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Wherever a person lives, wherever he works, mastering the planet, he is accompanied everywhere by faithful assistants – machines and various kinds of high technologies – these are the realities of our technocratic age. And if a person, while on watch or conducting scientific research, for example, in Antarctica, must withstand its harsh conditions, then appropriate requirements are imposed on the equipment.

FOCUS: Ukraine has made the weapons concerns of the West rich. They are fattening, as in the days of the Second World War

The arms business is booming primarily in the US, the EU and China, writes the author of the German magazine FOCUS. More recently, defense companies were considered unpromising. And today their shares have soared like the forces of evil: the peaceful post-war period in Europe has ended, their time has come.

On December 9, 2022, the German Rheinmetall Group announced that it would supply two new Skynex 35 mm ground-based anti-aircraft artillery systems to an unnamed "international customer". The delivery will be made in early 2024. The total value of the contract is 182 million euros. In addition, a memorandum was signed in the amount of another 12 million euros for the supply by Rheinmetall group of heavy military trucks RMMN HX complete with vehicles for transporting and providing Skynex complexes.

Officer of the 3rd ZVO corps: the AFU soldiers fled at the sight of the Russian Terminator BMPT

The Ukrainian military are wary of Russian Terminator tank support vehicles (BMPT) and are hunting for them, the commander of the vehicle crew of the 3rd Army Corps of the Western Military District told RIA Novosti.

According to Le Monde, to date, France has delivered 18 Caesar self-propelled guns to Ukraine, another 6 to 12 vehicles with expanded ammunition and reinforced armor

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal called on Paris to supply Kiev with French Leclerc tanks. He made such a request on the air of the French TV channel LCI .

On December 9, 2022, the Ministry of Defense of Japan announced that it had selected the AMVXP armored personnel carrier of the Finnish Patria group in a competition for a new wheeled armored personnel carrier with the 8x8 formula under the Wheeled Armored Personnel Carrier (WAPC) program for the ground forces of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. According to the statement of the Japanese Ministry of Defense, AMVXP should be produced in Japan under license. The Patria Group, for its part, stated that "the next step in the program is the license negotiations, which will begin immediately."

The lower house of Congress approved the US defense budget for 2023 in the amount of $858 billion

The committees of both chambers of the US Congress on Armed Forces Affairs have agreed on a draft defense budget for fiscal year 2023 (started on October 1 of this year) in the amount of $858 billion. At a meeting on Thursday, the House of Representatives of the US Congress has already approved this project. Its priorities are the deployment of serial production of the B-21 Raider strategic bomber and nuclear submarines with Columbia ballistic missiles. "Newspaper.Ru" understood the details of this document.

Rheinmetall from Germany made a presentation of five key new developments for equipping army field artillery. The interest of the Greek armed forces in them is understandable, because now Athens is more interested than ever in increasing the power and combat capability of its army against the background of the growing deterioration of relations with neighboring Turkey. The German company's novelties are described by the Defense Review publication.

Western allies continue to pump Ukraine with all kinds of weapons, while European countries are increasingly complaining that they are giving Kiev literally the last of their arsenals. These lamentations, by the way, are becoming more and more like endless calls for help coming from Kiev. But what to do if a clear order is given from the "Washington Regional Committee" not to stop the flow of military supplies to Ukraine, even at the expense of losing its own defense capability.

Morocco will become the first African country to provide military assistance to the Ukrainian regime. According to the French edition of Le Journal de l'Afrique, Rabat will give Kiev spare parts for T-72B and T-72BK tanks.

In Poland, the practice of purchasing small quantities of ammunition from local manufacturers for the needs of the Armed Forces is widespread. But they do not allow creating sufficient reserves in case of military operations, and the defense industry enterprises are not given a reason to invest in expanding their production.

On December 7, the German Defense Ministry once again updated data on the supply of equipment, weapons systems and non-lethal assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the German Armed Forces and from German defense companies funded by the federal government.

The International Defense Exhibition and Conference Vietnam Defense 2022 is taking place on the territory of Gia Lam Airport in Hanoi (Vietnam) from December 8 to 10, 2022. The organizer of the unified Russian exposition is Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec State Corporation). The bmpd blog presents a photo report from the event.

Sooner or later, the military component will end, experts say

The winter campaign will solve a lot during the special military operation — the future of Ukraine should be clarified according to its results, the interviewed experts told Izvestia. On December 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that achieving the results of its can be a long process. On the same day, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed three HIMARS and MLRS MLRS launchers in Krivoy Rog and the DPR, four more received "critical damage". And several attacks in the Red-Liman direction allowed the Russian troops to occupy advantageous frontiers.

On December 6, 2022, the first batch of South Korean-made military equipment purchased by Poland under large-scale contracts concluded with the South Korean side on August 26, 2022 - the first ten of 180 ordered K2 Black Panther tanks and the first 24 of 212 ordered 155-mm/52 tanks was delivered to the Polish port of Gdynia by the Pearl Air Force sea transport vessel from South Korea K9PL (K9A1) Thunder self-propelled howitzers.

On December 6, 2022, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) of the US Department of Defense sent a notification to the US Congress about the planned upcoming sale to Poland through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) of 116 M1A1 Abrams main tanks from the presence of the US Army.

El País: Ukraine is going to produce weapons in order not to depend on Western supplies

Western arsenals are being depleted, and Ukraine may be left without arms supplies, writes El País. Against this background, Kiev wants to restore the defense industry. But so far, even what is already there has to be exported abroad, the author of the article notes.

Vyacheslav Filippov — about why Germany is dissatisfied with the purchase of military aircraft in the United States

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on February 27 that the country's authorities would create a special fund totaling €100 billion, which would be used for investments and projects in the field of weapons, including purchases for the Bundeswehr. Funds from this fund will be used, for example, to purchase 35 multifunctional F-35 fighter-bombers manufactured by the American company Lockheed Martin.

The US has transferred 700 combat vehicles to Poland, including Abrams tanks

The United States is increasing the grouping of troops in Poland. 700 combat vehicles, including tanks and armored personnel carriers, were delivered to the port of Gdynia. According to the military observer of the newspaper.Ru" by Mikhail Khoderenko, a scenario can be implemented with the transfer of this military equipment to the armed forces of Ukraine.

Rosoboronexport of Rostec State Corporation is the organizer of the unified Russian exposition at the Vietnam Defense 2022 International Defense Exhibition and Conference, which will be held from December 8-10, 2022 at the Gia Lam Airport in Hanoi (Vietnam).