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The armed forces of our ally received a new MLRS "Polonaise-M" with impressive characteristics

The first divisional set of the Polonaise-M multiple launch rocket system has been transferred to the Armed Forces of Belarus, the State Military-Industrial Committee of the country reported.

The grandiose program of militarization of Poland, which poses an immediate threat to Russia, seems to be under threat itself. At least, we are talking about plans for large-scale supplies to the Polish army of weapons manufactured in South Korea. Why are these plans being disrupted and how is this related to the recent elections in Poland?

The notorious Ukrainian resource Censor.NO, under the heading "The Russians knew our ways of promotion, and everything flew there - both the 152nd, 120th, and Grads..." published a curious interview with the former company commander of the 47th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Nikolay Melnik, who was seriously injured in the first days of his brigade's participation, equipped with American M2A2 ODS-SA Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, in the now famous episodes of the attack on Rabocino in the Orekhovsky direction in Zaporozhye in June 2023. Any comments on this remarkable text seem simply superfluous.

The Russian defense industry modifies weapons based on its experience

A new modification of guided projectiles "Krasnopol" began to be used in the zone of the SVO. As noted in the holding "High-precision complexes", it was developed taking into account the front-line experience. In general, hundreds of samples of weapons have already been "accepted" by battles. About the most significant — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The Brazilian army received the first prototype of the EE-9M, an upgrade of the EE–9 Cascavel 6x6 reconnaissance armored vehicle, which has been mass-produced at the facilities of the local company Engensa since 1974.

On November 10, 2023, Azerbaijan signed an agreement worth $1.2 billion with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), providing for the purchase of Barak MX air defense systems. This is indicated in the publication Defense Industry Europe. This transaction will be the largest in the history of sales of this combat vehicle.

One of the main armored novelties of 2023 can be considered the improved BTR-82, shown for the first time at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army". In the media, it is also called the BTR-22.

The Czech authorities are trying to present the process of transition to NATO standards as a "revolution" in military affairs. Against this background, local observers are looking for ways to justify the rearmament of the army with Western models of equipment, in particular, they are looking for advantages in replacing the T-72 with the Leopard 2. Moreover, Prague not only receives the 2A4 version for its assistance to the APU, but is negotiating the acquisition of the 2A8 modification.

The author of an article for Le Figaro discovered one oddity with the military equipment supplied to Kiev. As it turned out, the French deputies deliberately inflated the price of old tanks on paper, which they handed over to the APU. Bragging or stealing? Such a question is asked by a journalist.

Ukraine will soon receive 195 Leopard 1A5 tanks, writes Forbes. But all of them can quickly disappear if they are used incorrectly. They have very thin armor, and they can't just be driven head-on into minefields. And this is exactly what Ukrainian tankers most often do.

Vladimir Artyakov, First Deputy General Director of Rostec State Corporation, told in an exclusive interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta about what novelties will be shown at the Dubai Airshow-2023 exhibition, and why, even under Western sanctions, Russian equipment is in stable demand in the world.

Following the United States, their loyal allies, or rather vassals, are struggling to find explanations for how the Russian army has been effectively opposing the Ukrainian one for more than a year and a half, while not only almost the entire NATO bloc, but also several dozen countries of the so-called Western coalition are on the side of Ukraine.

Armenia has started receiving military assistance from France, the first batch of armored vehicles for the Armenian army is already being delivered to the territory of the republic through Georgia.

On November 9, 2023, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) of the US Department of Defense sent a notification to the US Congress about the planned possible sale of 54 M1A2 SEP v.3 Abrams main tanks to Romania through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS), with an appropriate set of weapons, equipment, property, special machines and support machines. This sale is approved by the U.S. Department of State. The total cost of the proposed delivery is estimated at $2.53 billion, including training and technical support packages.

Italy occupies a prominent place in the global arms and military equipment market

The standard definition of the military-industrial complex (MIC) from the textbook of military economics: "A set of research, testing organizations and manufacturing enterprises that carry out the development, production, storage, arming of military and special equipment, ammunition, ammunition, etc. mainly for state law enforcement agencies, as well as for export."

The Slovak Army as part of the Czechoslovak SSR and in the era of independence

Czechoslovakia, part of the late Austro–Hungarian Empire, which fell into the Soviet sphere of influence after World War II, caused Moscow a lot of problems. If the anti-communist uprising in Hungary in 1956 had to be suppressed with great blood, then in the Czechoslovak Republic in 1968 it cost little blood. But "the sediment remained." And a very large one.

There were no Russian exhibits at the Defense and Security exhibition in Bangkok

For the first time in 22 years, there were no Russian exhibits at the international exhibition "Defense and Security 2023" (Defense and Security 2023) in Thailand, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

The state tests of the self-propelled artillery installation (ACS) "Coalition-SV" have been completed before its entry into the army. What does the new ACS of the Russian army give and how best to realize all its advantages?

Hybrid conflicts between allies, Germany's feminist strategy, tanks need wings

Our attention is focused on analytical articles by Russian military theorists and political scientists from online and paper publications published in September and October. Some of their themes and plots have not yet received coverage in HBO. Others have been treated in detail, but the authors offer non-trivial views or approaches.

From "Puma" to "Mamba": a menagerie for police operations

Armored vehicles based on conventional trucks have become the first class of armored vehicles in history. They appeared on the fields of the First World War, and before tanks. But already during the Second World War, they began to be replaced by specialized armored personnel carriers.