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Forbes: Kiev is preparing an elite brigade trained in France and Poland for combat

The special military operation has entered the winter phase. The muddy soils froze over — this allows the equipment to move off-road. The forest belts have dropped the "green" and are no longer a reliable shelter from drones. The use of UAVs themselves is complicated by the low air temperature, at which the batteries are discharged faster. The Russian army still has the initiative in most areas, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine are fiercely resisting. About the situation at the front — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The F-16C Viper fighter of the US Air Force carried out the first launch of the Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) missile, developed by Northrop Grumman, as part of the throwing tests. At the same time, the first combat carrier of this weapon should be the F-35A. During the launch, SiAW was not equipped with either a rocket engine or electronics.

The correspondent of Izvestia found out which targets require the largest number of kamikaze drones

In autumn, the Russian army liberated more than 80 settlements in the DPR and LPR, Zaporizhia, Kursk and Kharkiv regions. Combat drone operators played a significant role in these offensive operations.

TNI: the Russian Su-57 is a strong competitor for American fighters

Will the Russian Su-57 ever compare to the F-22 or F-35 Lightning II? He doesn't need to, writes TNI. He's good enough to compete with the Americans. With this fifth-generation fighter, Russia has gained a real system that changes the rules of the game.

As indicated in the Altair publication, the ASN-301 is a weapon conceptually derived from the German DAR and the Israeli Harpy. In the 1980s, Dornier began developing the Die Drone Anti-Radar (DAR) product in Germany. It was intended to combat Soviet air defense systems, especially the "Cube" type. As a result, the project was cancelled due to financial problems.

The Republic of India has the second largest Armed Forces (AF) and is one of the four most powerful states in the world in terms of total military potential.

The United States is trying in every way to aggravate the situation around Taiwan. This work is carried out both through the diplomatic line and through large-scale military assistance to Taipei from the US administration.

The interview of the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, to the British Sky News channel was interpreted by the world community as agreement with the loss of territories under Russian control. In exchange, Ukraine will receive NATO security guarantees and, eventually, will be accepted into the alliance, but will seek to regain territories through "diplomatic means" rather than military action.

The Latvian company Origin Robotics has received 4.5 million euros from the European Defense Fund (EDF) for the development of a portable reconnaissance UAV with the possibility of laser targeting.

Private military developments in Russia, nicknamed the national defense industry, continue to appear and develop. Yesterday's "garage workers" complicate production and turn into serious technology companies. Andrey Bezrukov, Chairman of the Board of the Center for Unmanned Systems and Technologies, told TASS how their organization brought together 200 military startups and solves their problems, bringing them to the world level

The British company Helsing, engaged in the development of artificial intelligence, has revealed details of the creation of its new product HX-2 – a combat drone capable of working in a flock, resistant to signal suppression by electronic warfare due to the introduction of AI while maintaining full control by the operator.

PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of Rostec State Corporation) On November 25, 2024, it announced that it had handed over to the Russian Ministry of Defense another batch of new Su-34 front-line bombers. The aircraft were manufactured by the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant named after V.P. Chkalov (NAZ) UAC as part of the current year's production program. The new bombers passed the necessary tests and went to their duty stations.

China's desire to become a full-scale naval power with a powerful naval aviation is in the focus of Western military analysts.  The emergence of new information about aircraft carriers and aircraft of the Naval Forces of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA Navy) has provided food for further research on the likely role of these funds and Beijing's intentions to integrate them into a broader fleet.

Europe is facing a harsh reality: it will have to take matters into its own hands if the United States reduces support for Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. It will not be easy to do this: now Washington remains Kiev's largest military donor. Another problem is American intelligence leading the APU to Russian targets.

The United States is updating and modernizing the nuclear triad, according to the Roscongress report, which is available to RIA Novosti.

On November 26, 2024, the seventh annual Ogarkov Readings Conference was held in Moscow, dedicated to the memory of the bright Russian military thinker of the second half of the 20th century, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR (1977-1984) Marshal Nikolai Vasilyevich Ogarkov. The organizer was the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.

The Syrian army has acknowledged the loss of control over part of the city of Aleppo, which was attacked by terrorists. The military is preparing for a counterattack. Russian aviation helps to repel the attack. Experts note that it is premature to talk about the complete fall of Aleppo, the militants themselves did not expect such success and were not ready to take control of the city.

Testers with the latest Tandem-400 parachute systems left the aircraft from an altitude of 10,120 m

Rostec organized a unique landing with the latest Tandem-400 parachute systems, setting several records at once. For the first time in the world, three pairs of parachutists left the aircraft from the stratosphere — from a height of 10,120 m.

The Russian army may undermine the combat readiness of American troops

The Su-57 appeared in all its glory on satellite images of the Khmeimim airbase. The advanced fifth-generation fighter, along with "conventional" equipment, stands in the open air. And the "precious" American F-22 is often put in an air-conditioned hangar. Why does the United States treat its fighters with such trepidation, while Russia tests its planes for "endurance" in the wind and the scorching sun?