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According to press releases from the Czech vehicle manufacturer SVOS and the Swedish company Saab Dynamics, they have completed the joint development and conducted test firing of the highly mobile short-range air defense system MSHORAD (Mobile Short-Range Air Defense ).

Washington plans to transfer to Kiev a large batch of Switchblade unmanned aerial vehicles ("Switchblade"). Small-sized drones belong to the class of barrage ammunition, it is an effective weapon at the tactical level. But the Russian army has something to answer.

The Indian Ground Forces have adopted a batch of Igla-S portable anti-aircraft missile systems, which were recently acquired in Russia as part of the emergency procurement procedure.

The United States and Israel have approved Germany's acquisition of the Israeli Arrow-3 missile defense system (Arrow 3 or Hetz 3). As The Jerusalem Post reminds, in early April 2022, Germany announced its interest in acquiring an Israeli-made missile defense system to protect against modern air threats, including (mainly) Russian Iskander missiles based in Kaliningrad.

On April 5, 2022, at the location of the 1st Warsaw Armored Brigade named after Tadeusz Kosciuszko of the Polish Army in Warsaw, Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak signed an intergovernmental agreement between the United States and Poland in the form of an exchange of letters of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) through the American program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) on the acquisition of 250 main tanks M1A2 SEP v.3 Abrams. On the American side, the agreement was signed by US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski.

The Russian Armed Forces are ready to ensure the entry of ships into and out of the port of Berdyansk for evacuation

The Russian armed forces continue to destroy the military infrastructure of Ukraine. On April 4, the Russian military struck 31 targets. Buk-M1 anti-aircraft complexes, command posts and communication centers, fuel and ammunition storage facilities were hit. Fighting continues in Mariupol. The command of the Russian Federation offered the Ukrainian militants to lay down their arms and go in the direction of Zaporozhye to the territories controlled by Kiev. Meanwhile, the Russian servicemen who returned from captivity confirmed the facts of torture, bullying and murder.

CNN: The US hid the successful test of a hypersonic missile

The United States successfully tested a hypersonic missile in mid-March, CNN reported, citing a representative of the Ministry of Defense. Then the President of the United States Joe Biden was going to go to Europe for the NATO, G7 and EU summits, so the fact of the tests was hidden from the public for two weeks to avoid increasing tensions with Russia.

There was a photo of the destroyed command post for the S-300 air defense systems belonging to the AFU. He was found on the highway between Mangush and Berdyansk.

Lidovky (Czech Republic): what weapons are we sending to Ukrainians? All these are proven types, starting with machine guns and ending with anti-aircraft systems

The Czech Republic has allocated more than a billion crowns for weapons for Ukrainians, Lidovsky writes. Pictures have already appeared on social networks, from which it is clear which technique is used in battles. Deliveries are made at the request of NATO.

The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage of the destruction of the Bayraktar unmanned aerial vehicle by Ukrainian nationalists using the tactical anti-aircraft missile system Tor.

It is reported that 20 air targets were detected during combat duty. As a result of the competent actions of the calculation of the anti-aircraft missile system "Tor" under the command of Sergei Pachepka, all targets were taken for escort and destroyed.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported on new powerful strikes on military facilities in Ukraine. Contrary to rumors spread by the Kiev regime and Western media that the Russian army is running out of stocks of high-precision weapons, the use of such weapons during a special military operation is only increasing.

Russia has attracted all types and kinds of armed forces to the military special operation in Ukraine, with the exception of the "nuclear triad". Both time-tested weapons and brand-new ones are used. About what the Russian army is fighting with — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region, together with the government of St. Petersburg and cooperative enterprises, is creating a unique UAV flight monitoring system.

The success of combat operations on the ground is determined by the victims

Minister Sergei Shoigu said on a conference call at the Ministry of Defense: "In general, the main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been completed." A significant reduction in the Ukrainian military potential allows us to focus our main efforts on the main goal – the liberation of Donbass, and the operation will continue until "the tasks set by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief are fully fulfilled."

China shows an example of increasing the power of Russian destroyers

The first month of the special military operation passed with limited use of the Navy. The main contribution of sailors to the demilitarization of Ukraine so far goes along the line of hitting important military infrastructure facilities with launches of high-precision missiles of the 3M14 "Caliber" family from surface ships and submarines.

On March 30, 1967, by a directive of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces, anti-missile and Anti-Space Defense Troops were created as part of the country's air defense forces.

The original abbreviation of this type of troops looked like this: missile defense and PKO troops. The need for their appearance was dictated by a new military threat, namely, the adoption of long-range ballistic missiles by the countries of the probable enemy.

Anti-missile weapons are as diverse as the missiles themselves. Among the many complexes and systems there is a very unusual sample. And a successful one, which shot down a real ballistic missile warhead during an intercontinental launch. Perhaps soon this unique system will be adopted. Naked Science reveals all the details about her.

Russia is ready to massively use missiles that have no analogues

Mass use of high-precision weapons is becoming one of the main trends of the Russian Armed Forces. Its use began from the first minutes of the special operation in Ukraine. And if at first these were infrastructure facilities, now we are talking about well-protected ammunition depots and area targets.

There is no doubt that electronic warfare plays an important strategic role for the Russian Armed Forces. In this regard, we offer an article from the electronic magazine Global defense technology, which explores Russia's electronic warfare and its ability to support the country's defense capability.

The Russian Defense Ministry showed a detailed video of the destroyed Ukrainian S-300PS anti-aircraft missile system. The video shows the broken position of the S-300PS: several destroyed and burned self-propelled firing systems of the system, including those with transport and launch containers of anti-aircraft missiles scattered to the sides.