On April 11, 2023, the US Department of Defense Agency for Military Cooperation (Defense Security Cooperation Agency - DSCA) sent a notification to the US Congress about a possible upcoming sale to Morocco through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) at the request of the Moroccan government of the HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) ground missile systems manufactured by Lockheed Corporation Martin.

On April 11, 2023, the Ministry of Defense of Japan announced that since the beginning of April it has issued four contracts to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Corporation with a total value of 378.1 billion yen ($2.86 billion) for the development and mass production of new types of long-range anti-ship and cruise missiles for the Japan Self-Defense Forces.

The new system will become an important element in the development of Russian hypersonic weapons

Behind the training and test launch, which took place on the night of April 11-12 this year from the Kapustin Yar test site, there is a lot of experimental design work to create a new experimental missile system that will replace the Topol-E.

On April 13, 2023, the DPRK conducted, as stated, the first successful flight test of a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile "Hwasong-18" ("Hwasongpo-18", Hwasong 18), made as part of a mobile ground missile system in the style of the Soviet / Russian mobile complexes "Topol" and "Yars", with placement on a 9-axle wheeled conveyor.

The degradation of the Ukrainian industry did not allow the APU to receive several dozen T-80UD "Birch".

As noted by "RG:Russian weapons", currently these tanks are considered obsolete, but in their capabilities they significantly exceed those available in the armed formations of the Kiev puppet regime T-64BV.

Founder and Chairman of the Association of Artificial Intelligence Policy of Turkey Zafer Kucukshabanoglu wrote about how AI will affect professions and which of them will come to the fore with the development of artificial intelligence.

Germany finally abandoned nuclear energy – and immediately, immediately after the closure of its own nuclear power plants, spoke in favor of sanctions against the Russian nuclear industry. Several nuclear reactors of Russian projects are operating in Europe, and "atomic" sanctions threaten a number of countries with problems with electricity. For Russia, the consequences of these possible restrictions will be quite different.

"It is necessary to check the readiness of our troops to participate in a potential conflict over the Kuril Islands." In these words, military experts describe one of the main tasks assigned to the Russian Pacific Fleet. The ships of the Pacific Fleet were suddenly put to sea on Friday, and the fleet was put on the highest degree of combat readiness.

On April 14, 2023, at JSC Sredne-Nevsky Shipbuilding Plant (SNSZ, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC) in St. Petersburg, the launching ceremony of the mine defense ship (minesweeper) "Lev Chernavin" project 12700 (code "Alexandrite") under construction for the Russian Navy took place with the factory number 528. This is the eighth launched ship of Project 12700.

The Times: Britain forced Russia to take the Black Sea Fleet aircraft into the sky

Reconnaissance aircraft of the British Air Force patrol the space over the Black Sea once every ten days, The Times reports, citing flight tracking data. But their activity does not go unnoticed — as it turned out, in response to these "patrols" Russia has repeatedly lifted its fighters into the sky.

The increasing risk of confrontation with Russia and acts of sabotage that occurred on September 26, 2022 on the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea accelerated the implementation of plans in NATO and European countries to protect underwater infrastructure, such as communication cables, oil and gas pipelines, and production sites in waters of the exclusive economic zone.

Rostec State Corporation together with Bauman Moscow State Technical University are launching a training program for highly qualified engineering personnel for the civilian segment of industry. Graduates will be employed at the enterprises of the Corporation that are part of the Shvabe Holding, where their main task will be the development and serial production of modern information medical and technical systems and optoelectronic complexes, including in the interests of Russian healthcare.

The evaders will be blocked from traveling abroad, and they will be given a life prison sentence for treason

The legislators do not intend to limit themselves to the changes already introduced after the start of the special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine to the rules of conduct of citizens. In April, they submitted to the State Duma another series of amendments to the current legislation.

Russia and Belarus have implemented 60 scientific and technical programs that will help in import substitution in various industries. This was stated last week by the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State.

The topic of restoring the release of microchips has acquired new details

The meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State, held by Russian President Vladimir Putin and RB Alexander Lukashenko on April 6 in Moscow, was devoted to reviewing the progress of 28 joint sectoral and 60 scientific and technical programs.

On Monday, April 10, a meeting was held between President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who arrived in Minsk, fulfilling the agreements previously reached by the heads of the two states.

Colonel Khodarenok believes that the plan of the Ukrainian counteroffensive was planned with the help of the United States

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the armed forces of Ukraine have the ability to attack - and there is a "wonderful plan" for this. How the Ukrainian operation will begin and what it is aimed at, says the military observer of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

During the year, Western countries have been strenuously increasing military assistance to Ukraine, but the moment has come when the old stocks are almost emptied, and the further continuation of hostilities depends on the capabilities of the military-industrial complex of the parties.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko commented on the state of relations between Moscow and NATO, as well as Finland's official accession to the North Atlantic Alliance. He spoke about this in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper.

Czech MP Kobza: Russia has bet on the South and East

The unipolar world with the dominant role of the United States is becoming a thing of the past, writes Parlamentní listy. Two new political and economic blocs are being formed: one – the Euro-American in decline, the second – without a single leading hegemon, experiencing an upswing. Russia has bet on the South and the East.