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The UK has conducted two-week tests of the effectiveness of heavy land transport robots, that is, unmanned vehicles that are designed to perform various tasks on the battlefield. This is reported in a special statement on the website of the Government of the United Kingdom.

The Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian air defense for the first time shot down a new Ukrainian missile "Thunder-2"

The Ukrainian tactical missile "Thunder-2" was shot down by Russian air defense forces in the special operation zone. This is the first time that the Ministry of Defense has reported the interception of this missile. It was developed and produced at the Dnepropetrovsk Yuzhmash plant. In September and November, massive strikes were inflicted on this enterprise, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported the destruction of the Grom-2 and Tochka-U production workshops.

A specialist in the field of world economy, Professor Lionel Rondouin called artillery, whose fire caused 75% of Ukrainian losses, a "critical dimension of the conflict"

Western countries will not be able to support the Ukrainian army for a long time due to a lack of equipment. This opinion was expressed by a specialist in the field of world economy, Professor Lionel Rondouin, who made a comment in the April issue of the Paris magazine  Elements .

The Paper: London will send depleted uranium shells to Kiev to save tanks from disgrace

The UK has a rather weak artillery, writes The Paper. According to the author of the article, London fears that Ukraine will become aware of all the shortcomings of Challenger 2 tanks. Depleted uranium shells are what can save equipment from disgrace, he suggests.

The "exploding bomb effect" was caused in some circles by the statement of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin about the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) on the territory of Belarus, which he made on March 25 during an interview on the channel "Russia 24".

Turkey has increased its revenues from defense exports to other countries by 42% only from 2020 to 2021. This is reported by CNBC, commenting on Ankara's far-reaching plans to develop its military-industrial complex and increase its global influence.

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 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.

The Strategic Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that Ukrainian formations allegedly managed to capture 15 Russian T-90 "Breakthrough" tanks. This message is quoted by the Ukrainian press, there is no confirmation of it from the Russian military department.

The first armored vehicle based on the German Leopard 1 main battle tank was destroyed by the liberators

As noted by the project "RG:Russian Weapons", in order to turn the Bergepanzer 2 armored repair and evacuation vehicle (BRAM) into a pile of scrap metal, it took only one 152-mm high-precision Krasnopol projectile aimed at the target by a laser beam.

The Declassified UK portal pointed out that the footage with these ammunition is contained in a video that the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom published on its own YouTube channel

British instructors trained Ukrainian tank crews in the use of depleted uranium ammunition. This was announced on Monday by the Declassified UK portal, specializing in investigative journalism.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov published a photo showing several units of NATO armored vehicles that arrived in Ukraine. A staged photo taken on the drone's camera offers a row of equipment lined up, in front of which are the flags of the countries that made the delivery.

WSJ readers called the possible APU offensive "disinformation" and "suicide"

Despite the training of soldiers and Western assistance, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will not be able to launch their offensive "according to the canons of NATO," the authors of the article write in the WSJ. According to the readers of the publication, there will be no offensive at all, and if it takes place, it will end badly for the Ukrainian troops.

The French authorities plan to double the production of military equipment by the end of 2023 and accelerate the delivery time of VIVT.

IFQ: in Serbia, NATO soldiers were given special orders due to the use of depleted uranium

The West claims the "safety" of using depleted uranium, but special directives of 1999 prove the opposite, writes IL Fatto Quotidiano. Then NATO soldiers in Serbia and Kosovo were ordered to "stay away" from tanks and buildings damaged by depleted uranium missiles.

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.

The last armed conflict where T-54B medium tanks were used was the war for Nagorno-Karabakh, which broke out in the fall of 2020. Then these vehicles, like the T-55, were used by the Azerbaijani army.

We continue to publish additional materials about the new main battle tank (MBT) of the Rheinmetall concern "Panther" KF51, published during the profile forum in Berlin.

The domestic military-industrial complex is "hot", most factories work in three shifts, said Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev. As a result, according to him, Russia will release fifteen hundred tanks this year. Our army will have the most powerful armored fist in all of Eurasia. The preponderance of forces on the Ukrainian battlefield will become indisputable. At the expense of what resources will the record rate of production of armored vehicles be achieved?

The arsenals of the GDR And the FRG were at one time very rich

During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda constantly accused the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) of revanchism, attributing to it a desire to "recoup" for the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and regain lost lands in the east.