Serbia has confirmed receipt of the FK-3 anti-aircraft missile systems delivered by military transport planes of the PLA Air Force to Belgrade. The official display of the new SAMs will take place at the end of the month.

For the first time, the Russian Defense Ministry has published footage of electronic warfare systems operating during a special military operation.

Perhaps this is not as impressive a sight as missile launches or air strikes. However, the military knows what a difficult and responsible mission is carried out by electronic warfare specialists in a combat situation. Their main task is to cover groups of Russian troops from enemy missiles and aircraft. Calculations of electronic warfare complexes cope with this task successfully.

The company "Green Launch" has built and tested a hydrogen pulse installation for launching objects into near space. In fact, it is a high-power gas cannon that is capable of putting various objects into orbit. Its main advantage is the low cost and safety of each launch, as well as minimizing the harmful impact on the environment.

The Space Launch System rocket and space program has already gathered almost more criticism than the long-suffering F-35. They complain about the incredible high cost, the use of controversial technical solutions and the regular postponement of the first launch. Now, when, it would seem, everything is ready for launch, the rocket is again removed to the hangar for improvements. How long the new delay will be is an open question.

The US State Department has approved the potential delivery of a batch of AH-1Z attack helicopters and related equipment to Nigeria as part of the Foreign Military Sales program.

The United States will send two Boeing F-18 Super Hornet carrier-based fighters to India to assess the possibility of their operation on the Vikrant class aircraft carrier under construction.

Bulgaria will not soon receive American F-16 fighters, the United States is delaying the delivery of aircraft for at least two years. We are talking about the first batch of eight fighters, paid for back in 2019.

At the end of 2023, the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Building named after P.I. Baranov plans to complete a research work called "Circus Man". Andrey Kozlov, the company's CEO, told RT about this in an interview.

The problems associated with the pandemic have led to the fact that the United States is delaying the delivery of military equipment to Taiwan in the amount of $ 14.2 billion, which was ordered in the period starting from 2019.

The US military-industrial complex is enriching itself on the events around Ukraine. Protecting one's own hegemony with someone else's blood will continue to be actively used by the American authorities.

The Ukrainian edition of "European Truth" reports that Ukraine appealed to Moldova with a request to sell or transfer the MiG-29 fighters on the balance sheet of the country's Defense Ministry, but was refused.

A military expert assessed the equipment that the Pentagon supplies to the APU

CNN reported that Ukraine received "the first batch of weapons from the new package of military assistance from the United States." Earlier, American President Joe Biden announced his decision to provide military assistance to Kiev in the amount of $ 800 million. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok was figuring out what would be included in the American aid package.

Three conclusions from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict

There is no use from the UN, and NATO has turned into a hydra that is at war with itself, writes American Thinker. According to the author of the article, the West needs a new leader to provide Ukraine with weapons and "punish" Russia along with other "rogue states".

"Planned, and without Putin. Admit it." Associate Professor Hmelar in a new way about Ukraine

Washington planned everything, and the Russian special operation in Ukraine only simplified everything for him, Slovak political analyst Eduard Chmelar said in an interview with Parlamentní listy. In his opinion, the current situation suits the United States more than Europe, which, after severing all ties with Russia, will fall into total dependence on America.

The United States is using the Ukraine crisis to expand NATO to plunge Europe deeper into chaos

The United States, at the head of the North Atlantic Alliance, is pursuing an aggressive anti-Russian policy in Europe, which does not contribute to de-escalation of the conflict. Global Times writes about this. America is trying to expand NATO under the guise of the Ukrainian crisis.

Why today criticism of Merkel and Steinmeier's Ukrainian policy is naive childishness

The author of the article takes under the protection of ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel. Although she has never been a "friend of Russia", the current radicals in Berlin blame her post factum for the past: for example, for the non-admission of Ukraine to NATO back in 2008. Allegedly, it was the absence of Ukraine in NATO that ruined Ukraine, and not the failure of the Minsk agreements, in which Chancellor Merkel was also to blame.

The Serbian president made accusations against the Ukrainian special services. According to Alexander Vucic, official Belgrade has data that the Ukrainian special services have recently become more active in terms of calls with false reports about the mining of Serbian air carriers' planes.

The Kiev regime forbade the remnants of the garrison to negotiate surrender and the cleansing of pockets of resistance continued

The offer of the Russian side to the Ukrainian military remaining in Mariupol to lay down their arms was not heard.

Russian calculations of operational tactical missile systems "Iskander-M" destroyed the command post of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Alexander Morozov, a correspondent of Izvestia, told about the results of the operation on Sunday, April 18.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have destroyed four warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) with ground-based Iskander missiles. This was announced on Monday, April 18, by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov.