Small arms news

Last Tuesday, a message came that the US Army had finally decided on its new small arms — we are talking about the XM5 assault rifle and the XM250 light machine gun of the German company Sig Sauer. Taking them into service will mean a generational change of American army melee weapons. They will replace their outdated predecessors — the M4A1 carbine and the M249 machine gun.

The US State Department has approved the potential supply of various Soviet-style ammunition to Ukraine as part of the Foreign Military Sales program. The total cost of delivery may amount to $ 165 million.

By the beginning of the 90s, the era of "cloning" by Chinese specialists of Soviet military equipment was gradually fading into the past. One of the last samples, which was an almost exact copy of Soviet equipment, was the infantry fighting vehicle WZ-501.

Ex-GRU officer Khaev said that the APU missiles cannot reach the Crimean Bridge

The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine and the Office of the Ukrainian President announced their desire to destroy the Crimean Bridge, but at the same time noted that this is impossible. Why - understood "Газета.Ru ".

A military expert assessed the equipment that the Pentagon supplies to the APU

CNN reported that Ukraine received "the first batch of weapons from the new package of military assistance from the United States." Earlier, American President Joe Biden announced his decision to provide military assistance to Kiev in the amount of $ 800 million. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok was figuring out what would be included in the American aid package.

The special operation emphasized the role of precision weapons

The United States and Britain have today retargeted their commercial satellite systems Starlink and OneWeb to collect intelligence information in the interests of the armed formations of Ukraine. A plan is being hatched to disconnect Russia from the GPS system. How can all this, coupled with the ban on the import of software (software), affect the performance of combat missions by our troops in the combat zone, the production of high-precision weapons by the defense industry?

Due to the continuing shortage of machine guns, the armed formations of Ukraine are forced to remake tank twin machine guns into manual ones. If the APU has a long-standing chronic problem with the latter, then PKT are still available in fair quantities in various warehouses left after the unilateral appropriation of military property of the Kiev, Odessa and Carpathian districts of the Soviet Army in 1991.

The operation in Ukraine has once again confirmed the effectiveness of hand grenade launchers of the RPG family, which are actively used by both sides of the conflict. Lightweight, easy-to-use and extremely effective weapons have existed since 1949 and are used almost everywhere: Russian grenade launchers destroy tanks and other armored vehicles, burn bunkers and even shoot down helicopters, They are used by more than 80 countries of the world, writes 19fortyfive.

At the XVII All-Russian Forum-exhibition "State Order", held from April 6 to 8 at the Skolkovo Innovation Center, Russian enterprises of the military-industrial complex presented their import-substituted products. The event was attended by Rostec Group, Rosoboronexport JSC, Almaz -Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region, United Aircraft Corporation PJSC, Kinetics Engineering Center for Prototyping of High Complexity of NUST MISIS and others.

Dmitry Litovkin — about the modernization of the Mi-24P, which has repeatedly proven itself in combat

40-year-old Mi-24P machines are returning to service. In military circles, they are called "Crocodile" — helicopters built according to an airplane scheme, armored and extremely dangerous because of their striking capabilities.

The German edition of "Welt" in the material Robin Alexander, Klaus Geiger, Gerhard Hegmann "Wie Lambrecht Waffenlieferungen für die Ukraine verschleppte" ("How Lambrecht delayed the supply of weapons for Ukraine") reports on the plans of the German government to increase the supply of German weapons as military assistance to Ukraine, which are now being discussed, after a period of waiting and the supply of heavy weapons.

Experts explained why London supplies NLAW complexes to Kiev

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to transfer another 6,000 NLAW complexes to Kiev. Before that, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed videos where Russian servicemen received complexes as trophies. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out for what purpose NLAW is being transported to Ukraine.

In the battles for the city of Maryinka, the DPR People's Militia fighters eliminated a Ukrainian sniper armed with the latest UKROP UAR-10 rifle.

There is unrest in the Balkans again: the Serbs are in patriotic delight because of Russia's actions in Ukraine, and the Kosovo authorities are trying to use this special operation as a "window of opportunity" for joining NATO. Western leaders called on the sides "not to provoke," but late on Friday, special forces from both sides moved to the Serbo-Albanian border. What is all this leading to?

The best Western weapons in the battles in Ukraine are failing. According to experts, almost all the latest guided weapons systems, as well as Turkish drones, have shown low efficiency.

China vs. Russia: who has better landing combat vehicles? (The National Interest, USA)

China belatedly appeared in the arena of amphibious assault vehicles, writes TNI. This explains their backwardness from Russian developments. Defense and national security expert Charlie Gao compared the capabilities and tactical and technical characteristics of Chinese vehicles with Russian models and concluded that they are inferior to almost all BMDS in service with Russia.

Two out of three enemy soldiers are destroyed by small arms

During the special operation in Ukraine, the latest small arms are not always used - this is the impression of some foreign and even Russian experts. They suggested that the Russian military command is saving new items in case of an invasion by NATO forces. The answer to NATO, radical experts believe, can only be the application of tactical nuclear weapons to the clusters of troops and bases of the alliance in Europe.

The Russian army will test the robot tank "Sturm" for battles in urban conditions

The first prototype of the Russian heavy attack robotic complex "Sturm", created on the basis of the T-72V3, will go to preliminary tests in April. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out what tasks this complex should perform on the battlefield.

What is the guided missile "Krasnopol", which the Russian Armed Forces use in Ukraine

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation uses a guided missile "Krasnopol" during a special military operation in Ukraine. The Russian military department has published footage of the destruction of a camouflaged command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kiev region using this munition. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out how Krasnopol works.

1MOA GmbH, a German trading partner of the American manufacturer Tacom HQ, planned to present the Tarac C optical device designed for high-precision long-range shooting at the Enforce TAC 2022 exhibition for the first time in Europe. According to the executive director of 1MOA GmbH, Michael Gast, Tarac C was developed by the founder of Tacom HQ, John Baker, to provide accurate shots at a range of 2500 m or more.