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Retired American Special Forces soldier Steve Balestrieri admitted that the Soviet 23-mm twin anti-aircraft gun ZU-23-2 turned out to be the most interesting weapon from which he had a chance to shoot. The

"Green Beret" told Business Insider that over the years of service he had to try out many types of weapons, including the 106-mm recoilless gun M40, but the Soviet anti-aircraft gun impressed him due to its simplicity, ease of operation and fire power.

It will be called "The Memory of the people. The tape of the military history of the Fatherland"

By the end of 2023, the Russian Military Department will create a portal about military operations in which Russia has ever participated. This was announced by the head of the Department for Perpetuating the memory of those killed in the Defense of the Fatherland of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Valery Kudinsky.

A batch of the latest multi-purpose Su-35S fighters has arrived at the State Center for Training Aviation Personnel and Military Tests of the Russian Ministry of Defense, stationed in Lipetsk.

More than half of the combat aviation is concentrated in ten countries of the world. The FlightGlobal analytical center released the World Air Forces 2022 report, in which it counted the composition of the Air Forces of all countries.

Nine APL-500 field camps with a full support cycle have been established in the Southern Military District (SE) for combat training of battalion tactical groups, the press service of the district reported on Monday.

The crews of the Baltic Fleet warships in the Kaliningrad region conducted training on the detection of unidentified air targets and repelling attacks by means of an air attack of a simulated enemy.

The Proton-M carrier rocket with two satellites launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome

Russia has launched a Proton-M carrier rocket with two telecommunications satellites. The rocket was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. This is reported by TASS.

We are talking about the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 satellites

The Proton-M carrier rocket with two telecommunications satellites Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome, follows from the broadcast, which is conducted on the Roscosmos website.

The Ministry of Justice of Tajikistan has published generalized data on state budget expenditures on law enforcement agencies.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister, there is a request for this type of equipment in the world

The devices developed in Russia are superior in technical characteristics to the Turkish Bayraktar attack drone. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov in an interview with RBC.

Chile decided to convert some of the existing Leopard 1V main battle tanks into multiple rocket launchers.

Currently, a technology demonstrator has been created, which is a tracked combat vehicle, from the turret of which the 105-mm rifled L7A3 cannon was removed. Two packages of twenty guides for launching 70-mm unguided missiles were reportedly installed on it.

For the organization of unmanned transportation on the route Moscow - St. Petersburg, which should start in 2024, the Russian Post would like to receive 1,336 billion rubles of state subsidies.

The deeply modernized Tu-160 strategic bomber of the new construction will make its first flight at the beginning of next year. Earlier, a car equipped with improved NK-32-02 engines took to the sky.

First deputy chairman of the Military-industrial complex Board Yelchaninov: PAK DA will enter service after 2024

Promising long-range aviation complexes (PAK DA) will enter service in the period from 2024 to 2033. Aircraft deliveries are provided for by the new State Armament Program. Andrei Yelchaninov, First Deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia, called the timing of the receipt of the complexes in an interview with Interfax.

Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces Andrey Demin stressed that in 2021, the S-350 was operated and mastered by teachers at a specialized training center, showed high reliability of systems and proved itself from the best side.

Flightglobal: Ukraine has 43 MiG-29 fighters

The Defense Express agency, referring to the World Air Forces 2022 directory of military aviation published by FlightGlobal, revealed the number of combat aircraft and helicopters available to Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin said that there is no need to worry about the Russian army, since everything is fine with it. He mentioned this on December 9 at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC).

At the end of the 80s, the USSR once again tried to create a new generation tank, which was supposed to successfully fight not only with existing Abrams and Leopards, but also with promising equipment that could appear in the West both in the 90s and later.

Their number is not specified

China on Friday, using a Long March-4B (CZ-4B, Changzheng-4B) carrier rocket, successfully launched a group of Shijian-6 05 (Shijian-6 05) satellites. This was reported by the Xinhua news agency.

Otkritie Bank survey: 18% of Russians believe that robot judges will make sentences more honest

Slightly more than a third of Russians (37 percent) reacted positively to the appearance of robot judges, but in most cases citizens would like their sentence to be considered by a person, not a digital algorithm. Such data are provided in the survey of the Otkritie Bank, RIA Novosti reports.