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The Ministry of Defense completes the formation of the Primorye air defense structure

In recent months, Russia has radically strengthened the grouping of air defense assets on the Far Eastern islands. In addition to the short-range anti-aircraft missile systems, units equipped with long-range S-400 and S-300V4 were deployed there. What threats should these defensive systems protect against and whether they are sufficient for the security of Primorye — military expert Anton Lavrov understood.

Military attaches from 50 countries, as well as their family members, were vaccinated against coronavirus with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, said Alexander Kshimovsky, head of the Main Department for International Military Cooperation of the Russian Defense Ministry.

Statements by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov about Russia's retaliatory actions in the event of the US deployment of medium-range missiles in Japan caused hysteria on the Japanese islands. The media was flooded with hundreds of aggressive and malicious comments from Japanese readers. Some even suggest turning Russia "into a sea of fire."

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyers of the US Navy, based in Spain, have electronic warfare systems (EW) AN / SLQ-62 Portable Electronic Warfare Module-Speed To Fleet (TEWM-STF), capable of "killing" Russian anti-ship missiles P-800 "Onyx", writes The Drive.

Sakhalin has completed the formation of a new air defense system. It was based on the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as the Pantsir-S missile and cannon systems. The group covers not only the island itself, but also the cities of Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Khabarovsk. In fact, the entire territory in the east of the country has turned into a missile bastion.

Two Russian Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers performed a planned flight over the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan and the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

"Fighter escort was provided by the crews of Su-35C aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces. The flight duration was more than nine hours. At certain stages of the route, Russian strategic missile carriers were accompanied by F-15 fighters of the Japanese Air Force, " the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The Royal Navy of Great Britain will have a permanent presence in the Arctic Circle to counter Russia's strategic advantage in controlling the trade routes that will open up to navigation as the ice sheet melts.

On February 20, the command of the Second permanent anti-mine Group of NATO passed to Turkey for a period of two months, the newspaper reports. According to the army Ukraine news agency, a group of four ships has already anchored in the port of Odessa, where naval exercises with the Ukrainian Navy are planned.

B-1B Lancer strategic bombers deployed by the Air Force (Air Force) The United States in Norway, probably aimed at Russia, says The Drive.

The probability of a global catastrophe caused by man, accompanied by the death of millions of people, animals and plants, is very high and is constantly increasing. According to scientists, we are talking about the impending sixth mass extinction.

In recent days, a lot of video and photo materials of railway trains with various military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have appeared on the Network. However, according to military experts, most of it belongs to the same unit - the 25th separate airborne brigade, stationed in the urban-type settlement of Gvardeyskoye, Dnipropetrovsk region.

Military sailors in the Syrian Tartus conducted a training session, during which they repelled a simulated attack by saboteur divers on ships at a Russian logistics point.

The US Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber landed for the first time in history above the Arctic Circle. It happened at the Norwegian air defense base Bude.

France conducts first military exercises in space

The French military is conducting exercises to test the capabilities of its space command in dealing with threats to its satellites. Near-Earth space has become the" real national security problem " of the Fifth Republic. The exercise is part of France's strategy to become the world's third-largest space power.

Experts say the recent spate of attacks using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) targeting Saudi Arabia underscores the growing era of "war at a distance" in the Middle East, as the region's regular armies and numerous paramilitary groups operating within it increasingly use drones for various purposes.

The Syrian news portal Zaman Al-Wasl, citing its sources, reported that Russian troops in Syria are preparing to establish a "permanent military base" near the historic city of Palmyra (Tadmor) in the province of Homs.

The US plans to deploy missiles to islands in the East China and South China Seas to counter Chinese activity in the region.

This was reported by the Japanese newspaper Nikkei with reference to a document on funding sent by the command of the US armed forces group in the Indo-Pacific region.

Three more advanced fifth-generation F-35A Lightning II multirole fighters have arrived at Ailson Air Force Base in Alaska, the US Air Force said.

The production and procurement programs of the American fifth-generation F-35 fighter-bomber were a "complete disaster". This was stated on March 5 by the chairman of the Committee on the Armed Forces of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Adam Smith.

One of the Russian Tu-214ON aircraft, which was built for observation missions under the Open Sea Treaty, flew in a new capacity and checked the camouflage of Russian military facilities on the coasts of Crimea and Krasnodar, as well as tested the capabilities of the air defense system of these regions, a military and diplomatic source told RIA Novosti.