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In the Western press, they thought about the combat effectiveness of the French Leclerc tank in the event of its presence in the Ukrainian theater of operations.

To tow the damaged or destroyed Leopard 2 from the battlefield, the APU uses American M88A2 HERCULES heavy armored repair and evacuation vehicles created on the chassis of the M60 main battle tanks.

Everyone is talking about tanks, but the role of the BMP in combat is no less, the author of the article in Forbes believes. Such homemade combat vehicles began to be built in Ukraine on the basis of an old tracked tractor MT-LB. How many MT-LB-BM-7 Ukrainians will be able to produce depends on the towers, not on the hull, since there are few of them.

The Bundeswehr criticized the armed forces of Ukraine for the lack of success on the battlefield after training in the West. In the report, under the heading "for official use only", Ukrainians are sometimes blamed for the most absurd moments. What caused the criticism of the APU by NATO instructors?

The Turkish company Aselsan has been selected as a strategic partner for the implementation of the modernization project of the Leopard-2A4 main battle tank fleet of the Land Forces of Chile.

The events in Ukraine have confirmed that the number of personnel, as well as weapons and equipment, still plays an important role, military expert Zhivoin Bankovich said in an interview with Pechat. He commented on the technical side of the conflict, including the use of aviation equipment.

In July, the State Corporation Rostec announced the creation of the Prometheus hardware and software complex, which will be able to turn any IFVs, armored personnel carriers and even tanks into drones. The development will increase the effectiveness of armored vehicles in combat, and most importantly — save the lives of the crews. About the features of Russian combat robotic complexes — in the material of TASS.

The M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA infantry fighting vehicles available to the armed formations of the Kiev regime began to receive sets of American Dynamic BRAT (Bradley Reactive Armor Tiles).

Serial models of such cars are intended for use on public roads of all categories and off-road

A new civilian tractor, military and civilian products will be presented by the Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region at the Russia-Africa forum. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of the concern.

During a two-day visit to the Czech Republic, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius discussed with Czech Defense Minister Yana Chernokhova issues of current and future cooperation in the defense sector, the country's Defense Ministry reported.

Secretary of State Blinken said that Ukraine will receive the F-16, but deliveries will take months

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that Kiev will receive the F-16, but it will take months to supply and retrain Ukrainian pilots. At the same time, the White House does not expect that the fighters will change the course of hostilities, and in Ukraine they complain about the lack of "more banal things." "Newspaper.Ru" talks about Washington's concerns and what kind of response Moscow has to the delivery of fighter jets.

"A full-fledged army will enter Ukraine from Poland... And these are not mercenaries, but active NATO forces." Such scenarios of Poland's intervention in the situation in Ukraine are drawn by both Russian and even Western military experts. How and under what conditions can they be implemented? And what should Russia do in this case?

In one day, Russian fighters destroyed more than 15 Leopard tanks and 20 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles

On July 23, Vladimir Putin announced the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. At his meeting with Alexander Lukashenko, it was also reported that during July 22, Russian fighters destroyed more than 15 Leopard tanks and more than 20 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.

La Repubblica: Ukraine's failures on the battlefield are caused by a lack of training and weapons

Ukraine launched a counteroffensive without proper preparation for breaking through the defense lines and without the necessary weapons for this. Military columnist Gianluca Di Feo wrote about this on July 23 in an article for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

During the ongoing offensive in the Zaporozhye direction, the first losses of the Ukrainian army of armored repair and evacuation vehicles M88A2 Hercules, the delivery of which to Kiev was announced by the US government in early 2023, are noted. Military equipment of this type was included in the same delivery package with M1 Abrams tanks and theoretically should have been used together with them. However, the Ukrainian command deployed them on the battlefield, without waiting for the supply of American tanks.

For many years, the standard infantry fighting vehicle of the French army was the AMX-10P manufactured by Nexter. To meet the requirements of export customers, a specialized version has been developed, called AMX-10P Marines. They were sold to Indonesia (34) and Singapore (44) in various versions.

In the materials posted on Western resources, Soviet T-80U tanks and a rather rare T-80UE-1, which is a hybrid of the T-80BV hull upgraded to the T-80U standard with a turret from the T-80UD tank, are seen moving in a column of the AFU. The commander's observation turret 1EC29 with a 12.7 mm closed machine gun is visible on the tower.

The weapons supplied to Kiev are often inferior to Soviet-made models

Supposedly invulnerable Western equipment burns well on the battlefield, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council on July 21.

The American web resource "The Drive" has published an interesting material by Howard Altman "A Sobering Analysis Of Ukraine's Counteroffensive From The Front" ("Sobering front-line analysis of the Ukrainian counteroffensive"), which sets out critical considerations about the offensive actions of the armed forces of Ukraine, expressed by a senior researcher at the British International Institute for Strategic Studies (International Institute for Strategic Studies - IISS) and the Center For New American Security (CNAS) by Franz-Stefan Gadi after his trip with a group of military analysts to the war zones in Ukraine.

Rheinmetall Group intends to protect the new plant in Ukraine from Russian missiles with air defense systems of its own production. This statement was made by the head of the concern Armin Papperger.