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Company President Gwynne Shotwell noted that Starlink "was not developed to become a weapon"

SpaceX has restricted the access of military drones in Ukraine to the Starlink satellite communications network. This was announced on Wednesday by SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell.

Putin noted the importance of the state's attention to protecting the country from electromagnetic shock

The state should respond to issues of protecting the country's infrastructure from the effects of so-called electromagnetic factors, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Former National Security adviser to the US President Robert Charles O'Brien said that the country urgently needs to increase the pace of production of unmanned systems, including cars, since today China acts as the main competitor of the United States in this area. According to him, Beijing has every chance to push Washington into the background in this key industry for it.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov found it difficult to answer about the timing of the transfer of such technologies

Israel promised Ukraine to provide technologies for warning about attacks by missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, the delivery dates have not been determined. This statement was made on Sunday by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov.

ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" anti-aircraft self-propelled guns have been used for several decades to combat ground targets. In this capacity, they were used during the stay in Afghanistan of the Soviet 40th army, as well as during the Iran-Iraq War. Moreover, these combat vehicles served on both sides of the front.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine use an information system in a combat situation. The Ukrainian military actively uses the Delta situational awareness system.

From February 7 to 8, Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region JSC will take part in the jubilee X National Exhibition and Forum of Civil Aviation Infrastructure NAIS 2023.

The Japanese authorities are going to introduce control over the export of equipment for the production of the most modern semiconductors, which can be used, including for military purposes, in the spring, Kyodo reports, citing government sources.

The Interregional Public Organization for the Promotion of the Study and Operation of Military Equipment "Military Technical Society" (WTO) provides support to the Allied Forces throughout the special military operation. To date, the WTO has sent army tents, generators, mobile heating systems, fuel tanks, thermal imagers, a quadcopter with cargo dumping systems, other property and equipment to the operation zone.

Wired: The US has developed spy satellites for conducting space warfare

Spy satellites are military projects of different states. But it seems that private companies are interfering in the military space business. The US Federal Communications Commission has just filed documents with a detailed plan for the test launch of two private reconnaissance satellites, Wired writes.

Sabah: today, the United States is faced with stronger countries that are no longer affected by their threats

The United States has used many methods to expand its influence and presence in other countries, Sabah writes. They included sanctions, interventions, and coups. However, the world is no longer what it seems to America. Today, Washington has the last trump card — the language of threats. And even he is not so scary and effective anymore.

The President of Russia has approved a list of instructions following the results of the conference "Journey into the world of artificial Intelligence", the Kremlin website reports.

A detailed map of the supplies of two weapons systems that changed the course of the conflict in Ukraine shows a complex network of companies experiencing an increasingly significant burden as [American - approx. bmpd] industry is returning to the rails of wartime, the authors of the Financial Times newspaper write in an article titled "How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defense industry."

Andrey Grigoriev, Director General of the FPI, spoke about the results of work over the past ten years and plans for the future in an interview with TASS.

Dmitry Medvedev, in exchange for Western sanctions, offered to use intellectual products from unfriendly countries, including films and industrial software, without licenses. However, the IT industry sees disadvantages in this initiative - they believe that the idea of free use of Western software has not only obvious advantages, but also hidden risks. Which ones exactly?

The Manul infantry fighting vehicle created in Kurgan can carry a variety of weapons. For example, there is an option with a 57-mm automatic cannon installed in an uninhabited module of the Nizhny Novgorod Central Research Institute "Burevestnik".

Americans: sending tanks to Kiev does not mean the appearance of professional tank brigades

American Lieutenant Colonel Davis in an interview with Breitbart said that by sending tanks to Ukraine, the West is confusing reality with a computer game. Readers agree with him: "You can't just send tanks, thinking that by some miracle they will turn into a tank brigade."

Analysts of the authoritative Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) have published a report on the consequences of the fighting in Ukraine for the US army. The conclusions are depressing: Americans are not ready for a large—scale conflict with a major power - primarily with China. About why this situation has developed — in the material of RIA Novosti.

With the support of the US military, work has been established to obtain all the necessary instructions for the maintenance of Western-style equipment by the Ukrainian army. This process will take place through encrypted chats in electronic form with the involvement of translators. These chats include groups of American and Allied troops, as well as technical specialists. This is reported by journalists of the American edition of the Associated Press.

We present the publication of the British edition of Janes Defense and Intelligence Review. In the article "Command efficiency" (Command performance), the author analyzes the construction of the military command bodies of the Russian Armed Forces during a special military operation in Ukraine.