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The reconnaissance ship HMS Echo of the British Royal Navy entered the waters of the Baltic Sea, follows from the data of a webcam installed on the bridge over the Danish strait of the Great Belt.

The Ministry of Defense annually orders thousands of units of modern military equipment, the development and improvement of weapons continues constantly. Already in the near future, the military will receive a unique weapon based on other physical principles-sometimes as if from science fiction films. About the most interesting and expected new products - in the material of RIA Novosti.

The United States has permanently deployed a squadron of MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance and strike drones to the Campia Turzii Air Base in Romania, the US Air Force Europe and Africa Command said.

The United States has permanently deployed a squadron of MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance and strike drones to the Campia Turzii Air Base in Romania, the US Air Force Europe and Africa Command said.

The United States decided to leave the aircraft carrier Nimitz in the Middle East - and directly linked this decision to some " threats from Iran." With a high probability, in the same group with the "Nimitz" is the submarine "Georgia", a couple of weeks earlier entered the Strait of Hormuz. The lessons Washington wants to teach Iran also matter to Russia - and here's why.

The United States in 2021 continued to build up the military potential of NATO, focused on Russia. So, the US Air Force deployed MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance and strike drones and about a hundred military personnel on the territory of Romania. According to experts, Washington thus confirmed NATO's strategy for the entire Black Sea region. What is the essence of this strategy and what risks does it carry for Russia?

The submarine forces of the Northern Fleet will continue to make underwater voyages in the waters of the Arctic Ocean. This was announced on Monday, January 4, by the commander of the Northern Fleet, Hero of Russia Admiral Alexander Moiseev, the press service of the SF of the Russian Federation reports.

Pentagon Chief Chris Miller said on Sunday, January 3, that the United States, after threats from Iran, left the Nimitz aircraft carrier in the region, which was planned to be withdrawn from there.

At the initiative of the Bundeswehr command, the IT infrastructure of the German Armed Forces is subject to modernization. The main focus will be on the global network of the Bundeswehr (wanbw), which is planned to be updated, expanded and brought into line with new security standards.

Forces of the anti-government "Coalition of Patriots for Change" captured the city of Bangasu, located 750 kilometers from the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR) Bangui.

Russia may return its nuclear-powered intercontinental ballistic missile carrier trains to service as a response to the deployment of additional NATO missiles in Europe. The return of the weapons, which can be a "nightmare for the United States," he predicted in an interview with "Moskovsky Komsomolets" military expert Alexei Leonov.

A senior Russian diplomat called the decision of the Iranian authorities to resume uranium enrichment to 20% a predictable and reversible step.

Iran on Monday resumed uranium enrichment to 20%, government spokesman Ali Rabiah told Iranian state media.

Russia tightened the article on the case of the downed Mi-24 by Azerbaijan

The Russian investigation has tightened the criminal article under which the case of the attack of the Azerbaijani military helicopter Mi-24 of the Russian Air Force is being conducted. The investigation is complicated by the fact that the suspects are on the territory of another State.

NATO Secretary General did not see a military threat from Russia

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Russia uses its military power against its neighbors-Georgia and Ukraine, and it does not pose an immediate threat to the Alliance. At the same time, he recalled that Russia has nuclear weapons and missiles that can reach any of the countries of Europe.

The Russian missile attack warning system consists of two echelons: space and ground

The Russian Space Forces tracked more than 80 launches of foreign and domestic rockets in 2020. This was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Warships of the Northern Fleet in 2021 will continue to perform tasks to ensure a naval presence in strategically important areas of the World Ocean.

Small in number compared to the Chinese Air Force, the Japanese air force is going to oppose the powerful neighbor of a group of drones. Fighters with AI are planned to enter service in Japan in 15 years as unmanned wingmen, and subsequently create fully autonomous squadrons.

At the end of September 2020, the long – standing frozen conflict in Transcaucasia over the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, the internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan, whose majority population is Armenians, sharply escalated. One of the main features of the Karabakh war in 2020 was the massive use by the Azerbaijani side of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of various types of Israeli and Turkish development.

The development of energy weapons in the United States and China is worth paying attention to

In leading foreign countries, along with the development of traditional means of armed struggle, weapons based on new physical principles, in particular energy weapons, are being actively developed. It is designed to destroy or disable weapons, military and special equipment by exposing them to powerful directed laser radiation.