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The Ukrainian authorities intend to build at least two cartridge factories in the country, Alexey Arestovich, adviser to the Kiev delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on the Donbas, said on April 14.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, engineering teams of Russian peacekeepers are combing the area on the outskirts of the city of Mardakert. Before the armed conflict, there was agricultural land there. And when the war began, the military adapted them for artillery positions.

Washington will hand over to Vilnius the M72 LAW single-use hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers, which were adopted by the US Army in 1962. On Monday, April 12, writes Sputnik Lithuania with reference to the Ministry of Defense of the Baltic Republic.

The US Army plans to develop remote-controlled anti-tank minefields. According to The Drive, soldiers will be able to turn them off, allowing friendly troops and civilians who happen to be in the combat zone to pass safely.

An informed source of RIA Novosti in Moscow confirmed the existence of military biological laboratories of the United States in Ukraine.

The V. V. Bakhirev Institute (part of the Techmash concern of the Rostec State Corporation) has started work on the creation of a promising 152-millimeter adjustable projectile, the new technology is planned to be extended to ammunition of other calibers, Alexander Kochkin, Executive Director of JSC NPK Techmash, told RIA Novosti.

In an interview with Kommersant, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, drew attention to the fact that new biological laboratories under the control of the United States are growing by leaps and bounds in the world. And by a strange coincidence-mostly at the Russian and Chinese borders.

The representative of the US Department of Defense, Mike Howard, said that the US army can not yet completely abandon the use of anti-personnel mines during combat operations. This is reported by The New York Times on Tuesday, April 6.

The task of destroying a detachment of warships of a simulated enemy was fulfilled at the exercises by the calculations of the Bastion coastal missile systems( DBK), the Baltic Fleet (BF) said on Monday.

The British rocket artillery will hit further and more accurately. April 3, portal defence-blog.com He reported that the British Ministry of Defense has begun to modernize its MLRS.

The Russian Advanced Long-range Aviation Complex (PAK DA), which is being created, can receive subsonic X-101 missiles, the editor-in-chief of the site told Izvestia MilitaryRussia.ru Dmitry Kornev.

An interesting photo of a front-line Su-34 bomber with ten simulated aircraft bombs suspended at once (IAB, a nuclear bomb simulator) was found in a presentation posted in open access to the 60th anniversary of the FSUE "Russian Federal Nuclear Center-All - Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Academician E. I. Zababakhin "(FSUE " RFNC-VNIITF im. Academician E. I. Zababakhin", Snezhinsk, formerly Chelyabinsk-70, Chelyabinsk region).

According to Alexander Leonov, General Director of the NPO Mashinostroyeniya, there is nowhere to go further than hypersound, according to the characteristics of the Avangard known to him in terms of speed

Hypersonic technologies will be used in new weapons systems, said on Friday the General Director, General Designer of the NPO Mashinostroeniya (part of the corporation " Tactical Missile Weapons") Alexander Leonov.

Two Saudi companies will start joint production of Turkish attack drones for the benefit of the Saudi Armed Forces.

The US Department of Defense announced the conclusion of a contract with Lockheed Martin Corporation, which provides for the supply of high-precision guided missile ammunition GMLRS (Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System) for the US Navy.

The Turkish publication called sensational footage of maneuvers at the Morskoy training ground in the Crimea, which demonstrated how the Russian Orion-E attack drone hit the L-39 plane. Haber7 journalists even saw the Turkish equivalent in the ammunition carried by the UAV.

An American F-35B fighter jet accidentally shot itself with an artillery piece. A US Marine Corps F-35B short takeoff and landing fighter fired a 25 mm cannon at itself. The incident occurred in Arizona on March 12, 2021, but it became known only recently.

The differences between the EU, NATO and Russia should not become an obstacle to joint work on the elimination of chemical weapons submerged at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, according to Vadim Paka, Chief researcher of the Atlantic Department of the P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to the source, state tests will begin in the near future

Flight design tests (LKI) of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from the surface carrier-the frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" of the Northern Fleet-have been successfully completed, and state tests will begin in the near future. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

On March 17, 2021, the European Missile Association MBDA announced that it had received the first launch contract for the supply of the new Teseo Mk 2/E (Teseo Evolved) anti-ship missile system to the Italian Navy.