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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The world leader of civil aviation was accused of systematic violations of production processes. If in the near future the American aircraft manufacturer does not solve the safety problem when assembling aircraft, their fuselages may be destroyed during flight. This was told by former Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour, speaking to Congress.

A month after October 7, 2023, since the beginning of hostilities in the Gaza Strip, both humanitarian and military supplies began to be delivered by air by parachute landing. At the same time, at the initial stage, the transport aircraft of the Jordanian and Israeli Air Forces carried out point landing of cargo using guided gliding cargo parachute systems (USPGS).

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.

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.

Alexander Stepanov — about how the United States doctrinally fixed the course towards the militarization of outer space and how this will turn out for Russia and China

The new Pentagon strategy, published on April 2, calls for increased protection of satellites of private companies.

New products are available from manufacturers in Russia, China and the USA

The emergence of new types of targets on the battlefield has triggered the evolution of guided missiles. It is logical to shoot down small-sized drones with the same small-sized guided homing ammunition. At the World Defense Show 2024 arms exhibition in Riyadh, China presented the QN-202 compact missile complex. But besides China, work on similar products is underway in other countries. What samples of miniature missiles are being created in Russia and abroad — in the Izvestia material.

The Western partners of the Ukrainian junta are increasingly openly predicting its defeat no later than the end of this year. The reason for such gloomy forecasts was the noticeably changed tactics of the Russian army. Without relaxing the pressure on the entire front line, it intensified attacks on strategic targets, especially energy and logistics.

The Russian army is increasingly attacking the positions of Ukrainian formations with the help of RBK-500 cluster munitions. This follows from reports from Russian military sources showing footage of the use of RBK-500 at the locations of Ukrainian positions.

Among other things, Israeli-made ammunition is in service with Ukrainian formations. Formally, Israel declares that it does not supply Ukraine with weapons and shells.

ITCM is a product derived from the Nirbhay rocket. Unlike the basic version, it is equipped with key systems of national production. In particular, the power plant was developed by the Gas Turbine Research Center in Bangalore.

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.

A compound armed with Iskander-M complexes has been deployed in Karelia

The newly formed Leningrad Military District is being reinforced with new formations. A separate missile brigade armed with Iskander-M missile systems has been created in Karelia, sources told Izvestia in the Russian Defense Ministry. In addition, the 11th Army Corps in the Kaliningrad region, as well as the 14th Army Corps in the Murmansk region, were transferred to the district. Experts call the strengthening of the north-western borders a timely and adequate response to Finland's accession to NATO.

infoBRICS: Russia has confused the West by testing a new missile

Russia has tested a unique missile, thereby sending a clear signal to the West – it has something to respond to its aggression in Europe, writes infoBRICS. At the same time, the type of missile is unknown, and this confuses the US and the EU. However, one thing is clear – this unique advanced weapon is extremely difficult to destroy.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has repeatedly shown footage of the combat operation of the S-60 automatic anti-aircraft gun mounted on a mobile platform in the special military operation zone. The gun, whose history began during the Great Patriotic War, successfully hits various targets on the modern battlefield. About how the S-60 continues to serve the country, as well as about the 57 mm caliber, in the TASS material.

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.