The Ministry of Defense of Cyprus intends to purchase six armed H-145M helicopters from Airbus Helicopters to replace 11 Mi-35P attack helicopters decommissioned by the Cyprus Air Force at the end of 2021.

According to the head of the European Space Agency, if earlier cooperation with Russia was only formally suspended, then the deal with NASA on ExoMars will mean the final termination of the partnership.

Over decades of space exploration, scientists have found out that only in zero gravity it is possible to create some "unearthly" materials. This is what the ForgeStar platform produced by the Welsh startup Space Forge will do.

Colonel Khodarenok told how to prevent attacks by Ukrainian UAVs on Russian territory

"Novoshakhtinsky Oil Products Plant" (NZNP), located in the Krasnosulinsky district of the Rostov region, was attacked by two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) this week. Human casualties were avoided. How to build an effective system of protection against drones - in the author's material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

The MQ-1C Grey Eagle and Bayraktar TB2 drones are vulnerable to air defense systems that are used by Russia during a special operation to protect Donbass. This was told to the American edition of The Drive by Ukrainian pilots with the call signs Moonfish and Juice.

Ukraine will receive the German IRIS-T SL medium-range anti-aircraft system, the contract for its supply has already been concluded. This was announced by the Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Andriy Melnyk.

Ex-Colonel of the General Staff Khodarenok: it is necessary to develop conventional weapons of special power

Modern military conflicts raise the question of the relevance of using heavy-duty aviation bombs and artillery of special power. Why previously these types of weapons were abandoned, and now they are returning to their developments - in the author's material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

A new video from the war zone shows the operation of HIMARS systems — American-made wheeled rocket artillery launchers. However, for a number of reasons, they will not be able to have a noticeable impact on the fighting. Despite this, their use can lead to a serious escalation of the conflict in a different way.

In the combat zone, the use of a rather rare modification of the Hurricane MLRS was recorded, created by transferring the warhead from the standard Soviet chassis from the ZIL to an armored platform.

Russia will transfer missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads to Belarus

Russia will supply Iskander-M complexes to Minsk in the coming months, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in St. Petersburg.

This was stated by the head of the Roscosmos Corporation, which produces new intercontinental ballistic missiles. However, with the progress of rearmament on them, as well as with their influence on the strategic balance on the planet, far from everything is clear.

Roscosmos has already started creating serial Sarmat missiles

The Russian military will increase the requirements for the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile during the second flight tests, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

The mines of the newest Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Sarmat" are reliably protected from a nuclear strike. Vladimir Degtyar, the general designer of the State Rocket Center (SRC) Makeev, told TASS about this.

The French Caesar self-propelled guns captured in the battles with the AFU were probably sent to the Russian Uralvagonzavod for study. This was recognized in France itself and confirmed by Ural gunsmiths. Thanks to the massive and diverse assistance to Ukraine, there may be enough NATO heavy artillery on the battlefield. If these systems also become trophies, what useful things can our specialists extract from there?

French politician Jean-Michel Cadenas published a post on his Twitter account, where he very upset reported about the seizure of two Caesar self-propelled guns by our troops. Most of all, the Frenchman was angered by the hasty flight of the Ukrainian gunners in front of the advancing Russian troops. The AFU fighters did not even have time to destroy or at least mine the howitzers. As a result, they fell into the hands of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in almost perfect condition.

The Ukrainian army is preparing to adopt a light howitzer of an unusual 105-mm caliber, the supply of guns will be provided by New Zealand. The number of howitzers is not called.

The online edition of EDR On-Line magazine "EDR Magazine" published Paolo Valpolini's material "Morana: a new 52-cal 155 mm artillery system from Czech Republic" about the presentation of the notorious Czech company Excalibur Army at the next Eurosatory 2022 defense exhibition held from June 13 to 17, 2022 in Le Bourget (France) (forming the basis of the private Czecho-Slovak defense industry association Czechoslovak Group - CSG) of the new 155 mm/52 self-propelled howitzer Morana on a wheeled chassis (8x8).

The South Korean Defense Development Agency announced the completion of work on a prototype robot for tunnel exploration. The ATE autonomous vehicle was developed jointly with the Command for the Development of Combat Capabilities of the US Army, Defense News reports.

Andrey Ryumin, CEO of the holding, told TASS in an interview on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum about how the Rosseti Group works in conditions of supply chain disruption, the need for import substitution of power grid equipment and software, and what problems need to be solved.

Zap Energy has received investments in the amount of $160 million to create the first commercial version of a compact low-power thermonuclear reactor. This happened after a prototype reactor called "FuZE-Q" created a stable plasma column with record figures last week. At the next step, the creators of the device hope to reach the break-even point, after which it will be possible to create a source of unlimited energy.