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What is the guided missile "Krasnopol", which the Russian Armed Forces use in Ukraine

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation uses a guided missile "Krasnopol" during a special military operation in Ukraine. The Russian military department has published footage of the destruction of a camouflaged command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kiev region using this munition. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out how Krasnopol works.

On March 12, 1944, the ISU-122 self-propelled artillery unit was adopted by the Red Army.

The letter "I" in this case meant that the self-propelled gun was created on the basis of the IS tank ("Joseph Stalin"), and 122 - the caliber of the gun mounted on it. This tracked vehicle was developed during 1943 under the name "object 242".

A fully robotic tank has been created on the basis of the T-72B3. Now he is preparing for the tests. It is planned to test control systems and a shortened 125 mm cannon.

Afghanistan is looking for buyers of captured weapons

As the capture of large settlements in Afghanistan, the Taliban detachments (banned in the Russian Federation) took possession of several large logistics depots of the NATO contingent in Afghanistan. As well as units of government forces, which, according to the plans of the Americans, were supposed to restrain the offensive impulse of the Taliban for three to six months.

The West is fueling the conflict in Ukraine with lethal weapons

In the early days of Russia's special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, about 27 countries decided to supply it with weapons. The militarization of the country began in 2014 immediately after the coup that led to the formation of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

The Armed Forces of Russia (Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) deployed a mobile repair battalion near Crimea. Maria Badunts, a correspondent of Izvestia, told about this on Friday, March 11.

The first issue of the magazine "Arms Export" for 2022 published an article by Ruslan Pukhov, Director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (TSAST), dedicated to the development of the armored industry of Ukraine after 2014. The bmpd blog provides the text of the article.

According to British media, British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, speaking in the House of Commons on March 9, 2022, said that the UK plans to supply Ukraine with Starstreak HVM short-range anti-aircraft missile systems and a "small batch" of American Javelin anti-tank guided missiles.

Ukraine has lost at least three enterprises engaged in the production of armored vehicles for Ukrainian armed formations.

The workshops of the V. A. Malyshev Kharkiv Plant of Transport Engineering (ZIM) and the enterprise located in the same city that repaired tanks for the AFU were put out of operation. In addition, in Zhytomyr, a military unit A1576 came under air strikes, where light tracked vehicles were being restored.

The National Interest (USA): America should be afraid of Russian rocket artillery

The author, a well-known American weapons specialist, recognizes the exceptional advantages of Russian rocket artillery on the pages of the National Interest magazine. He tells the story of this type of weapons, rooted in the period before the Great Patriotic War.

The fighting is taking place a few kilometers from the most important Ukrainian defense hub

The main fighting in the LPR is unfolding near Severodonetsk. On March 6, the advancing troops approached it by 7 km and took the city and neighboring settlements into a semi-circle.

Russia has something to respond to US pressure in Europe

Inversion of meanings. Substitution of concepts. Such terms can be used to describe the West's buildup of a military presence near Russia's borders solely for reasons of exerting additional pressure on the country's military and political leadership.

Multiple launch rocket systems "Willow" and "Birch bark"

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rocket forces and artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) got a significant number of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) of various calibers, including dozens of 122-mm MLRS of the Grad type.

LPR fighters seize Ukrainian positions

The main direction of the offensive of the People's militia of the Luhansk Republic is now developing bypassing the cities of Severodonetsk and Lisichansk. After crossing the Seversky Donets River, the People's militia of the LPR liberated the city of Happiness and went further north, to Novoaydar and Starobilsk.

Pilots of attack and transport-combat helicopters of the Russian military base have worked out the destruction of electronic warfare systems (EW) of a conditional enemy during exercises in Tajikistan, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Wednesday.

During the successful offensive actions of parts of the People's Republics in the Donbas, Ukrainian armed formations lose a large amount of military equipment. Part of it is completely destroyed, other samples have various damages.

Having suffered serious losses in military equipment, Ukrainian formations are forced to use crude armored vehicles that have not passed full-fledged tests.

For example, in Kharkiv, during one of the armed provocations, a Kevlar-E infantry fighting vehicle was seen, which is, in fact, a mock-up model made for demonstrations at various weapons exhibitions.

The armed formations of Ukraine continue to massively use the car fleet of the unilaterally privatized property of three military districts of the Soviet Army, formations withdrawn from Eastern Europe, as well as various power structures of the USSR.

These are ZIL-131, GAZ-66, Ural-4320, Ural-375, KrAZ-255, KrAZ-260, KamAZ-4310 and UAZ-469 all-terrain vehicles.

British Challenger 2 and BMP Warrior tanks deployed in Estonia

The British contingent in Estonia was reinforced with additional Challenger 2 tanks and Warrior infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs). The number of deployed British armored vehicles in the country was named by the Minister of the Armed Forces of Great Britain James Happy, reports UK Defense Journal.

The Croatian company DOK-ING presented an innovative multi-purpose remotely controlled Komodo machine at the 5th UMEX-2022 Unmanned systems Exhibition in Abu Dhabi.