Lithuania will hand over EDM4S Skysweeper anti-drone rifles to Ukraine to fight Russian drones. According to available information, we are talking about 110 units of manual electronic warfare systems.

Ukraine as manna from heaven for NATO

Without Russia's military operation in Ukraine, NATO would still be in a state of sclerosis, the author of Mond Diplomatik believes. Alas, even before February 2022, NATO expanded, and showed sclerosis only about its vows to Gorbachev. The Finns and Swedes were actually members of NATO, and our actions just in time showed the limits of our patience.

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto: there is no progress with the application for NATO membership yet

Speaking about the situation in Ukraine, the Finnish President stressed the importance of maintaining relations with Russia, Demokraatti reports. At the same time, Niinisto answered the question about military assistance to Kiev vaguely.

Polish arsenals are empty, there is not enough military equipment in the active units, this situation arose due to the supply of weapons to Ukraine. As stated by Polish President Andrzej Duda, the Polish army needs to replenish supplies.

Finland and Sweden joining NATO will not add to US security

American politicians approved of the idea of Sweden and Finland joining NATO, writes the website of the Fox News channel. However, according to the authors of the article, this step does not meet the interests of the United States, since it increases the likelihood of confrontation with Russia.

The US National Defense Center spoke about the risks of reducing the US military budget

June 14 is celebrated annually in the US as the "Birthday of the army". On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress decided to create a regular army based on militia units. For the "birthday", the US National Defense Center at the Heritage Foundation has prepared a report on the current state of the American armed forces. "Newspaper.Ru" studied it together with Russian military experts.

The 11th Airborne Division of the United States underwent a reformation procedure, after which it received the name "Arctic Angels" and will henceforth be based in Alaska. Its number will be up to 16 thousand people.

Japan can increase defense spending up to 10 trillion. yen (about $ 74 billion). This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by the head of the political council of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, ex-candidate for the post of party leader Sanae Takaichi in the program of the Fuji Television Network.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and chairman of the Central Military Council, recently signed an order to publish trial plans for military operations. These operations include such tasks as disaster relief, campaigns to provide humanitarian assistance to the population, maintaining peace, protecting China's national sovereignty, security and interests. The plans also include measures for the protection and protection of infrastructure facilities by the PLA. For example, we are talking about the protection of pipelines.

The Ministry of Defense has published a video showing Russian Su-25 attack aircraft destroying camouflaged Ukrainian positions.

The British tabloid The Sun called the upgraded version of our Tu-22M3 strategic bomber "deadly". The authors of the article write that this aircraft poses a serious danger to Western countries, as it is capable of carrying up to 24 tons of bombs and covering a distance of about 7 thousand kilometers.

SIC "Zhukovsky Institute" continues research work on the formation of the appearance of promising models of next-generation aircraft.

The German Foundation for Science and Politics (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in March 2022 published an interesting report by Florian Schöne "Zur Notwendigkeit der Zentralisierung von Hubschraubern in der Bundeswehr" ("On the need to centralize helicopter control in the German Armed Forces") on the prospects of creating a unified helicopter command in the German armed forces.

Israel has increased the range of its fifth-generation F-35I Adir fighters, as a result of which they will be able to reach Iran without refueling, writes The Drive, referring to the publication of the Israeli press.

The S-300V4 long-range air defense systems repelled an "enemy" air raid during exercises on the Kuril Islands, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The acceleration section of the newest Sarmat ICBM is one and a half times shorter than that of the Voivode. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced by the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakaev, on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

This deep modernization of the T-62 was not for nothing called the "combine of death". The vehicle, first presented at a military parade in Pyongyang, received anti-tank guided missiles installed in external containers - a module with automatic grenade launchers and light anti-aircraft missiles that are clones of the Igla MANPADS.

Official Madrid has apologized to the German government "for the excessive excitement" caused by the news about the possible dispatch of German Leopard A4 tanks by Spain to Ukraine.

The first howitzers will be delivered by Germany to Ukraine when the training of Ukrainian servicemen who will serve them is completed.

The British Ministry of Defense is exploring the possibility of using a quantum computer to control a tank — in other words, the British military wants to make it "smart".