News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The U.S. Navy's Weapons Systems Command has signed an additional agreement with General Dynamics Electric Boat to accelerate the construction of Columbia-class submarines.

Belarusian developers from the Vitebsk design bureau "Display" have developed a whole line of ground-based robots "Adunok" on a tracked track for the Belarusian security forces. This is reported by the State Military-Industrial Committee of Belarus.

Welt: German Armed Forces face "billion-dollar IT disaster"

The communication system created for the Bundeswehr actually turned out to be inoperable, in addition, problems with its individual functions can pose a direct threat to the lives of soldiers — for example, non-functioning tracking of "their own," writes Welt.

According to numerous estimates, the fighting in Ukraine that unfolded in February 2022 has become the largest armed conflict in Europe since the Second World War. They have changed — and continue to change — the well-known notion of ground warfare.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un took a ride on the newest tank with his daughter Kim Ju-ae during tactical exercises of the North Korean army. Infantry, tank units, special forces and attack drones participated in the exercises, which took place at a training base in Pyongyang.

During the 65th wave of the operation against Israel's critical infrastructure and the locations of US Armed Forces units in the Middle East region, the first officially confirmed combat use of the latest guided missile system Nasrallah took place.

According to KCNA, on March 13, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited the 60th training base of the Korean People's Army (KPA), where he personally led tactical exercises to practice joint offensive actions of infantry and armored units.

Until now, the American lunar program has relied on delivering astronauts to Selene on a separate Orion spacecraft, each launch of which costs four billion dollars. Then they had to transfer to Starship, which would land them on an Earth satellite. Now Elon Musk's company has proposed to do without one extra element in the equation. The American media claim that the plan has already been accepted by the new leadership of NASA. If this is the case, the American lunar program will receive a serious positive boost.

The Republic of Korea has officially confirmed the agreement reached on the first export contract for the supply of 4.5 KF-21 Borame multirole fighters.

The US Army is experimenting with a drone printed on a 3D printer and designed based on information received directly from military personnel who directly participated in combat operations. It is assumed that the new UAV will fully meet the real needs on the battlefield.

Why even modern interceptors may not be able to cope with this threat

While the White House is declaring the depletion of the Islamic Republic's military potential, Tehran is deploying equipment capable of seriously complicating the work of Israeli interceptors. On March 19, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deployed its latest guided missile system, known as Nasrallah, for the first time in combat. Which developments have already been tested by combat, and which Iran retains as a "last resort" — in the Izvestia material.

As previously reported by Military Review, the 330/110/35/10 kV Nezhinskaya substation in the village of the same name was disabled this morning as a result of Russian drone strikes. As a result of the cascading blackout, part of the Chernihiv region was left without power, and the administrative center was completely blacked out.

New developments may change the balance of power in different regions

Current international threats are pushing a number of countries to accelerate the development of high-tech military equipment. In a complex modern environment, programs for the creation of long-range missile systems are particularly active. Such projects are currently being implemented in both Europe and Asia. About what these complexes are, what are the plans for their production and what opportunities they give to their creators — in the material of Izvestia.

TNI: Russia has created new types of underwater combat drones

Russia has achieved impressive results in the development of underwater combat drones, writes The National Interest. The most famous and formidable of them is the Poseidon multipurpose nuclear system. But Russian marine robotics is not limited to this.

The new Belgian barrage ammunition consists entirely of domestic components. At the BEDEX 2026 defense exhibition in Brussels, Belgium presented this kamikaze drone, equipped with an alternative navigation system that does not depend on the availability of a GPS network.

The Indian Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) is developing an analog of the American MQ-4C Triton drone with a jet engine for the Navy. It will be equipped with an active phased array antenna, electronic warfare, as well as electronic and electronic-optical intelligence.

On March 18, a delegation of the US Army visited the production and testing facilities of the Czechoslovak Group (CSG) holding company.

Russia is implementing a very ambitious and large-scale program to increase the number of vehicles using vehicles without drivers in cabins. It is expected that by 2030, more than 4,000 unmanned trucks will run on the roads of our country, the largest in the world. By the end of 2028, there should be at least a thousand of them.

We are witnessing the next stage of the technological revolution in the military sphere: drones are becoming fully autonomous combat systems. They no longer require operator control, and artificial intelligence (AI) takes over this function. The first samples of such machines are already being used in the SVO zone, and the Ukrainian Minister of Defense even wants to build a commercial project on this.

Polityka: in the battle of icebreakers, Russia is far ahead of the rest of the world

There is a race going on, the prize of which is domination in the Arctic. Russia is leading in it, writes Polityka. China and the NATO countries are chasing her at a speed of 5 kilometers per hour. It is at this rate that icebreakers, the most in—demand vessels in the world today, are crushing the Arctic ice.