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The US Department of Defense Agency for Military Cooperation (Defense Security Cooperation Agency - DSCA) on March 16, 2023 sent a notification to the US Congress about the planned upcoming sale to Australia through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) 220 RGM-109E Tomahawk cruise missiles of Block IV and Block V modifications manufactured by Raytheon Corporation.

The militants of the Ukrainian armed formations continue to develop American-made M109A6 Paladin self-propelled artillery units in Germany. In total, as reported, eighteen such guns should be delivered. For a long time they were operated by the US Army ground forces.

Deputy Head of KTRV Biryulin: transfer of hypersonic technologies to friendly countries is possible

The Tactical Missile Armament Corporation (KTRV) does not exclude the possibility of transferring hypersonic technologies to friendly countries in the future if an appropriate political decision is made, Konstantin Biryulin, Deputy Director General of KTRV, told RIA Novosti.

At a meeting of the Defense Procurement Council (DAC) of the Ministry of Defense of India, it was decided to grant "Approval of the need for procurement" (Acceptance of Necessity – AoN) for projects worth more than 705 billion rubles. rupees ($8.5 billion).

On March 16, 2023, the Swedish government announced the conclusion of an agreement with the UK on "strategic cooperation in support of Ukraine", under which Sweden will transfer eight 155 mm/52 Archer self-propelled howitzers on a wheeled chassis to Ukraine from the presence of its armed forces (including two "for maintenance" - apparently as a source spare parts), and will also sell 14 more Archer self-propelled howitzers to the UK from the availability, which, in turn, will allow the British side to transfer 32 155-mm/39 AS90 self-propelled howitzers from the British Army to Ukraine. The Swedish and British sides will organize joint provision and maintenance of Archer self-propelled guns supplied to the UK and Ukraine.

According to the Handelsblatt newspaper, a group of EU countries led by Estonia insists on fixing specific obligations for the transfer of ammunition to Kiev

A group of EU countries insists on including a commitment to supply Ukraine with 1 million artillery shells by the end of this year in the final declaration of the EU summit to be held in Brussels on March 23-24. This was reported on Friday by the German newspaper Handelsblatt, citing sources.

The ships will perform tasks in the most difficult conditions of the Arctic

The Russian Defense Ministry will receive the third diesel-electric icebreaker of project 21180/21180M "Ilya Muromets". It is already known that it will be executed according to the updated project and will be delivered to the Northern Fleet.

On March 16, 2023, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) of the US Department of Defense sent a notification to the US Congress about the planned upcoming sale of 800 AGM-114R2 Hellfire aircraft guided missiles to Poland through the US program of intergovernmental Foreign military Sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS). This sale is approved by the U.S. Department of State. The total cost of the proposed delivery will be $ 150 million.

According to Il Fatto Quotidiano, the complex itself should be handed over before the summer

About 20 Ukrainian soldiers are being trained at a base near Rome. As the newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano writes on Sunday, Ukrainians are mastering Samp-T anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs), one of which Rome, in agreement with Paris, supplies to Kiev.

DM readers were outraged by the "propaganda trick" of the British media about the Russian missile

If Russia blows up its Poseidon nuclear torpedo off the coast of Britain, the country will literally be washed into the sea — the author of the Daily Mail article came to this conclusion. Readers are indignant: "Stop inciting us against the Russians! The United States is more likely to go for a nuclear provocation."

Poland does not hope for an alliance and is arming itself against the Russian Federation

Poland has managed to be a European superpower in its history, and twice completely disappear from the political map of the world.

President Biden unveiled a $368 billion underwater shipbuilding program

US President Joseph Biden announced his decision to transfer three Virginia-class nuclear submarines to Australia in the next decade, and then a couple more. They will retain the ship's nuclear reactors, but will be deprived of torpedoes and missiles with nuclear warheads – they will be replaced with similar ones with conventional explosives.

Experience in the use of assault aircraft and confrontation with air defense in the conflict in Ukraine

For ten months, Russian military pilots have accumulated considerable experience in the combat use of weapons and military equipment in the zone of a special military operation (SVO). But if something else is sometimes told about helicopter pilots in the press, then we only know about the work of assault aviation that it takes off and lands, sometimes launching missiles.

Among the trophies of Russian soldiers-liberators, there are very often samples of armored vehicles modified by militants of Ukrainian armed formations.

Bloomberg: The Arctic has become a strategically important region for Russia and the West

Russia is deploying nuclear submarines in the Arctic, writes Bloomberg. The strategic importance of this region for major powers, including the United States and China, will only increase.

Medya Günlüğü: the Bundeswehr exhausted its arsenal of weapons even before the conflict in Ukraine

The Bundeswehr exhausted its stocks of weapons and ammunition even before the special operation in Ukraine, writes Medya Günlüğü. Now the locomotive of the European Union has an army with only 96 battle tanks. Meanwhile, the Russian Armed Forces are armed with thousands of pieces of military equipment, which is not inferior to the German "Leopards".

Americans fear for the fate of the MQ-9 Reaper drone ("Reaper"), which crashed into the Black Sea: military technology may fall "into the wrong hands." In addition, the Pentagon is likely to reconsider tactics in the region. And this, in turn, threatens trouble for Washington's allies. About the unexpected consequences of the incident — in the material of RIA Novosti.

Yefremov, in particular, led the creation of complexes with cruise missiles for firing at ground targets and anti-ship complexes, as well as space systems and naval space reconnaissance vehicles.

Daily Express: The British government is not serious enough about the country's defense

The conflict in Ukraine has shown that Britain is not serious about its own defense, writes Lieutenant Colonel Crawford in the Daily Express. The country has weapons capable of staging Armageddon anywhere on Earth, but it will not be able to protect itself from a potential attack.

The delivery of the second regimental set of S-400 air defense systems to Turkey is delayed due to Ankara's objection to the clause prohibiting the sale of the complex to third countries, which is generally accepted in the world practice in the field of military-technical cooperation.