Most of Russia’s portable flamethrowers do not eject jets of burning liquid as their classic peers do. Instead, they fire projectiles that explode into a cloud of ultra-hot gases, creating a local inferno around the target and incinerating it.
Moscow must always outpace its competitors in the field of drone warfare, Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Leadership in the US House of Representatives and Senate reached an agreement on another stopgap bill to keep the US government funded until March, a source familiar with the matter told Sputnik on Sunday.
DOHA (Sputnik) - US strikes on Yemen jeopardize shipping in the Red Sea, even for vessels unrelated to the conflict, but will not stop attacks on ships bound for Israeli ports, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday.
Kalibr cruise missiles have an operational range of up to 4,500 km and can be charged with nuclear warheads, while Zircon hypersonic projectiles are unrivaled in NATO countries.
China resolutely opposes any official interaction between the US and Taiwan and any American interference in Taiwan's internal affairs, regardless of the reasons, and calls on Washington to strictly adhere to the one-China principle and the joint communiques.
Dr. Michael Parenti once said, "Economic violence is physical violence in slow motion." The economic sanctions against Iraq in the 1990's led directly to the deaths of half a million Iraqi children. Economic sanctions can be a weapon as deadly as any artillery shell or cruise missile.
The US and the UK carried out air strikes on Houthi targets in northern Yemen earlier this week with the declared aim of deterring attacks on ships passing through the Red Sea.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A US delegation of former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and former Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg will be in Taipei on Sunday, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) has said.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues David Satterfield, appointed three month ago, will leave his post in the coming weeks, the Huffington Post newspaper reported on Saturday, citing a source familiar with his plans and a US official.
The Rafah border crossing remains the only route out and into the Gaza Strip. Tel-Aviv believes that weapons for Hamas are being smuggled that way.
As the war in Gaza enters its 100th day on Sunday, Sputnik has a video showing some flashbacks of the hostilities that have been raging since early October and show no signs of stopping.
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Ecuador's police and army released all prison workers — 136 security and administrative staffers — who was held hostage by rioting inmates in the country's prisons, the Ecuadorian National Comprehensive Care Service for Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI) said
North Korea might have conducted a launch of a ballistic missile towards Sea of Japan, South Korean military reported.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has temporarily suspended military activities in the Rafah Palestinian refugee camp, located in the southern Gaza Strip near the border with Egypt for humanitarian purposes, IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee said on Saturday.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington on Saturday to hold a rally in support of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, a Sputnik correspondent reported.