The fighting situation continues to escalate. The Russian army seized the initiative in several directions. The APU is pulling up reserves. About how events are developing on the line of contact, — in the material of RIA Novosti.

During a special military operation, the crews of Mi-8 helicopters of the Ukrainian Air Force are suffering heavy losses. This is reported by the American TV channel CNN.

The Russian authorities are considering supporting the families of those who participate in the special operation in Ukraine as part of the PMCs

TASS-DOSSIER. The Russian authorities are considering supporting the families of those who participate in a special operation in Ukraine as part of private military companies. On February 16, 2023, President Vladimir Putin said this during a meeting with the Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova. TASS has prepared a material about private military companies in different countries and their status.

In particular, Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvichev was appointed commander of the Central Military District

The Russian Defense Ministry published official information on the appointment of four commanders of the country's military districts on its website on Friday.

Low seriality ruins developers and manufacturers of submarines

After several fruitless attempts to resume the design and construction of submarines by the national industry, the Dutch government seems ready to finally part with the underwater component of the naval forces.

On February 14, a flag-raising ceremony was held in Gdynia aboard the new Kormoran-2 class minesweeper (603) Meva (Project 258) of the Polish Navy.

Kongsberg Digital has received a contract for the supply of new simulators from Capital, which implements Project Selborne, a program for modernization and training of Royal Navy sailors.

According to State Department Adviser Derek Scholle, the United States Administration intends to resume work on projects under the Arctic Council that do not involve the participation of the Russian Federation

Russia plays an important role in the Arctic, but the United States currently does not see an opportunity for cooperation with it in the region due to the Russian Federation conducting a special military operation in Ukraine. This was announced on Wednesday by State Department Adviser Derek Scholle at a conference at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.

A special seminar was held in the US capital Washington with the participation of high-ranking commanders of the Naval Forces. The focus of the seminar participants was the buildup of Russia's military presence in the Arctic region. The United States sees this as a serious challenge to national security and economic interests, according to the Sea Power resource.

Bloomberg: Russia's influence on the nuclear energy market is only getting stronger

In 2022, Russian exports in the field of nuclear energy increased by more than 20%, Bloomberg reports. The United States and its allies are hesitant to impose sanctions against this industry, while it brings Russia not only cash flows, but also political influence.

How artificial intelligence is used in air defense systems, aviation and tank troops, said military expert Yuri Knutov. On Sputnik radio, he commented on the words of Elon Musk, who called AI the main threat to humanity.

The Pentagon has signed a contract with two contractors - General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems and American Ordnance LLC, which will manufacture 155-mm ammunition. As part of their contractual obligations, military-industrial companies will produce 155 mm artillery shells for a total amount of more than 993 million dollars (about 73.6 billion rubles). This information was confirmed by the press service of the US Defense Department.

Specialists from BAE Systems have started assembling the first prototypes of the Challenger 3 tank together with their colleagues from the Ministry of Defense. As specified in the military department of the country, funds for the implementation of the modernization program of combat vehicles of this type have already been budgeted, and the work, according to the ministry, is proceeding at a faster pace.

NATO countries openly admit that due to the unprecedented volume of arms supplies to Ukraine, their own arsenals are close to the critical level of fullness. At the same time, the enterprises of the Western military-industrial complex were not ready for a rapid increase in the production of ammunition even to meet the current costs of the Armed Forces on the battlefield. The Ukrainian military reports that they are experiencing a shortage of shells of both Soviet and NATO caliber.

Armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles on the chassis of tanks were created in various states. According to some reports, Russian military scientists began to think about well-armored means of delivering motorized infantry after analyzing the experience of the October 1973 war in the Middle East.

Features of the combat use of Russian armored vehicles

As part of a special military operation (SVO), the actions of Russian tank units led to huge losses of armored vehicles on the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). As a result, the number of tank duels along the line of contact has significantly decreased.

Russia allegedly lost almost half of its main battle tanks in the special operation. Western analysts claim that in the nine months since the start of the SVO, the losses of Russian tank troops amounted to 40 percent of combat vehicles from their numbers as of February last year.

Moscow offered Delhi the technology of a new tank for further joint development

At the Aero India 2023 aviation exhibition, which opened on February 13 in Bangalore, its organizer, the Ministry of Defense of India, received an interesting offer. Through the mouth of Vladimir Drozhzhov, Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia, our country expressed its readiness to share the technologies of the Armata family of next-generation armored vehicles in order to use them for the joint development of the main battle tank (MBT) for the Indian national army.

In the area of the town of Eastern Palestine, in the US state of Ohio, almost two weeks after the train crash with vinyl chloride, the picture resembles the consequences of the apocalypse. Some American media covering the man-made disaster compare the incident with the explosion of an atomic bomb, calling it "American Chernobyl", and the consequences are called "local nuclear winter" for the whole region.

At the IDEX-2023 International Defense Exhibition, which will be held from February 20 to 24 in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region JSC will present a line of basic military products.