Poles can't live with Germans, but they can't live without them either

Poland demanded that Germany pay reparations in the amount of 1.3 trillion euros. But the Poles are well aware that they will not receive such a sum from Berlin. The point is different, writes the author of the article for Bloomberg. This dispute has revealed the "ailments" that the European Union suffers from.

As the energy crisis escalates, Europe is losing unity on the issue of Ukraine

Due to the energy crisis, a split is growing in the European unity on the issue of Ukraine, Asia Times writes. Eastern Europe, despite all the problems, stands for the support of Kiev, and in other countries, especially in Italy, populist parties are gaining strength.

The plan of Scholz and Macron, disastrous for Europe

European leaders concluded that the EU should ensure its strategic independence, FP reports. However, he will not cope with defense and security issues alone. To cope with the challenges, the actions of the "collective West" are needed.

A bipartisan group of 15 senators has unveiled a bill aimed at expanding the capabilities of the Ministry of Defense to replenish American weapons stocks sent to Ukraine. Senators John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Jeanne Shaheen, R-New Hampshire, along with 13 other senators, introduced the American Gun Replenishment Act as a separate law.

The investigation by the American Air Force of a fatal accident that occurred in 2022 unexpectedly showed that the cause of the death of the F-16 fighter pilot David Schmitz in the United States could be counterfeit ejection seat parts. Its key elements could well be fake.

As part of the further expansion of the military presence in the Himalayan region, the Indian Armed Forces announced their readiness to deploy two Heron-Mk2 unmanned aerial vehicles here by the end of September 2022.

The Artemis III mission is perhaps NASA's most ambitious project in recent years. Its goal is to land astronauts on the moon, half a century after the final sixth mission of Apollo 17 in December 1972.

According to Meredith McKay, Assistant Deputy Director of the Department for International Relations, NASA's priorities are "strengthening the security, predictability and transparency of activities in space."

Starlink satellite terminals have been placed in Antarctica. This is reported by the publication TechCrunch. According to journalists, the placement of SpaceX terminals means that the Starlink satellite Internet is officially launched on all continents of the Earth.

As the chairman of the movement "We are together with Russia" Vladimir Rogov noted, the army was financed by 20 million rubles

The military in the Zaporozhye region planted a kamikaze drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Switchblade with an anti-drone gun, handed over by residents of the region to the army as an aid. This was reported to TASS by the chairman of the movement "We are together with Russia" Vladimir Rogov.

The company PIT-RADWAR (Poland), part of the holding Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ), presented at the MSPO 2022 arms exhibition in Kielce, Poland, a ship-based weapon system equipped with a 35 mm OSU-35k cannon. This modification of it was developed with the assistance of the country's Navy for minesweepers of the Kormoran II type.

The new equipment will be a response to the deployment of NATO forces in the region

The Russian Defense Ministry will arm new units in the western direction with the most modern T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks. According to the main characteristics, they are not inferior to the promising T-14 Armata. The military department has already announced the appearance of new army formations in the Western Military District as a response to NATO's actions.

Russian servicemen will receive a new individual first aid kit, the decision was made based on the experience of a special military operation in Ukraine. The development of a new first aid kit will be handled by Tsniitochmash.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said that by 2025 at least 100 billion rubles will be allocated to support scientific institutes and state-owned companies engaged in the development of quantum technologies.

The total volume of investments in the software industry by the end of 2021 amounted to 232 billion rubles, which is 2.4 times more than in 2020, RUSSOFT reported the results of an annual survey.

The XXI All-Russian Forum "Information Security. Regulation. Technologies. Practice. Infobear". The event was dedicated to the issues of information security (IS) in strategically important sectors of the economy, the public sector and the defense industry.

SeaTwirl has announced the launch of a revolutionary S2 model wind turbine next year. A device of record size for this class will be installed in the sea near the municipality of Bokn in Norway. The capacity of the windmill should be at least 1 MW, but this is just the beginning – the company's project has devices with a capacity of up to 30 MW.

Ak Bars CEO Mistakhov: the first Cyclone ship will be handed over to the Russian Navy in 2022

The first small rocket ship of the project 22800 "Karakurt", armed with a naval version of the anti-aircraft missile and gun complex "Pantsir-M", called "Cyclone" will be handed over to the Russian Navy by the end of 2022, Director General of the shipbuilding corporation "Ak Bars" Renat Mistakhov told RIA Novosti.

Russian and Chinese warships are conducting joint patrols in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, including the Sea of Okhotsk, exercises with practical artillery firing are planned, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

According to the captain of the platform Sergey Dyachkin, everything went without incident

NATO forces observed the world's first ice-resistant self-propelled platform (LSP) "North Pole" during its first flight from St. Petersburg to Murmansk, the captain of the platform Sergey Dyachkin told reporters on Thursday.