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Breaking Defense analyst said that the war between Russia and Ukraine will be a lesson for the United States

A possible war between Russia and Ukraine can be an invaluable lesson for the United States, Mark Kanchian, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said on the pages of the American edition of Breaking Defense.

A CNBC journalist announced the landing of a US Black Hawk helicopter near the Polish-Ukrainian border

CNBC journalist Brad Howard made statements that an American Black Hawk helicopter landed near the Polish-Ukrainian border. The corresponding message appeared on Twitter.

Crews of Russian missile cruisers recorded NATO frigates that tried to conduct electronic reconnaissance of Russian ships in the Mediterranean Sea. This was reported to RIA Novosti on February 16 by an informed source.

Russian Su-35 fighters intercepted planes of a simulated enemy during exercises in Belarus, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Colonel Suchkov said that Russia will update the missile attack warning system

The Missile Attack Warning System (SPRN) of the Russian Armed Forces will be completely updated by 2030. According to Colonel Sergey Suchkov, head of the Main Center for Missile Attack Warning of the Space Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces, in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda, it will be based on a new generation of Voronezh-DM radar stations (radars).

Russia has updated its Armed Forces and is in full combat readiness. Such an assessment in its material was given by the Swedish publication Svenska Dagbladet.

The Nigerian military plans to upgrade its Mi-24/35 helicopters to the level of the latest version - the Mi-35P Phoenix. Russian and foreign-made equipment will be installed on the machines.

The Greek parliament voted for the bill "On strengthening the country's defense capability", which approves the acquisition from France of six Rafale fighters, three Belharra-class frigates, as well as torpedoes for submarines.

Popular Mechanics magazine compared the Russian and Ukrainian Air Forces against the background of the ongoing hysteria around Ukraine

According to the Flight Global almanac for 2022, the Ukrainian Air Force has only 69 fighters in service. These are 43 multi-purpose MiG-29 fighter-bombers and 26 Su-27 air superiority fighters. All of them were built during the Cold War. That is, they are more than 30 years old. Since then, the state has not purchased new aircraft.

The most massive fighter of the Ukrainian Air Force is the MiG-29, inherited from the USSR. However, these planes will not be able to inflict much damage to the enemy: the problem is not in the machines themselves, but in the lack of pilots for them.

The newest UAV of the BAS-200 helicopter type was created by Russian Helicopters.

The device is positioned as a multi-purpose. It is planned to use it to search for natural resources using aerogravimetric and aeromagnetic surveys, including in the Arctic regions.

Photos of the assembled X-59 QueSST aircraft were posted online. It was developed by Lockheed Martin Corporation in the interests of NASA.

In the Leningrad region, the crews of the ZVO worked out the interception of a conditional violator

The crews of the MiG–31 high-altitude interceptor fighters worked out the coercion to land a conditional intruder of airspace. Pilots of the fighter aviation regiment of the Western Military District (ZVO) conducted an exercise in the sky over the Leningrad region, the press service of the ZVO reported.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published the first image of a long-range missile carrier Tu-22M3 with a new cruise missile X-32 on an external suspension.

The intensity of flights near the Russian borders of American strategic bombers in 2021 increased by 40%, said Mikhail Popov, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council.

The S-500 air defense system will be able to deprive inconspicuous fighters of communication and navigation

The Russian S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile system (SAMS) is designed to combat spacecraft and ballistic missiles. The air defense system can reduce the effectiveness of the use of stealth fighters, hitting navigation satellites and tanker aircraft. The American edition of Military Watch described the opposition of the S-500 to inconspicuous fighters.

Boeing has announced its intention to submit a proposal for the sale of the P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft in response to Canada's Request for Information (RFI) on the possibility of supplying long-range maritime patrol aircraft.

Pilots of Belarus and Russia at the exercises "Allied Determination-2022" conducted a conditional air battle in pairs, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus reported on Wednesday.

The Russian Defense Ministry has published the first pictures of the Tu-22M3 bomber with the X-32 missile

The Russian Ministry of Defense has published the first images of long-range Tu-22M3 bombers with new weapons. The planes in the image are equipped with a new X-32 missile, the Telegram channel bmpd reports.

The maneuvers are aimed at increasing the level of combat training of military personnel

The operational and tactical aviation of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Southern Military District (SE), together with the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet, will conduct exercises during which they will work out the destruction of naval targets in the Black Sea. This was reported to journalists on Tuesday in the press service of the Southern Federal District.