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The exercises involved 40 units of weapons, military, special and aviation equipment of the ZVO

The units of the military air defense (air defense) and operational-tactical aviation of the Western Military District (ZVO) conducted exercises, within the framework of which they were convinced of the security of the western borders of the Russian Federation. This was announced by the commander of the ZVO troops, Hero of Russia, Colonel-General Alexander Zhuravlev.

The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be lowered at the request of NASA, the Russian state corporation Roscosmos announced on Saturday.

The Russian military conducted a training session in the Kursk region with duty shifts of aviation guidance points of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, the Western Military District (ZVO) reported on Saturday.

The development of hypersonic weapons poses a serious threat to the US Navy. The US military intends to counteract warheads flying at a speed of several Mach with the help of space satellites and an SM-6 interceptor missile.

Ground combat robots are being improved. On February 4, the American company Northrop Grumman on its official YouTube channel published a video of tests of an unmanned combat vehicle with cannon armament.

Russian servicemen of the Western Military District have completed a bilateral tactical exercise in the Voronezh Region, the press service of the Military District reported.

The head of the ballistics Department of the Rocket and Space Corporation, Rafail Murtazin, said that experts will prepare the conditions for conducting a four-turn approach scheme of Progress MS-20 and will work out elements of a single-turn scheme against its background.

The process of re-equipping Russian nuclear-powered ships with the latest torpedoes will begin after they are fully equipped with diesel-electric submarines of the Varshavyanka and Lada types

Promising electric torpedoes UET-1 in the coming years will enter service with Russian nuclear submarines of a number of projects. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

In 19FortyFive, the American M1 Abrams was named the best tank of all time

The columnist of the American edition of 19FortyFive Brent Eastwood called the M1 Abrams the best tank of all time.

In 19FortyFive, the engines were called a limitation of the Russian MiG-29 fighter

The Russian fourth-generation MiG-29 fighter, incredibly popular in the armed forces of dozens of countries, is "outdated" and has a limitation, writes Kyle Mizokami, a columnist for the American publication 19FortyFive.

Scientists have found out that SpaceX's Starlink satellites spoil 18% of the images taken by astronomers

Scientists said that SpaceX's Starlink satellites, which have filled a low Earth orbit, interfere with the study of dangerous objects such as asteroids and comets. The study was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The Crimean naval base of the Black Sea Fleet conducted an exercise to ensure the safety of navigation and combat training activities in the Black Sea, said the official representative of the Black Sea Fleet Alexei Rulev.

The Economist: advanced military technologies did not save the US Armed Forces from defeat in Afghanistan

London, February 6. The United States spends huge amounts of money on the development of modern military technologies, but they did not save the American Armed Forces from defeat in Afghanistan.

Forty-year-old American infantry fighting vehicles have undergone a large-scale upgrade. February 5, portal armyrecognition.com He reported that the 2nd Armored Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division received the first Bradley M2A4 infantry fighting vehicles.

Emergency landing of the drowned American F-35 fighter jet caught on video

Details of the emergency landing of the American fifth-generation fighter F-35 on the aircraft carrier "Carl Vinson" have become known. The video, which captures the moment of the collision, was published by the Telegram channel Dambiev.

The new American satellite of the missile attack Warning System (SPRN) SBIRS GEO 5 has begun to perform operational tasks after the completion of the testing period in orbit, the US Space Operations Command announced on Sunday.

The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into various systems, including autonomous transport systems, raises the issue of cybersecurity.

Last year, more robots joined the U.S. workforce than ever before. They took over the work from collecting bottles and cans from sorting conveyors of waste processing plants to packing small consumer goods in cardboard boxes in warehouses of online stores.

According to the head of the state corporation, the work was carried out together with the redesign of the complex

Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, said that the state corporation had a very difficult time entering into the project of building a launch complex for the Angara launch vehicle at the Vostochny cosmodrome.

In August last year, NASA Inspector General Paul Martin reported that the landing of astronauts on the Moon in 2024 is not possible due, in particular, to delays in the development of spacesuits.