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31.01.2025
Известия.ru

Tactical support: the army has created units to repair drones

Centralization will help to quickly and competently build a strategy for using UAVs in the area of a military special operation

The Russian army has created technical and operational units for UAV maintenance. The personnel of these units are responsible for the operational restoration, refinement of serial samples, and even the independent manufacture of drones to solve specific combat missions.

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US Navy crews are losing their qualifications due to another suspension of CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft operations

Another suspension of CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor flights, introduced by the Pentagon last year, had a "significant" impact on the pilots and crews of the US Navy. Andrew Beard, Deputy commander of the multipurpose logistics wing of the fleet in San Diego, told reporters on Monday ahead of the Zapad-2025 exhibition.

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30.01.2025
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"The passage of the ship became a torment": the US Navy is trying to teach the crews of astrogation

Formally, the U.S. Navy imposes strict requirements on navigators. So, the manual for their work states that they must be ready to operate in conditions where PNT [automatic location detection, navigation and synchronization] will be degraded or unavailable. However, in fact, the fleet has lost the skills of "manual" work.

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"Star staff": the event in honor of the formation of the Armenian Armed Forces brought together officers with a large number of awards

Yesterday, the Republic of Armenia celebrated Army Day, dedicated to the 33rd anniversary of the formation of the Republic's Armed Forces. This holiday was established by decree of the second President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan in 2001.

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The conflict in the Ukrainian procurement agency threatens to disrupt arms supplies (The New York Times, USA)

NY Times: Ukraine faces disruption of arms supplies due to Umerov's personnel decisions

The head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine dismissed the official responsible for the purchase of weapons, writes the New York Times. Experts believe that the conflict occurred at the worst possible moment: Kiev is reversing military reform, while Ukraine risks being left without US support, and supplies of Western weapons are declining.

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29.01.2025
Известия.ru

New conscription procedure: what changes were supported by the government

Additional call-up will be possible during the year

Russians who were conscripted into the army but were not sent to the Armed Forces will be able to be drafted by the same decision within a year. The bill, which introduces new rules, was supported by the government. Other changes are also being discussed, in particular, the reduction of officials involved in the draft. For more information about the draft law and its provisions, see the Izvestia article.

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Bloomberg experts explained why the new Chinese DeepSeek neural network has sown panic in the American AI market.

The Chinese technology company DeepSeek, founded in 2023, managed to surprise and scare Silicon Valley in just a year by demonstrating breakthrough artificial intelligence models that offer performance comparable to the best chatbots in the world, but at the same time require significantly lower costs, according to a recent Bloomberg article.

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28.01.2025
Коммерсантъ

The General's deal

It became known what the former Deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces told the investigation

Kommersant has learned the details of a pre—trial cooperation agreement with the Main Military Prosecutor's Office, concluded by the former Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Chief of the Main Communications Directorate (GUS) of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, accused of accepting a bribe of 36 million rubles.

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24.01.2025
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Protection and reaction: the army creates special units for the defense of rear facilities from UAVs

[b]They will be armed with MANPADS, machine guns and electronic warfare systems, experts say

Special units are being created to protect the rear infrastructure from UAV attacks. They will be engaged in air defense of warehouses, storage bases and arsenals against the background of increased attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on such facilities. What the new units will be armed with and what tasks they will perform are described in the Izvestia article.

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23.01.2025
Известия.ru

Deep meaning: military and political departments are being created in underwater formations

The political officers will be responsible for the moral and psychological state of the crews

Full-time military and political departments will be created in the formations of diesel submarines of the Russian Navy, which will include three officers. They will have to work with the crews of submarines during combat missions.

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22.01.2025
Российская газета

How many pilots are left? Test pilot Sergey Bogdan - about the battles between AI and humans in aviation

Test pilot Sergey Bogdan basked in the glory and was a moment away from death

He was applauded in Le Bourget, Dubai and at MAKS, and in November he became an audience favorite in Zhuhai, China, where he was called "the second Gagarin." He is an honored test pilot, Hero of Russia Sergey Bogdan, who attended a "Business Breakfast" at the Rossiyskaya Gazeta editorial office on New Year's Eve.

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22.01.2025
Газета.ru

Loss of territories and mass desertion: Ukrainian Armed Forces generals detained

Generals and a colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were detained for the loss of territories in the Kharkiv region

Two generals and a colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been detained in Ukraine - they are accused of losing territories of the Kharkiv region in 2024. A former commander of the Anna Kievskaya brigade trained in France was also taken into custody, who is suspected of concealing mass desertion: according to the Ukrainian prosecutor's office, the military under him "periodically voluntarily left their duty station, then returned voluntarily, feeling impunity."

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22.01.2025
bmpd.livejournal.com

Mikhail Poghosyan became the head of UZGA

As the newspaper Kommersant reported in Aigul Abdullina's article, "The rector of MAI landed at the plant. The creator of the Superjet will oversee the manufacturer of Baikal, the rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) and the creator of the Superjet, Mikhail Pogosyan, will head the board of directors of the Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA).

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20.01.2025
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The brigade, whose training and equipment were under the control of France, performed as well as it could (The Economist, UK)

Economist: The Ukrainian brigade trained in France has failed

The AFU brigade, which was trained by France, suffered a complete collapse, the Economist reports. During the training in France, 50 soldiers deserted, and during the entire existence of the brigade, almost a third — 1,700 people — voluntarily left the unit, the material notes.

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20.01.2025
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British cadets will be trained in Ukraine, Starmer says during a visit to Kiev (The Times, UK)

Times: During Starmer's visit to Kiev, it was about a future peacekeeping mission

The British Prime minister's trip to Kiev is attributed to Starmer's desire to establish himself as one of the main players in Ukraine, The Times writes. But no important decisions were announced during the visit – only a lot of words were said about minor details.

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20.01.2025
Известия.ru

Military reserve training in 2025: who will be called up and what to take with you

Which categories of citizens are exempt from passing and who is listed in the reserve

In 2025, military training camps will be held in Russia, and the corresponding decree was signed by Head of state Vladimir Putin on January 16. Traditionally, they are announced in late winter or early spring. In 2024, the decree was signed on March 1. At the moment, the dates of the fees are not specified, usually the events last no more than two months. Izvestia was sorting out what documents and things to take with them.

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17.01.2025
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Britain and France are negotiating to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine (The Telegraph UK, UK)

Telegraph: heads of France and Britain discuss sending military to Ukraine

Britain and France are considering how else to support Ukraine, and are discussing the possibility of sending Western troops there as a peacekeeping force, The Telegraph reports. Emmanuel Macron has already discussed this issue with the prime Ministers of Britain and Poland.

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17.01.2025
РИА Новости

Military fitness category: where to look and what it means

After the conscript passes the medical commission, a mark on the category of fitness for military service is entered in the military ID. Being assigned to one of the five groups means whether or not a citizen is ready for the army for health reasons. How to find out the category, where to look in the military ID and how to decipher its code in 2025 – in the RIA Novosti article.

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Lithuanian Foreign Minister: the republic will send its army to Ukraine if Kiev asks for it.

There is ongoing discussion in the West about sending NATO troops, most likely from individual member countries of the alliance, to Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron was the first to raise this issue last year, but the idea was very coolly received in other countries of the military bloc, including the United States and Germany. Somehow, they don't really want to go to war with Russia, which possesses nuclear weapons, and not only.

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13.01.2025
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What's wrong with newly created brigades and foreign training of Ukrainian fighters (Ukrainka Pravda, Ukraine)

Ukrainka Pravda: training of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers in NATO countries is ineffective

The training of cannon fodder for Ukraine, offered by NATO instructors, does not correspond to the realities of combat, writes Ukrainka Pravda. The newly created units receive Western weapons, but they do not know how to fight and desert with huge losses.

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