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In the near future, the marines of the Baltic Fleet will work out the tasks of the anti-amphibious defense of the coast with the performance of live firing from small arms and weapons of military equipment

The units of the Guards Marine Corps of the Baltic Fleet, alerted, marched to the area of exercises in the Kaliningrad region, the press service of the fleet reported on Wednesday.

The headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet reported that a large group of warships and support vessels were going to sea. They left their bases in Sevastopol and Novorossiysk to participate in maneuvers. The command of the Black Sea Fleet in total attracts more than two dozen crews to them.

The Russian armed forces traditionally pay great attention to waterfowl technology. Wheeled and tracked armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, paratroopers, some models of self-propelled artillery installations, etc. received the ability to independently force water obstacles.

The ships of the Black Sea Fleet conducted air defense training during the exercises, the press service of the fleet said.

The oceanographic research vessel "Evgeny Goriglejan", built in Kaliningrad by order of the Russian Defense Ministry, is preparing for the start of factory sea trials.

The crews of the T-80U of the twentieth Armored Brigade of the National Guard of the Republic of Cyprus conducted live firing exercises at a training ground near the settlement of Kalo Horio.

Russian-made combat vehicles made a rapid march to the area of the battle with a conditional enemy. Small water obstacles were overcome while driving over very rough terrain.

IXcellerate, a leading Russian operator of commercial data centers, has raised about $ 190 million from existing shareholders and new investors, including Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala, the UAE sovereign wealth fund), SberInvest and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, the sovereign Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation), the operator said on Tuesday.

The US Navy has used the MQ-8C Fire Scout reconnaissance unmanned helicopter for the first time in combat deployment. According to Northrop Grumman, this happened on December 14 aboard the ship of the near sea zone "Milwaukee".

The US military has discovered defects in the software of the F-35 fighter jets of the Block 4 version. According to Bloomberg, they relate to the processes of using weapons, communication, navigation, cybersecurity and target setting. But despite this, Block 4 is installed on airplanes.

The absence of unnecessary tests in the development of space technology is a competitive advantage of SpaceX over the Russian space industry, said Vladimir Solovyov, general designer of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia.

The United States is leaning towards the option of flooding the International Space Station (ISS) after the completion of its operation and has asked Russia to calculate options for station data from orbit, said Vladimir Solovyov, flight director of the Russian segment of the ISS.

The head of the State Border Committee of Belarus, Anatoly Lappo, announced the concentration of weapons to protect the state border in the Ukrainian direction and the opportunity to use reserves if necessary.

An F-35 fighter jet crashed into the South China Sea while attempting to land on a US Navy aircraft carrier

An American fifth-generation F-35 fighter jet crashed into the South China Sea while attempting to land on the US Navy's Carl Vinson aircraft carrier. This is reported by the press service of the American Pacific Fleet.

He delivered to Earth more than 2.2 tons of various cargoes, including the results of scientific experiments

The Dragon cargo ship of the American company SpaceX landed on water in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Florida. This was reported on Monday on the SpaceX Twitter page.

In addition to scientific and applied tasks, the project pursues an educational goal

The Yarilo No. 3 and Yarilo No. 4 nanosatellites of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University will be launched as part of the Universat program in 2022. This is stated in the theses to the report of the university representatives to the XLVI Academic Readings on Cosmonautics in memory of S. P. Korolev (Royal Readings), which are scheduled for January 25-28.

Lydia Ivanova, a researcher at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Research Institute, noted that changes in approaches to the selection and training of cosmonauts in long-term plans for the development of manned cosmonautics will be required.

Now the complex is undergoing extended tests for experimental military operation

The first serial batch of the newest anti-personnel 40 mm grenade launchers "Balkan" was made. This was reported to TASS in the Rostec state Corporation.

The James Webb Telescope completed the course correction and reached the second Lagrange point

The most expensive James Webb Telescope successfully completed the final course correction a month after launching into space. This is reported by NASA.

The Russian military proposed to fight the enemy's combat swimmers with the help of acoustic waves that will cause underwater saboteurs pain in the ears, as well as a feeling of fear, weakness and depression - the concept is presented in the new issue of the magazine "Military Thought".

In October 1996, I had to visit Tajikistan near the location of the tank unit of the brigade of the rebel Colonel Mahmud Khudoiberdyev. The fighters were just engaged in maintenance of equipment: they cleaned the trunks, dug into the engines, changed the tracks of the tracks of one tank.