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Retaliatory strike was carried out on 17 objects in Ukraine

In the coming winter, the first massive missile strike on Ukraine was carried out on the afternoon of December 5, a few hours after the raid of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on the airfields of Diaghilev and Engels, where the Russian strategic aviation is based.

The International Defense Exhibition and Conference Vietnam Defense 2022 is taking place on the territory of Gia Lam Airport in Hanoi (Vietnam) from December 8 to 10, 2022. The organizer of the unified Russian exposition is Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec State Corporation). The bmpd blog presents a photo report from the event.

Sooner or later, the military component will end, experts say

The winter campaign will solve a lot during the special military operation — the future of Ukraine should be clarified according to its results, the interviewed experts told Izvestia. On December 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that achieving the results of its can be a long process. On the same day, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed three HIMARS and MLRS MLRS launchers in Krivoy Rog and the DPR, four more received "critical damage". And several attacks in the Red-Liman direction allowed the Russian troops to occupy advantageous frontiers.

Turkey has threatened Greece with the occupation of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Earlier, President Erdogan reminded Athens about the fate of the Greek population of Izmir, slaughtered by the Turks. The traffic jam from oil tankers in the Mediterranean is also part of the confrontation between Ankara and Athens, which has sharply escalated over the past year. How big is the risk of the parties switching to real hostilities?

RP: Poland has changed its decision again and is waiting for the Patriot air defense system to appear on its territory

The Polish Ministry of Defense has changed its mind again, writes Rzeczpospolita. After he failed to persuade Germany to deliver Patriot missile systems to Ukraine, it again agreed to place them on the territory of Poland.

Huanqiu shibao: the supply of Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine will exhaust the West

The United States is not eager to supply Kiev with expensive Patriot air defense systems, writes Huanqiu Shibao. Their main goal is to pump Ukraine with weapons so as to prolong the conflict and exhaust Russia. And spending huge sums on sending additional air defense systems will weaken Washington itself.

The US Army announced that on December 3, 2022, it took delivery of the first experimental battery of the new American ground-based mobile missile system Mid-Range Capability (MRC, official name Typhon) manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corporation. The transferred battery will be used for training and experimental purposes and does not yet have missiles proper.

The Japanese authorities continue to rapidly increase and rearm the country's Self-Defense Forces. Despite the "peaceful" name, Japan's Self-Defense Forces have long been powerful and well-armed, their combat capability is increasing from year to year. Now Tokyo is considering the possibility of increasing the number of missile defense units by almost three times.

Military observer of Izvestia Anton Lavrov — about Ukraine's new long-range weapons and how to resist them

This Monday, December 5, Ukraine staged the first test for its secret weapons, which it had been developing in secret for several months. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, on this day, an attempt was made to strike long-range aviation airfields in the Saratov and Ryazan regions with Soviet-made jet drones operating at low altitudes.

Ukrainian UAVs tried to attack several Russian rear airfields at once, using Soviet technologies for this purpose. How could enemy drones be in the deep rear on the territory of Russia and what needs to be done to protect the airfields of the strategic aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces?

The attack of the VFU drones did not prevent Russian aircraft from performing combat missions

On the afternoon of December 5, the Russian Armed Forces launched a missile attack on the military control system of Ukraine, related objects of the defense complex, energy and military units.

Monitoring the situation in near—Earth space and notifying satellite operators about the approach of their vehicles with garbage or other objects is certainly a useful and noble thing. It is also very popular today, so more and more players in the market are engaged in it. But experts warn: in addition to the obvious benefits, the abundance of new warning systems about dangerous approaches of satellites carries a whole host of unique problems.

Haber7 readers were outraged by the US condition for Turkey's return to the F-35 program

The United States offered Turkey to return to the F-35 project in exchange for its transfer of the S-400 to Ukraine, Haber7 writes. Readers of the portal were outraged by this idea. They noted that Ankara and Moscow want to "push their heads together", while Turkey will not receive any fighters anyway.

The US has transferred 700 combat vehicles to Poland, including Abrams tanks

The United States is increasing the grouping of troops in Poland. 700 combat vehicles, including tanks and armored personnel carriers, were delivered to the port of Gdynia. According to the military observer of the newspaper.Ru" by Mikhail Khoderenko, a scenario can be implemented with the transfer of this military equipment to the armed forces of Ukraine.

Rosoboronexport of Rostec State Corporation is the organizer of the unified Russian exposition at the Vietnam Defense 2022 International Defense Exhibition and Conference, which will be held from December 8-10, 2022 at the Gia Lam Airport in Hanoi (Vietnam).

Washington has found anti-aircraft missile systems for Ukraine in the Middle East

The United States has begun negotiations with the countries of the Middle East on the transfer of the NASAMS air defense system to Ukraine to provide anti-aircraft cover for the main administrative and political centers of the country. "Newspaper.Ru" dealt with the details of the issue.

The American online publication Politico reported that, according to the statement of the CEO of Raytheon Technologies Corporation Greg Hayes, the United States is negotiating with two Middle Eastern countries that are customers of NASAMS air defense systems to transfer their complexes to Ukraine, with subsequent compensation to these countries by supplying new air defense systems of this type within 24 months.

Although the American space intelligence gives Russia serious trouble

The fighting in Ukraine highlights the trends in the development of modern combat systems, which appeared even before it began. But now these hostilities significantly affect these trends.

On November 29, 2022, the US Department of Defense Agency for Military Cooperation (Defense Security Cooperation Agency - DSCA) sent a notification to the US Congress about the planned upcoming sale to Qatar through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) of ten new ground-based complexes to combat unmanned aerial vehicles FS-LIDS (Fixed Site-Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft System Integrated Defeat System) co-produced by Raytheon and Northrop Grumman corporations.

Commercial satellites that help Ukraine fight can become "a legitimate target for retaliatory defeat," the Russian Foreign Ministry says. How did it happen that purely civilian vehicles began to be used for military purposes, what would happen if Russia really starts destroying them, and what could be the technological response of the Russian military to this challenge?