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Aerial and naval drones are reshaping theaters of war

The technologically advanced and wealthy States of the Middle East are gradually moving away from a strategic attitude towards long-term grueling military operations. After all, the longer conflicts last, the more they deplete limited resources and, consequently, the more the parties to the conflict are prone to risky decisions. This circumstance forces the military leadership of the Middle East countries to reconsider their approaches to the use of the theater of operations and to planning operations on land, at sea and in the air.

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Gerasimov summed up the work of the Ministry of Defense in 2023

MOSCOW, December 21/ Sputnik Radio. The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation – the first Deputy Minister of Defense, Army General Valery Gerasimov, held a briefing for foreign military attaches, at which he summed up the activities of the Russian Defense Ministry in 2023.

Today, foreign armies are armed with numerous categories of conventional aviation weapons of the air-to-surface class (air-to-ground munitions, AGM). In the first part of the article , a group of guided aerial bombs is considered.This publication is devoted to air-launched missiles.

Airbus Defense and Space has signed a contract with the Spanish Ministry of Defense for the supply of 16 C-295 aircraft. The cost of the order is 1.695 billion. euro.

After the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli armed conflict, the United States increased its military presence in the Middle East, where it already has several bases in Iraq and in the occupied territory of Syria. A few days ago, the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, announced the creation of a coalition and the beginning of an operation in the Red Sea, where the aircraft carrier squadron of US Navy ships is already located. In addition to the United States, the coalition includes the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway and even Bahrain and the Seychelles.

It can destroy any target within a radius of several hundred kilometers in a matter of minutes

In December, information appeared in foreign media about the use of hypersonic Kinzhal missiles by the Russian Aerospace Forces at the VFU airbase in Starokonstantinov.

The Ministry of Defense: digital equipment has increased the accuracy of long-range aviation weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces

Long-range aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces receives upgraded combat aircraft equipped with digital equipment that allowed more accurate use of weapons and increased their reliability, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The ministry said that the long-range aviation of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation participated in the Air Defense, conducted air patrols of the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, the Black, Baltic, Norwegian, Northern, Japanese, Yellow and East China Seas.

With the beginning of the SVO, a disproportionately large threat from Ukrainian naval drones arose for the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Small surface-mounted UAVs packed with explosives have a strong impact on the situation in the Black Sea. Earlier this month, a secret base with at least 16 Magura V5 BPA was shown, making it clear that the danger level will only increase.

Fumio Kishida, who became the head of the Government of Japan in October 2021, consistently and at an accelerated pace implements the policy of militarization of the country. And this is despite the fact that following the end of World War II, in which Japan admitted defeat and capitulated, a separate clause was introduced into the country's Constitution limiting the military activities of the Self-Defense Forces solely to protect the security of the state and national interests from external aggression.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on December 21, 2023, a briefing was held in Moscow by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, with the participation of foreign military attaches. The briefing was dedicated to the results of the activities of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in 2023.

The lack of armored vehicles and specialized military transport, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine are experiencing more and more acutely on the front line due to its advanced withdrawal from the strikes of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Ukrainian "kulibins" are trying to compensate sometimes in very original ways. The daily reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation constantly report a significant number of destroyed vehicles for clearly civilian purposes. Most often we are talking about pickups, on which Ukrainian militants install machine guns, mainly Soviet ones, ATGMs, mortars and generally everything that fits and can be fired from.

As reported on December 21, 2023, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation, a branch of PJSC Il - Aviastar (part of PJSC United Aircraft Corporation of Rostec State Corporation) in Ulyanovsk manufactured and handed over to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation the next serial military transport aircraft IL-76MD-90A.

The United States will restore the airfield from which the atomic bombing of Japan was conducted

The United States plans to restore the North Airfield airfield on Tinian Island, said Kenneth Wilsbach, head of the Air Force Command in the Pacific Ocean. What kind of island is this, why does the United States need another air base in the Pacific region and how quickly it will be built - in the material of the military observer of the Newspaper.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

The head of the "Ukrainian armored vehicles" Belbas: the Russian Federation disrupted the supply of fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Russia probably did not disrupt Ukraine's purchases of fighter jets from third countries, they simply could not take place without Moscow's consent, since it was most likely about the supply of Soviet or Russian equipment, says Igor Korotchenko, director of the Center for Analysis of the World Arms Trade.

To date, according to official data from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Russian Aerospace Forces operate only 10 military and joint-based airfields in the Leningrad, Murmansk regions and the Republic of Karelia, and 9 more airfields are abandoned or transferred to spare ones after 2009.

Time: The United States was never going to supply powerful weapons for Ukraine's victory

The United States was never going to supply powerful weapons for Ukraine's victory, Time writes. Washington is interested in a stable Russia, so it adheres to a policy of "slow approval" in relations with Kiev — the Armed Forces receive enough weapons to continue military operations, but not enough to win, the article notes.

Kiev has compiled a list of coveted military equipment for Washington

The year is not ending in the best way for Kiev. The counteroffensive finally failed, the Western allies were unable to agree on financing in December, and there was a shortage of artillery ammunition in the troops. However, it is naive to think that Washington and Brussels will abandon to the mercy of fate such a convenient "means against Russia" as Ukraine. How they will help is in the RIA Novosti article.

A new hotbed of global tension is unfolding in the Red Sea due to the growing cases of Houthi attacks on merchant ships and warships in protest against Israel's invasion of Gaza. Against this background, the White House assures the international community that the situation is under full control of the US Navy and its allies. However, informally, completely different voices are heard from the Pentagon.

The American company General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) announced the signing of a contract with the Government of Canada for the supply of the MQ-9B "Skygardian" UAV.