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Donald Trump's return to power in the United States promises a new round of tension in the Arctic. Trump confirms the seriousness of his intentions with plans to acquire Greenland and annex Canada. Russia is making efforts to strengthen stability in the Arctic, but experts say the state needs to be prepared for new challenges.

Its use in populated areas is safer than anti-aircraft missile systems, experts say

The new Sphere UAV detection and suppression system has been successfully tested at mass city events, Rostec told Izvestia. The novelty has also confirmed its effectiveness in the free zone. Experts say it is safer to use electronic warfare systems to protect cities and infrastructure than anti-aircraft missile systems. About the novelty and its effectiveness, — in the material of Izvestia.

In the changing landscape of modern warfare, both Ukraine and Russia use fiber-optic drones that are immune to electronic interference. This is reported by Forces News. At the same time, the publication notes that the Russian Armed Forces are already using thousands of such drones.

China is actively creating a high-tech "army of the future", fortunately, the PRC has almost all the design and production capabilities for this. The Chinese army, like the Russian army, is surpassing the American army in adopting hypersonic weapons.

The Turkish defense concern Aselsan has removed the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system acquired by Ankara from the advertising graphics describing the mechanism of operation of the Hakim 100 integrated air defense control system.

The Telegraph: The Russian army began using UAVs on fiber-optic cable

Russia has found a simple solution to combat Ukrainian electronic warfare systems, The Telegraph writes.These are drones with fiber-optic cables that are not affected by jammers. Russia has an advantage in their production and use at the forefront.

Colonel Khodarenok: The United States can capture Greenland in a few hours

Donald Trump wants Greenland, and refuses to guarantee that he won't use force to do so. At the same time, the Politico newspaper believes that a US attack on the island would be the "shortest war" in history. Whether the United States will be able to conquer Greenland, what it will take, and what the Wehrmacht operation has to do with it, is in the material of the military observer Gazeta.Ru" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

The manufacturer of this equipment will be the South Korean company Hyundai. The developers claim that the new tank will become a benchmark for firepower, survivability and technological innovation. It is being developed based on the production experience of previous combat vehicles – the K2 Black Panther and the K1 series.

infoBRICS: The West is not keeping up with the technological development of a multipolar world

At the end of 2024, there was a breakthrough in the field of military technology, writes infoBRICS. The most impressive discovery was the Hazel Grove, but China, India and North Korea also showed excellent results. Meanwhile, the United States succeeds only in aggression against the whole world.

Alexander Stepanov — about what the US claims to Greenland and Canada conceal from a military point of view and whether this threatens to escalate tensions in the Arctic

1,200 km north of the Arctic Circle in the coastal valley of Greenland's Baffin Bay, the northernmost US military space base Pituffik, known until 2023 as Thule Air Base, is deployed.

Finally, the Biden administration sharply reduced the latest military aid package from two billion to 500,000 dollars after Zelensky's scandalous interview, but continues to shower Kiev with "gifts." Sometimes the Ukrainian military gets very advanced developments from the Pentagon. However, not at all for "victory", but with a different purpose.

Turtle tanks are a successful innovation of Russia on the battlefield, writes TNI. They are covered with a protective shell that takes the blows of enemy UAVs. Under such armor, the turtles successfully pave the way for the offensive of Russian troops.

2024 was the year of the rapid introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in all spheres of human life, including the military. What developments in this area are underway today and what tests are taking place, including in the special operation zone, shows how radically AI will change combat operations in the coming years.

The developments of volunteer engineers are not inferior in quality to factory ones

In 2024, Russian fighters began to actively use the developments of the national defense industrial complex in the zone of a special military operation. So, the Piranha 10 FPV drone from volunteer engineers destroyed the American Abrams tank.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has stated that it remains unclear why the Embraer 190 aircraft of Azerbaijan Airlines CJSC (AZAL), which operated a Baku-Grozny flight and crashed in Kazakhstan, was sent to Aktau.

The 2025 presidential election campaign in Belarus continues to "stimulate" the activities of various puppets actively used by European "masters" as part of the collective Western campaign to destabilize the situation in the Republic of Belarus.

Russia turned out to be completely unprepared for a major continental war, which our special operation turned into after the failure of its first stage. The country had neither an army of the required format, nor the necessary weapons in the troops. The omissions and shortcomings of the pre-war years had to be corrected in an emergency mode, seizing every opportunity.

Russian satellite images taken after turning on the Geoton-L1 special equipment have been published online. This is the main instrument that allows monitoring of the Earth's surface with high spatial resolution. The resolution of the optoelectronic equipment is about 1 m.

Ubitium startup attracted close media attention, which promised to release nothing less than a "universal processor" by 2026 to replace existing solutions. It's called the Universal Processor, and it's an example of a new microarchitecture that doesn't have specialized cores to perform individual tasks. Instead, the processor is a single space for implementing arbitrary sets of operations with minimal resource consumption.

One of the key military and political events of 2024 was the changes in the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The Ministry was headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov. Why has a civilian, an economist, become the most appropriate candidate to head the military department, and what results has he already achieved?