The process of Sweden and Finland joining NATO has been continued. On July 4, negotiations between these countries and the Alliance were completed in Brussels. On July 5, the Foreign Ministers of Sweden and Finland signed the protocol of accession at NATO headquarters. On the military significance of NATO expansion in the Northwest in an interview "MK.ru " said Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST).

The Swedish company Saab announced the ceremony of laying the keel of the A26 class Blekinge for the Swedish Navy, which took place on June 30 at the shipbuilding enterprise in Karlskrona.

Turkey has begun testing the Anadolu universal amphibious assault ship (L400 Anadolu). It will become the largest ship in the history of the Turkish Navy. But the Anadolu will not be carried by American F-35 fighters, but by the Bayraktar drones (the marine version) that have become famous in recent years. Why did this replacement happen and will it benefit the Turkish navy?

Who dominates the Arctic?

With climate change in the north, new opportunities are opening up, and Russia is "playing with muscles," writes The Economist. More than half of the Arctic coastline falls on Russia. Melting ice has opened a shipping corridor through the Bering Strait between Siberia and Alaska to the Barents Sea.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has presented 13 candidates for new space missions in the fields of astrophysics, exoplanetology, heliophysics and solar system research. If the projects are approved, they can be created and launched into space in the period from 2025 to 2030. The description of the projects is published in the Chinese Journal of Space Science.

The first space telescope of JSC — Orbiting Astronomical Observatory was put into orbit in 1966, thanks to which the study of deep space received a powerful impulse. His work was continued by the legendary Hubble, Chandra, Fermi, TESS (NASA projects), the Russian-German Spektr-RG, and at the end of last year NASA launched a new space observatory into orbit — the James Webb telescope.

If you often have your head in the clouds, then NASA has a job for you! In an effort to unravel the mysteries of the Martian atmosphere, the space agency decided to enlist the support of the public in a new project Cloudspotting on Mars.

According to foreign sources, the Spanish technology company Arquimea presented its QLM-40 barrage ammunition to an international audience for the first time at the Eurosatory 2022 exhibition in Paris. According to the comments of Jechu Sanchez Loureiro, Director of development and sales in the field of defense and security of Arquimea, the main distinguishing feature of the QLM-40 is a special detonator mechanism.

Sweden's Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Frederik Jorgensen, said that the Czech Republic's Air Force can keep all JAS-39C/D Gripen fighters in its composition free of charge after the lease expires, which ends in 2029.

Drones are the new masters of the skies of Ukraine

Drones have become the main innovation of the military campaign in Ukraine, the author of the French edition Futura concludes. He views this heartless weapon from a purely technical point of view. It turns out that even civilian drones are used in combat.

Kiev responded to its military defeat with a terrorist strike on residential quarters of Belgorod

The capture of Lisichansk and its environs on July 3 means that the entire territory of the Luhansk People's Republic has been liberated. This was reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

2022 marks the 45th anniversary of the first flight of the prototype Su-27 fighter developed by the P.O. Sukhoi Experimental Design Bureau, which marked the beginning of the famous Su-27/Su-30 family.

The United States is inferior to Russia and China in the field of atomic weapons and will not be able to stand up for Japan, so Tokyo needs to have its own "nuclear umbrella". Columnist Yoshiaki Yano wrote about this in his article for JB Press.

Estonia is building a fence, the army controls the border in Norway — will Finland's membership in NATO change its border security system?

After Finland joins NATO, its border will become part of the eastern borders of the alliance, writes the MTV portal. The border agency of the country thought about the construction of a fence.

"We will withdraw from NATO and create an independent, producing Turkey"

The chairman of the Turkish Rodina party, Dogu Perincek, spoke out against NATO bases in the country. He listed the benefits that Turkey's withdrawal from NATO will bring, and pointed out the need for cooperation with Russia.

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister was amused by the admission of Sweden and Finland to NATO

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba in an interview with LB.ua expressed the opinion that the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO should have a positive impact on the plans of joining the "Nezalezhnaya" to the alliance.

At the same time, the official stated that he does not expect a positive solution to this issue in the near future.

Is the West really willing to pay the price for defeating Putin?

The Times writes that Russia's recent successes in the special operation have shaken the West's confidence in the "victory" over Moscow. Now no one believes that Ukraine will return at least to the original line before the operation. We need to look for ways to compromise on terms that are inconvenient for Kiev.

Military expert Andrey Frolov — how Paris helps the Ukrainian army with its weapons

France has become one of the most active sponsors of the Ukrainian army in the current conflict. Although in absolute numbers, her help, at first glance, does not seem very large, from a qualitative point of view, the French are in the leading positions.

General Vladimirov explained why the APU was disappointed in howitzers from Germany and the USA

European and American media note that the Ukrainian military began to critically evaluate the artillery systems that the United States and Germany supplied to Kiev. What prevents the APU from effectively using NATO howitzers - in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

Slovakia can supply MiG-29 fighters at its disposal, as well as tanks to Ukraine. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was reported on July 3 by Czech TV with reference to Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger.