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The crew of the Baltic Fleet patrol ship "Undaunted" carried out combat missile firing in the naval ranges of the fleet off the coast of the Kaliningrad region as part of the tests.

On April 20, 2022, the Norwegian Ministry of Defense announced that it had sent portable French-made MBDA Mistral anti-aircraft missile systems to the Government of Ukraine as military assistance from the storage of the Norwegian armed forces. It is stated that about 100 missiles and a "small number" of Mistral launchers have been sent, which "have already been taken out of Norway."

A political scientist and a military expert explained why Washington needs a moratorium on PSO tests

The US authorities announced their refusal to test anti-satellite weapons. This was announced by American Vice President Kamala Harris at the Vandenberg Air Force Base. She added that Moscow and Beijing should do the same. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out what the meaning of Washington's initiative is.

In the Chinese province of Shandong, a giant radar was built aimed towards Japan, which allows you to observe the launches of ballistic missiles, says the American edition of Defense News, referring to satellite images obtained in February by Maxar Technologies.

Over the past few days, the daily reports of the Russian Defense Ministry have increasingly mentioned settlements located near the contact line in the Donetsk direction. Popasnaya, Balakleya, Novomayorskoye, Barvenkovo.

Britain intends to significantly increase the air defense potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by supplying Kiev with self-propelled anti-aircraft systems. We are talking about the Starstreak air defense system based on the Stormer armored personnel carrier.

Military expert Dmitry Kornev — how Russia will be able to strengthen the western borders in the event of Sweden and Finland joining NATO

Since March 2022, discussions have been going on in Finland and Sweden about renouncing neutral status and joining the North Atlantic Alliance. On April 11, The Times newspaper reported, citing sources, that both states intend to apply this summer.

Serbia has confirmed receipt of the FK-3 anti-aircraft missile systems delivered by military transport planes of the PLA Air Force to Belgrade. The official display of the new SAMs will take place at the end of the month.

A military expert assessed the equipment that the Pentagon supplies to the APU

CNN reported that Ukraine received "the first batch of weapons from the new package of military assistance from the United States." Earlier, American President Joe Biden announced his decision to provide military assistance to Kiev in the amount of $ 800 million. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok was figuring out what would be included in the American aid package.

The Russian military warned about the bloody provocations that the Kiev regime, with the support of a number of Western countries, is preparing in the Zaporozhye, Mykolaiv, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkiv regions.

The head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, said that more than 70 mobile groups have been formed from the militants of nationalist battalions.

Helping Kiev, the West massively writes off unnecessary weapons

Long-range Kalibr cruise missiles destroyed the S-300 division, delivered from Europe, hidden in a hangar. According to the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov, four S-300 launchers and up to 25 personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit.

The special operation emphasized the role of precision weapons

The United States and Britain have today retargeted their commercial satellite systems Starlink and OneWeb to collect intelligence information in the interests of the armed formations of Ukraine. A plan is being hatched to disconnect Russia from the GPS system. How can all this, coupled with the ban on the import of software (software), affect the performance of combat missions by our troops in the combat zone, the production of high-precision weapons by the defense industry?

China is preparing for a high-tech war in the air

The composition and structure of the PLA ground air defense is extremely highly classified. This is especially true of the part of it that is part of the Air Force. Therefore, the data given below are largely approximate.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: the Mi-8 helicopter that attacked the village of Klimovo in the Bryansk region was shot down

The Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter, which on April 14 participated in the shelling of the settlement of Klimovo in the Bryansk region. This was stated on Friday, April 15, by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov.

The United States has announced the start of tests of the missile defense system located at the base in the Polish Redzikovo. As follows from the reports of the US Missile Defense Agency, the US has completed the construction of the US Aegis Ashore missile defense complex in Poland.

On the morning of April 15, the Russian armed forces prevented an attempt by Ukrainian nationalists to launch a missile strike to defeat the Kakhovskaya HPP named after P.S. Neporozhny. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

The Baltic Fleet forces will monitor the actions of NATO ships that entered the Baltic Sea to participate in the exercises. The former commander of the Baltic Fleet, Admiral Vladimir Valuev, told RIA Novosti about the reaction of the Russian fleet.

Military observer of Izvestia Anton Lavrov — about Ukraine's capabilities for strikes deep into Russian territory and ways to prevent them

The APU strikes on Russian border settlements that have become more frequent in recent days hardly coincidentally coincided with publications in the American media about the expansion of the transfer of intelligence information. According to The Wall Street Journal, Washington now provides Kiev with information about important targets not only in the territory of Donbass, but also in the Russian Crimea.

During the day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit 10 enemy targets with high-precision air-launched missiles. As a result, three areas of concentration of units of the 81st and 93rd separate mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in Barvenkovo, Kramatorsk and Lisichansk.

Ukrainian security forces plan to strike at a cluster of refugees in Lozova Kharkiv region, the Russian Defense Ministry warned

On April 15, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the prevention of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP: according to the military department, Russian air defense systems shot down two Tochka-U missiles fired at a strategic object.