The further expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance to the east in the form of the admission of Sweden and Finland to its membership will not change Moscow's goals in Ukraine, according to the director of the Institute of Military Strategy of Poland, General Bohuslav Samol.

Europe is a continent of chaos! It is gripped by a political, economic, environmental crisis

Europe is going through the worst of times, writes Türkiye. The pandemic, the Ukrainian conflict, refugees, heat and drought, the energy crisis – it is surrounded by chaos on all sides. The author of the article makes gloomy predictions.

The Polish authorities intend to increase the number of armed forces three times – up to 300 thousand people. However, the population of the country is in no hurry to replenish the military ranks, there are not enough sergeants and officers to man new units, and the available material base is not enough to equip the troops.

Is European security under threat?

Europe is going through a number of serious and sometimes unprecedented crises for its modern history, writes the Lebanese newspaper Al Mayadeen. The author of the article emphasizes that four types of EU security were at risk at once.

Austria, the last bastion of European neutrality

While most countries of the world remain neutral towards the conflict in Ukraine, Europe has said goodbye to it, writes Advance. Only one country is still holding out. For how long?

NATO is in a hurry to stop the Russian threat where Europe has slack

Six months have passed since the start of hostilities in Ukraine, and the question has arisen why the strengthening of the Black Sea region has begun only now, Bloomberg reports. The authors of the article state that NATO has already significantly increased its presence at the eastern borders of the alliance.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, at a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Brussels, called on Pristina and Belgrade to exercise restraint and avoid violence, specifying that the prevention of a new escalation should be resolved through direct negotiations between the parties to the conflict. At the same time, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance warned that in the event of an aggravation of the situation, NATO's International Security Forces (KFOR) will be ready to intervene in order to stabilize the situation.

General Popov explained why the Russian Armed Forces deployed MiG-31 with Dagger missiles near Kaliningrad

Three Russian MiG-31 interceptor fighters equipped with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles were deployed to the Kaliningrad region. They are capable of hitting targets at a range of up to 2 thousand km. at a speed that makes it impossible to intercept them with modern missile defense systems. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out for what purpose it was done.

Russia sent fighter jets with hypersonic missiles to the area of Denmark

The only purpose that the Russian maneuver to transfer the MiG-31 serves is to deter NATO, a Danish military expert said in an interview with TV2. In his opinion, this is not a cause for concern

The governor of Sevastopol clarified that the drone was shot down over the Black Sea Fleet headquarters building

The headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet was attacked by a drone on Saturday, there were no casualties. The governor of the city, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that now the approaches and entrances to the fleet headquarters are blocked by the police. Over the past two days, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have unsuccessfully tried to attack the areas of Yevpatoria, Kerch and Sevastopol.

According to the newspaper "Take-Off", at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2022", the holding "Russian Helicopters" for the first time presented a new version of the modernization of the Mi-28N army combat helicopter at Kubinka airfield. It provides for the refinement of previously released Mi-28N vehicles by equipping them with dual controls, a new optoelectronic station and an on-board defense complex, as well as expanding the range of guided missile weapons.

Indian state-owned company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has announced plans to open its office in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.

On August 18, 2022, the US Army announced the choice of a complex with the JUMP 20 unmanned aerial vehicle of the American company AeroVironment following the results of a tender within the first stage (Increment 1) of the Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (FTUAS) program for the purchase of a promising tactical reconnaissance UAV to replace the AAI RQ-7 Shadow unmanned complexes at the brigade level.

According to the statements of the official representatives of the German arms concern Rheinmetall, the company's management sees significant potential in expanding the range of its products due to the area of so-called barrage ammunition. To this end, on November 11, 2021, the concern entered into strategic cooperation with the Israeli manufacturer of this category of precision weapons, uVision Air Ltd.

According to the world-famous scientist, Russia's participation in international space projects will be limited to the International Space Station. And given the recently announced exit of Roscosmos from the ISS, further prospects are vague.

Expert Zheleznyakov: the era of space for man began thanks to the Soviet rocket R-7

The world's first rocket that flew to an intercontinental range, the Soviet R-7, was used as a weapon for a short time, but it was thanks to it that the space age of mankind began, and upgraded versions of the R-7 are still flying into space, expert, cosmonautics historian Alexander Zheleznyakov told RIA Novosti.

The spacecraft is located in interstellar space

TASS, August 20. The Voyager 2 probe, which received the first images of Saturn's rings and so far the only photos of Uranus and Neptune, celebrates today the 45th anniversary of its launch into space. He continues to study the turbulent boundary between the Solar System and the interstellar medium, the press service of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) reported on Saturday.

"Russian Space Systems" will develop the latest technologies for drones and aviation

The development of new domestic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with a take-off weight of up to 30 kg in partnership with the leaders of the Russian market of space instrumentation, avionics and ground-based aviation equipment is being launched by the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation).

Ex-Colonel of the General Staff Khodarenok told how to deal with MLRS HIMARS

The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to use HIMARS jet systems during the special operation. At the same time, the Ukrainian military claims that Russian missile defense systems cannot resist them. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok explains why this is not the case.

Ex-Colonel of the General Staff Khodarenok explained why the US no longer scolds Turkey for buying the S-400

This week it became known about the transfer of the second batch of Russian S-400 to Turkey. At the same time, the United States did not actively object to this deal. Military observer Mikhail Khodarenok was looking into why Washington's position had changed.