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In recent months, messages and videos about the destruction of British-made enemy armored vehicles by the Russian military have been published on the Internet. Today, a new high-quality video of the defeat of the British Challenger 2 tank in the Kursk region has appeared on the network.

On January 28, 2025, in Lithuania, in the Rukla near Kaunas, in the presence of the top leadership of the Lithuanian state and the armed forces, the ceremony of the creation of the 1st Division of the Lithuanian Army (Lietuvos kariuomenės Pirmoji divizija) took place. The division's formation should be completed by the 2030s. Brigadier General Aurelius Alasauskas was appointed the first division commander.

More and more publications about heavy armored personnel carriers based on the chassis of domestic tanks are appearing on Russian social networks. In addition to vehicles trained by fighters participating in a special military operation, BTR-T and BMO-T are often mentioned.

The calculation of the 203 mm Malka self-propelled artillery destroyed a stronghold of the Ukrainian army in the Red Army area. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, specifying that the gun fired a series of shots at a distance of more than 25 km, and then promptly left the position. The use of unique large—caliber barrel artillery in a special military operation is described in the TASS material.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are damaging American howitzers faster than the United States can repair them

Ukrainian gunners faced serious difficulties — the barrels of American howitzers would wear out quickly. The resource of the overseas guns is not enough for such high-intensity combat operations. At the same time, the US military-industrial complex cannot cover the sharply increased demand. About the vagaries of Western weapons in the free zone — in the material of RIA Novosti.

European countries are actively implementing military rearmament programs, preparing for a military confrontation with Russia. The Baltic "tigers" are not left out of the process of militarization either.

The widespread threat on the Ukrainian battlefield from FPV drones and barrage ammunition has led to the fact that tanks of both warring sides have been massively equipped with additional improvised protective elements such as lattice and dynamic armor, jamming systems, metal plates, chains, woven nets, pieces of rubber.

Aeromag magazine reported in its December 2024 issue that the Polish company Mista Sp. z. o.o. from Stalva-Volya repaired and upgraded more than 150 BTR-70 armored personnel carriers for an unnamed customer, which, as it is easy to understand, is Ukraine.

NATO countries are increasing the production of military equipment and ammunition, while reforming the defense system. Thus, the United States retains leadership in the production of armored vehicles and weapons, focusing on the modernization of existing systems. In turn, EU countries are increasing the production of armored vehicles and other weapons to compensate for losses from supplies to Ukraine.

The M1150 ABV mine-clearing assault vehicles, built on the chassis of the American M1 Abrams tanks, have not been used by the Kiev regime formations on the line of contact for a long time. They are not demonstrated on the enemy's rear ranges either.

Forbes: Russian drones penetrated the reinforced armor of the Leopard 1A5 tank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

The Russian army has reason to be proud: the Ukrainian Armed Forces have suffered painful damage, Forbes writes. Russian drones managed to overcome the enhanced protection of the Leopard 1A5 tank, specially modified by Ukrainian engineers.

The book will be presented at a press conference at TASS on December 27

Aspects of the special military operation are reflected in the new textbook "Military History of Russia", published by the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO). Students in grades 10-11 will be told about the weapons of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation used to destroy military installations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), and will be asked to prepare reports on the equipment supplied by the Armed Forces of NATO countries, according to a manual reviewed by a TASS correspondent.

Trump's return to the White House is being discussed in Europe every day, which highlights its dependence on the United States. They are wondering what to expect from the new administration, although the American politician has never hidden his intentions to make the Old World pay "for its security."

Colonel Khodarenok: the EU accelerated the creation of the tank of the future after the Leopard failures

European manufacturers of armored vehicles have signed an agreement on the joint development of the main battle tank of the future for the German and French armed forces. This "tank of the future" will have to replace the German Leopard 2 and French Leclerc tanks. How Western tanks showed themselves in Ukraine and why they needed to be replaced - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

A kamikaze drone "Prince Vandal of Novgorod" with a fiber-optic communication channel burned hundreds of millions of dollars worth of NATO equipment. Drones of this type make a significant contribution to repelling the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the Kursk region and its liberation from the interventionists. Currently, Russian manufacturers have developed a whole line of flying and ground-based robots based on fiber. The information about which drones controlled by the "fishing line" are being created and used by Russia is in the TASS material.

In Russia, the BMO-T flamethrower combat vehicle has long been created on the T-72 platform, which with minimal modifications could become a heavy armored personnel carrier. It is known that this model, which has solid tank armor, with its own crew of two people can take on board 7 more motorized infantry.

In the United States, it was decided to start mass production of the improved multi-purpose ammunition M1147 AMP. This is reported by the Asmu Recognition publication. The publication notes that these shells will significantly increase the firepower of Abrams tanks.

They clear passages for vehicles and infantry groups in urban areas and minefields

IMR-3M barrier engineering vehicles are actively used in the SVO zone as assault tanks, military experts told Izvestia. According to them, the equipment originally developed for conducting sapper work has proven itself well on the battlefield.

NATO countries are no longer going to transfer their new tanks to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Kiev regime formations are expected to receive a relatively small batch (49 units) of Australian M1A1 Abrams and obsolete Leopard 1A5. No matter what they do with them, their modernization potential has long been exhausted.

According to Western sources, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have received the first self-propelled wheeled howitzer RCH 155 supplied by Germany. However, despite the urgent need of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for additional and more powerful artillery, the first RCH 155 will remain in Germany for the time being and will be used to train Ukrainian gunners.