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CNN: Ukraine has recognized the use of air defense near the site of the missile crash in Poland

Ukraine informed NATO allies about the deployment of an air defense system on November 15 near the border with Poland, where two people were killed when a rocket fell on the same day, CNN writes. The Polish president admitted that it was a Ukrainian air defense missile. Military observer of the Newspaper.Ru" tells where the projectile came from and why its fall led to human casualties.

Seventh meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine plans to satisfy the requests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

On November 16, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will hold the seventh meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine (Ramstein-7). This meeting will be held in an online format at the Pentagon. The forum will allow defense ministers of almost 50 countries to discuss further efforts to provide the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons, military and special equipment.

Business Insider: the missile incident in Poland was called a gift for Ukrainian propaganda

The missile incident in Poland was a gift for Ukrainian propaganda, Simon Miles, an expert on Russia, told Business Insider. In his opinion, Kiev will use it as an excuse to get even more Western aid.

The West, consolidated against Russia, is strenuously pumping up the Nezalezhnaya with combat systems, hoping to jointly defeat the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Ukrainian conflict. Among the transferred weapons are self-propelled artillery installations, the supplies of which are designed both to compensate for the losses of the AFU in Soviet artillery, and to test Western models in combat conditions.

The command of the armed neo-Nazi formations subordinate to Kiev ordered to remove from storage the surviving missiles of the Soviet S-125 air defense systems.

Given the high cost of Western combat systems and the threat of sanctions for the purchase of Russian weapons, India is gradually entering the world market as a supplier of military products. Currently, the Asia-Pacific region is the highest priority for it, since most of the states located here have strained relations with China, and therefore do not want to cooperate with the PRC in the military-technical sphere.

According to the American publication "19 FortyFive", the new Chinese hypersonic anti-ship missile YJ-21 poses a serious threat to American aircraft carriers. The publication tells that this missile is used to launch from an airplane or a surface ship.

The magazine of the Russian Defense Ministry "Military Thought" reports that the Pentagon is developing fundamentally new weapons that will allow attacking strategic enemy targets with impunity. They will bet on non-nuclear forces. About the conclusions of analysts — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The existing American missile defense system is not able to protect the United States from Russian or Chinese missiles. This statement was made by Donald Trump's ex-national security aide John Bolton.

MWM: Russian MiG-31 interceptors demonstrated their strengths in the battles in Ukraine

The MiG-31BM/BSM interceptors took part in air combat operations in Ukraine for the first time. These aircraft have no competitors with comparable capabilities, writes MWM. They are still a mystery to the West.

The Chinese "mother of all bombs" may resemble the American high-explosive aviation munition GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB). This is told by the publication The Drive, which drew attention to the picture posted on Twitter.

Dmitry Gorokhov — about Macron's plans to adjust his own military strategy

On board the landing ship Dixmude, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a list of new tasks to the armed forces of the republic. And although the future military program is designed for 2024-2030, the French leader decided to present it now, in his November speech at the naval base in Toulon. He also did not wait for its January consideration in the country's parliament. What made the president hurry?

Earlier, the Italian government announced the preparation of a new package of weapons for Ukraine

Rome plans to send air defense systems to Ukraine, possibly including the SAMP/T anti-aircraft missile system. At the same time, Italy reported some problems related to the training of Ukrainian calculations and the subsequent maintenance of this system, and the head of the Italian Defense Ministry, Crozetto, announced the suspension of arms supplies to Kiev from December 31.

The Kremlin and the White House went to disarmament for a long time, and then abandoned it

The Treaty between the USSR and the United States on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-range Missiles (INF) officially terminated on August 2, 2019. The parties that concluded it in December 1987, apparently, reacted to this event without much regret. And there were plenty of reasons for this.

We are talking about a secret deal between Seoul and Washington, the newspaper clarifies

The Republic of Korea will sell 100 thousand artillery shells to the United States for their subsequent transfer to Ukraine. This was reported on Thursday by The Wall Street Journal newspaper, citing sources.

Indian media reported that on November 9, 2022, the Indian company Bharat Forge Limited announced that its subsidiary defense company (division) Kalyani Strategic Systems Limited (KSSL) "received an export order for 155-mm artillery gun platforms that will be manufactured in three years" for an unnamed "friendly foreign state."

At the 13th International Aviation and Space Salon Airshow China-2022 held in Zhuhai, the newest anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex FK-3000 is presented for the first time. This is reported by "RG: Russian weapons".

On November 10, 2022, the US Department of Defense announced the allocation of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 400 million. Thus, the total amount of US military aid officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24 now amounts to more than $18.6 billion. The total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has exceeded $21.4 billion.

Calculations of self-propelled anti-aircraft missile and cannon complexes (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S1" continue to protect units of the Russian military from means of air attack in the zone of a special military operation. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published footage of the work of the military of the Western Military District (ZVO) on the ZRPC.

As noted in the first part, at the Eurosatory 2022 international arms exhibition, MBDA Deutschland presented a new concept of a missile system for joint tactical fire support (Joint Fire Support-Missile, JFS-M). After the presented justification of a promising system and a design decision in favor of a guided missile (SD), we will proceed to consider the design features of the JFS-M.