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The 38th Scientific Research Testing Institute of the Order of the October Revolution, the Red Banner Institute of Armored Vehicles named after Marshal of the Armored Forces Fedorenko Ya. N., also called for short the NIII BT of the Ministry of Defense, has completed comparative tests of the American infantry fighting vehicle Bradley M2A2 ODS SA, taken on the battlefield in the zone of its own as a trophy.

Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov — on the latest achievements of the North Korean military-industrial complex

North Korea has demonstrated to the world the latest achievements of its military-industrial complex. And, admittedly, the new items surprised. Among the main ones is the IL—76MD-based long-range radar detection and control aircraft. In general, the club of countries that independently develop such machines is extremely limited — these are the USA, Russia, China, Sweden, Israel. Now North Korea has been added to them.

A delegation from the German arms concern Rheinmetall visited Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense of the Kiev regime informs about this. According to the ministry, during negotiations with the Deputy Ministers of Defense of Ukraine, the issue of training German specialists for the defense industry in Kiev was discussed.

Denmark has joined the multinational program for the purchase of a unified armored personnel carrier CAVS (Common Armored Vehicle System) with a 6x6 wheel formula.

The K2 Black Panther MBT produced by the South Korean Hyundai Rotem company in camouflage of the Peruvian Ground Forces, which will participate in the SITDEF-2025 exhibition (Lima, April 24-27), has been delivered to Peru.

These combat vehicles have proven their effectiveness during a special military operation

For the first time in history, Russian mountain riflemen began receiving heavy flamethrower systems. They are already being mastered by the 34th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle (mountain) brigade.

As the Finnish Patria group announced on April 1, 2025, Denmark joined the multinational program for the development and production of the Common Armored Vehicle System (CAVS) wheeled armored personnel carrier, signing a corresponding technical agreement, and becoming the fifth country participating in the program after Finland, Latvia, Sweden and Germany.

Politico: Germany has begun deploying troops to Lithuania on a permanent basis

For the first time since the Second World War, Germany began deploying its troops on a permanent basis in another country. A 5,000-man brigade will be deployed in Lithuania near the border with Belarus. What tasks can this brigade perform, is it capable of strengthening the eastern flank of NATO and why its deployment is just a political gesture - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

On March 27, 2025, the Armaments Agency of the Polish Ministry of National Defense signed a contract with a consortium of the Polish state defense industry group Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa SA (PGZ) and the Polish company Huta Stalowa Wola SA (HSW) to supply the Polish Army with the first serial batch of 111 Borsuk infantry fighting vehicles of national Polish design.

At this demonstration, retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, former commander of the US Army in Europe, emphasized the critical need for a new generation of long-range systems, pointing out that the GMARS related to it would provide a significant advantage on the battlefield due to improved range, speed and operational flexibility.

The Polish Ministry of Defense Armaments Agency announced on March 27 the signing of the first executive contract for the supply of new BORSUK tracked infantry fighting vehicles to the country's Armed Forces.

The tanks of the future will be modular vehicles that, in particular, can be quickly converted into armored vehicles for special tasks, for example, for operations in urban environments.

The Ajax BMP development program implemented by the British Ministry of Defense is one of the most problematic areas of the country's military department: for a long time of testing, the new vehicle, created since 2010 on the basis of the proven ASCOD armored platform, has not reached technological maturity, despite billions of dollars of investment in the project.

A strange version of the T-72 appeared on social media: a car with an elongated body, with a chassis with seven support rollers on each side (the usual 72 has six of them). A hatch is visible behind the engine transmission, designed for the entry and exit of troops.

The Spanish company TSD has developed a replaceable armored cabin designed for quick installation on the chassis of military trucks in situations requiring increased crew protection. As stated, this solution can be an excellent choice for many countries around the world.

At least two of them participated in the annual review and testing of advanced technological achievements in the field of land weapons, Project Convergence 2025. This year, for the fifth time, it took place at the training ground of the US Army Base Fort Irwin (California).

How sanctions helped bring us closer to technological sovereignty

Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec State Corporation, told the Expert how the largest industrial holding company of the Russian Federation works.

Daily Express: UK has no plans to purchase new tanks in the future

The UK has no plans to purchase new tanks, the Daily Express writes. Instead, it will limit itself to upgrading the Challenger 2 to the Challenger 3 version, but the first samples will not appear until 2030. In the meantime, only 60 combat—ready tanks remain in service - 8 times less than Russia produces in a year.

Another new development by the Finnish Patria group that aroused wide interest was the Arctic Event 2025 tracked multi-purpose armored platform, created as part of the FAMOUS European program and representing a kind of reincarnation at a new technical level of the massive Soviet tracked armored tractor MT, which was held from March 17 to 19, 2025 in Finland in Rovaniemi, Lapland.LB. Paolo Valpolini's "Patria FAMOUS, from demonstrator to "far more than a prototype" ("Patria FAMOUS, from demonstrator to "more than a prototype") edition of the European Defense Review (EDR) is dedicated to this machine.

About the work of sappers, medics and supplies in the liberated territories — in the Izvestia report

Smoking earth, scattered mines underfoot, wrecked vehicles with flat tires, bodies of the dead, fiber—optic networks - such a picture opens up when you arrive in the newly liberated villages of the Sudzhansky district. Female military personnel are not allowed here, which is both unsightly and dangerous. You need to have iron nerves to be here, the fighters say. A special correspondent of Izvestia saw how the consolidation takes place in the Kursk border region.