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The Times: NATO is conducting a Digital Backbone Network experiment in the Baltic States

NATO is transferring experimental types of military equipment and weapons to the Russian borders, writes The Times. Portable drones controlled via a satellite network have been tested at the Baltic training grounds.

The aviation and space exhibition Airshow China 2024 will be held for the fourteenth time in Zhuhai city of China's southern Guangdong Province from November 12 to 17. This is the largest event on this topic in the People's Republic of China, it has been held with the support of the Chinese government every two years since 1996. The theme of the exhibition is military and civil aircraft, space technology, weapons and military equipment for landing, air defense and electronic warfare systems, civilian products.

TNI: creating new expensive tanks is not worth the time, money and effort

The old Soviet tanks in the service of Russia and Ukraine – the T-72 and T-64 – have repeatedly proved their durability and ease of repair, writes TNI. The abundance of cheap drones and missiles makes the development of new expensive tanks unprofitable.

Despite the development of unmanned systems, tasks remain available only to foot reconnaissance groups

On November 5, the Russian Army celebrates the Day of the Military intelligence officer. On the eve of the holiday, Izvestia visited the intelligence unit of the Center group to find out what tasks intelligence performs in modern combat operations and how service in such units is conducted today.

Russian security forces took out an American who helped the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from the territory of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

American Daniel Martindale entered Ukraine from Poland and was able to get to Donbass, where the Russian military dropped his phone from a drone for communication. The man sent the coordinates of Ukrainian military facilities to the Russian Armed Forces for two years, and then he was taken to Moscow. Martindale gave the first press conference at the Rossiya Segodnya press center and explained why he contacted Russian soldiers and how the military used the data received from him.

It is no coincidence that the first flight of the Hunter drone took place on the same day that the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-range Missiles ceased to operate, an American expert worries. In an article by The National Interest, he analyzes the advantages of Russian development.

The modernization of the US Army [/b] is based on military development programs, among which 31 priority ones were identified in 2017. Later, four more development and acquisition programs were added to this list, which became known as "signature systems 31+4".

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration will consider sending another helicopter to Mars. The new drone will be much larger than the previous one — Ingenuity — and will surpass its predecessor in all respects, starting from the mass and ending with the number of blades. However, the main feature of the future system is that it will be able to land on the Martian surface without the help of other vehicles. Engineers have not offered anything like this before.

Foreign Affairs: modern conflicts are distinguished by cheap high-precision weapons

In the last three decades, unmanned aerial vehicles have begun to play a special role in military conflicts, according to Foreign Affairs. The author of the article believes that there is a gradual transition from numerical superiority to technological superiority.

Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov — what the Russian military can share with the Belarusian

The Russian and Belarusian military will continue joint operational, combat and mobilization training with an emphasis on the experience gained during a special military operation, said the head of the Russian Defense Ministry Andrei Belousov. What can the Russian military share with Belarusians and which elements will be especially in demand?

It will reduce the risk in the work of military engineers

Russian sappers began using the method of aerial mine clearance in the combat zone. First, the territory is scanned from a reconnaissance drone, and then the detected mines are dropped from another drone. This is especially true when working with mines that react to the approach of a minesweeper. Experts consider the approach promising. At the same time, they note that the new method has certain limitations.

The tasks of protecting the country's coast and the Northern Sea Route were fulfilled

A detachment of ships of the Russian Navy returned to Severomorsk, having made a long-range Arctic campaign. During the voyage, the sailors conducted a number of activities aimed at ensuring the protection of Russia's interests in the Arctic, including the route of the Northern Sea Route.

The developers promised to deploy a full-fledged multi-component structure in orbit by the time of the planned flooding of the International Space Station, that is, in the next few years.

The Times: Russians are constantly updating unmanned and anti-drone technologies

Ukrainians have to create new military technologies every few weeks, writes The Times. Otherwise, they will hopelessly lag behind the Russian pace of development of new weapons. Such a speed is "unthinkable" for the British defense industry, the author is amazed.

When developing the Armata tank, Russian designers paid special attention to the invulnerability of the machine, writes TNI. This tank is a formidable weapon in the battle with the Abrams, the authors admit. He can successfully resist the favorite of American anti—tank complexes - TOW ATGM.