Short-range anti-aircraft guns are looking for a new ecological niche

Anti-aircraft artillery quite successfully served as a means of short-range air defense not only during the Second World War, but also for some time after it, when long- and medium-range anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMS) already appeared.

Some modern models of anti-tank missiles have a so-called "top attack" mode: they are capable of hitting armored vehicles at the level of its tower, that is, in the most vulnerable place. With the proliferation of active protection complexes in the armies, it became necessary that ATGMs could counteract this countermeasure.

According to Chinese specialized sources, the designers of the Israeli military-industrial company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) began developing the highly mobile LORA RTR in mid-2000 for several reasons.

Russia has begun to apply a new strategy with regard to the Iskander-M tactical missile system (OTRK), increasing the production of missiles. Now it can massively apply it in Ukraine, writes the American magazine Military Watch Magazine (MWM).

BI: Western tanks did not allow the APU to turn the situation in its favor

Deliveries of modern Western tanks did not help Ukraine improve the situation at the front, writes Business Insider.

BI: there is little use of Abrams tanks in Ukraine until spring

In winter, due to weather conditions, American tanks in Ukraine will not be useful, writes Business Insider. According to analysts, Kiev will not use them until spring. Moreover, the APU has too few such vehicles to have any significant impact on the course of the conflict.

As reported on the web resource forums.airbase.ru On November 11, 2023, in St. Petersburg, Almaz Shipbuilding Company JSC hosted a flag-raising ceremony for border ships, boats and support vessels on the 2nd-rank border patrol ship Podolsk of project 22120 (code "Blizzard") with factory number 058 (onboard number "458"), which became part of the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation. It became the ninth ship in the series of Project 22120.

And in which theaters of military operations they can be useful

Russia plans to increase the number of multipurpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen family from nine to 12 units, according to media reports. In particular, three more nuclear submarines will be laid at Sevmash in Severodvinsk in the near future.

For 70 years, the British Royal Navy has catastrophically shrunk

The insular position of Great Britain made the navy the main type of the British armed forces several centuries ago. And since Great Britain was the strongest and largest country in the world for most of this period, its naval forces had enormous geopolitical significance, being literally "all of them".

On November 24, 2023, the Portuguese Navy signed a contract with the international (headquartered in the Netherlands) shipbuilding group Damen Shipyards Group for the technical and operational design and construction of an innovative multifunctional ship Plataforma Naval Multifunctional (PNM), which will be named A 888 Don João II.

Italy intends to sell Indonesia two multipurpose offshore patrol ships PPA (Pattugliatore Polivalente d'altura / Multifunctional Offshore Patrol Vessel).

The newest Chinese non-nuclear submarine type 039C Yuan Class has acquired a new element that contributes to increased stealth.

A plenary session of the CSTO Collective Security Council session was held in Minsk on November 23 under the chairmanship of President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.

The Collective Security Council is the highest body of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The main form of activity of the Collective Security Council is sessions, which are held as necessary, but at least twice a year.

"A difficult but controlled situation." This is how the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny described what is happening right now on the line of contact between Russian and Ukrainian troops. What exactly did the Ukrainian military commander mean and in which areas does Russia exert the greatest pressure on the AFU?

Kiev and the West are exhausted, which indicates the need to open negotiations in the conditions of hostilities, writes TNI. Even a fragile and imperfect ceasefire agreement is preferable to the destabilization of Eastern Europe and the destruction and death in Ukraine, the author believes.

Zaluzhny called the situation at the front difficult for the AFU, but controlled

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, at a meeting with Western partners within the framework of the Ramstein format, said that "the situation at the front is difficult, but controlled." At the same time, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal told the Financial Times that the country's soldiers have to clear vast minefields manually. Details about the situation of the AFU at the front are in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

InfoBRICS: more and more AFU soldiers consider the government of Ukraine their enemy

Ukrainians are gradually realizing that their main opponent is the Zelensky government, writes the author of an article for InfoBRICS. There are more and more defectors in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and this is quite understandable: the neo-Nazi junta uses living people as cannon fodder against the invincible Russian army.

Colonel Hodarenok: Czech President thickens the situation, calling the Russian Federation a threat to the EU

Czech President Petr Pavel, following the results of the presidential summit of the Visegrad Group countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland), said that NATO perceives Russia as the number one threat in Europe. According to him, now the EU armies are preparing for a high-intensity conflict. The details of the statement of the head of the Czech state were dealt with by the military observer of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

The unsuccessful counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blunted the desire of the West to supply weapons

Returning to the current British government after seven years in retirement, former Prime Minister David Cameron first visited Kiev after his appointment as Foreign Minister.