We continue to publish additional materials about the new main battle tank (MBT) of the Rheinmetall concern "Panther" KF51, published during the profile forum in Berlin.

One of the batches of 304 thousand Modular Ballistic Protection and Carrying Equipment Soldier (MOBAST) bulletproof vests ordered by the German Ministry of Defense turned out to have serious shortcomings. As experts of the German military department found out, bulletproof vests are not bulletproof. This is reported by the N-TV channel.

Global changes in the world, concerning both politics and lifestyle, are today largely associated with the introduction of new technologies and innovations in various fields of science and technology. Most likely in 10-15 years the world will live in completely different conditions. Many professions will disappear due to the introduction of artificial intelligence and scientific achievements.

The Black Sea Fleet officially confirmed the loss in 2022 of the large landing ship "Saratov", struck in the port of Berdyansk during unloading. This was stated by the commander of the Crimean naval base of the Black Sea Fleet Felix Menkov.

Orders of Courage were awarded to Russian female servicemen who repelled the attack of Ukrainian drones in Sevastopol. Thanks to the skillful actions of the Black Sea Fleet, the threat of surface drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was eliminated in time. How dangerous can such devices be and what is required to fully protect against them?

The US has supplied Ukraine with an unnamed number of Metal Shark 40 Defiant (40 PB) patrol boats. The first video of the tests on the Dnieper of one of the supplied boats has already appeared on the Network. Up to this point, they have only been reported.

Fleets of two Pacific archipelagos conduct joint exercises

Philippine President Bongbonga Marcos and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida signed an agreement on cooperation between the defense departments of the two countries. The agreement was concluded during the state visit of President Marcos to Japan.

On March 22, 2023, Valletta hosted the official ceremony of the entry into the fleet of the Armed Forces of Malta (Maritime Squadron of the Armed Forces of Malta) of the new patrol ship P 71, built at the shipyard of the Italian shipbuilding company Cantiere Navale Vittoria SpA in Adria near Venice. The new ship became the largest unit of the Maltese fleet. It also became the largest ship built by Cantiere Navale Vittoria.

The US Navy reported that on March 21, 2023, it handed over to the Egyptian Navy in Alexandria three large Cyclone-type patrol boats withdrawn from their composition - PC 3 Hurricane, PC 6 Sirocco and PC 12 Thunderbolt. The boats arrived in Alexandria on February 12 from their former permanent base in Bahrain, having made a month-long 4,000-mile crossing with mixed American-Egyptian crews around the Arabian Peninsula since January.

The newest American aircraft carrier of the Gerald R. Ford type, the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), will be transferred to the US Navy a year later than planned. This is reported by USNI News with reference to the plans of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII).

As the North Korean state news agency KCNA reported on March 24, 2023, from March 21 to March 23, tests were conducted in the DPRK of a "new complex of underwater nuclear strategic strike weapons" "Heir" ("Tsunami"), which is an uninhabited underwater vehicle with a nuclear charge, the task of which is called "stealthy arrival in a submerged position in the area the destruction and destruction of enemy ship groups and large ports by creating a super-powerful radioactive tsunami due to underwater explosions."

The Chinese President promised assistance to the political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Moscow on March 20-22, symbolically choosing the Russian capital as the first point of his foreign trip after being re-elected to the highest party and state posts. An informal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin lasted for more than four hours. A transcript of only the first minutes of the conversation has been published, where the guest greets the host as "my dear friend".

In particular, the issues of creation and development of transport and logistics centers on the territory of Iran, localization of production along the main international transport and logistics corridors, including on the territory of Iran, bilateral cooperation between Russian and Iranian companies, as well as further development of the North-South transport and logistics corridor were discussed.

A video appeared on the network showing the exact hit of the Russian Lancet barrage ammunition into a Ukrainian tanker and the powerful explosion that followed.

According to the founder of the Wagner PMCs, Ukrainian troops may also try to strike in the Belgorod direction

The founder of the Wagner PMCS, Yevgeny Prigozhin, believes that the strategic plans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) include the blocking of Crimea.

The commander of the AFU ground forces, Syrsky, announced a possible offensive on Bakhmut

The commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, Alexander Syrsky, said that Kiev could soon go on the offensive in the Artemivsk area.

The APU is ready to launch a counteroffensive in the Artemovsk area in the near future. This is officially stated by high-ranking Ukrainian military. What is the probability that the enemy will be able to concentrate a shock fist in the neighboring cities of Artemivsk and what can the Russian army oppose to this?

US President Joe Biden decided to organize sabotage on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines due to the deterioration of the situation of Ukrainian troops at the front. This was stated by American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in an interview with CGTN.

Spectator: The West benefits from the involvement of Ukrainian saboteurs in the undermining of the "Northern Streams"

The version about the undermining of the "Northern Streams" by Ukrainian saboteurs is beneficial to the West, writes Spectator. According to the author of the article, it is pointless to wait for information from the official authorities, and independent investigations like Seymour Hersh's publications deserve the most trust.

The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Russia marked the second stage of the formation of a multipolar world. At the same time, the United States understands that the era of its hegemony is passing, but it will resist it in every possible way. This conclusion was reached by political scientists during a discussion about the role of Russia in the future multipolar world.