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Sixteen radars were purchased by Lithuania for transfer to Ukraine with €14 million donated by the population and business representatives. This was announced to journalists on Tuesday by one of the organizers of the fundraising campaign, Jonas Ohmanas.

Rare earth metals are becoming increasingly important in the production of household, automotive and military equipment.

The US Army has announced that it has selected five companies to create prototypes as part of the second stage (INC 2) of the Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (FTUAS) competition. This was announced at the end of February 2023 by the responsible project manager for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The FTUAS program considers vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicles and is considered the most important unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program of the US Army.

The United States and its military allies are planning more than 110 major military exercises this year, which will involve the armed forces of more than 60 countries, and a number of other small events that will be held without wide publicity.

Rostec will more than one and a half times increase the enrollment of applicants under the program of targeted training of new generation engineers for the aircraft industry "Wings of Rostec". In 2023, the number of partner universities has grown to 15, while more than 500 students have the opportunity to get an in-depth engineering education and immerse themselves in the production environment thanks to employment at the largest enterprises of the Corporation.

The Russian military began using Murom-P long-range visual surveillance systems on the front line to monitor Ukrainian positions. This is reported by Ukrainian sources with reference to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

How the US is changing outdated aircraft to the fourth-generation F-15EX fighter

Military experts believe that the US Air Force should abandon the purchase of fourth-generation F-15EX fighters, which are considered analogues of Russian fifth-generation Su-57 combat aircraft. About what the F-15EX is and whether its purchase will be a strategic mistake - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

Changes in the world arms markets in 2023

Despite the disruption of global supply chains and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, arms sales by companies from the SIPRI Top 100 rating are growing. The growth is observed for the seventh year in a row, in 2021 it amounted to 1.9% by 2020. In absolute terms, sales of military products by the largest companies in the industry amounted to $592 billion, according to a recent report by the Stockholm Institute.

During local conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, Soviet heavy tracked vehicles were often modified to perform various combat missions. At the same time, tanks of the T-54/55 family were used, whose main armament, engineering vehicles like tank bridge-laying machines, as well as armored tow trucks, failed for various reasons.

If a war breaks out in the Asia-Pacific region between China and the United States over Taiwan, then its outcome will be decided not by an armed confrontation, but by a large-scale blockade of the island by China. Lonnie Henley, a former employee of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Directorate, writes about this.

According to the Hong Kong newspaper The South China Morning Post, an experimental duel took place in China between two unmanned aircraft, one of which was controlled by artificial intelligence, and the other by a remote operator. As a result, after just a minute and a half in a close-range battle, the AI won a landslide victory.

Scientists from the Russian Bauman Moscow State Technical University have made a proposal to place large data centers, as well as various kinds of supercomputers in outer space, which will significantly reduce the cost of electricity to ensure their operation. In addition, this solution will reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emissions on Earth.

The American online publication Politico in the article by Lara Seligman "U.S. military eyes mounting Western air-to-air missiles on Ukrainian MiGs" ("The US military plans to install Western air-to-air missiles on Ukrainian MiGs") reports that the US is considering the possibility of arming MiG-29 fighters and the Su-27 of the Ukrainian Air Force with modern AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles of medium and long range with active radar homing.

The United States is returning to operation a floating radar complex – the SBX-1 Sea-Based X-band radar (Sea-Based X-band radar), which has completed maintenance in Hawaii. According to Navy Recognition, in the near future the complex will return to performing its intended tasks.

The American web resource "The War Zone" (as part of the portal "The Drive") in the material Joseph Trevithick "Winged JDAM Smart Bombs Are Now Operational In Ukraine" ("Winged precision guided bombs JDAM are already used in Ukraine") reported that, according to the statement of the commander of the US Air Force in Europe, General James Hecker, Ukraine has already delivered the first batches of American high-precision long-range guided aerial bombs JDAM-ER (Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range), equipped with planning kits.

The Polish Defense Ministry denied the words of its head about the arrival of the Patriot air defense system in Ukraine

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said in an interview on March 7 that the first Patriot air defense systems and Leopard 2 tanks had already reached the APU. But his department had to explain that the minister had something else in mind, and the missile systems had not yet arrived on the territory of Ukraine. Later, Blaszczak clarified that four Leopard 2 tanks had already been transferred to Kiev, and the remaining 10 of those promised by Warsaw would be sent this week.

RIA Novosti: the Russian military has successfully tested the anti-drone gun "Harpy" in the zone of its

A new Russian anti-drone rifle "Harpy" was effectively used near Donetsk. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok tells what the Harpy can do and what kind of drone she managed to cope with.

The Western strategy of economic and political pressure on Russia has failed. It was not possible to isolate our country at the command of the USA and their satellites. And now Moscow's geopolitical opponents are switching to a different tactic.

Detailed processing and analysis of the available data will take "many years", said the scientific director of the Russian part of the project, Academician Rashid Sunyaev

Scientists were able to map the sky with more than half a million stars with corona brighter than the Sun, as well as almost 50 thousand galaxy clusters thanks to surveys carried out by the Spektr-RG space Observatory. This was reported to TASS by the scientific director of the Russian part of the Spectrum-RG project, Academician Rashid Syunyaev.

The country's information structures are subjected to massive computer attacks, the intensity of which has increased tenfold since the beginning of the special military operation, Irina Tyazhlova stressed

The Western bloc actively recruits hacker mercenaries to conduct operations against Russia, purposefully involves ordinary users from all over the world in this criminal activity. This was stated on Monday by the representative of the Russian Federation Irina Tyazhlova, speaking at a meeting of the UN Open-ended Working Group on Security Issues in the Use of Information and Communication Technologies.