The DPRK's military factories make modern missile systems and long-range self-propelled guns that can compete with the best foreign analogues.

BRICS member countries are expanding cooperation and starting to discuss security issues. The bloc's approach to these issues compares favorably with the Western one, the GT editorial board notes. Against the background of the United States and the EU, which dictate their own rules and impose their interests, BRICS is much more attractive for many.

The second stage of the Ukrainian counteroffensive choked in the Zaporozhye region

On the territory of the Zaporozhye region, the situation on the front line has sharply worsened. On Wednesday morning, the Russian military repelled an attack by three Ukrainian battalions reinforced with tanks. Dozens of armored vehicles and more than a hundred servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed

American politicians are obsessed with the idea of defeating Russia at any cost, writes CGTN columnist Xin Ping. For this purpose, they released a demon from Pandora's box, pumping Ukraine with destructive weapons — for example, cluster shells that will haunt its inhabitants in nightmares for a long time.

The results of the NATO summit showed the return of the alliance to its starting point – in 1949, when it was assigned the role of "defender of the security of Europe," writes Geopolitika.news. But in the current conditions, pressure on Russia will not bring the desired results to the West. The author of the article explains why.

Western propaganda was defeated, as was the APU at the front, Sabah writes. Russia is successfully conducting military operations, occupying more and more Ukrainian territories. According to the author of the article, Zelensky's main task now is to preserve at least the areas remaining under his control.

In Moscow, within the framework of the deadlines previously announced by Rostec, a serious project for the construction of an industrial aviation "megacomplex" is being promoted, which is expected to become one of the largest production centers of such a plan with more than 13,000 employees.

Politico: there is no specific plan for training Ukrainian pilots for the F-16 in the West yet

Western countries are working on the supply of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine and flight training for the country's military personnel.

However, Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said that the training is planned to begin during the summer in Europe

Washington and its allies have not yet been able to finalize issues related to the training of Ukrainian pilots in the use of American F-16 fighter-bombers, because of this, Kiev's receipt of aircraft is delayed. This was reported on Tuesday by the American newspaper Politico .

The Ukrainian conflict has repeatedly proved that drones play a key role in modern armed confrontations. At the same time, this weapon has not yet reached the peak of its development, and therefore Ukraine today has become a kind of "laboratory" for the development and testing of drones, including those with artificial intelligence, experts John Hudson from Washington and Konstantin Khudov from Kiev write in an article for The Washington Post.

The AN-32 military transport aircraft was developed in the USSR specifically for the needs of the Indian army and has been produced at the Antonov Design Bureau since 1982. The moral and technical obsolescence of the fleet of Soviet cars of this type has long caused concern in New Delhi. As a result, a preliminary tender for the supply of AN-32 replacement was announced the other day.

Over the next three years, China will launch three hundred microsatellites into ultra-low Earth orbit. They will be equipped with high-resolution cameras and equipment for pre-processing information. The first test vehicle of the new grouping is already ready, its launch is scheduled for December 2023.

Against the backdrop of the "drone war" unfolding in Ukraine, the Greek company SAS Technology intends to keep up with the times by creating its own products in the field of unmanned aviation.

Civil aviation is critically dependent on satellite navigation systems. While man-made interference to them was rare and was included in advance in the notices to the flight crew, there were no serious problems. But in recent years, "jammers" have become common equipment, which leads to unpredictable difficulties for air traffic. The European Space Agency has allocated funds for the development of a special satellite system that will protect aircraft from loss of satellite navigation signal.

On the occasion of the Talisman Sabre 2023 exercise, in which about 30,000 military personnel from 13 countries take part, Japan demonstrated the launch of a new RCC.

To tow the damaged or destroyed Leopard 2 from the battlefield, the APU uses American M88A2 HERCULES heavy armored repair and evacuation vehicles created on the chassis of the M60 main battle tanks.

New materials have appeared in the Internet space, testifying to the service in the AFU of a rare modification of the BTR-4. This armored personnel carrier was seen in the photos in the 4MV1 version.

Everyone is talking about tanks, but the role of the BMP in combat is no less, the author of the article in Forbes believes. Such homemade combat vehicles began to be built in Ukraine on the basis of an old tracked tractor MT-LB. How many MT-LB-BM-7 Ukrainians will be able to produce depends on the towers, not on the hull, since there are few of them.

In the Western press, they thought about the combat effectiveness of the French Leclerc tank in the event of its presence in the Ukrainian theater of operations.

The Finnish company 18 Wheels has developed an unusual chassis format that turns an electric motorcycle into an SUV. The idea of the developers is to put the car on 18 small wheels at once, which work by analogy with the rollers of tracked vehicles. However, the caterpillar itself is not here, which distinguishes this device from others.