Xi Jinping has conceived a new world order. Everyone will like it, except the West
The Economist: China will create a new world order based on deals between countries
Xi Jinping wants to create a new world order based on deals between countries that are not burdened by any ideological conditions, writes The Economist. The West should not underestimate how attractive this approach is for other countries.
The Chinese army is learning too well from the Russian, Western "friends" inspire us
Beijing and Moscow are friends, but the West hopes for a split due to the faster growth of the PRC army
What can divide Russia and China? Figaro newspaper asks this question and comes to the conclusion that the most vulnerable point is the Russians' fears of the growing military power of the PRC. Now Russia is still stronger militarily, but the Chinese did not waste time all 30 years while the Russian defense industry was reformed.
Americans: the offensive will be suicide for Ukraine
WSJ readers called the possible APU offensive "disinformation" and "suicide"
Despite the training of soldiers and Western assistance, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will not be able to launch their offensive "according to the canons of NATO," the authors of the article write in the WSJ. According to the readers of the publication, there will be no offensive at all, and if it takes place, it will end badly for the Ukrainian troops.
American TV channel: The strategic goal of the spring counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is the elimination of the land corridor to the Crimea
The spring large-scale counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will still take place, Kiev intends to radically change the balance of forces on the battlefield and achieve an intermediate victory over the Russian army. The most likely direction of the strike is Zaporozhye, CNN reports with reference to Ukrainian intelligence.
North Korea has tested its own analogue of the Poseidon underwater system
As the North Korean state news agency KCNA reported on March 24, 2023, from March 21 to March 23, tests were conducted in the DPRK of a "new complex of underwater nuclear strategic strike weapons" "Heir" ("Tsunami"), which is an uninhabited underwater vehicle with a nuclear charge, the task of which is called "stealthy arrival in a submerged position in the area the destruction and destruction of enemy ship groups and large ports by creating a super-powerful radioactive tsunami due to underwater explosions."
The US Navy will receive the second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) a year later
The newest American aircraft carrier of the Gerald R. Ford type, the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), will be transferred to the US Navy a year later than planned. This is reported by USNI News with reference to the plans of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII).
Egypt received three American Cyclone-type patrol boats
The US Navy reported that on March 21, 2023, it handed over to the Egyptian Navy in Alexandria three large Cyclone-type patrol boats withdrawn from their composition - PC 3 Hurricane, PC 6 Sirocco and PC 12 Thunderbolt. The boats arrived in Alexandria on February 12 from their former permanent base in Bahrain, having made a month-long 4,000-mile crossing with mixed American-Egyptian crews around the Arabian Peninsula since January.
Malta received the patrol ship P 71
On March 22, 2023, Valletta hosted the official ceremony of the entry into the fleet of the Armed Forces of Malta (Maritime Squadron of the Armed Forces of Malta) of the new patrol ship P 71, built at the shipyard of the Italian shipbuilding company Cantiere Navale Vittoria SpA in Adria near Venice. The new ship became the largest unit of the Maltese fleet. It also became the largest ship built by Cantiere Navale Vittoria.
Philippines and Japan expand military-technical cooperation
Fleets of two Pacific archipelagos conduct joint exercises
Philippine President Bongbonga Marcos and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida signed an agreement on cooperation between the defense departments of the two countries. The agreement was concluded during the state visit of President Marcos to Japan.
A video of tests on the Dnieper River of one of the American 40-foot boats of the Defiant type (40RV) transferred to the APU appeared on the Network
The US has supplied Ukraine with an unnamed number of Metal Shark 40 Defiant (40 PB) patrol boats. The first video of the tests on the Dnieper of one of the supplied boats has already appeared on the Network. Up to this point, they have only been reported.
To attack Sevastopol, Ukraine used the methods of the sailing era
Orders of Courage were awarded to Russian female servicemen who repelled the attack of Ukrainian drones in Sevastopol. Thanks to the skillful actions of the Black Sea Fleet, the threat of surface drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was eliminated in time. How dangerous can such devices be and what is required to fully protect against them?
Sevastopol confirmed the loss of the Saratov BDK during the fighting in Ukraine in March 2022
The Black Sea Fleet officially confirmed the loss in 2022 of the large landing ship "Saratov", struck in the port of Berdyansk during unloading. This was stated by the commander of the Crimean naval base of the Black Sea Fleet Felix Menkov.
Fuel-free electric generation will become the basis of the energy of the 21st century
Global changes in the world, concerning both politics and lifestyle, are today largely associated with the introduction of new technologies and innovations in various fields of science and technology. Most likely in 10-15 years the world will live in completely different conditions. Many professions will disappear due to the introduction of artificial intelligence and scientific achievements.
The German Defense Ministry has discovered that the new bulletproof vests of the Bundeswehr are not bulletproof
One of the batches of 304 thousand Modular Ballistic Protection and Carrying Equipment Soldier (MOBAST) bulletproof vests ordered by the German Ministry of Defense turned out to have serious shortcomings. As experts of the German military department found out, bulletproof vests are not bulletproof. This is reported by the N-TV channel.
OBT "Panther" KF51 from Rheinmetall: an extended review
We continue to publish additional materials about the new main battle tank (MBT) of the Rheinmetall concern "Panther" KF51, published during the profile forum in Berlin.
Switzerland is investigating the circumstances of the possible dispatch of Eagle armored vehicles to Ukraine
The State Secretariat of the Economy of the country does not have information that could confirm the presence of Eagle in the combat area
The State Secretariat of the Swiss Economy (SECO) is in contact with the German authorities, clarifying the circumstances under which Eagle armored vehicles could be re-exported to Ukraine. At the moment, this department does not have information that could confirm their presence in the combat area, SECO told TASS on Friday.
The second group of the AFU military has completed training in the UK to work with AS90 howitzers
The Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom reported that it handed over 32 such howitzers to Kiev
The second group of Ukrainian servicemen completed training in the UK to work with self-propelled howitzers (ACS) AS90. This was announced on Sunday by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
Lithuanian authorities: We do not have tanks to transfer them to Ukraine, but we are still in a tank coalition to support this country
The Lithuanian government has stated that it intends to continue supporting Ukraine, making an interesting addition:
Germany supplied Ukraine with armored vehicles, machine guns and drone detection systems
Spare parts for Leopard 2 tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles were also sent
Over the past week, Germany has handed over to Ukraine three armored Dachs excavators, 70 MG3 machine guns, spare parts for Leopard 2 tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles, as well as 30 drone detection systems. This is stated in the updated list of weapons supplied to Kiev, published on Friday on the website of the German government.
Germany handed over three engineering tanks Pionierpanzer 2A1 Dachs to the APU
Western countries continue to pump Ukraine with military equipment and weapons. Thus, the Ukrainian press reports on the transfer of German-made Dachs engineering tanks for the armed forces of Ukraine.