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25.04.2025
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Spain receives the first Airbus A330 MRTT tanker aircraft

On April 11, 2025, the Airbus Group, at an official ceremony at its facility at Getafe Airport in Madrid, handed over to the Spanish Air Force the first complete Airbus A330 MRTT tanker aircraft, of the three ordered by Spain, an aircraft with the Spanish tail number TK.24-03 / 452-03 (serial number 1700 / MRTT073).

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25.04.2025
bmpd.livejournal.com

The first flight of a prototype fully import-substituted SJ-100 aircraft

As reported by PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of Rostec State Corporation), on April 22, 2025, Komsomolsk-on-Amur hosted the first flight of a prototype fully import-substituted modified regional passenger aircraft SJ-100 (SSJ100) superjet️ under the SSJ-NEW program - an OP-3 (003) prototype aircraft with factory number 97003 and registration number 97023. The aircraft was built by the Yakovlev UAC Production Center in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and is equipped with Russian PD-8 engines.

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25.04.2025
Известия.ru

Equipment is out of danger: promobjects will be covered with anti-drone protection

A wide range of anti-enemy UAV solutions is presented at Securika Moscow 2025

Russia has mastered the production of anti-drone protection with anti-shatter panels for industrial enterprises. It protects the most important facilities and personnel of enterprises from the effects of an explosion of a warhead, as well as from the effects of its damaging elements. Several Russian energy facilities are already equipped with such structures. You can get acquainted with the latest innovations in the field of combating UAVs at the Securika Moscow 2025 exhibition.

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25.04.2025
ИноСМИ

The Tu-160 supersonic bomber in one word: irreplaceable (19FortyFive, USA)

19FortyFive: The Tu-160 bomber remains Russia's formidable and indispensable weapon

The Russian supersonic bomber Tu-160 can be described in one word: irreplaceable, writes 19FortyFive. Developed in the USSR, it remains a formidable strategic weapon that Russia has used in both Syria and Ukraine.

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25.04.2025
ТАСС

Expert Hoffmann: Swedish AWACS planes have a critical flaw for Ukraine

[b]Tactically, for effective operation, this aircraft is forced to occupy predictable echelons and patrol routes over Western Ukraine, which makes it a convenient target for long-range weapons of the Russian Armed Forces, the expert noted

The Swedish Saab 340 AEW&C (ACS-890) long-range radar detection and control aircraft intended for transmission to Ukraine have a critical vulnerability in data exchange. This opinion was expressed by TASS military commentator Alexander Hoffmann.

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ТАСС

Reconquista in the Ottoman style: Turkish defense companies conquer Latin America

The companies of the Turkish military-industrial complex (MIC) have been demonstrating avalanche-like growth and striving for large-scale expansion around the world in recent years. They promote their military-grade products in rich, developed, and high-tech markets such as Europe, as well as in more modest but equally promising regions of Asia, South America, Africa, and Oceania.

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25.04.2025
Военное обозрение

A massive attack by Ukrainian UAVs on Crimea may be preparation for an amphibious operation

Things have been going badly for the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front for a long time, Zelensky quarreled with Trump, who now also demands that Kiev recognize Crimea as Russian. Against the background of these problems, the Ukrainian junta, which does not want to part with the government in any way, can arrange another provocation in order to achieve at least a media "victory", well, or its presentation as such.

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24.04.2025
ЦАМТО

Vladimir Putin holds a meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission

On April 23, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation. Below is the introductory statement.Putin's statement is provided by the Kremlin's press service.

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24.04.2025
ИноСМИ

The air war over Ukraine is escalating (Politics, Serbia)

infoBRICS: The Russian Air Force destroyed a third of the F-16s supplied by the West to Ukraine

Western fighters, despite their constant modernization, are incomparable in power with Russian ones, infoBRICS writes. Neither NATO nor the troops of the Kiev junta abandon attempts to deprive Russia of its advantage in the air over Ukraine — however, in their current form they will only lead to the complete disposal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fleet, the author of the article believes.

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24.04.2025
Известия.ru

Unmanned project: Putin urges to increase production of drones

How Russia adapts weapons to new ways of warfare

More than 1.5 million drones and over 4,000 armored vehicles were received by the Russian armed forces in 2024. Vladimir Putin stated this on April 23 at a meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission.

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24.04.2025
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Three engines: a new detailed photo of the Chinese new-generation J-36 combat aircraft is shown.

The network has published the clearest photo of the prototype of the Chinese next-generation combat aircraft, which is supposedly called the J-36 ("Jian-36").

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23.04.2025
ЦАМТО

Delivery of the second batch of Rafale fighters to the Egyptian Air Force has begun.

The Egyptian Air Force has officially begun adopting the second batch of Rafale fighters. This information was confirmed by French Minister of the Armed Forces Sebastian Lecornu during the recent official visit of President Emmanuel Macron to Egypt.

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23.04.2025
Коммерсантъ

"Challenges and threats at sea for Russia are increasing in many ways"

Russian Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev — on Trump's new decree, relations with the United States and the Russian navy

In an interview with a special correspondent of Kommersant Nikolai Patrushev, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Russian Maritime Board, told Elena Chernenko how the plans of the American authorities are being evaluated in Moscow.

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ИноСМИ

Denmark sends NATO troops to Ukraine (Fria Tider, Sweden)

Fria Tider: Denmark is preparing mercenaries to be sent to Ukraine

Denmark plans to send its soldiers to Ukraine to study "modern warfare" using drones, writes Fria Tider. Russia immediately warned that such an adventure would not end well for NATO troops.

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23.04.2025
Известия.ru

Sail first: an underwater tugboat has been developed for the Navy's special forces

This technique seriously expands the capabilities of combat swimmers

An underwater tugboat has been developed for the Russian Navy. With its help, a marine special forces soldier will be able to surreptitiously cover long distances underwater. It is a silent ultra-small device. Its design is based on an annular valve-induction propulsion system, which provides stealth when moving underwater. Experts are confident that such a technique will seriously expand the capabilities of combat swimmers.

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23.04.2025
Lenta.ru

Kiev received a Swedish "flying radar" and tested it over Lviv. What is he capable of?

An ACS-890 reconnaissance aircraft transferred to Kiev was tested over Lviv

Ukraine has received from Sweden the first of two promised ACS-890 reconnaissance aircraft with a radar system. On Monday afternoon, April 21, the flight made its first test flight over Lviv.

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23.04.2025
Газета.ru

"An ideal target for the S-400." Swedish reconnaissance aircraft spotted over Lviv

Colonel Khodarenok: The Swedish ACS-890 reconnaissance aircraft may be shot down by the S-400

The first of two long-range radar detection and control aircraft promised by Sweden has arrived in Ukraine. What he can do and how much he will strengthen the combat capabilities of the Ukrainian Air Forces is in the material of the military observer Gazeta.Ru", retired Colonel Mikhail Khodarenka.

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Ukrainian militants have received a batch of modified Shark-M reconnaissance drones with a range of up to 420 km.

One of the Ukrainian charitable foundations has handed over 30 of the latest locally made Shark-M reconnaissance drones to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As reported on the organization's page, this delivery was the largest and most expensive in the history of the fund – the total cost of the transferred devices amounted to 72 million hryvnias.

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23.04.2025
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that the plane over Lviv was an An-26, and not a Swedish Saab 340 AEW reconnaissance aircraft, but why wasn't it shot down

The Ukrainian Air Force commented on publications that a Saab 340 AEW&C reconnaissance aircraft supplied by Sweden was flying over the western part of Ukraine. This aircraft "lit up" on the online maps of monitoring aviation platforms, which displayed the aircraft in the sky over the Lviv region under the interesting designation Welcome.

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23.04.2025
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Experts are discussing the reasons why Russian UAV strikes on military installations in Ukraine have now become daytime

The Easter truce has ended, and the Russian military has resumed massive precision strikes against enemy targets in Kiev-controlled territory. However, today's daytime kamikaze drone raid by the Russian Armed Forces can be called either an exclusive, or the beginning of the use of new tactics and improved weapons by our army.

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