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About 500 servicemen and over 40 units of military and special equipment were involved in the exercises

Complex exercises of crews of Mi-8AMTSh-V Terminator transport and combat helicopters and units of the S-400 Triumph air defense system of the Central Military District (CVO) were held in the Novosibirsk Region. This is stated in a message distributed on Friday by the press service of the district.

The newest A-100 Premier long-range radar surveillance and guidance aircraft will significantly expand the capabilities of the Russian Aerospace Forces. The flying radar built in Taganrog has already tested radio equipment in flight.

About 500 servicemen took part in the exercises

Servicemen of the mountain motorized rifle unit of the Central Military District (CVO), stationed in Tuva, destroyed the enemy camp during exercises in the foothills of the Western Sayan. This is stated in a message distributed on Friday by the press service of the district.

During the fighting in Yemen, President Hadi's T-55AM2 tanks, modernized in Czechoslovakia, were again seen as part of the military formations opposing the Shiite Ansar Allah movement (Houthis).

As a rule, early versions of T-55s are used in battles, which formed the basis of the armored power of the land forces of this country before the civil war began in 2014.

Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) are preparing proposals to Roscosmos to organize a program for sending professional scientists to the International Space Station, RAS President Alexander Sergeev said in Yekaterinburg on Friday.

The President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeev noted that the initiative can be carried out on the module "Science"

Several institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) are preparing proposals for sending scientists to the International Space Station (ISS), RAS President Alexander Sergeev told reporters on Friday.

In total, more than 500 servicemen took part in the exercises

MiG-31BM high-altitude interceptor fighters of the Aviation Division of the Central Military District (CVO) worked out counteraction and intercepted about 30 supersonic reconnaissance aircraft of a conditional enemy during exercises that ended in the Perm Territory, Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions. This is stated in a message distributed on Friday by the press service of the district.

According to the results of 2021, the total flight time of helicopters produced by the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant of the Russian Helicopters Holding (Rostec State Corporation), which are under warranty and maintenance, amounted to 26,430 hours.

Military builders have handed over a multidisciplinary medical center in Tyumen, built in record time, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation told reporters on Friday.

According to information published on February 8 on the official Twitter page of Goa Shipyard Ltd, a patrol ship of the coastal zone of the Sankalp class of the third batch (Batch III) was transferred to the command of the Indian Coast Guard ahead of schedule.

The Israel Defense Forces are currently armed with modern Merkava Mk tanks.4, equipped, among other things, with active protection complexes.

Machines of earlier versions are no longer in use. According to reference publications, more than six hundred Merkava Mk.3 are in storage, the rest can be seen only in museums, at sites of decommissioned equipment and at landfills where various training tasks are being worked out on them.

Launched in 1957, the Soviet armored reconnaissance patrol vehicle BRDM-1 had several modifications. For example, in the very original version, it was made without an armored hull roof.

The stations are significantly superior to their analogues in terms of their tactical and technical characteristics

Calculations of the newest radar complexes "Sky-T" of the air defense division of the Central Military District (CVO) have taken up combat duty to protect the airspace over the regions of the Volga region and the Urals, the press service of the CVO reported.

The crews of the Su-34 aviation regiment of the Southern Military District destroyed a simulated enemy in the stratosphere

Crews of Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers conducted exercises. The planes of the regiment, which is based in the Rostov region, destroyed a conditional enemy in the stratosphere. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Southern Military District (SE).

NASA scientists have published an image of the star HD 84406, obtained by the Webb Telescope

NASA scientists have published the first image obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope during the alignment of the main mirror. This is reported on the website of the US Space Agency.

More than 200 units of military and special equipment will be used by air defense personnel of the motorized rifle unit of the Southern Military District at the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

The gunners of the motorized rifle unit of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District conducted live firing during a camp gathering at the Nikolo-Alexandrovsky training ground in the Stavropol Territory, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

Five years ago, the American delegation of the California National Guard visited the 169th training center of the Ukrainian Ground Forces "Desna".

In December of this year, the Northern Fleet will replenish the newest frigate of project 22350 "Admiral Golovko". He will become the first full-time carrier of the Zircon hypersonic system.

Specialists of the Military Construction Complex of the Ministry of Defense of Russia have completed the construction of a new berth at the base of the submarine forces of the Pacific Fleet in Cape Cossack of the Kamchatka Territory, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Thursday.