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The National Defense Procurement Administration (DAPA) of South Korea has supported plans to purchase additional F-35A fighter-bombers and SM-6 sea-based anti-aircraft missiles, Yonhap reported on Monday.

Sohu: Russia's new "miracle weapon" has challenged the entire Ukrainian air defense system

A new Russian drone has challenged the entire Ukrainian air defense system, writes user Sohu. This "miracle weapon" — the Geranium-2 barrage ammunition — eclipsed even the American Switchblade. The low price and ease of use will make this UAV a serious problem for any opponent of Moscow.

For several months now, Ukrainian drones have been actively attacking objects in the depths of Russia.  Increasingly, we find information in the media that Ukrainian drones have hit critical infrastructure facilities in the Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod and other regions of the Russian Federation bordering directly on the new regions where hostilities are currently underway.

Changes in the world arms markets in 2023

Despite the disruption of global supply chains and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, arms sales by companies from the SIPRI Top 100 rating are growing. The growth is observed for the seventh year in a row, in 2021 it amounted to 1.9% by 2020. In absolute terms, sales of military products by the largest companies in the industry amounted to $592 billion, according to a recent report by the Stockholm Institute.

Forbes: China is ahead of the US in the development of explosives

The USA invented a super-powerful explosive, but abandoned its production. How China "picked up" the technology and now threatens America with it, read the Forbes article.

According to Igor Kirillov, the head of the RCBZ troops, the main task of American biological programs is to establish global biological control

The main task of the US biological programs is to establish global biological control, in which the national health systems of the countries involved degrade.

We are talking about the company's activities related to the creation, transportation or use of modified pandemic pathogens, the department noted

The American company Ecohealth Alliance, according to the investigation of the Ministry of Health of the country, did not provide information to the supervisory authorities about its activities in the field of military biological projects.

Igor Kirillov, the head of the RCBZ troops, stressed that the Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly noted the potential risks of "dual-use programs" that are being implemented by the United States both on its territory and abroad.

The Ministry of Defense named the names of Ukrainian participants of the American military biological programs

Representatives of the Ukrainian authorities and private companies participated in the American military-biological programs, said Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Russian Armed Forces.

According to Igor Kirillov, the head of the RCBZ troops, it could have been caused by the careless treatment of pathogens by American military biologists who carried out work in the region

The outbreak of the Ebola virus in September 2022 in Uganda could have been caused by the careless handling of pathogens by American military biologists working in the region. This was stated by the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Igor Kirillov.

As the adviser to the acting head of the republic, Yan Gagin, stated, we can also talk about the use of multi-purpose MiG-29 fighters

The Armed Forces of Ukraine dropped a guided bomb of the American JDAM system in the Kurdyumovka area near Artemivsk (Ukrainian name - Bakhmut) in the Donetsk People's Republic to test the possibility of its use from a non-standard carrier - Soviet-style aircraft. This opinion was expressed on Friday by TASS military-political expert, adviser to the acting head of the DPR Yan Gagin.

The department announced that it had received evidence of the continuation of the bio-program of the American Agency to reduce the military threat in Ukraine, despite the opposite statements of the representative of the National Security Council of the White House, John Kirby.

Hypersonic weapons were used to destroy particularly important objects

The Russian armed forces launched a retaliatory missile strike in response to the terrorist attack in the Bryansk region. In Ukraine, key military and energy infrastructure facilities, enterprises of the military-industrial complex (MIC) and drone bases were hit.

In the Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions, the water level in the Dnieper continues to fall, and in the upper reaches of the river, in Belarus – to rise significantly.

The newspaper "Kommersant" in the material of Alexey Zabrodin "Eurosnares are empty. The defense ministers of the EU countries agreed to urgently supply Ukraine with everything they have," she said that the defense ministers of the European Union countries agreed on the need for immediate supplies of artillery ammunition to Ukraine from the remaining stocks in European warehouses.

It will take the United States about fifteen years to replenish only the main weapons systems, according to the authors of the material published in the American newspaper The Washington Post. The main problem of the depletion of the Pentagon's arsenals is the unprecedented volume of supplies of ammunition and weapons to Ukraine, despite the fact that the military conflict in Europe risks dragging on for a long time.

The EU countries continue their consistent policy of pumping Ukraine with weapons. An ardent supporter of such a policy is also the head of the EU Foreign Policy Department, Josep Borrel.

According to the newspaper, representatives of the command of the United States Armed Forces directly point to the "fragility" of the country's military-industrial complex

American military assistance to Ukraine, which has already exceeded $32 billion, has revealed the inability of the United States to rapidly increase the production of many types of weapons and ammunition that are needed by both Kiev and Washington itself and its allies. This is the conclusion reached by the authors, published on Wednesday in the newspaper  The Washington Post articles. They analyzed this issue.

The United States and the collective West have essentially reached a dead end in the sanctions policy – there is almost nothing left for which anti-Russian restrictions could still be imposed. It may seem that Russia's options for answers have also been exhausted. However, in fact this is not the case – there is a whole set of measures that Russia can use against the West.

The American Conservative reporter Bradley Devlin recalled that Washington handed over 160 155 mm howitzers and more than 1 million artillery shells to Kiev

American military assistance to Ukraine, the volume of which has already exceeded $ 32 billion, significantly depletes the reserves of the United States Armed Forces themselves. Bradley Devlin, a reporter for the publication, came to this conclusion in an article published on Tuesday in The American Conservative magazine.