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On December 14, 2022, the Czech Ministry of Defense signed with the French company Nexter Systems an addendum to the 2021 contract for the purchase of 52 self-propelled CAESAR howitzers of 155 mm/52 caliber in the performance on the Tatra T815 (8x8) wheeled chassis. According to the addendum, the Czech Republic will acquire 10 more CAESAR self-propelled howitzers in this version with delivery in 2026.

Main battle tanks (MBT) have been around for a little over 100 years, and during this period they have been continuously developing, improving firepower, survivability and mobility. Despite the fact that several new models have appeared from a "blank slate", in many countries there is a tendency to modernize existing armored platforms, rather than develop or buy new ones.

Colonel-General Sergey KARAKAEV, Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, tells about the results of the past year, rearmament, development of new combat patrol areas, about the upcoming ballistic missile launches in 2022 and tasks for the coming years.

London allowed the possibility of supplying Kiev with Storm Shadow cruise missiles

United Kingdom Defense Minister Ben Wallace did not rule out the supply of Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles to Ukraine. At the same time, the final decision has not yet been made. "Newspaper.Ru" dealt with the details of the transfer of Western-made aircraft weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Drone attack and how to deal with it

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are currently extremely widely used for a variety of purposes. In this connection, the task of combating them is becoming more and more urgent.

The upgraded T-72M, intended for one of the African countries, may enter service with the formations of the Kiev puppet regime next year. Czech sources refer to Richard Kuben, the commercial director of Excalibur Army, who made such a statement.

Donetsk has been subjected to the most powerful shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the last eight years. As a result of the attack, residential buildings were destroyed, a kindergarten, a polyclinic, and an Orthodox cathedral were damaged. There are victims. In the DPR, the incident was called a terrorist attack. How is the civilian population experiencing another attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and what can Russia do to prevent Ukrainian strikes on Donetsk?

The United States and the Netherlands will finance the supply of at least 90 T-72 tanks from the Moroccan Armed Forces to Ukraine in exchange for other equipment. As a reminder Infodefensa.com under pressure from the United States, Rabat recently agreed to supply military equipment to the Kiev regime.

RIA Novosti's choice: the main events of 2022 in the military sphere

The beginning of the special operation in Ukraine became the main military event of the year in Russia. This is the first experience of a protracted large-scale military conflict for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the first partial mobilization, the first massive use of a number of weapons.

The first batch of FV103 "Spartan" armored vehicles purchased in the UK by the Petro Poroshenko Foundation has arrived in Ukraine. According to reports, it included six armored cars command and staff FV105 "Sultan" and armored personnel carriers FV103 "Spartan". Eight more British armored vehicles of the CVR(T) Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) family are awaiting shipment.

The Senate Committee on National Defense was engaged in the execution of the budget of the Ministry of National Defense for 2022. Detailed information at the meeting on Tuesday was presented by the director of the Budget Department of the Ministry of National Defense Pavel Barchak. He recalled that the budget of the Ministry of Defense was planned to be 2.2% of the country's GDP. This year it amounted to 57.8 billion zlotys ($12.8 billion).

Poland has a little more than a year left for decisive actions to return its "Eastern Crosses", and maybe less… There are a number of impressive arguments for this.

The Republic of Korea became the eighth largest arms exporter in the world by value in the period 2017-2021. It accounted for almost 3% of global defense exports.

According to the top manager of the association "Android Technology" Evgeny Dudorov, in the second half of next year, a special test site will appear on the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region (Bor, Boravtosteklo base), where unmanned trucks and other similar equipment will be tested.

Russia continues to transfer military equipment to the territory of Belarus, another batch of T-72 tanks has arrived in the republic. According to Ukrainian intelligence, an echelon with armored vehicles arrived at the Zaslonovo station in the Vitebsk region.

Germany has opened a repair center for military equipment of the Ukrainian army on the territory of Slovakia, the first self-propelled guns Panzerhaubitze 2000 from the presence of the APU have already been delivered for repair work. This was stated by the head of the special staff for Ukraine in the German Defense Ministry, Christian Freiding.

BAE Systems Hagglunds has announced the signing of a contract with the Slovak Ministry of Defense for the supply of 152 CV-9035 Mk.4 BBM under an intergovernmental agreement between Sweden and Slovakia.

The first XA-180 Pasi armored personnel carrier delivered from Finland became a trophy of the liberators. The three-axle car does not have any visible damage, except that the front right wheel is flat.

According to the official statement of the German Federal Government dated December 7, 2022, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) is allowed to sell 18 RCH 155 wheeled howitzers to Ukraine. As a result, Ukraine will become the first customer of this newly developed weapon system.

On December 12, 2022, Slovakia and Sweden signed an intergovernmental agreement on the acquisition of 152 CV90 Mk IV infantry fighting vehicles (CV9035 Mk IV) manufactured by the Swedish branch of BAE Systems Corporation (BAE Systems AB / Land Systems Hägglunds AB) for the Slovak Armed Forces. The contract value is 1.3 billion euros, and the total cost of the purchase as a whole, including estimated infrastructure costs, is estimated at about 1.688 billion euros, including VAT.