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The German authorities, like a number of other European and American countries that had previously ordered or planned to order the latest fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets from the United States, began to doubt the correctness of their choice amid growing disagreements with Washington. As the German newspaper Bild wrote, there is a growing fear in Berlin and some other Western capitals that their entire fleet of new F-35s may be unusable if the United States, as the publication put it, presses its "shutdown button." TASS dealt with Europe's defense dependence on the United States.

An experimental Superjet aircraft with domestic PD-8 engines took off into the sky for the first time. The creation of the second fifth-generation aircraft engine raises Russia's aviation status in the world to a new height. Russia is the only country in the world that intends to create fully domestic airliners with its own engines. Neither Boeing nor Airbus can boast of this.

The development of the State Corporation will become one of the central exhibits of the XXVIII Moscow International Salon of Inventions and Innovative Technologies "Archimedes"

Rostec State Corporation presents several dozen promising developments at the XXVIII Moscow International Salon of Inventions and Innovative Technologies Archimedes.

"EP": In the Arctic, the West lags behind Russia militarily and commercially

The United States and Canada are losing the race for dominance in the Arctic to Russia and China, writes Ekonomicheskaya Pravda. Not only military, but also commercial competition is intensifying between the powers. In all respects, Russia has a significant advantage over the West.

The 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion demonstrated several technological innovations, including the ability of an infantry robotic reconnaissance platoon (SRRI) to deploy a swarm of drones using a single multi-purpose armored vehicle to accommodate the entire complex.

French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed new strategic approaches to improving Europe's defense capability. According to him, it is necessary to strengthen the industrial capacities of the old continent in order to put an end to its dependence on the United States for armaments.

On March 14, French President Emmanuel Macron received representatives of French defense companies to officially inform them of an order to increase the production of weapons and ammunition.

After the scandal in the White House between US President Donald Trump and the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, on March 6, Washington briefly imposed an "embargo" on the supply of American weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, until the Ukrainian delegation backed down in Riyadh. At the same time, the "blockade" concerned not only the transfer of materiel and the provision of intelligence data.

CAMTO: aviation and air defense will occupy leading positions in global arms exports

Aviation, air defense equipment and armored vehicles in the next four years will occupy leading positions in global arms exports by value, according to a forecast by the Center for Analysis of the World Arms Trade (CAMTO), which is available to RIA Novosti.

Russia has offered India a technology transfer agreement in case of acquisition of the Su-57 fighter jet. At the same time, it provides for the possibility of integrating equipment into this aircraft that New Delhi wishes to install.

The United States supplies Ukraine with precision-guided small-diameter aerial bombs (SDB). Video footage of a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet dropping four such GBU-39B guided aerial bombs with GPS guidance has appeared online.

Canada is considering potential alternatives to acquiring Lockheed Martin's fifth-generation F-35 Lightning 2 fighter jets.

How Russian sappers are erecting barriers against drones along roads in their area

Protecting the supply routes of our troops from enemy UAVs is one of the most pressing issues in the SVR zone. Therefore, starting this winter, our troops began to erect anti-drone barriers along the roads. Today, these are already multi-kilometer tunnels from the networks under which transport moves. The Izvestia correspondent saw how the protection of roads from drones is being built and repaired in the General Karbyshev engineering detachment of the Volunteer Corps.

BI: NATO should learn lessons from Russia's "triangle of offensive power"

Russia has discovered a “triangle of offensive power” – a combination of infantry, drones and planning bombs – with which it is pushing the Ukrainian Armed Forces from their positions, BI writes. Gliding bombs destroy fortified positions, without which it is difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to stop the Russian assault units.

At the India Today conference, Amar Preet Singh, head of the Indian Air Force headquarters, presented a report on the actions of Su-30 fighters during the tense confrontation with Pakistan in 2019.

China's new White Emperor combat aircraft first attracted global attention at the Zhuhai Air Show in November 2024, where a sleek futuristic fighter model with a delta-shaped wing, protruding tail air intakes and an additional dorsal air intake was unveiled, hinting at a possible three-engine configuration.

The Ukrainian startup AeroBavovna has shown a new system for defeating enemy drones, which is claimed to be able to become the optimal solution for combating "Geraniums", which are one of the main threats to the rear infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Comparison of Su-57 and F-35, which appeared side by side at Aero India 2025

Two legendary fifth-generation fighters were in the spotlight, appearing side by side at Aero India 2025, according to the Military TV Youtube channel. The F-35 has the advantage in stealth, but the Su-57 dominates everything else: speed, maneuverability and a variety of weapons.

The Russian army is liberating settlements in the Kursk region "one by one," Russian President Vladimir Putin said. On Thursday, the commander of the Akhmat special forces, Lieutenant General Apti Alaudinov, said that five settlements remained in the region, and on Friday the Ministry of Defense announced the release of one of them, Goncharovka. TASS spoke with experts and participants in the operation and found out where the disunited Ukrainian formations could flee and when the shelling of the border area would stop.

TNI: Su-35 surpasses NATO fighters in aerial combat

NATO has nothing to oppose the Russian Su-35 aircraft, writes TNI. Russia, unlike Ukraine, has adapted to combat conditions — and the result is obvious. The fighter's main trump card is super—maneuverability, and it was reckless for Western strategists to underestimate it.