Cooperation news
The main Brazilian frigate Tamandare of the German project MEKO A100 was laid down
On March 24, 2023, the Brazilian shipbuilding enterprise thyssenkrupp Estaleiro Brasil Sul, owned by the German association thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), in Itajai (Santa Catarina State), hosted the laying ceremony for the Brazilian Navy of the lead frigate F 35 Tamandare of the German project MEKO A100 in a series of four units. The ceremony was attended by the Commander of the Brazilian Navy, Admiral Marcos Sampaio Olsen.
The main fear of military strategists of all time has become a reality
SCMP: NATO has created an alliance of Russia and China, which military strategists of all times feared
The United States won the Cold War by cutting off China from the USSR. Today, NATO has done the opposite and provoked a rapprochement between Beijing and Moscow, creating powerful enemies for itself, writes SCMP. Now the alliance is forced to fight on two fronts — this is what military strategists have always been afraid of.
Belgium has ordered the 10th A-330 MRTT for a multinational NATO unit
Belgian Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder signed a memorandum of understanding providing for the purchase of a second "Belgian" A-330 MRTT (Multirole Tanker Transport) for the EU/NATO multi-purpose tanker transports unit.
In Belarus, they said that military cooperation with Russia is legal
Belarusian Foreign Ministry: military cooperation with Russia does not contradict international law
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry said that the military cooperation between the republic and Russia is carried out in strict accordance with international law, and the deployment of nuclear warheads on the territory of the country without transferring control over them to Minsk will not contradict the provisions of the articles of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
The head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense published a video of his riding on the British Challenger 2 tank
The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov rode around the training ground on a Challenger 2 tank that arrived from Britain and posted a corresponding video on his page on one of the social networks.
Alexander Mikheev: Russian defense industry enterprises did not break any export contracts in 2022
Director General of Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec Group), Deputy Chairman of Soyuzmash of Russia Alexander Mikheev took part in an expanded meeting of the Bureau of the Union of Machine Builders and the Association "League of Assistance to Defense Enterprises" on March 27.
The Minister of Defense of New Zealand announced that his country would consider joining the AUKUS bloc, but without a nuclear component.
New Zealand Defense Minister Andrew Little said that his country intends to cooperate within the framework of AUKUS, a trilateral defense alliance established by the United States, Great Britain and Australia at the end of 2021.
In Scandinavia, a whole air fleet was allocated to fight Russia
Ouest-France: Scandinavian countries have united the Air Force for a joint fight with Russia
The Scandinavian countries have agreed to create a whole united fleet to resist Russia, writes Ouest-France. They hope that the new air group, comparable in size to the British Air Force, will change the balance of power in The Arctic in favor of the West.
The Ukrainian military published a photo of the French Crotale NG air defense system supplied to the AFU
The first documentary evidence of the delivery of French Crotale NG anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine has appeared on the Internet. The Ukrainian military published a corresponding photo of the French air defense system.
The Pentagon said that the United States does not intend to supply Ukraine with MQ-9 UAVs
As the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, Mark Milley, stressed, the MQ-9 does not provide additional intelligence capabilities compared to the "smaller, faster and maneuverable unmanned aerial systems" that Washington supplies to Kiev.
Estonia decided to cash in on the supply of "weapons junk" to Ukraine
Europe accused Estonia of fraud with arms supplies to Ukraine
The European Union has accused Estonia of using a fraudulent scheme to upgrade its military arsenal, Postimees writes. Tallinn, instead of the outdated systems that it supplies to Ukraine, expects to receive modern ones at someone else's expense.
Rosoboronexport took part in the meeting of the SOYUZMASH Bureau of Russia
Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec State Corporation, President of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia, and Alexander Mikheev, Head of Rosoboronexport and Deputy Chairman of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia, took part in an expanded meeting of the Bureau of the Union of Machine Builders and the Association "League for Assistance to Defense Enterprises". During the meeting, the participants summed up the results of the activities of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia for 2022, and also discussed topical issues of the development of the country's machine-building industry.
"Exclusion of any emergency situations." What will be required when placing nuclear weapons in Belarus
Expert Khodorenok explained how Russia will transport and protect TNW in Belarus
Russia intends to deploy tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) in Belarus. In this regard, the construction of a special storage facility should be completed in the republic by July 1. Military observer of the Newspaper.Ru" Mikhail Khodarenok dealt with possible details of the relocation and placement of TNW on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
An increase in the country's defense budget and the purchase of new types of weapons is a necessity of time and new threats that have appeared
The dynamically developing military-political situation around the Republic of Belarus forces the country's leadership to react harshly to all its changes. As Alexander Lukashenko noted at a meeting with the country's power bloc on March 21, today the Western countries and Ukraine have created the highest level of external threats for Belarus, which forces them to pay the closest attention to internal threats. "We need to be ready for any events. Therefore, the issues of countering external and internal threats should be under special control today," the President stressed.
The Congress said that the US will not be able to recover from a possible fall in the dollar
A member of the lower house of the American parliament, Marjorie Taylor Green, warned that the conflict in Ukraine will bring down "unprecedented economic difficulties" on US citizens
The United States will not be able to recover from the potential fall in the dollar caused by the conflict in Ukraine. Confidence in this was expressed on Sunday by a member of the US House of Representatives Marjorie Taylor Green (Republican from Georgia) on Twitter.
The former Bulgarian prime minister named the amount earned by the republic's arms companies on the supply of weapons to Ukraine
Bulgaria made good money on arms supplies to Ukraine, although there were no direct exports. According to former Prime Minister of the Republic Kirill Petkov, Bulgarian arms companies supplied military products to Kiev through the United States and Great Britain.
The Chinese army is learning too well from the Russian, Western "friends" inspire us
Beijing and Moscow are friends, but the West hopes for a split due to the faster growth of the PRC army
What can divide Russia and China? Figaro newspaper asks this question and comes to the conclusion that the most vulnerable point is the Russians' fears of the growing military power of the PRC. Now Russia is still stronger militarily, but the Chinese did not waste time all 30 years while the Russian defense industry was reformed.
Xi Jinping has conceived a new world order. Everyone will like it, except the West
The Economist: China will create a new world order based on deals between countries
Xi Jinping wants to create a new world order based on deals between countries that are not burdened by any ideological conditions, writes The Economist. The West should not underestimate how attractive this approach is for other countries.
The keel of the lead frigate of the Tamandare class for the Brazilian Navy has been laid
At the Thyssenkrupp Estaleiro Brasil Sul (tkEBS) company in Itajai (Santa Catarina) on March 24, the keel laying ceremony of the head multipurpose frigate of the F200 class "Tamandare" (MEKO A-100MB) took place.
Sweden will transfer tanks, howitzers "Archer" and SAM "Hawk" to the Armed Forces of Ukraine
According to the decision published by the Swedish Parliament on March 23, the government of the country has been granted the right to make decisions on the transfer of military equipment to Ukraine and the sale of artillery systems to the UK.
