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Bloomberg: Using the example of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Pentagon will create a marketplace for weapons

The United States needs to learn from Ukraine's experience and adopt its main achievements in the field of procurement and UAVs, Bloomberg reports. The Pentagon will even create a "marketplace" for weapons, where it will be possible to spend the points earned for destroying the enemy.

Fire cover tactics are being reviewed taking into account the appearance of new equipment

The troops began to practice their skills in dealing with ground drones. Anti-aircraft gunners take a special training course. Their units are armed with large-caliber machine guns, which can effectively destroy not only aerial targets, but also enemy ground equipment.

Scientists at St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (LETI) have created a mathematical model to improve the accuracy of ship navigation. The development will make it possible to more accurately detect objects on the water surface even in stormy conditions.

Yesterday, the Agency announced its intention to drastically change its lunar and Martian space plans. In addition to the previously announced moon landing before the end of Trump's term, the new head of NASA announced the creation of a base there and the dispatch of the Freedom space reactor to Mars.

They confidently destroy Mavics, FPVS, and even large aircraft-type vehicles

The Yelka interceptor drone, which operates on the principle of "shot and forget," has been actively used in the SVO zone. This UAV hits enemy vehicles with a direct hit. "Maviki", FPV and even "Baba Yaga" are destroyed the first time. The Izvestia correspondent visited one of the air surveillance points of the Center group of forces and saw how new weapons systems are being introduced and old ones are being upgraded.

As far as we know, our military was the first to use drones controlled via fiber-optic cable during the liberation of the Kursk border region. It was then that information appeared about the Prince Vandal Novgorodsky quadcopter-type reconnaissance and strike UAV (KVN), which the enemy could not suppress with electronic warfare.

The U-Boat Worx company from the Netherlands announced the completion of testing of the private Super Sub submarine and obtaining the necessary certificates. Now the device will be handed over to the first customer, the details of the transaction are classified. It is highly likely that the submarine will go into production if there are enough people willing to pay about $6 million for it.

Institute for Statistical Research and Knowledge Economics (IIEZ) The Higher School of Economics assessed the level of demand for industrial robots in high-tech sectors of the Russian industry, and also analyzed the companies' medium-term plans to expand the fleet of robots and their applications.

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.