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NATO mine action exercise Open Spirit 21 starts in the Baltic Sea
In the waters of the Baltic Sea on Monday, the traditional spring exercises of NATO minesweepers Open Spirit will start. The exercise will involve 21 ships from 11 countries, including the ships of the First Permanent Mine Action Group of NATO. The Estonian Navy is leading the exercises, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic reported.
"The sun" in the desert: Saudi Arabia used TOS-1A against the Houthis
The ground forces of Saudi Arabia began to actively use heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A against supporters of the Ansar Allah movement.
In social networks, there were shots of night shooting of one of these combat vehicles. The installation was deployed in a desert area and fired five 220-mm rockets at the enemy.
Western outpost repels chemical attack
In the Army Corps of the Baltic Fleet, exercises were held to practice the actions of personnel in the conditions of the use of weapons of mass destruction.
Israel copies the technology of Russian drones, said the designer
Israeli designers have begun to copy Russian unmanned technologies, said the chief designer of the company ZALA AERO (part of the Kalashnikov group of companies") Alexander Zakharov.
Shoigu said that the UN did not respond to the appeal for assistance in the clearance of Karabakh
The Russian Defense Minister stressed that so far only Russian sappers are working on the site
The UN did not respond to Russia's offer to participate in the demining of Nagorno-Karabakh. This was announced by Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu in the film of the TV channel "Zvezda", aired on Friday.
Light multiple rocket launcher system is being developed in Russia
The Russian army may be armed with a new light multiple launch rocket system. This weapon is developed by specialists of the NGO "SPLAV", which is part of the concern"Techmash".
Ukraine will build at least two cartridge factories
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.
Russian sappers prepare land in Karabakh for agricultural work
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.
Lithuania will receive American grenade launchers from 1962
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.
Americans are going to create "smart" minefields
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.
The source confirmed the existence of American biological laboratories in Ukraine
An informed source of RIA Novosti in Moscow confirmed the existence of military biological laboratories of the United States in Ukraine.
Rostec to develop new high-precision projectile
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.
Patrushev: There is reason to think that the United States is developing biological weapons
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 Pentagon said it was impossible to abandon anti-personnel mines
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.
Bastion missile systems "destroyed" a detachment of ships of a simulated enemy during exercises in the Baltic Sea
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 are upgrading their MLRS
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.
Russian PAK DA will use a missile of " unattainable range»
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.
Su-34 with ten nuclear bombs
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).
Hypersonic technologies will be applied in the chain of new systems
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.
Saudi Arabia will produce new attack UAVs under Turkish license
Two Saudi companies will start joint production of Turkish attack drones for the benefit of the Saudi Armed Forces.