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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the planned rotation of the withdrawal of forces of the Western Military District, the 27th Motorized Rifle Brigade was withdrawn from Moscow to the Belgorod Region.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.

A detachment of warships of the Baltic Fleet has completed the Atlantic campaign. The corvettes "Stoyky" and "Savvy" returned to their permanent base - Baltiysk.

First of all, the operation of the main power plant and navigation system will be checked on the ship during the tests

The patrol ship (TFR) "Undaunted" sailed to the Baltic Sea for testing after repairs and modernization at the Baltic shipyard "Yantar".

Special forces soldiers of the Central Military District at night exercises near Novosibirsk destroyed the base of a conditional enemy. As told to "RG" in the press service of the Central Military District, the army training took place at the Shilovo training ground. Three hundred servicemen and twenty units of special equipment took part in the exercises.

Russian electronic warfare systems can create big problems for high-tech armies. Tanks, artillery installations and drones equipped with various electronic devices can fail due to electronic warfare systems.

During the command and staff exercises "Blizzard-2022" conducted by the Ukrainian army last Wednesday, one of the BMP-1 crashed into a T-64BV.

A tank with spruce branches cut down for camouflage on the roof and a canvas "cape" on the body, among other similar vehicles, depicted an attack on the "enemy".

In total, more than 500 military personnel were involved in them

Exercises with live firing from the armament of T-72B3 tanks and armored personnel carriers BTR-82A on a conditional enemy took place at a training ground in the Sverdlovsk region. This is stated in a message distributed on Thursday by the press service of the Central Military District (CVO).