The US Air Force has moved to the testing stage of a full-fledged prototype of the latest hypersonic air-to-ground missile, created under the ARRW (Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon) program. The next rocket launch was carried out off the California coast of the Pacific Ocean.

On December 9, 2022, the Finnish Ministry of Defense announced the purchase of large batches of Spike-SR, Spike-LR2 and Spike-ER2 anti-tank guided missiles for the Finnish armed forces from the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems for a total of 223.6 million euros (excluding VAT). The purchase will be carried out through the NATO procurement agency NSPA (NATO Support and Procurement Agency) and the NATO Land Combat Missiles partnership program.

Iran will limit the range of ballistic missiles that it allegedly plans to transfer to Russia, the American news website Axios claims, citing four unnamed Israeli senior officials.

Russia continues to transfer military equipment to the territory of Belarus, another batch of T-72 tanks has arrived in the republic. According to Ukrainian intelligence, an echelon with armored vehicles arrived at the Zaslonovo station in the Vitebsk region.

The first XA-180 Pasi armored personnel carrier delivered from Finland became a trophy of the liberators. The three-axle car does not have any visible damage, except that the front right wheel is flat.

Germany has opened a repair center for military equipment of the Ukrainian army on the territory of Slovakia, the first self-propelled guns Panzerhaubitze 2000 from the presence of the APU have already been delivered for repair work. This was stated by the head of the special staff for Ukraine in the German Defense Ministry, Christian Freiding.

According to the official statement of the German Federal Government dated December 7, 2022, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) is allowed to sell 18 RCH 155 wheeled howitzers to Ukraine. As a result, Ukraine will become the first customer of this newly developed weapon system.

France handed over to Ukraine a batch of 155-mm self-propelled guns TRF1, removed from service with the French army. This is reported by the French press with reference to a statement by French Defense Minister Sebastian Lecorny.

BAE Systems Hagglunds has announced the signing of a contract with the Slovak Ministry of Defense for the supply of 152 CV-9035 Mk.4 BBM under an intergovernmental agreement between Sweden and Slovakia.

On December 12, 2022, Slovakia and Sweden signed an intergovernmental agreement on the acquisition of 152 CV90 Mk IV infantry fighting vehicles (CV9035 Mk IV) manufactured by the Swedish branch of BAE Systems Corporation (BAE Systems AB / Land Systems Hägglunds AB) for the Slovak Armed Forces. The contract value is 1.3 billion euros, and the total cost of the purchase as a whole, including estimated infrastructure costs, is estimated at about 1.688 billion euros, including VAT.

According to the top manager of the association "Android Technology" Evgeny Dudorov, in the second half of next year, a special test site will appear on the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region (Bor, Boravtosteklo base), where unmanned trucks and other similar equipment will be tested.

The heads of the Murmansk, Arkhangelsk Regions, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Komi Republic also took part in the gathering of the fleet's leadership

New approaches to the use of units of the Northern Fleet in the Arctic were discussed in Severomorsk, where the gathering of the fleet's leadership began on Tuesday. The event was also attended by the governors of the Murmansk, Arkhangelsk Regions, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) and the head of the Komi Republic, the Sevflot press service reported.

Taiwan will increase the firepower of Tuo Chiang-type corvettes, which are called "aircraft carrier killers." A new batch of ships that will be built for the Naval Forces (Navy) of the Republic of China will receive more anti-ship missiles, writes the South China Morning Post (SCMP).

In addition, he told what needs to be done to quickly saturate the Russian army involved in its military with innovative military developments, and revealed plans for cooperation with Dmitry Rogozin's "Royal Wolves".

FA: Ukraine's attempts to seize Crimea will jeopardize its alliance with the West

Ukraine should not try to "return" Crimea, writes Foreign Affairs. For the Kremlin, this is a special region, and Putin will not give it up. By unleashing an open struggle for the peninsula, Kiev will rally the Russians and bleed itself dry. The West will also not approve of such a move, as it threatens to escalate the conflict.

Yahoo News Japan: Putin will respond to Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory

Ukraine has crossed the line, writes former Tokyo Mayor Yoichi Masuzoe in Yahoo News Japan. Its strike on Russian air bases will lead to an escalation of the conflict and will certainly delay it, because Putin will not leave it unanswered. The path to peace is not yet visible, the politician believes.

FOCUS: Ukraine has made the weapons concerns of the West rich. They are fattening, as in the days of the Second World War

The arms business is booming primarily in the US, the EU and China, writes the author of the German magazine FOCUS. More recently, defense companies were considered unpromising. And today their shares have soared like the forces of evil: the peaceful post-war period in Europe has ended, their time has come.

Rand Corporation: the Americans have proposed several ways to exhaust Russia

The RAND Corporation has long been "famous" for openly hostile "reports" on Russian topics. We offer readers a summary of the military and economic part of the analytical study on "how to harm Russia", recently released by this analytical center.

Ex-US intelligence officer Koffler: It's time for the US to stop fomenting the conflict in Ukraine

The Biden administration is probably coming to the realization that taxpayers' money and the defensive arsenal are not infinite, and it's time to stop fomenting conflict in Ukraine, former US intelligence officer Rebekah Koffler said on Fox News. In her opinion, the United States will not be able to achieve its goals in it.

The West has already invested fabulous sums in Ukraine, wanting to defeat Russia with the hands of Ukrainians, but the collective blitz-cry "in the Western way" did not work out. Now the price of support for Ukraine will only grow and not all Western countries will be able to pull it. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal.