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At the disposal of the US military appeared electromagnetic missiles to defeat electronics. More recently, it became known about weapons that destroy the enemy's electronics without harm to people and structures. Previously, this could only be presented in science fiction works. The United States Air Force confirmed that this technology has already been created.

US President Donald Trump had serious difficulties finding and appointing a new state defense minister. Two people have already abandoned this post after James Mattis left. According to Politico, the leader of the United States made a proposal to become the head of the Pentagon to former Senator John Kyle and retired general Jack Kean.

In Chinese print media and on television, materials appear with the arguments of exporters about the purchase of a Su-35 batch in Russia. In one of the programs that appeared on the CCTV television channel, it was said that this acquisition was made exactly when it was necessary. The material noted that fighters made in Russia, in a number of parameters, came very close to fifth-generation aviation.

According to reports from both pro-government and neutral sources, the Assad army managed to take control of the city of Deraa (Dar'a), the administrative center of the province of the same name in southern Syria. It was here in 2011 that the anti-Assad uprising broke out, which many people call the beginning of the civil war in the country.

The military space forces of Russia received three military satellites of the new generation. At the moment they are already in Earth orbit. As noted in the message of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, all three satellites successfully launched into Earth orbit at an altitude of about one and a half thousand kilometers.

In 2019, the first samples of the newest air defense complex S-350 Vityaz will receive a training center for the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Leningrad Region. As explained in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the S-350 Vityaz system is designed to fight primarily with massive aerospace attack weapons - cruise missiles, manned aircraft, medium and heavy-duty drones, tactical ballistic missiles.

According to the American media The National Interest, Russia is not in a hurry to adopt the new Prometheus S-500 anti-aircraft missile system in order not to hinder the profitable sale of the previous model, the S-400 Triumph SAM. The publication expressed concern that the excessive advertising of Prometheus might hamper the promotion of Triumph on the international arms market.

The Belgian military participating in the NATO mission in the Baltic States will not be able to use their personal smartphones in the near future due to the danger of espionage from Russia. So reported the television company VRT. The captain of the naval forces of Belgium, Carl Gillis, says that Russia is extremely interested in obtaining data on geolocation.

The head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS), Dmitry Shugaev, announced the volume of supplies of Russian weapons outside the country: it amounted to $ 15 billion. Russia has been selling weapons for this amount for the third consecutive year. More than half of the weapons delivered outside the country are accounted for by aircraft.

It became known that the US Air Force staged another provocation in the eastern part of the Mediterranean, where military training and firing of Russian Navy ships are held. Of course, the Russian Federation had informed the "partners" in advance about the schedule for conducting the shooting and indicated the boundaries of the closed off shipping section off the coast of the SAR.

AGM-158C - a new type of missile to combat surface targets. The company Lockheed Martin transferred to the US Navy the first batch of mass-produced LRASM missiles. This was announced by the portal navaltoday.com, the message was published on December 19. That is, the fleet has at its disposal anti-ship missiles of a new type.

As the domestic media reported the other day, the hope of the Russian aviation passenger short-haul airliner Sukhoi Superjet-100 cannot be exported, because the US Treasury has decided so! And what is most unpleasant, the American budget financiers are right ... It is noteworthy that the domestic passenger aircraft consists of almost 72% of foreign-made components.

Chemical weapons are among the most dangerous species, aimed at the destruction of a huge number of people. At its first stages of development, toxic substances were required to enter the respiratory tract. Nowadays, there are so powerful variations of it, that to hit a target, there is enough interaction with a small open area of ​​skin or mucous membrane, which will be caused by the rapid destruction of a person.

Specialists of the holding "Roselectronika" (part of the state corporation "Rostec") have developed a new digital data transmission technology. This is a promising means of receiving and transmitting information via short-wave communication channels. HF receivers are widely used in the Russian armed forces to organize command and control of troops.

The domestic military weekly Zvezda appreciated the German Lynx infantry fighting vehicle. As the newspaper notes, the German BMP is an excellent support vehicle. It can suppress enemy firing points, while protecting its soldiers from small arms with its armored body. Lynx received a case of high-quality steel with additional modules for composite booking, which protect against 25-millimeter sub-caliber armor-piercing shells at a distance of half a kilometer, and on trial reached the fifth level of protection according to NATO standards.

Three years later, the planned modernization of combat vehicles will take place in the airborne troops of the Russian Federation. Update more than six hundred units of equipment. After the changes, the cars will be called either BMD-2K-AU or BMD-2M. During the modernization of BMD-2 will receive a new weapon, digital means of intelligence and control.

A couple of days ago, the media reported on the creation of a new Russian hypersonic Zircon rocket and the beginning of its tests. Its speed will exceed the speed of sound 5-6 times (5-6 Max). First of all, this rocket is being developed to arm the submarines of the new generation Husky. Work on them is currently engaged in KB "Malachite".

The United States once again sharply accused Russia of violating the terms of the Treaty on the Elimination of Medium and Short Range Missiles. So the US ambassador to the Russian Federation, John Huntsman, said that the American side had provided Moscow with "a significant amount of information confirming the violations," but Russia "continues to deny that it has committed illegal actions."

On Friday, a military orbital satellite was successfully launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Beyond the surface of the Earth, it was carried by a heavy-class launch vehicle Proton-M. The Russian military satellite successfully entered a predetermined orbit. The spacecraft is designed for high-speed data transmission, television and radio programs, providing telephone and video conferencing, access to the global computer network.

The backbone structure of the rifle sector of the Russian military-industrial complex presented to the general public its new infantry, the AK-308 assault rifle. The presentation took place at the exhibition "Army - 2018". According to experts, for the uninitiated it may seem that the AK-308 is the younger sister of the AK-12 with design amendments from the AK-103 export.