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The Russian Federation has firmly secured the second line on the planet in the field of arms supplies. In the past year, the government sold machinery abroad for $ 15.13 billion, $ 2 billion more than the year before. If it were not for the failing test of the newest ship "Vikramaditya" for the Indian Navy and the postponement of its delivery to the middle of the autumn period of 2013, the export supply of Russian weapons would easily outbid the $ 17.4 billion mark.

The kit of the perspective combat ammunition "Warrior-3" will include personal recognition systems "friend - foe". This was announced by the general director of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Precision Engineering (TsNIITOCHMASH, part of the Rostec State Corporation) Albert Bakov.

For many years, the Directorate of Advanced Research Projects of the United States Department of Defense (DARPA) has been trying to solve the problem of independent actions of unmanned aerial vehicles in numerous teams. And it seems that the specialists of the American military department, in collaboration with software engineers, found a way to organize group flights of drones without control from ground points.

Ukraine has announced temporary restrictions on the entry into its territory of citizens of the Russian Federation in the age range from 16 to 60 years. This was announced on the eve of the dinner on Friday by Petro Poroshenko, the president of the Ukrainian Republic. Pyotr Alekseevich substantiated this step by saying that it is impossible to allow aggressive Russians to gather on Ukrainian soil into "private armies", who must subsequently carry out a number of sabotage operations in the "Square".

In the evening, the office of the Russian base in the Khmeimim province lost contact with the IL-20 aircraft of the Russian Federation. Information promulgated by the Ministry of Defense. The plane abruptly cut off communications over the territory of the Mediterranean Sea at a distance of 35 km from the coastal zone of Syria. The crew consisted of 15 people, all of whom died.

In 2018, Ukraine plans to begin testing the newest anti-ship complex "Neptune", developed in Kiev Luch. According to information obtained from open sources, at the moment several prototype rockets are ready for testing. A whole group of Ukrainian enterprises of the military-industrial complex are taking part in the development of new anti-ship missiles, including Luch Design Bureau, Yuzhmash Dnipropetrovsk, Khartron Kharkov and Motor Sich of Zaporozhye.

The unmanned enemy UAV fighter recently passed the first tests at the base of the Novosibirsk aircraft plant. Developers have named a novelty "Hunter". The new fighter has so far passed only ground tests: it picked up speed on the runway, spent taxiing and stopping. All these operations were performed completely offline.

On the eve of the New Year, the first flight of an improved Tu-22M3M missile carrier bomber will take place. As noted in the Russian Ministry of Defense after the inspection, the plane is almost ready to fly. According to TASS, the Russian bomber-bomber Tu-22M3M has undergone significant modernization and is ready for takeoff.

India intends to purchase another batch of 21 MiG-29 fighters from Russia. Negotiations are already underway. The transaction price - 847 million dollars. Each plane will cost customers about 40 million units of American money. Also in this amount will include weapons, equipment and personnel training. Recall that the MiG corporation has been cooperating with India for over half a century.

The head of the Turkish Republic Efendi Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to compete with Russia in the arms market. This was recently announced by the German magazine Mir (Die Welt). According to the President of Turkey, in the foreseeable future, the country should become a weapon giant of global importance along with Russia, China and the United States and shake the world's population with a super weapon of its own production.

In the Airborne Forces, the Arbalet training complex, designed specifically for this purpose, will be used to train specialists in jumping from a great height. The first set of cadets will be 200 soldiers. At this complex will be trained jumping from a height of 8 km.

Ukrainian border guards have strengthened the protection of the state border with Russia. The tightening has affected several regions: Sumy, Kharkiv and Luhansk. They are recognized as potentially hazardous areas. In addition, as noted in the border guards of Ukraine, the next in line are areas bordering Belarus.

Since the end of World War II, the United States has not come out of the state of confrontation with the Soviet Union (and then with the Russian Federation) in the political, military, and economic spheres. Fortunately, direct military conflicts between Washington and Moscow can now be avoided, including through the presence of nuclear deterrence.

In Syria, the Russian military repeatedly attacked US aircraft, both combat and reconnaissance. This is stated in the report of the American Institute for the Study of War. True, the document immediately states that the air defense of Russia does not bombard the US aircraft, but uses electronic suppression systems in relation to them.

Recently, the North Atlantic Alliance is experiencing a real "second youth." Americans are moving new units to Eastern Europe, military budgets are growing, large-scale maneuvers and exercises are regularly held. In general, everything is like the good old days of the Cold War. In the course of one of the last NATO exercises, two of the newest fifth-generation American fighter F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II "clashed" in Norway.

The new strategic bomber, better known to the public as the PAK DA, will be built using low-visibility technology. This was stated to journalists by the Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Alexei Krivoruchko. On Thursday, he inspected the Kazan Aviation Plant. Gorbunova, and then held a meeting there.

The first Mi-171A2 helicopter, produced by Russian Helicopters (Rostec State Corporation), was transferred to the first foreign customer from Kazakhstan. Until the end of the year, it is planned to transfer another Mi-171A2 to India. As noted in the holding, this delivery opens up an international “career” of the Mi-171A2, which promises to be outstanding.

The news from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation shocked many. It turns out that the US military was involved in the attack on the Russian military base Hmeimim in the Syrian Arab Republic. According to Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Alexander Fomin, a group of 13 drones was controlled by the operators of the P-8A Poseidon marine reconnaissance aircraft, at the time of the raid near the Syrian borders in the airspace over the eastern Mediterranean.

About half of the Americans currently serving in the military service believe that they will be involved in large-scale military operations in the short term, linking the possibility of a war with the instability of the situation in the world as a whole and the “aggressive actions” of Russia and China in particular.

The fourth division of the ZRMS S-400 Triumph will be delivered to the Crimea by the end of this year to strengthen the air defense forces located on the peninsula. Recall, at the moment, in the armament of the air defense of the Crimea, there are already three divisions of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system. The first division was delivered to the peninsula at the very beginning of 2017.