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Politico: Europeans blame Biden for the collapse of the EU industry, hiding an inconvenient truth

Europeans blame the United States for the failure of their industry, writes Politico. But their search for the culprit is just envy, the author of the article believes. Europe is uncompetitive on prices in a number of areas, and the market value of Tesla, for example, is four times higher than the entire German automotive industry.

Germany will supply the armed formations of the puppet Kiev regime with a batch of heavy tank trucks and police armored vehicles. This is reported by "RG: Russian weapons".

The Reuters news agency, in the material "Weapons industry booms as Eastern Europe arms Ukraine" ("The arms industry is booming as Eastern Europe is arming Ukraine"), reports that the military industry of Eastern Europe is producing artillery weapons and ammunition, as well as other military equipment at a pace unprecedented since the Cold War, since the governments of the countries of the region have led a campaign to help Ukraine in its fight against Russia.

For the first time, the network shows footage showing the baptism of fire in Ukraine of the Senator armored car. This machine has been manufactured in Canada by Roshel since 2018. This little-known enterprise is located in Ontario.

On November 21, the Ministry of Defense of Luxembourg announced that it had decided to supply the AFU with additional armored vehicles of the HMMWV (Hummer) type with an accompanying set of spare parts as assistance.

Rostec State Corporation, Russia's largest industrial company, is celebrating its 15th anniversary. It unites about 800 scientific and industrial organizations in 60 regions of the country and provides stable employment for 600 thousand people. The corporation produces thousands of types of products for both military and civilian purposes and is a leader in the volume of state defense orders.

After the start of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the Kiev regime sought from its Western "partners" the transfer of the maximum possible volumes of equipment. From Germany, the authorities of the independent, faced with heavy losses in armored vehicles, expected first of all the transfer of Leopard 2 tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles.

Ukrainian armed formations have started operating Italian two-axle Iveco ACM 90 all-terrain vehicles. According to "RG: Russian weapons", several cars of this model were seen near the line of contact.

The soldiers of the Guards airborne unit got an unusual trophy. They managed to capture a right-hand drive Toyota Mega Cruiser SUV. This is reported by "RG: Russian weapons".

Indian media reported that on November 9, 2022, the Indian company Bharat Forge Limited announced that its subsidiary defense company (division) Kalyani Strategic Systems Limited (KSSL) "received an export order for 155-mm artillery gun platforms that will be manufactured in three years" for an unnamed "friendly foreign state."

The situation on the Donbass front is sometimes more eloquent than any analytical materials and reviews, as evidenced by footage from the scene. Recently, the weather has been making significant adjustments to the course of hostilities. Heavy precipitation leads to the fact that the soil gets wet, and dirt roads turn into a thick impassable mess, movement on which is sometimes simply impossible.

Germany confirmed the transfer to Ukraine of Dingo armored vehicles and missiles for the already delivered IRIS-T air defense system. An updated list with an indication of everything transferred is published on the website of the German government.

The Polish Oncilla armored car, which is a clone of the extremely unsuccessful Ukrainian armored personnel carrier "Dozor-B", was first seen among neo-Nazi militants. This is reported by the project "RG: Russian weapons".

According to open publications, the Command of the Special Forces (Kommando Spezialkräfte, KSK) of the Bundeswehr is in need of additional vehicles. It is planned to close it as part of the projects for the purchase of an airborne platform, as well as "heavy" and "light infantry fighting vehicles". In this context, during the arms exhibition held in September 2022 and timed to coincide with the 8th KSK Symposium, several manufacturers presented their solutions to increase the mobility of the German Special Forces (SpN).

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has received the first Armtac 400 mine clearance machine manufactured by the British company Armtrac Ltd. According to the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mikhail Fedorov, the equipment was bought with funds collected under the UNITED24 support program for Ukraine.

BM-21 Grad rocket systems were supplied by the Polish army to the neo-Nazi armed formations of Ukraine. A total of 24 launchers were sent, as well as ammunition.

Kiev's repeated requests for the supply of additional batches of armored vehicles for the Ukrainian army have finally reached Canberra, the Australian government has approved the supply of Bushmaster armored vehicles to Ukraine.

On October 18, 2022, the Ministry of National Defense of Lithuania announced that the Defense Resources Agency (Gynybos resursu agentūra), which is part of it, signed an intergovernmental agreement with the US Department of Defense on the purchase of 300 more JLTV (Joint Light Tactical Vehicle) light armored vehicles with wheeled vehicles through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS). The 4x4 formula produced by Oshkosh Corporation, in addition to the 200 JLTV machines already ordered by Lithuania under the 2019 agreement. Thus, Lithuania should receive a total of 500 JLTV machines, which makes it currently their largest foreign customer.

On Tuesday, October 18, a meeting was held on the territory of the Dimitrovgrad industrial site of the OAT Group, which is part of the KAMAZ structure, with the participation of the Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region Alexey Russian, the General Director of KAMAZ Sergey Kogogin, the President of AVTOVAZ Maxim Sokolov and the General director of the OAT Group Firdaus Kabirov.

For the US defense industry, the creation of hybrid and fully electric vehicles for the US army is a very important step. And the purpose of this is not related to environmental protection. The command wants to increase the efficiency of the army, in addition to reducing the noise when using transport in order to make it harder to detect fighters.