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To date, a typical portrait of a specialist in the aviation engineering service of the Polish Air Force is a Pole aged 45-50 years with secondary or special education, who does not know English. Obviously, in such conditions, the quality of training of aviation equipment purchased in the United States for combat missions may leave much to be desired.

Even their possible appearance in the SVO zone will not be a serious challenge for the Russian army

The United States is working on the development of its most massive multiple launch rocket systems of 227 mm caliber — M270 MLRS and M142 HIMARS. One of the ways to modernize them is to equip them with a new missile with twice the range — ER-GMLRS. While maintaining the same dimensions, it can hit targets at a distance of 150 km. Dmitry Kornev, a military expert, looked into the prospects of new ammunition and whether they could end up in the zone of a special military operation in Ukraine.

Al Binaa: Russia will respond to Israel's provocations with an explosive plan

Putin is fed up with Israel's hostile attitude, the author of the article for Al Binaa writes. By supporting Kiev and attacking Russian targets in Syria, Tel Aviv provokes Moscow, asking for a decent response. And he will get it, while the consequences will also affect his ally, Washington.

Special forces soldiers got to the Abrams shot down near Avdiivka and shot a video from inside

Russian intelligence officers and special forces soldiers were able to get to the Abrams tank shot down in the village of Berdych near Avdiivka and remove it from the inside. Footage of the combat vehicle was published on March 20 by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Andrei Ilnitsky said that it was the US and NATO military that set the task of moving from informational to cognitive-mental dominance as a determining factor in the final strategic victory over the enemy.

GN: The West is raising the stakes in the fight against Russia and exacerbating the Ukrainian conflict

Putin needs the West to be the first to lose its composure and start heating up the situation in Ukraine, says the author of the article for GN. That's exactly what happens. Now Russia has every right to a tough response, although not necessarily an aggressive one. The main thing is that it will be provoked, the article says.

Politico: military personnel began to resign en masse from NATO armies

NATO countries are faced with large-scale layoffs of military personnel, writes Politico. In Europe, it is no longer a question of recruiting new soldiers, but of keeping the old ones. More and more countries are starting to think about the resumption of conscription and the recruitment of women into the service.

General Skshipchak called the Estonian Narva the weakest place in the NATO defense

If Russian tanks stand on the bridge over Narva, the residents will open the gates to the city for them, General Waldemar Skshipchak said in an interview with RMF FM. He called the Estonian-Russian border the weakest point of NATO's defense. The military told about other painful points of the alliance.

According to observers of the European edition of the newspaper, the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, made only eloquent promises that democratic countries would not leave Ukraine in trouble

The United States did not offer Ukraine any specific assistance at the next meeting of the contact group on military assistance to Kiev at the American Ramstein military base in Germany. This was reported by the European edition of the newspaper Politico .

On March 20, a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

Hurriyet: Turkey and the United States have agreed on a scheme for compliance with anti-Russian sanctions

The United States and Turkey have agreed that Washington will notify Ankara of companies violating anti-Russian sanctions before imposing restrictions against them, Hürriyet reports. Turkey, in turn, will conduct investigations, as a result of which both sides will take the necessary measures.

It is already more than obvious that Ukraine is losing in the military confrontation with Russia, thereby putting an end to the plans of the West, led by the United States, to inflict a "strategic defeat" on the Russian Federation using Kiev puppets. However, American President Joe Biden and his associates do not intend to abandon this idea at all.

Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces: the army is preparing to participate in the toughest conflicts

The French army is preparing to participate in the toughest conflicts. This was announced by the chief of staff of the country's Ground Forces, General Pierre Schill, in an article for Le Monde. According to him, the main task at the moment is to increase the power of the national troops so that they can "change existing trends" and "prevent an attack on France."

ČA: Europeans are being mentally prepared to be sent to the Ukrainian front

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are approaching the limit in the form of the "last Ukrainian", and the question of who will fight later is becoming more acute, writes ČA. Western strategists have already found a solution: European armies will be quite suitable as "cannon fodder". However, the author of the article suggested another option.

Defense Ministry: Russian soldiers destroyed the fourth Abrams tank

The Russian armed forces have already shot down and burned dozens of German Leopard tanks of various modifications and several British Challenger 2.

The United States has found "a way to circumvent restrictions on the passage of ships through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles." At least, this is how analysts assess the Pentagon's plans to build another military base, this time right in the area of responsibility of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. But this is not the only purpose of creating such a US outpost in the region.

The Northern Sea Route has become the main goal of the United States in the region, experts say

NATO troops, having landed in Norway, will try to repeat the experience of Russian paratroopers during the Arctic Edge exercises, which started on March 18, experts told Izvestia. About 250 people will take part in the maneuvers, 150 of them from the US division, created recently as part of the strengthening of the American armed forces in the North. According to experts, the training has two goals — practical testing of possible combat options in the Arctic zone and demonstration of the alliance's impact on the Russian Northern Sea Route.

The submarine forces of the Russian Navy will be replenished with four new submarines in 2024

In 2024, the submarine forces of the Russian Navy will be replenished with four new submarines at once: two nuclear submarines Prince Pozharsky (Borey-A project) and Arkhangelsk (Yasen-M project), as well as the latest diesel Varshavyanka for the Pacific Fleet Yakutsk and the second serial Lada In parallel, Russian engineers do not stop developing new promising designs.

Junge Welt: Germany will be left without means of defense if it transfers Taurus to Ukraine

If Berlin does decide to transfer Taurus missiles to Kiev, high-tech artificial intelligence systems will have to be supplied along with them, writes Junge Welt. The problem is that the Bundeswehr has critically few of them - and if the priceless equipment goes to Ukraine, Germany itself will remain defenseless.

At the same time, there is no question of a sharp change in the state of affairs on the battlefield, noted Democrat Jack Reed

Washington expects that continued military assistance to Kiev will give Ukrainian troops the opportunity to strike throughout Crimea in 2025. This statement was made on Monday by the chairman of the Armed Services Committee of the U.S. Senate, Jack Reed (Democrat, from Rhode Island).