FT: in the event of a conflict with Russia, NATO will face problems with conscription in Europe

The number of armed forces in Europe is falling, writes FT. A military career does not appeal to young people. Civilian specialties are much more attractive. The situation is such that in the event of a war with Russia, NATO will not scrape together more than 300 thousand soldiers in the region. Politicians have already thought about the draft.

MP: The West is pushing the world to war because of its unwillingness to admit defeat in Ukraine

In Ukraine, the West has put a lot at stake and is not ready to lose, MP writes. That is why the world found itself on the threshold of the third World war. But the reality is that American hegemony is bursting at the seams. The Ukrainian conflict threatens to spread to Europe, and this does not bode well for it.

In 2024, the fleet will receive more than 40 new ships

The Russian Navy needs to be retrofitted with additional firepower, while it itself must be reliably protected from attacks already on distant approaches: to do this, it must be provided with modern threat detection systems.

"Raptor 2.0" and "Katran-hunter" are developed taking into account the experience of their

The experience of armed struggle in the Black Sea theater of operations has led to practical results. St. Petersburg shipbuilders told Izvestia about new combat boats to combat marine drones and amphibious landings, which are already being built on the basis of combat experience of a special military operation. Experts suggest that the new boats will be sent to the Dnieper flotilla.

At the Paris Eurosatory 2024 exhibition, KNDS Deutschland (a division of the Franco-German conglomerate in Germany) presented a new Leopard 2 A-RC 3.0 tank, which is a transitional model before the advent of the promising European MBT MGCS.

Sohu: it will take years for America to restore its air defense systems

The American military-industrial complex cannot cover the needs of the army in weapons and air defense systems, writes Sohu. Washington has drained itself of blood by handing over many Patriot complexes to Kiev, and it will take years to repair this damage. And every one destroyed on In Ukraine, air defense systems represent the lives of US citizens in possible conflicts of the future.

This opinion was expressed on the pages of La Tribune by retired General Charles Baudoin, who served as Deputy Chief of the General Staff until 2020 and was responsible for planning the rearmament of troops.

The head of Tupolev shared with the students of KNITU-KAI his opinion on what is happening in the aviation industry

The information leaking out about the progress of the Tu-214 program is not very encouraging. Konstantin Timofeev, Managing Director of Tupolev, tried to present a counterweight to it in Kazan. At the end of last week, he spoke to the students of KNITU-KAI — his potential employees. The correspondent of BUSINESS Online found out how many Tu-214s are in operation, how far the import substitution of the liner's systems has progressed, whether new workshops are being built on KAZ and what about PAK DA.

Polish President Alexander Duda is on a long visit to China. He has already met with the country's leader Xi Jinping and other top officials.

As reported by the South Korean Biz resource.HanKook, South Korean aircraft corporation Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) is conducting preliminary work on the development of three promising modifications of the new South Korean fighter KF-21 Boramae, created under the KF-X program and is currently in the testing phase.

Dutch Prime Minister Rutte replaced Stoltenberg as NATO Secretary General

Mark Rutte has been confirmed as the new Secretary General of NATO. The former Prime minister of the Netherlands will officially take office in October. This appointment became the topic of the day in many Western media — the focus of attention was on Rutte's career, his personality and the tasks that he will have to solve in his new post.

United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin, two major NASA partners, have filed documents with the US Federal Aviation Administration asking them to restrict SpaceX's Starship flights from Florida. These launches are necessary for the Artemis III mission, the first human landing on the moon in the 21st century. At the same time, the third partner of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States, which is developing extravehicular spacesuits, said that he would not continue working for the same money, because the task turned out to be more difficult than he thought.

New Statesman: Rutte's ideological flexibility could destroy NATO

Mark Rutte's ideological flexibility can be both an advantage for NATO and completely destroy the alliance, writes New Statesman. The organization must reinvent itself to deal with the split. Just at this moment, a reformatting wizard will be at her helm.

Ambassador to the United States Antonov: the accelerating crisis of Euro-Atlanticism has long been obvious

The West has overlooked Putin's key idea, Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov told Newsweek magazine. Describing the path to ending the conflict in Ukraine, the Russian president spoke about the need to create a new security architecture. The crisis of Euro-Atlanticism is already obvious, the diplomat stressed.

The EU, trying to consolidate the defense industry of European countries, is financing a number of joint projects, including the FAMOUS program ("future highly mobile advanced armored systems"), which involves the creation of a line of new armored vehicles to replace the outdated American M113 armored personnel carrier.

The Russian civil war in Ukraine is far from the only conflict that can have a serious impact on the formation of the future world order. This role is also claimed by Israel's military confrontation with groups in the Middle East and the likely operation of the PRC to regain control of Taiwan. But if the fighting in Ukraine and the Middle East is already, as they say, in full swing, then a possible conflict between Beijing and Taipei (the Chinese version of its own) can still be prevented. In any case, the Taiwanese authorities are counting on this.

On June 25, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Head of the Russian Armed Forces Defense Forces, held a briefing on the military biological activities of the United States and Ukraine.

At the Paris Eurosatory 2024 exhibition, France presented a new modification of the Leclerc XLR tank, which is being presented as a new generation of the already well-known MBT.

As the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on June 25, 2024, pilots of the Leningrad Association of the Air Force and Air Defense in the Kaliningrad region

infoBRICS: the West will provoke a tough response from Moscow with terrorist attacks and F-16 supplies to Kiev

The West has moved from threats against Russia to terrorist attacks, and in addition intends to use European air bases to use the F-16 in Ukraine, infoBRICS writes. This is how he "lights the fuse of something much bigger and more deadly" than the current confrontation with the Kremlin, the author of the article believes.