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Another batch of howitzers, APCs delivered to occupied Donbas from Russia – Defense Ministryhttps://images.unian.net/photos/2014...60514572494819
Spokesman for Ukraine's Defense Ministry Dmytro Hutsuliak has said another batch of 122mm D-30 howitzers and BTR-80 armored personnel carriers was delivered to the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions from Russia. According to him, the Russian Federation continues to secretly increase the supply of weapons, military equipment, and ammunition for the needs of formations and units of the 1st (Donetsk) and 2nd (Lugansk) Army Corps of the Russian armed forces through uncontrolled parts of the border in eastern Ukraine. "At the same time, the command of the Russian armed forces increased the number of inspections by commissions to strengthen control over the activities of Russian occupation forces, which is associated with a large amount of unrecorded weapons and ammunition in formations and units and with rotational measures of commanders […] in the 1st and 2nd Army Corps," he said at a briefing on February 6, referring to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate. Hutsuliak said the work of the integrated commission of the ground forces command of the Russian armed forces continued in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions from January 25 to check the staffing, combat readiness, and supplies.
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#BREAKING: #UnitedStates has informed #Israel it will buy the Iron Dome missile defense system "for an immediate need of the US Army"
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#Breaking: The White House announces that "Iván Duque" the president of #Colombia will visit the White House next week. And to talk possible about #Venezuela of the situation.https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyvQFkAX0AAte78.jpg
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Russian Navy #ВМФ #ЧФ BSF Black Sea Fleet Ropucha class LSTMs Tsezar Kunikov 158 & Azov 151 transited Bosphorus back-to-back towards Mediterranean en route to #Tartus #Syria. First Mediterranean deployment in 2019 for both landing ships.https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dyu8HxOX4AARWLT.jpg
Russia Conducts Test of Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile
The test is the thirteenth to date to involve the experimental Burevestnik.
By Ankit Panda
February 06, 2019
Russia conducted a partially successful test of its developmental nuclear-powered cruise missile, the Burevestnik, on January 29, 2019, according to U.S. government sources with knowledge of Russia’s weapons programs who spoke to the The Diplomat. The test took place at Russia’s Kapustin Yar missile test range and is the thirteenth to date involving the missile.
The test marks the first involving the Burevestnik in nearly one year. The missile had not been tested since February 2018. According to one source, U.S. intelligence assesses that Russia’s development efforts on the missile continues. The United States intelligence community internally calls the missile the KY30 or the SSC-X-9 SKYFALL.
The Burevestnik was first tested at Kapustin Yar in June 2016. According to U.S. military intelligence, only one test of the missile has been moderately successful to date. That test took place in November 2017 from Russia’s Pank’ovo test site in Novaya Zemlya and resulted in recovery mission involving specialized Russian ship crews to retrieve the missile’s debris and nuclear materials from the Barents Sea after a crash.
In a speech unveiling a suite of new missile systems before the Russian Federal Assembly in March 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that “In late 2017, Russia successfully launched its latest nuclear-powered missile at the Central training ground.”
He continued that “during its flight, the nuclear-powered engine reached its design capacity and provided the necessary propulsion.” He additionally claimed that the missile’s range was “unlimited” and that it could “maneuver for as long as necessary.”
No country has to date deployed a cruise missile using an on-board nuclear reactor, largely given the engineering challenges and safety concerns involved. In the late-1950s, the United States began development on prototype nuclear-powered ramjet engines as part of Project Pluto, but none of those missiles were ever deployed.
The Burevestnik was announced by Putin alongside a range of new nuclear weapons in his March 2018 address. Some of the other weapons include the Avangard, a hypersonic boost-glide reentry vehicle, the Poseidon, an autonomous thermonuclear torpedo, the Sarmat, a new intercontinental-range ballistic missile, and the Kinzhal, an air-launched ballistic missile.
The January test of the Burevestnik comes shortly after the release of the United States’ 2019 Missile Defense Review, which called for the development of a range of new technologies to augment existing U.S. defensive capabilities against cruise and ballistic missile threats. In March 2018, Putin justified Russia’s development of the Burevestnik and other new systems in terms of growing Russian concerns about U.S. missile defense capabilities. https://thediplomat.com/2019/02/russ...ruise-missile/
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#UPDATE: Earlier today 3 USAF planes: RC-135V Rivet Joint, RC-135U Combat Sent & USAF Global Hawk we’re monitoring Russian SMD movements over eastern Ukraine, southern Russia and Crimea/the Black Sea
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Israel Must Stop Syria Strikes, Moscow Says Israel must stop conducting air strikes in Syria, Moscow said Friday, according to Russian news outlet Sputnik News.
"With regard to the latest Israeli attacks, we said that such arbitrary attacks on sovereign Syrian territory should be stopped and excluded," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said, Sputnik reported. "Any strikes destabilise the situation even more. No one should conduct actions in Syria that go beyond the scope of antiterrorist objectives."Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 21 in Moscow following brief talks that took place at the Paris Peace Forum in November, as well as a series of phone calls between the two leaders.
The meeting comes after tensions between the two countries rose in recent weeks following Israeli airstrikes on Damascus Airport last month. Twenty-one people were killed in the extensive strike, according to a war watchdog. At least 12 of them were members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
The airstrike destroyed Russian military infrastrucure, including SA2, SA3, SA17 air-defense systems, an SA22 TELAR, and a J27 Radar.
After the strike, Moscow warned against "arbitrary" airstrikes in Syria. "We should never allow Syria, which has suffered years of armed conflict, to be turned into an arena where geopolitical scores are settled," added Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...says-1.6916991