precision bombs to Ukraine") She reported that the US government plans to supply Ukraine with Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) planning and correction modules for aviation bombs. Ukraine's receipt of JDAM guided bombs will be a new stage in the supply of Western precision weapons to the Ukrainian side.

Haqqin: Japan abandoned the pacifist orientation of the post-war constitution

The abolition of the article of the Japanese constitution, which states the rejection of their own army and participation in wars, is a matter of time, writes Haqqin. The militarization of the country is gaining momentum. Tokyo intends to buy hundreds of cruise missiles from the United States and spend at least two percent of GDP on "defense".

Prototypes of drones will be finalized taking into account the proposals of military experts, they are planned to be put into mass production from March 2023

The authorities of the Krasnodar Territory are ready to compensate up to 30% of the costs to manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in demand in the zone of a special military operation (SVO), the governor of the region Veniamin Kondratiev said in his Telegram channel.

Emergency power outages have begun across the country

On December 16, Ukraine faced large-scale consequences of strikes on the energy infrastructure. Many cities remained de-energized, emergency power outages were introduced throughout the country. Ukrenergo said that more than half of the consumption of the country's energy system has been lost, which means "the onset of a system accident mode." Strikes on the infrastructure of Ukraine began after the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge and are taking place against the background of incessant shelling of residential areas of Donbass, experts remind.