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The Drive: NATO planes and drones of eleven models regularly monitor Russia

The publication of the American edition of The Drive lists eleven models of aircraft and drones of NATO countries that regularly spy on Russia.

At the final stage of the joint operational exercise of the armed forces of Belarus and Russia "Allied Resolve-2022", the communications troops of the Armed Forces of Belarus are returning to their permanent locations, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic reported on Saturday.

Last Thursday, the Syrian Arab News Agency SANA reported a serious incident with a military helicopter belonging to the Ministry of Defense of that country.

The disaster happened during the exercise. The crew, due to a technical malfunction on board, made a hard landing in a mountainous area with difficult terrain.

Tankers and gunners of the motorized rifle unit of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District took part in a bilateral exercise at the Nikolo-Alexandrovsky training ground in the Stavropol Territory, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

In Belarus, during the exercise "Allied Determination-2022", the crews of Su-35 fighters of the Eastern Military District of Russia, raised from an airfield in the Brest region, practiced intercepting an aircraft that conditionally violated the airspace of the Union State. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry.

A new airfield autofuel tanker, which will allow refueling several aircraft at once, is being developed for the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

The US military deployed the M-LIDS system at the Polish airport

The United States has transferred new equipment to combat unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Poland. Radars, air defense systems (air defense) and a system of protection against drones were noticed at the airport of the city of Zamosc, Defense Express reports.

A video has appeared with Tu-22M3 bombers with supersonic anti-ship missiles (PKR) X-22, as well as MiG-31K fighters with the Dagger aviation complex, which Russia has transferred to Syria against the background of the presence of NATO aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea.

Flight tests of the first multi-purpose J-10C fighters produced for the Pakistan Air Force have begun at the factory airfield of the Chinese corporation Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAIG).

China believes that the United States is lagging behind Russia in the field of hypersonic weapons. And the tests of the hypersonic complex "Dagger" in the Arctic are cited as the main argument.

Special forces soldiers of the Central Military District at night exercises near Novosibirsk destroyed the base of a conditional enemy. As told to "RG" in the press service of the Central Military District, the army training took place at the Shilovo training ground. Three hundred servicemen and twenty units of special equipment took part in the exercises.

On February 9, AeroVironment confirmed the conclusion of a contract with the US Department of Defense for the supply of small-sized Puma LE UAVs to an unnamed union state under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program.

Russian Su-35 and Belarusian Su-30SM fighters have worked out the procedure for conducting air combat at low altitudes as part of a joint exercise. This was announced on Thursday, February 17, by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Several tactical episodes were played out on Thursday at the joint exercise "Allied Resolve-2022" by the Russian and Belarusian military. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko observed their actions at the Osipovichsky training ground.

Belarus plans to buy or receive as a gift from Russia operational-tactical missile systems "Iskander-M", other promising weapons.

In particular, according to the exercise scenario, under the cover of Su-35 fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Yak-130 aircraft and Mi-24 attack helicopters of the Belarusian Air Force carried out an air strike on ground targets at the training ground

The Russian and Belarusian military, with the support of artillery and aviation, worked out the destruction of the landing of a conditional enemy at the joint exercises "Allied Determination - 2022". This was reported to journalists on Thursday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Popular Science: Russian Krasukha electronic warfare systems can block GPS signals

The Krasukha-2 and Krasukha-4 electronic warfare systems are capable of blocking signals from the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite navigation system. A similar assessment of Russian weapons was given by the American magazine Popular Science.

China has presented a possible appearance of a promising next-generation carrier-based fighter. Earlier, Beijing started flight tests of the new "invisible", built on the basis of the Shenyang FC-31.

Two long-range Tu-22M3 bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces performed another patrol in the airspace of Belarus, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Thursday.

As the RIA Novosti news agency reported, Ukraine is experiencing problems with the operation of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles due to the lack of suitable runways, this was stated by Ukrainian military analyst, chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Military Center Taras Chmut, the corresponding video is posted on YouTube.