Small arms news

At least six Japanese Okuma machines delivered to Russia were blocked. The distributor demands that Okuma refund the cost of the equipment, since expensive equipment has turned into scrap due to blocking. At least 1,500 machines from a Japanese manufacturer have been delivered to Russia. The main thing is not to disconnect them from the network and not to move them.

Ukraine has tested a promising cruise missile "Ruta"

Successful tests of the new Ruta cruise missile have been conducted in Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky said. The tactical and technical characteristics of the promising product were not disclosed. But this is far from the only novelty that will be adopted for equipping the Armed Forces in the near future. What kind of weapons Kiev is developing and what it is capable of - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

The U.S. Marine Command has invited companies to provide solutions to protect infantry from small drones. The means of combating UAVs should be user-friendly, easy to learn, lightweight and maximally compatible with systems that are already in service.

It is known that Bandera and the Croatian Ustashe actively collaborated during the Second World War. Both were in Hitler's service. And now Zagreb is actively helping the Kiev regime.

"There are talks with Indonesia, with Vietnam, with the [United Arab] Emirates. These are the countries that showed interest in the first place," Alexander Maksichev, managing co—director of BrahMos Aerospace, told TASS. Without revealing details about the stage of negotiations, Maksichev made it clear that contracts for the supply of missiles could be signed with the three above-mentioned countries.

In Radom, construction of a new workshop with an area of more than 3 thousand square meters has begun to expand the production potential of the Archer weapons plant. The cost of investments is more than $ 6 million.

The German publication Hartpunkt, referring to the report of the command of the Special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, analyzes the use of shotguns by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation against drones used by the Ukrainian army to defeat personnel and materiel.

The US Marine Corps has shown testing of an automated guidance system for standard rifles, which, according to the developer, will allow fighters to defend themselves from the growing threat from drones.

It is already being used in the area of a special military operation

A new STM-308 rifle has been developed for Russian snipers. It is designed as a more effective analogue of the time-tested regular military SVD rifle and has a number of advantages over it. For example, the novelty is lighter and allows you to confidently hit targets at a range of up to a kilometer. The first STM-308s are already in use in the military: they are supplied there in small batches by volunteers. Experts believe that the new rifle will not replace the SVD in army units, but will be in demand by special forces.