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NATO's eastern flank continues to militarize. Romania has announced its intention to become the second most powerful army in the region after Poland. Such a desire raises many questions. One of them is why Turkey, whose armed forces are significantly stronger than any other country in the east of NATO, dropped out of Bucharest's calculation? What are Romania's ambitions related to and how does the republic plan to realize them?

Rostec supplies 80% of the weapons used in its military. The state corporation's enterprises work around the clock. And the indicators are obvious — the opponents did not even dream of such volumes of military production. Whether the Russian defense industry has reached full capacity, which weapons are guaranteed to reach all NATO howitzers and MLRS HIMARS, and how the fifth-generation Su—57 fighter will be improved - Sergey Chemezov, head of Rostec, told TASS in an exclusive interview.

The German concern Rheinmetall first introduced the Lynx KF41 infantry fighting vehicle in 2018. After the conclusion of two export contracts (in 2020 with Hungary for the supply of 218 units for more than €2 billion and in November 2025 with Italy for 21 units). for approximately 500 million euros), the company announced ambitious plans to provide potential customers with thousands of armored vehicles of this model.

On November 19, 2025, the first production tanks of the new Leopard 2A8 modification, manufactured for the armed forces of Germany and Norway, were demonstrated at the test site of the head office of the German branch of the Franco-German association KNDS (KNDS Deutschland, formerly Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, KMW) in Munich.

The Brazilian company IDV LATAM, based on the proposal of the Italian consortium Iveco-Oto Melara, invited the national command to consider the possibility of purchasing a promising light tank with a 120-mm cannon.