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Aerial and naval drones are reshaping theaters of war

The technologically advanced and wealthy States of the Middle East are gradually moving away from a strategic attitude towards long-term grueling military operations. After all, the longer conflicts last, the more they deplete limited resources and, consequently, the more the parties to the conflict are prone to risky decisions. This circumstance forces the military leadership of the Middle East countries to reconsider their approaches to the use of the theater of operations and to planning operations on land, at sea and in the air.

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Gerasimov summed up the work of the Ministry of Defense in 2023

MOSCOW, December 21/ Sputnik Radio. The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation – the first Deputy Minister of Defense, Army General Valery Gerasimov, held a briefing for foreign military attaches, at which he summed up the activities of the Russian Defense Ministry in 2023.

These artillery installations will help the Russian army to take up the counter-battery fight, experts believe

The self-propelled artillery installation "Coalition-SV" has strengthened Russian units in the area of the SVO, sources told Izvestia in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Polish leadership is massively purchasing new artillery, but the possibilities for replenishing the consumables necessary for their operation leave much to be desired.

The armed wing of Hamas, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam brigade, has released a video showing the production of 12.7mm sniper rifles and ammunition for them. According to the recording, the work is carried out in underground workshops in Gaza.

Today, foreign armies are armed with numerous categories of conventional aviation weapons of the air-to-surface class (air-to-ground munitions, AGM). In the first part of the article , a group of guided aerial bombs is considered.This publication is devoted to air-launched missiles.

It can destroy any target within a radius of several hundred kilometers in a matter of minutes

In December, information appeared in foreign media about the use of hypersonic Kinzhal missiles by the Russian Aerospace Forces at the VFU airbase in Starokonstantinov.

The Ministry of Defense: digital equipment has increased the accuracy of long-range aviation weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces

Long-range aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces receives upgraded combat aircraft equipped with digital equipment that allowed more accurate use of weapons and increased their reliability, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The ministry said that the long-range aviation of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation participated in the Air Defense, conducted air patrols of the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, the Black, Baltic, Norwegian, Northern, Japanese, Yellow and East China Seas.

Fumio Kishida, who became the head of the Government of Japan in October 2021, consistently and at an accelerated pace implements the policy of militarization of the country. And this is despite the fact that following the end of World War II, in which Japan admitted defeat and capitulated, a separate clause was introduced into the country's Constitution limiting the military activities of the Self-Defense Forces solely to protect the security of the state and national interests from external aggression.

As reported on December 21, 2023, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation, a branch of PJSC Il - Aviastar (part of PJSC United Aircraft Corporation of Rostec State Corporation) in Ulyanovsk manufactured and handed over to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation the next serial military transport aircraft IL-76MD-90A.

As the press service of the Western Military District reported, on December 21, 2023, the large diesel-electric submarine B-587 Velikiye Luki (factory number 01572), which is the third submarine of project 677 (code "Lada") and built at JSC Admiralty Shipyards, entered the Baltic Sea for factory sea trials (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC) in St. Petersburg.

As reported, on December 22, 2023, in Vyborg, at PJSC Vyborg Shipyard (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC), a laying ceremony was held for the Coast Guard of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation of the second border patrol ship of the 1st rank of the ice class project 23550 (code "Ermak"), which received the name "Dzerzhinsky" with the factory number 238. Official reports on the laying of the ship were not published.

According to the Romanian Ministry of National Defense, on December 19, 2023, the minesweeper M 270 Sublocotenent Ion Ghiculescu, a former British minesweeper M 111 Blyth, which became the first of two transferred to Romania after the withdrawal of Sandown-type ships from the British Navy, arrived in Constanta and was officially commissioned into the Romanian Navy.

The second patrol border ship of the 1st rank of the ice class of project 23550 (code Ermak) was laid down in Vyborg, the ceremony was held at the Vyborg Shipyard on December 22, 2023.

Pakistani media published footage from the state defense plant Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT), which captures the production process of various armored vehicles and other military products.

Engineers of the Russian space developer Bureau 1440, which is part of the X Holding, are going to start providing broadband satellite Internet access services in 2027.

Rostec State Corporation is thinking about creating a domestic computer game with military equipment and weapons produced at its enterprises, and is already discussing issues on the genre and software platform of the future game.

To date, according to official data from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Russian Aerospace Forces operate only 10 military and joint-based airfields in the Leningrad, Murmansk regions and the Republic of Karelia, and 9 more airfields are abandoned or transferred to spare ones after 2009.

Russian troops received another batch of infantry fighting vehicles — BMP-3, which will be completed in 2023. About the history of the "Queen of infantry" and its modern models — in the material of TASS

This year's final batch of BMP-3 was delivered by Kurganmashzavod (part of the Rostec State Corporation's High-Precision Complexes holding) as part of state contracts for the current year.