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Promising samples of weapons show that, technically, the Russian army is at the forefront

While once fraternal countries, to the detriment of their own interests, reviling everything that reminds of a great neighbor, admire Turkish "Bayraktars", Russian engineering thought is constantly progressing, and the domestic military-industrial complex does not cease to delight with novelties in the field of weapons, military and special equipment.

The National Interest (USA): Will China break the wall of Western sanctions against Russia?

The US has warned China of responsibility for supporting "Russian aggression," but it still "shamelessly" ignores sanctions, writes TNI. According to the author of the article, this shows the danger the West and its campaign of maximum pressure on Moscow are in.

WSJ analysis on Turkey and Ukraine: Give C-400, get F-35 (Haber7, Turkey)

The Turks were enraged by the "interesting scenario" proposed in the United States. According to him, Turkey can transfer the S-400 to Ukraine, and in return receive the American F-35 and return to their production program. Readers of the Haber7 portal see this as an attempt to push Ankara and Moscow foreheads and instead offer to buy C-500.

How did the Osa anti-aircraft missile system end up in the United States and why does the Pentagon want to give it to Kiev

The United States plans to supply Ukraine with air defense systems manufactured by the USSR, including anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) "Osa", which were "secretly acquired" by the Pentagon, writes The Wall Street Journal. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out how the Soviet complexes were at the disposal of the United States and how useful they can be to the APU today.

Turkey needs to make a deal with the United States and Ukraine, transferring the Russian S-400 air defense systems to the latter to fight Moscow.

The relations of the United States with Saudi Arabia can be called one of the foundations of the existing world order and the global power of the dollar. And now we see a number of signs that these relations are under threat. The Arabs refuse to help Biden in his sanctions battle against Russia. Why did this happen?

The industry is arguing about the pace of creating an import-substituted SSJ

The Ministry of Industry and Trade ordered the preparation and testing of the SSJ-New aircraft for 15 billion rubles. Rostec announced that a 97% import-substituted modification, the development of which was estimated at 120 billion rubles, will appear by 2024.

Military expert Andrey Frolov - on the likelihood of sending S-300 anti-aircraft systems to help Kiev

The middle of the week was marked by new approaches in the policy of the United States and NATO regarding military assistance to Ukraine. The issue of supplying Kiev with Soviet-made anti-aircraft systems in service with Bulgaria and Slovakia came on the agenda.

The European Space Agency told whether they can do without Russia in a mission to Mars

After breaking off the partnership with Roscosmos, the Europeans may have to create a landing module for the Rosalind Franklin rover themselves instead of the Cossack. The scientific director of the European part of the ExoMars 2022 mission, Jorge Vago, told the newspaper.Ru", how long it may take to develop your device.

A military expert told how Switchblade drones will affect the course of the conflict in Ukraine

The United States is discussing the possibility of supplying Ukraine with Switchblade kamikaze drones, NBC reported, citing Congressional sources. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out how effective these drones can be.

ABC (Spain): the day when Russia wanted to join NATO

The stories of Russia and NATO are closely linked: For 70 years they watched each other, threatened, but did not fight directly, writes the Spanish ABC. But few people know that despite the complexity of relations, the USSR and then Russia tried to join the alliance at least four times.

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is beneficial to the enterprises of the US military-industrial complex, which are expected to profit from an increase in the military budgets of Western countries aimed at strengthening Kiev's forces and adapting to instability in the region. Karl Evers-Hillstrom (Karl Evers-Hillstrom) and Ellen Mitchell (Ellen Mitchell) write about this in a material for the American edition of "The Hill".

Global Times (China): China calls on Europe to create an "indivisible security" mechanism together with Russia

It is not Russia that threatens the West, but NATO – Russia, writes Global Times. The author of the article blames the United States for the tragedy in Ukraine and calls on Europe to come to its senses. The EU should finally get out from under the influence of America and rethink its hostile stereotypes towards Russia, he writes.

As reported by the Middle East online publication Al-Monitor, the administration of US President Joe Biden plans to approve Egypt's long-standing request to sell him Boeing F-15 multifunctional fighter jets, despite serious resistance to this from American lawmakers due to human rights violations by Cairo.

The European Space Agency refused to cooperate with Roscosmos in the ExoMars mission. The Russian side announced that it would launch its landing mission to Mars on the Angara, but did not mention anything about plans to replace the European rover. Most likely, the mission will take place without its rover.

Turkish drones have not become Ukraine's superweapon

The videos that demonstrated in the fall of 2020 the uniform shooting from the air of Armenian equipment during the defense of Nagorno-Karabakh by unmanned aerial vehicles of Turkish, Israeli and Azerbaijani production, including Turkish Bayraktar TB2 vehicles, obviously gave the Ukrainian military reason to believe that the issue of "pacification" of Donbass could be solved just as easily and naturally. another military conflict. However, reputable experts held a completely different point of view.

Washington's role in training fighters of nationalist battalions of Ukraine

With the patronage of the White House, the far-right from all over the world are flocking to Ukraine. The statistics provided by the media clearly demonstrate a sixfold increase in so-called "tourists" from Europe and America to Ukraine since 2014.

The European Space Agency (ESA), in connection with the military actions in Ukraine, decided to freeze cooperation with Roscosmos on the ExoMars mission, stated that the launch of the mission in 2022 is impossible. The ESA Director General will look for other options for implementing the mission of the main apparatus of the ExoMars project - the Rosalind Franklin rover.

In Europe, another salvo of sanctions guns was fired. Now it came from an organization that is designed to provide supervision of passenger and cargo air transportation in the EU countries – the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

On March 14, 2022, German Defense Minister Christina Lambrecht made an official statement about the decision of the German government to purchase 35 American fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighters to replace Tornado fighter-bombers used as nuclear weapons carriers - American B61 series nuclear bombs in the German Air Force.