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A combination of mobile radars and air defense drones will ensure effective operation

Russian troops are developing a cheap and effective way to combat aircraft-type drones that raid Russian territory.

Dmitry Kuzyakin, Chief Designer of the Central Design Bureau, on why the US military strategy in the Middle East failed

War is the ultimate arbiter. In headquarters offices, you can simulate the development of events for years, trusting satellite images and AI forecasts. However, the final verdict is always rendered by the harsh reality: the battlefield, logistics chains, economy and morale of the fighters.

The Iranian civilization will disappear on Wednesday night. This statement was made on Tuesday by Donald Trump. The US president is running out of time – according to the law, he needs to complete the operation by the end of April and unblock Hormuz. Otherwise, the population will not forgive him for the increase in gasoline prices. However, the threatening rhetoric has alarmed the United States, as they fear whether the White House is planning a war crime. Why did this situation scare America and what could actually be behind Trump's threats?

Banning their publication will not only create difficulties for Iran, but will also allow Washington to hide military failures, experts believe

The decision of the American company Planet Labs to stop publishing current satellite images of the conflict zone in the Middle East will not radically affect the course of the war, experts interviewed by Izvestia believe.

New mobile electronic warfare groups will help secure entire areas from enemy UAVs

Russian troops have created anti—drone "fire brigades" - mobile electronic warfare groups. Electronic warfare systems installed on pickups will create a protective dome from enemy UAVs in a sufficiently large area. Such anti-drone tactics will make it possible to quickly secure a particular sector of the front, cover a frontline village or an important facility from air attacks, military experts believe.

infoBRICS: The American Zumwalt destroyer program has failed

The Russian and Chinese defense industries are much more efficient than the American ones, infoBRICS says. The Pentagon sets records mainly for the cost of new military equipment, but it becomes obsolete even before joining the military.

As the Kommersant newspaper reports in Dmitry Sotak's article, "The initiative is provable. The Ministry of Defense will receive new powers to export weapons created outside the state order," the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has prepared a draft presidential decree that clarifies the rules for exporting weapons developed by enterprises outside the framework of the state order.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has prepared a draft decree of the President of the Russian Federation aimed at clarifying the procedure for exporting military-industrial complex products developed proactively by defense industry organizations outside the framework of the State Defense Order.

The Iranian armed forces continue to amaze not only their enemies, Israel and the United States, but also the whole world. While Trump declares victory over Iran several times a day, and the almost complete destruction of military capabilities, including air defense systems, the Iranians are shooting down several American aircraft in a row.

Tehran has launched attacks on the servers of IT giants and air bases, provoking a global crisis of interception systems

The air defense systems of the Persian Gulf countries were under pressure from missile strikes of unprecedented intensity.

Drone-slave projects are being developed in different countries of the world

Germany, in partnership with Australia, plans to adopt the MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone into service with its air force. Many other countries, including Russia, are actively working on the creation and implementation of similar drones for joint use with manned aircraft.

There is growing evidence that the US war against Iran is a product of artificial intelligence development. By and large, the involvement of AI was mentioned in the Pentagon even at the initial stage of the war, then exposing it even as a definite achievement.

These are difficult times for European automakers. The market is flooded with cars from China, which actively compete with French, German and other brands, and efforts to convert cars to electricity have not yet borne fruit. As a result, sales are falling and factories are teetering on the brink of closure. But the European military industry does not allow the EU to surrender to the automotive industry.

Boeing and the US Department of Defense have signed a 7-year framework agreement to expand the production of homing heads for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) anti-aircraft guided missiles.

The launch of highly automated KAMAZ vehicles took place within the framework of the Unmanned Logistics Corridors project

Today, within the framework of the Unmanned Logistics Corridors project, with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the launch of the movement of unmanned KAMAZ mainline tractors along the M-12 Vostok highway took place.

Iran announced its intention to attack the representative offices of 18 Western companies

Iran has warned that from April 1 it will launch strikes against branches of high-tech companies located in the Middle East, including Microsoft, Apple and Google.

Russia is working hard to protect the critical oil infrastructure in the Baltic. Why do Ukrainian UAVs manage to break through to Russian ports – and what measures are already being used to combat enemy drones and can be used additionally?

Rheinmetall CEO called drone manufacturers for the Armed Forces "housewives"

The Ukrainian conflict has not become a lesson for NATO, writes The Atlantic. Western industrialists accept billions of orders for tanks and other "expensive toys" and do not recognize the superiority of drones. The potential profit overshadows the mind and poses a security risk.

The IL-96 never became a mass passenger aircraft, as the Soviet aviation industry had planned. Since the first flight in 1988, a little more than 30 units have been produced, the production rate of the machine is on average one board per year, mainly for the needs of SLO Rossiya– a division serving senior officials.

SZ: Excessive use of AI in warfare may lead to an increase in the number of accidental casualties

Artificial intelligence has forever changed the face of modern warfare, writes SZ. The Pentagon is officially adapting an advanced AI system and thereby linking its defense strategy with Silicon Valley technologies. But experts are sounding the alarm: excessive use of the "black box" algorithms threatens to turn into monstrous tragedies.