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MIC: the X-35 missile of the Bal complex can be used against targets in Norway

On the Sredny Peninsula in the Murmansk region, there is a battery of the coastal anti-ship complex "Bal", capable of hitting the Norwegian Kirkenes and Verde, says the Military-Industrial Courier (MIC).

Deputy Chairman of the Space Transport Committee of the International Federation of Astronautics Yang Yuguang said that the normal operating altitude of Starlink exceeds 500 km and does not coincide with the position of the Chinese space station.

The Ministry of Defense of Belarus announced a new joint patrol by combat aircraft of Belarus and Russia of the borders of the Union State.

In August, a ceremony of laying two new strategic class nuclear submarines was held in Russia: "Prince Potemkin" and "Dmitry Donskoy". With them, the total number of submarines under construction designed to launch ballistic missiles has grown to five.

Russian-Belarusian military exercises will take place in February-March 2022. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin during talks with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on December 29.

Russia and Belarus will hold joint military exercises in the first quarter of 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The company's revenue grew by almost 40 percent in 2021

The volume of revenue of Oboronlogistics by the end of 2021 increased by almost 40% compared to last year, there was an increase in traffic to Syria and the Arctic region of the Russian Federation, the company's press service reported on Wednesday.

Biden and Putin are not expected to participate in the talks on January 10

US President Joe Biden will say during a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that it is still possible to achieve de-escalation of the situation around Ukraine by diplomatic methods, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed White House representative.

The most significant expansion of NATO to the east occurred in 2002, during several waves of the alliance's infrastructure approaching the western borders of Russia, the bloc significantly increased its combat potential, said Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin.

General Biden: the "bad guys" from Russia are experts in conducting hybrid warfare

The Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, General Mikael Biden, in an interview with the American edition of Defense News, spoke about the Russian approach to waging war in modern conditions.

A number of foreign customers are interested in the Russian echeloned air defense system, which involves the supply of a group of anti-aircraft missile systems of different ranges, a spokeswoman for the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) told RIA Novosti in an interview Valeria Reshetnikova.

The readiness of Washington to provide support to its NATO allies on the eastern flank with the application of Article 5 of the NATO Charter in the conditions of Russia's concentration of troops on the border with Ukraine was announced by President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

Henrique Mora, coordinator of the Joint Commission at the negotiations on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program in Vienna, told reporters that positive solutions are possible during the negotiations, but it will be extremely difficult to achieve them.

Negotiations between American and Russian representatives on arms control and the Ukrainian problem will take place on January 10, a representative of the National Security Council (NSC) of the US White House told reporters on condition of anonymity.

On December 27, the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Alexander Fomin, held a briefing for military attaches and representatives of embassies of foreign states accredited in Moscow.

Americans are switching to a new generation air defense system. December 27, portal defensenews.com He reported that the US Department of Defense has signed a contract with Northrop Grumman for small-scale and full-scale production of IBCS systems.

In 2021, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation conducted a number of major maneuvers that increased the combat readiness of the army.

The largest was the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercise "West-2021", where for the first time mass-produced shock robotic systems were used in combat formations.

The head of the Russian Defense Ministry noted that now there is "more and more peace and tranquility in the region"

The Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh has completed the difficult tasks of separating the warring parties and is currently solving planned profile tasks in the region, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said during a conference call of the military department.

Despite its relatively modest size, Russian diesel-electric submarines pose a real threat to the US Navy, writes 19fortyfive. The problem is their noiselessness - even compared to nuclear-powered ships. American sailors know this and do not like non-nuclear submarines produced in Russia.

Andrei Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Defense Committee, believes that Russian ships with Zircon hypersonic missiles can be located in the port of Tartus in Syria to completely block the Mediterranean Sea.