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Ukraine has started creating a special border zone on the border with Belarus. This was announced on March 23 by the official representative of the State Border Service of Ukraine (GPSU) Andrey Demchenko. "Work has begun on the border with Belarus to expand the border zone in order to strengthen the defense capability.

The dynamically developing military-political situation around the Republic of Belarus forces the country's leadership to react harshly to all its changes. As Alexander Lukashenko noted at a meeting with the country's power bloc on March 21, today the Western countries and Ukraine have created the highest level of external threats for Belarus, which forces them to pay the closest attention to internal threats. "We need to be ready for any events. Therefore, the issues of countering external and internal threats should be under special control today," the President stressed.

In modern armed conflicts, anti-aircraft missile systems of the Tor family have repeatedly shown high efficiency in the fight against a variety of means of enemy air attack. However, the real "exam" for the Russian "Tors" was the fighting against the NATO military armada in the Donbas.

IFQ: in Serbia, NATO soldiers were given special orders due to the use of depleted uranium

The West claims the "safety" of using depleted uranium, but special directives of 1999 prove the opposite, writes IL Fatto Quotidiano. Then NATO soldiers in Serbia and Kosovo were ordered to "stay away" from tanks and buildings damaged by depleted uranium missiles.

Vladimir Putin's sensational statement about nuclear cooperation between Russia and Belarus was perceived by many as a direct instruction to place Russian atomic warheads abroad. However, there are a number of very subtle details in the words of the Russian leader. Some nuances suggest that Russia has left the very last step on this path in reserve.

"Poland will now be much more circumspect in making decisions about pulling together forces at the border with Belarus." In such words, experts explain Vladimir Putin's sensational statement about his readiness to deploy Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus. Europe's reaction is paradoxical: for some reason, the EU is not at all concerned about American nuclear weapons on its territory.

The air war over Vietnam did not reveal a winner

Of the four components of the Vietnam War, two became the most noticeable to an outside observer. At the same time, one of them, "mutinous", was, and remains, not quite adequately evaluated.

On the expanded formulation of the concept of "retaliatory strike"

The logic of the global hybrid war forces a decisive revision of the usual formulations of "aggression", "accomplice of aggression", strategies and tactics of retaliatory strikes against the forces opposing Russia. The time for unpunished hybrid nastiness has expired, the consequences for such forces are becoming inescapable.

Military reform: the experience of an overseas enemy

The next reform of the armed forces initiated in Russia involuntarily forces us to pay attention to how such problems are viewed "over the hill".

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.

The arsenals of the GDR And the FRG were at one time very rich

During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda constantly accused the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) of revanchism, attributing to it a desire to "recoup" for the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and regain lost lands in the east.

Development of the 5th generation South Korean fighter: problems and achievements

The KF-21 Boramae is a South Korean program for the development of an advanced multi–purpose fighter of the 4++ generation for the Republic of Korea Air Force and the Indonesian Air Force.

How the military "ecosystem" for MLRS was created

During the last year during a special military operation (SVO) in the theater of operations (Theater of Operations) multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) of the M270 MLRS type, built on a tracked chassis, are actively used.

Guided aircraft gliding bombs pose a special threat, since they are able to fly far and the aircraft launching them do not fall into the zone of destruction of air defense means. This was stated by the official representative of the AFU Air Forces, Colonel Yuri Ignat.

The air defense units of the People's Liberation Army of China, together with the PLA Air Force, are practicing tactics of protection against the actions of invisible fighters. As a conditional enemy, the Chinese army uses J-20 fighters, which are supposed to simulate attacks by American F-35 aircraft.

In honor of the Day of the Armed Forces of Serbia on April 22, 2023, the Ministry of Defense of the country is organizing the largest exhibition of weapons and military equipment used by the Serbian army in its history. The Serbian press writes about this, referring to information from the military department.

The first three turboprop training aircraft Grob-120TP (G-120TP) of the German company Grob Aircraft SE were delivered to Sweden under a contract dated May 5, 2021.

According to Yle, the Finnish Air Force will need them until then

Finland, most likely, will not be able to supply Ukraine with F/A-18 Hornet fighters until 2026, since the republic's Air Force needs them. This was announced on Friday by the Yle broadcasting company .

The Head of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the General Director of Rostec State Corporation Sergey Chemezov visited the Kazan Helicopter and Kazan Aviation Plants, assessing the pace of production activity.

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).