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More than 150 military rescue specialists and medics have been relocated from the Chelyabinsk region, as well as crews of Mi-8 helicopters, An-26 and An-12 aircraft and more than 20 units of ground vehicles, including upgraded search and evacuation vehicles PEM-1 and PEM-2 "Blue Bird".

Ankara is counting on cooperation with the Russian Federation on the national fighter development program. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by the head of the Directorate of the Defense Industry of Turkey, Ismail Demir.

Shooting practice has begun on the Kuril Islands.

This is reported by the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO). "The servicemen of the motorized rifle unit of the army corps of the Air Force in the Kuril Islands, as part of the week of intensive training that has started, have begun working out standards for the main subjects of combat training," the press release says.

France will supply the UAE Air Force and air defense with Rafale F4 fighters, H-225M Karakal helicopters and ammunition worth about 16 billion. euro ($18 billion).

The first Mi-8AMTSh-VN special forces fire support helicopters have already been delivered to the Russian army, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

As the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti reported on December 5, 2021, with reference to "several sources in the field of foreign policy and security," the Finnish Defense Forces selected an American fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighter in a tender under the HX program for a promising fighter to replace Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet fighters in the Finnish Air Force. The Finnish Ministry of Defense supports the choice of the F-35A.

The command staff of the aviation regiment of the Central Military District (CVO) carried out about 50 sorties on Su-34 bombers and Su-24MR reconnaissance aircraft as part of command flights in the Chelyabinsk region, the press service of the CVO reported on Monday.

The event was attended by President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, General Director of Rosatom State Corporation Alexey Likhachev, General Director of UMATEX Alexander Tyunin, General Director of JSC SEZ PPT Alabuga Timur Shagivaleev, State Duma Deputy Alexander Mazhuga, First Deputy General Director of PJSC Irkut Corporation, General Director of JSC aErocOmposite Anatoly Gaidansky, General Director of JSC ONPP Technology named after A.G. Romashin Andrey Silkin and others.

Nature continues to share with us its "know-how" with great generosity, the stock of which is unlikely to ever run out, and does it completely free of charge. This time, engineers from Stanford "borrowed" from her, or rather from the falcon, its unique claws, with which it confidently sits on a variety of surfaces and deftly grabs prey.

Is studying the possibility of retaliatory measures for Kiev's purchase of Turkish drones

The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin promised to destroy Turkish Bayraktar drones in case Kiev tries to strike them on the territory of the DPR.

The United States will produce 480 new tactical nuclear bombs in the B61-12 modification by 2025, according to the Federation of American Scientists.

The Ministry of Defense of Belarus handed a protest note to the military attache at the Embassy of Ukraine in the republic in connection with the increased cases of border violations, the press service of the defense department reported.

The actions of the US Air Force pose a threat to civil aviation. This was announced on December 5 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

The incident with the US reconnaissance aircraft, due to which a civilian aircraft was forced to change course, needs to be assessed at the international level. Dmitry Belik, a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, told Izvestia on December 5.

Rosaviatsia will send a protest through diplomatic channels in connection with the frequent cases of flights of NATO military aircraft in the area of the Russian borders and the Black Sea, which carries risks for civilian vessels. This was reported in the Federal Air Transport Agency on Saturday, December 4.

Ukraine denies violation of the air space of Belarus during the exercises

Belarusian border guards said that the Ukrainian military aircraft "Mi-8" crossed the state border of the republic and went deep into its territory for a kilometer. And they published a video where a helicopter flies over the forest. In Kiev, another version - there was no incident, there was no violation of the state border of Belarus. About the situation - in the material of "Gazeta.Ru".

NATO servicemen often complain about the maneuvers of the Russian military, which they carry out in dangerous proximity to ships and aircraft of the North Atlantic Alliance.

Russian Su-27 and Su-30 fighters rose to escort US reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea, no border violations were allowed. This was announced on Friday, December 3, by the Ministry of Defense.

The United Arab Emirates is buying 80 Rafale fighters. On December 3, the press service of Dassault Aviation announced the signing of a "historic contract" for the latest modification of a combat aircraft.

Turkey is preparing to supply at least 20 more Bayraktar-TB2 attack drones to Ukraine, Bloomberg reports, citing sources in Turkish government and military-industrial circles.