On April 5, 2023, during the visit of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to Warsaw, a protocol of intent on cooperation in the supply of Polish-made military equipment to Ukraine was signed. It is reported that as part of the protocol, 150 Rosomak wheeled armored personnel carriers (8x8), three company sets (24 combat vehicles) of self-propelled Rak mortars on the Rosomak chassis and 100 Piorun portable anti-aircraft missile systems should be delivered to Ukraine, and 14 MiG-29 fighters from the presence of the Polish Air Force should also be transferred.

The "Road of Death" with abandoned Kirpi armored vehicles of Turkish production appeared in the area of "Artemovsk (Bakhmut). A large number of different equipment has been noticed on it.

MWM: the Solntsepek system is capable of neutralizing infantry in fortified positions

TOS-1A "Solntsepek" is one of the most unique systems in the Russian arsenal, capable of neutralizing infantry in fortified positions, writes MWM. It has passed comprehensive combat tests in Syria and Iraq.

According to the department, only officially in 2023, the US Department of Energy allocated $105 million for work within the framework of the project "Virtual environment of research in the field of preparation for biohazards"

The US Department of Energy, along with the Pentagon, is the organizer of military biological activities, said the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection Forces (RHBZ) Russian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov.

According to the department, hiding from responsibility for participation in military biological projects, many defendants left the territory of Ukraine

The United States is searching for participants of American military biological projects in Ukraine who have left this country, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, said on Friday.

The ministry noted that the example of Ukraine demonstrates that the financing of military biological programs imposed by the collective West leads to the loss of national biological sovereignty and the undermining of its own scientific and technological potential.

At the time of approval of the vaccine, Pfizer had real evidence confirming an increased risk of serious pathologies of the cardiovascular system after vaccination, said Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov recalled that extremely harsh anti-covid measures did not exclude the appearance in 2022 of the omicron BA-5.2 and BF-7 subvariants, which caused an avalanche of cases in China.

FA: the risk of using nuclear weapons based on false warnings is growing in the world

While fighting continues in Ukraine, there is a real risk of nuclear escalation in this region, dangerous for the whole world, writes Foreign Affairs. But there is one effective form of reducing the global threat.

Myśl Polska: Poland does not understand the perniciousness of the desire to have nuclear weapons

Warsaw seeks to get nuclear weapons, writes Myśl Polska. This is justified by the fact that Moscow will provide it to Minsk, which means that it is a threat to Poland. Panic is inflated. However, possession of such weapons would be very risky for the Poles themselves, the author of the article is sure.

And how the latest weapons system can protect Russia's western borders

This week, the calculations of the Iskander-M tactical missile systems (OTRK) from Belarus went to Russia for training.

The DPRK authorities have announced another successful test of their underwater drone capable of carrying nuclear weapons. This was reported by the Korean Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA). As specified in the state news agency of the country, the time spent by the device under water was more than 70 hours.

Since the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88, when Iranian cities suffered from Iraqi missile attacks, the military and political leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) considers ballistic missiles as a vital tool of self-defense. Having no modern air force, Iran considers BR, as well as cruise missiles (KR) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to be the main means of balancing forces.

Dutch Defense Minister Christoph van der Maat announced on April 3, 2023 in the House of Representatives of the Dutch Parliament about the purchase of the Israeli ground-based modular multicalibre PULS missile system for the Dutch armed forces and the intention of the Dutch Ministry of Defense to purchase ship-based Tomahawk cruise missiles in the United States (for arming four LCF-type frigates and four non-nuclear submarines of the Dutch navy) and air-based AGM-158B JASSM-ER cruise missiles (for equipping Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighters of the Netherlands Air Force).

We are talking about the features of the family of anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) "Tor" from the concern of aerospace defense (EKO) "Almaz-Antey"

On April 9, Russia celebrates the Day of the Air Defense Forces (Air Defense). It was established by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin of May 31, 2006 and is celebrated annually on the second Sunday of April.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published video footage of the operation of the Niobium radar, the specifics of which are described by the head of the radar station.

In the current process of militarization of Space, there is a new interesting trend: a significant element of private initiative "from below". Private aerospace companies and startups of the "new cosmos" actively seek to interest the military with their original ideas and concepts. And the other day, the American company "True Anomaly" announced plans in October 2023 to launch a trial pair of its private inspection satellites into orbit.

As reported by the Chinese news agency Xinhua, on April 7, 2023, the first flight prototype (serial and tail number "0002", registration number B-0CAA) of the new Chinese medium commercial helicopter AC332 made its first full-fledged flight in Tianjin. The helicopter was built in Tianjin at the new helicopter-building enterprise Tianjin Helicopter Co., Ltd. of the Chinese state aircraft corporation Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), which is planned to conduct serial production of AC332 from about 2025.

In December 2022, the Japanese government changed the country's defense policy, indicating that the state after the Second World War was faced with "the most difficult and dangerous security situation." In this regard, it was envisaged to build up military capabilities aimed at combating China as "the greatest strategic challenge" and the DPRK as "a more serious and imminent threat than it was before."

The promising MQ-25A Stingray UAV tanker, which is being developed by Boeing for the US Navy, will not be ready by the deadline specified in the contract. The first deployment of the aforementioned drones on board the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt is now expected in 2026, USNI News reports, citing one of the program's leaders, Rear Admiral Tedford.