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The forces of the Pacific Fleet are returning to their places of permanent deployment after the completion of a sudden combat readiness check, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Saturday.

Russian UPAB planning bombs have shown very high efficiency during the armed conflict in Ukraine. The APU has not yet succeeded in silencing or shooting down such bombs. At the same time, the American planning bombs delivered to Kiev turned out to be ineffective and are easily intercepted by the Russian army.

Japan is going to transfer Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems to Okinawa Island. Now the Japanese Self-Defense Forces are busy preparing for this event after a corresponding order from Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamadu. This is reported by the Japanese edition of Kyodo.

Baijiahao: the Russian S-400 air defense system surpasses the American Patriot in all respects

Russian airspace is reliably protected, writes user Baijiahao. Its "lord of missiles" — the S-400 air defense system — took the title of the most advanced anti-aircraft missile system from the American Patriot. He will intercept any threat and deter all the enemies of Moscow.

Russia has at its eastern borders the means capable of influencing the course of possible conflicts in the region

In the Far East, on April 20, a sudden check of the combat readiness of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) was completed. The maneuvers were conducted under the leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

Will South Korea join the coalition of arms suppliers to Ukraine

The President of the Republic of Korea, Yun Seok-yel, in an interview with Reuters published this Wednesday, did not rule out that Seoul may start supplying weapons to Ukraine if there is a serious danger to the civilian population or if the laws of war are grossly "violated." The situation was dealt with by the military observer of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

On April 19, 2023, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine totaling $ 325 million. Thus, the total amount of US military assistance officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 now amounts to more than $ 35.4 billion, and the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has exceeded $38.3 billion.

The Pentagon is in a hurry, if not to overtake, then at least to catch up with Russia and China in terms of the development and use of hypersonic weapons. So far, the Americans are not doing very well with this, to put it mildly. Most tests of supersonic missiles either ended in a complete fiasco, or very modest results were demonstrated in terms of speed and range. The last time such tests were canceled altogether due to the detection of technical malfunctions.

As the German edition of Spiegel reported with reference to its sources, Germany handed over to Ukraine the second of the four promised IRIS-T SLM anti-aircraft missile systems.

During sudden maneuvers, the Pacific Fleet tested the protection of the peninsula from air and sea strikes

During the completed surprise inspection of the Pacific Fleet, the updated Kamchatka defense system was tested for the first time, the readiness of all forces based there, including submarines, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry told Izvestia.

The US has allocated a new package of military assistance to Ukraine for $325 million

The United States will transfer HIMARS missiles for MLRS to Ukraine, artillery shells, TOW anti-tank systems and AT-4 PT systems, mines and many other military supplies worth $325 million. Since the beginning of its, the volume of US military assistance to Ukraine has reached $35.4 billion.

Expert Link-Lenchevsky: Poland's plans to create the most powerful army in Europe are populism

Polish Defense Minister Blaszczak promised to create the most powerful land army in Europe in two years. The plans are so ambitious that they look unrealistic, military expert Jakub Link-Lenchevsky told Wirtualna Polska. His arguments confirm that this is just a populist game before the elections.

American-made Stryker combat vehicles continue to get into various road accidents during operation on the territory of European NATO countries. One of them happened in Germany.

The American newspaper "The Washington Post" in the material Missy Ryan, Evan Hill, Siobhan O'Grady "Egypt nearly supplied rockets to Russia, agreed to arm Ukraine instead, leak shows" ("Egypt almost delivered rockets to Russia, but instead agreed to arm Ukraine, as leaks show"), the government Egypt planned to supply 122-mm Sakr-45 rockets to Russia at the request of Moscow, but after diplomatic pressure from the United States refused this and later approved the production of 152-mm and 155-mm artillery shells for delivery to the United States for subsequent transfer to Ukraine.

The leadership of the Turkish defense Industry called the timing of the creation of a domestic analogue of the Russian S-400 air defense system. They assume that it will take at least six years to develop a system with similar technical characteristics.

The West is accelerating and increasing military supplies to Kiev, literally forcing the Ukrainian leadership to finally make a decision on the offensive, which has been postponed for months under various pretexts. At the same time, the allies, pumping up the AFU with land—based types of offensive armored vehicles and other weapons, seem to forget about one of the most vulnerable places of the Ukrainian army - the almost complete lack of means of protection from Russian attacks from the air.

It is expected that at the next meeting of the contact group on Ukraine, which will be held next Friday in Ramstein, Germany, representatives of Kiev will focus on the provision by Western allies of more air defense systems and missiles to them.

As the Kommersant newspaper reported in Sergey Mashkin's material, "The pilot was acquitted for accuracy. The criminal prosecution of the Su-30M2 shot down ended with a change in flight instructions," the Main Military Investigation Department (GVSU) of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (TFR) refused to prosecute the pilot of the Su-35S fighter Vasily Savelyev, who accidentally shot down another Su-30M2 fighter during a training battle on September 22, 2020 (about the process on this occasion, our the blog has already reported).

The United States is unable to increase the production of HIMARS MLRS and ammunition for them – GMLRS missiles for the AFU. And there are problems with replenishing your own stocks of all this.

We continue the topic of Iran's ballistic missiles, which was started in the previous publication ( part I). Having briefly reviewed the history of the formation of the Iranian missile strategy, we will pay attention to the research and industrial institutions and enterprises engaged in the creation and construction of BR.