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Tankers and gunners of the motorized rifle unit of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District took part in a bilateral exercise at the Nikolo-Alexandrovsky training ground in the Stavropol Territory, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

Sappers of the Western Military District received a batch of sets of the latest protective suits OVR-2-02.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the equipment protects the serviceman from being hit by shrapnel, bullets and from strong sound effects. Fabric armor elements and panels made of pressed polyethylene are used in the design of the suit. 

The Baltic Fleet of the Russian Federation conducted an exercise to cover the command post from the attack drones of a conditional enemy with the help of anti-aircraft missile and cannon complexes (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S", the press service of the fleet reported on Sunday.

The head of Roscosmos also asked who Shkaplerov invited to the festive table

Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin congratulated cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerv, who is on board the International Space Station, on his 50th anniversary.

A new airfield autofuel tanker, which will allow refueling several aircraft at once, is being developed for the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

Gunners of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District conducted exercises using modern reconnaissance equipment at the Molkino combined arms training ground in the Krasnodar Territory, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

The Drive: The Russian army remains the Soviet "dumb hammer", which is incredibly heavy

The Russian armed forces are a legacy of the Soviet era and remain a "blunt hammer" that is still incredibly heavy. In these words, in the American edition of The Drive, columnist Tyler Rogovey described the modern Russian army concentrated in the regions bordering Ukraine.

The training of grenade launchers of the Eastern Military District (VVO) is being completed in six regions of the Far East. More than 2 thousand servicemen take part in them, the press service of the Air Defense Ministry reports.

About 20 warships of the Caspian Flotilla went on exercises in the Caspian Sea, the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) told reporters on Thursday.

The military seamen will have to perform combat training tasks in difficult conditions and act on various introductory instructions coming from the command post

About 20 warships and support vessels of the Caspian Flotilla set sail from Makhachkala to participate in large-scale exercises. This was reported to journalists on Thursday in the press service of the Southern Military District (SE).

The units of the logistics brigade of the Western Military District (ZVO) arrived at the point of permanent deployment after the completion of the planned exercises. This was announced on Thursday, February 17, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

The ships will perform rocket and artillery firing

20 ships of the Caspian flotilla have begun exercises in the Caspian Sea, the press service of the Southern Military District reported.

The ships of the Caspian Flotilla left the base in Makhachkala and Kaspiysk, and went to sea to conduct command and staff exercises. About 20 corvettes and support vessels participate in the maneuvers.

An air defense exercise involving ships of the Northern Fleet took place in the Barents Sea, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

As part of the planned rotation of the withdrawal of forces of the Western Military District, the 27th Motorized Rifle Brigade was withdrawn from Moscow to the Belgorod Region. In one locality, the name of which is familiar to all researchers of the Battle of the Kursk Bulge [Kastornaya], among other things, more than 20 T-90M tanks were transferred.

19FortyFive was horrified by the capabilities of Russian flamethrowers.

Portal 19FortyFive dedicated an article to the heavy flamethrower system "Pinocchio". The author notes that, perhaps, this is Russia's most powerful weapon that does not use nuclear technology. TOS-1 and variants of this weapon can cause incredible damage. So, one installation is capable of setting fire to an area about the size of two football fields.

The board delivered six SWSU-55 No. 5-10 nanosatellites to the station, which will be launched during the cosmonauts' spacewalk under the program of the scientific and educational experiment "Radioscaf"

The Progress MS-19 cargo transport ship, which was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on Tuesday, docked to the Search module of the Russian segment of the ISS, follows from the broadcast on the Roscosmos website.

On Sevmash (part of the USC), the formation and training of the delivery team of the project 11442M cruiser began.

China believes that the United States is lagging behind Russia in the field of hypersonic weapons. And the tests of the hypersonic complex "Dagger" in the Arctic are cited as the main argument.

The head of Roscosmos proposed to finalize the Kuru complex for launching manned ships

Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation, proposed to finalize the Kourou launch complex for launching manned ships. The head of the state corporation announced this in his Telegram channel.