Exercises of Russia, China and South Africa with the participation of the Admiral Gorshkov frigate will start in the Indian Ocean

The second joint naval exercises of the Russian Navy, the PLA Navy and the South African Navy will start on Friday in the southern part of the Indian Ocean near the African coast, the South African Defense Ministry said.

Hit air targets at a distance of up to four hundred kilometers! This is an extremely ambitious goal set today for the Russian Navy – and work in this direction has already begun. However, for success in this case, it is necessary to solve at least two tasks – however, they are not too difficult, and the effect will be extremely high.

Alexey Rakhmanov, General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, paid a working visit to the Rybinsk shipyard "Vimpel" (part of the USC), where he monitored the progress of the construction of boats that are being built for the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

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For almost a year, Russia has been living in conditions of unprecedented size and number of international sanctions. How does a high-tech business feel in such an environment? To what extent did he manage to carry out import substitution and are the losses great? The Prime agency asked Olga Uskova, President of the Cognitive Technologies Group of companies, about this.

The Polish Ministry of Defense ordered 48 additional 155-mm self-propelled howitzers "Crab". The official signing of the contract was announced at a press conference on February 15 by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

On February 17, 2023, the Norwegian defense procurement agency Forsvarsmateriell signed a contract in Munich with the German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) for the purchase of 54 new-made Leopard 2A7 main tanks for the Norwegian armed forces, with an option to purchase 18 more units. The contract value is 19.7 billion Norwegian kroner ($1.928 billion), the delivery of 54 ordered tanks will be carried out in 2026-2028.

Presented by the German arms concern Rheinmetall in mid-June 2022 at the Eurosatory exhibition main battle tank (MBT) "Panther" KF51 (Panther KF51) was covered in sufficient detail in the foreign and Russian sectors of the Internet.

French industrial enterprises have accelerated the production of weapons in order to ensure the speedy delivery of additional batches of Caesar self-propelled artillery systems to the Ukrainian army. This was stated by French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna during the Munich Security Conference. The column also called on other EU countries to adapt their national economies to ensure accelerated production of weapons.

The head of the department, Catherine Colonna, also expressed the opinion that all European countries should adapt their economies to the accelerated production of weapons

French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna said that Paris has accelerated the production of weapons, and therefore Kiev can count on the speedy delivery of additional self-propelled artillery units (ACS) Caesar.

On January 25, the German government confirmed that it would send 14 Leopard 2s to Ukraine and issue permission to other countries to re-export these machines. On February 7, the delivery of 178 Leopard 1A5 to Kiev was approved

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius confirmed that German Leopard tanks will be delivered to Ukraine "at the latest in the last week of March." He told reporters this on Friday upon arrival at the Munich Security Conference.

The Minister of Defense of the United Kingdom, Ben Wallace, noted that this happened after a political decision was made to transfer them to Ukraine

Many Western countries have discovered that they do not have serviceable tanks for Ukraine after a political decision was made to transfer them to Kiev. This was stated by British Defense Minister Ben Wallace in an interview with the German edition of Der Spiegel , published on Saturday.

The Polish president added that the Ukrainian military are being trained in Sventoszow

Kiev can receive Leopard 2 and PT-91 tanks from Poland within one to two months. This was stated by Polish President Andrzej Duda in an interview with Ukrinform published on Saturday.

On February 16, 2023, the US Department of Defense Agency for Military Cooperation (Defense Security Cooperation Agency - DSCA) sent a notification to the US Congress about the planned upcoming sale to the Netherlands through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) at the request of the Dutch government of HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) land-based missile systems manufactured by Lockheed Corporation Martin.

Pakistan does not send weapons or ammunition to Ukraine. This was reported by the press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, whose words are quoted by Dawn.

The French authorities handed over to Ukraine anti-tank missile systems of the 5th generation Akeron. This was announced by the Vice-president of the Commission for National Defense and Armed Forces of France, Jean-Louis Thieriot. The words of the French representative are quoted by Opexnews.

The Czech Republic will produce mobile anti-aircraft installations for the AFU, the main task of which will be the fight against Russian kamikaze drones of the Geranium type. The Netherlands will pay for the order.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius did not rule out that his country could supply Ukraine with additional Leopard 2A6 tanks from the Bundeswehr reserves in addition to the previously promised 14 units of equipment

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that Berlin is currently supplying Patriot missile defense systems Ukraine is impossible. This is stated in the minister 's interview published on Friday with Der Spiegel .

One of the reasons why the Western allies of the Kiev regime are holding off sending modern military equipment to Ukraine is the lack of military personnel capable of controlling it in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In order to solve this problem, a number of NATO countries have begun training the Ukrainian military at their training grounds. Moreover, the courses are sharply accelerated in order to quickly transfer to Kiev at least the promised tanks before the start of a large-scale offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which no one in the West doubts.

TASS on the latest anti-aircraft missile system capable of repelling massive strikes

The Almaz-Antey Aerospace Defense Concern presented at the Aero India 2023 international aerospace exhibition a whole line of its bestsellers in the field of air defense, including the S-350E Vityaz medium-range anti-aircraft missile system (SAM).