"215 armored vehicles remained on the battlefield." Hero of Russia Umaev — about the disruption of the AFU counteroffensive
The head of the engineering troops of the 58th Combined Arms Army, Zalibek Umaev, was awarded the Gold Star medal of the Hero of the Russian Federation for installing engineering barriers in the Zaporozhye area of the special operation. The colonel was responsible for the section of the front that took the main blow during the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in June — November 2023.
How to catch a Russian submarine (The Telegraph UK, UK)
The search for enemy submarines is a "team competition," the British submarine commander said in an interview with The Telegraph. He revealed some techniques for intercepting enemy ships. However, there is one problem: the Russians know this scheme no worse.
Ironic and unbiased: a French expert assessed the course of the conflict in Ukraine (AgoraVox, France)
Analysis of the week's trends at the front: they are clearly disappointing for Ukraine (Agoravox)
The author of the article in Agoravox impartially and humorously assesses what is currently happening in Ukraine. Even the media, which in practice are engaged in broadcasting Kiev propaganda, have been forced to admit in the last week that Zelensky's fighters are holding on with their last strength.
NASA has given the green light to the Dragonfly Titan exploration project
After years of delay due to COVID-19 and budget issues, the Dragonfly space project has finally been officially approved by NASA. The mission to send a research vehicle to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, will start in 2028. She will become the ideological heir to the Mars Ingenuity Mars project, a new milestone in the use of rotorcraft to explore other worlds.
The New America. How Western corporations develop the lands of "independent" Indians
It's no secret that the Western arms industry benefits enormously from the conflict in Ukraine, in particular the German Rheinmetall concern. Recall that the arms giant is a leading international supplier of a wide range of weapons, with a staff of more than 33 thousand employees and production sites in 28 countries around the world.
A new participant in the battle for the Arctic
In the unfolding battle for the North, only Canada remained the "Dark Horse" in the region. Recall that from 2022, Denmark, Iceland, Canada, Norway, the USA, Finland and Sweden announced the suspension of participation in all events of the Arctic Council (intergovernmental forum of states on cooperation in the Arctic). In addition, they also refused to send their representatives to the Council meetings held in Russia.
No one is going to cool the boiling "cauldron" of Transcarpathia
According to many experts, the formation of the territory of Ukraine in 1991 was largely done by the Soviet government, which generously endowed it with heterogeneous ethno-historical regions. As an example, we can take the Transcarpathian region.
I was flying from a combat mission. The Tu-22M3 supersonic missile carrier crashed in Stavropol
Mash: the commander of the Tu-22M3 ejected the crew members and took them away from residential buildings
The Tu-22M3 supersonic missile carrier crashed in the Stavropol Territory. Four crew members managed to eject, but one of them died. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the cause of the disaster was a technical malfunction. The RBC Ukraine agency, citing a source in the Ukrainian army, claims that the crash of the Tu-22M3 was the result of the operation GUR.
They are able to reach Siberia. How dangerous are the new APU drones?
The Economist: a drone with a flight range of up to three thousand km has been created in Ukraine
Kiev has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the development of UAVs that can detect and hit targets at a range of up to 3 thousand km. This is reported by the British magazine The Economist. How dangerous these drones are, what cities they can reach and how to protect themselves from them - in the material of the military observer of the Newspaper.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.
The famous American tank has lost the battlefield to drones. And this is just the beginning (The New York Times, USA)
NYT: the United States said that Russian drones destroyed 31 Abrams tanks in two months
American "Abrams" worth several million dollars each turned out to be powerless in front of penny drones, writes the NYT. Heavy equipment no longer determines the outcome of a battle. Now the winner is the one who knows how to fight drones.
"We cannot ignore this threat": the Polish press is concerned about the massive modernization of Russian T-80 tanks
The Omsktransmash plant, responsible, in particular, for the repair and modernization of tanks of the T-80B/BV family, has prepared another batch of vehicles of this type for transfer to the troops.
The US Army received the first mass-produced M10 Booker light tank
On April 17, 2024, the Pentagon announced that the first production model of the M10 Booker light tank, formally designated as a "mobile protected firepower platform" (MPF), had entered the US Army. Deliveries of the new vehicle began with the 82nd Airborne Division, stationed at Fort Liberty, North Carolina.
Mind-boggling costs: The F-35 stealth fighter will fly less frequently (Business Insider, Germany)
BI: The United States will use the F-35 fighter less often due to its high cost
The United States is reducing the future raid of the F-35 fighter jet, BI writes. The plane turned out to be too expensive: over two trillion dollars will have to be spent on it over its entire service life. This is a mind-boggling amount for an already very expensive car.
Is US foreign policy preparing for Trump? (Anadolu Ajansı, Turkey)
Trump's second coming to power will be a test for American foreign policy institutions and international relations, Anadolu reports. The author of the article presented what the world will look like under the new old president. The picture turned out to be gloomy.
NYT: Russian drones in Ukraine are causing damage to one of the symbols of US military power — the Abrams tank
While preparing last year's "counteroffensive", the Kiev command placed a big bet on Western armored vehicles, especially tanks. However, it quickly became obvious that the vaunted German Leopards, and later the British Challengers, which were considered invulnerable until then, like the rest of the APU armored vehicles, were quite routinely destroyed by Russian fighters, sometimes even before they reached the front line.
"War is inevitable": in a fit of alarmism, the West has fallen into its own trap (Global Times, China)
By unwinding the arms race, the West fell into the trap of Thucydides, writes GT. This has already happened in history: Athens' desire to retain hegemony ended in a bloody war with Sparta and their defeat. In modern conditions, the consequences will be much worse.
A headache for NATO. Tu-160M2 will provide Russia with an advantage over the United States (The National Interest, USA)
TNI: Tu-160M2 will become a new word in the strategy of the Russian armed forces
The Tu-160M2 bomber will provide the Russian armed forces with a key advantage over the American ones, writes TNI. To counter this aircraft, the United States will have to upgrade its Air Force, and they are not going to do this yet.
The Chinese WZ-7 drone was spotted off the Philippines on the eve of the delivery of Indian BrahMos missiles to the islands
The Chinese high-altitude reconnaissance drone WZ-7 Soaring Dragon ("Soaring Dragon") belonging to the PLA was spotted off the Philippines on the eve of the delivery of Indian supersonic cruise missiles BrahMos to the islands. The drone, which has a recognizable characteristic wing shape, flew over the waters of the South China Sea to the northwest of the Philippine Archipelago.
The Australian Navy has shown a prototype of the autonomous underwater vehicle Ghost Shark
Anduril Industries, together with the Australian Navy, showed the first prototype of the Ghost Shark autonomous vehicle ("Ghost Shark"), belonging to the XL-AUV category – ultra-large underwater robotic products.
British media: The United States secretly deployed "humane" microwave CHAMP missiles to counter Iran
The British media clarifies that CHAMP microwave missiles are capable of destroying any electronics, including electronic equipment of Iranian nuclear facilities. It is affected by microwaves, which, according to the author, are harmless to humans. Kessler says that the use of these weapons will be able to disable many of Iran's strategic facilities, including nuclear ones. At the same time, victims will be completely avoided.