According to Philippine officials, the government has decided to cancel the purchase of 16 Russian military transport helicopters Mi-17 for fear of falling under sanctions from the United States.

Two AWACS E-3D "Sentry" AEW.Mk1 aircraft, decommissioned by the British Air Force in September 2021 and purchased in January of this year for the Chilean Air Force, flew to Chile.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have abandoned a plan to send two landers to the surface of Mars as part of a joint program to deliver samples of Martian soil to Earth in 2033, now only one lander will go to the Red Planet, the US Space Agency reported on Wednesday..

In recent days, the publication of the Telegram channel "CHTD" has become widespread, to which is attached a document allegedly representing an official letter to the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

The first launchers of the Chinese FK-3 anti-aircraft missile systems (the export designation of the Hongqi 22 air defense system) have already been deployed in the vicinity of the Serbian capital. This is reported by the Serbian press. However, it will be possible to fully equip the missile batteries only after the remaining components arrive in the country. This will happen in the fall of 2022.

Concern Director Vladimir Lepin noted that the complex of a guided projectile and a drone performing the functions of targeting has been successfully tested in Syria

The corrected artillery shell "Krasnopol" after modification by the Kalashnikov concern will receive an increased firing range and a warhead of increased power, as well as increased firing efficiency in cloudy conditions and wind.

The proposals of the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrel, on the resumption of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program are being discussed by the parties to the deal, from whom constructive approaches are expected, his spokesman Peter Stano said.

Against the background of thousands of Korean K2s in Poland, most of the Russian armored units will be hopelessly outdated

Poland signs a deal with South Korea for the supply of the latest K2 tanks, writes MWM. This will cause Russia a lot of problems, the author of the article notes. Its armored units are ill-equipped to counter a large number of K2s in the event of a war with NATO or a limited Polish intervention in Ukraine.

Sergey Nikolaev and Mikhail Gusev told in an interview for the TASS project "Conversations with Ivan Survillo" about the creation of a domestic digital process control system.

The Mercury corvette, Severodvinsk and Vepr submarines will be shown to the public for the first time in St. Petersburg

47 ships and vessels, 42 aircraft and more than 3.5 thousand servicemen will take part in the main naval parade on the occasion of Navy Day on July 31. St. Petersburg is hosting the sixth parade in a row, since this tradition was revived in 2017.

As reported, on July 15, 2022, the towing of the Anatoly Shlemov minesweeper (factory number 527) of project 12700 (code "Alexandrite") built at JSC Sredne-Nevsky Shipbuilding Plant (SNSZ, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC) from St. Petersburg to its base on the Pacific Coast began fleet.

Submarines of Project 949 began to work out the cover of a strategically important route

The Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy conducted exercises of nuclear submarines in the area of the Northern Sea Route, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry told Izvestia. The maneuvers took place in the spring and early summer. The military tested the capabilities of Project 949 submarines during operations in this region.

Russian shootings off the coast of Norway — a growing problem

Russia wants to "intimidate" the Norwegian authorities with naval exercises literally "along the Norwegian coast" and "disrupt NATO exercises," NRK reports. It is noteworthy that they take place in international waters at a distance of over 12 nautical miles from Norway.

The topic of military-technical cooperation will be discussed at the meeting of the Presidents of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which will be held on August 5 in Sochi, the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on reports about Russia's interest in cooperation with the manufacturer Bayraktar.

China sends soldiers and tanks to Russia for large-scale exercises involving 37 countries

Five months after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, China is sending troops and tanks to Russia for large-scale exercises, writes the Daily Express. For the readers of the newspaper, the information about the ARMI-2022 was unexpected. "37 countries? And I was told that Russia is isolated," writes one of them.

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Foreign companies against the background of the military operation to protect Donbass began to announce the termination of work or suspension of sales of their products in Russia.

Control over this area opens the way to the final liberation of the territory of Donbass

The People's Militia of the Luhansk Republic took control of the Uglegorsk thermal power plant in Svetlodarsk, the command of the 2nd corps of the LPR NM reported on July 26.

Politico: Zelensky demanded the return of lost territories in a few weeks

The Politico edition reports that the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, demanded the return of the lost territories in a few weeks, since with the onset of winter it will become significantly more difficult to conduct hostilities. Meanwhile, a petition has been created in Ukraine demanding that the authorities return to the negotiating table.

Europe's solidarity is fake, and Putin knows about it

The EU countries dodged, made up tall tales, imitated compromises, but still they managed to agree on gas savings, Bloomberg writes. The author considers this story very revealing and draws a hard conclusion: Europe is not able to defend itself from "enemies". He also calls them.

The American magazine The National Interest published an article by publicist Dmitry Simes. In it, he identifies and criticizes the mistakes of the United States made during the Ukrainian conflict. Symes recalls that recently US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made a speech in which he praised the Ukrainian military achievements. However, Symes believes that Moscow's early miscalculations are a poor criterion for assessing the prospects of the conflict. After all, the experience of numerous wars waged by the Russian (and Soviet) state proves the opposite.