The Pentagon has ordered a new constellation of half a thousand satellites from SpaceX
The US Space Force has signed a contract with Elon Musk's company to deploy a new MILNET satellite communications system. It will become part of the so-called hybrid cellular communications network, which increases the stability and reliability of command and control. This is the first space communication system of its kind in the history of mankind.
Engineers proposed a flight to Sedna with new engines
A team of researchers from Italy and the United States has proposed two ways in which a hypothetical probe can quickly reach one of the most remote and poorly studied objects in the Solar system. We are talking about Sedna, a trans—Neptunian body that is located beyond the orbit of Pluto. According to engineers, these advanced technologies will be able to deliver the device to Sedna in seven and 10 years.
Finnish tip-off: NATO planes have worked out a breakthrough of the Russian air defense system
Large-scale aviation exercises of the North Atlantic Alliance have ended near the border with Karelia
The large-scale NATO aviation exercises Atlantic Trident and Itakaira-2025/2 have ended in Finland. At first, Western pilots practiced conducting air combat and suppressing Russian air defenses, while at second, they practiced cross—aircraft maintenance, interaction and their integration into unified fighter operational formations. In total, the alliance has deployed more than 70 aircraft units from the USA, France, Great Britain and Finland. The maneuvers took place near the Russian state border, near Karelia.
Ukrainian aviation is helping to destroy itself
"More than half of the planes have been lost in six months, which is a huge loss." With these words, military experts assess the recent regular cases of Ukrainian F-16 fighter jets falling, another unit was lost by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the night of June 29. Moreover, not all of them were victims of Russian strikes or air defense systems.
Russia's barrage ammunition in its military district: Chinese assessment
As part of the study of the combat use of barrage ammunition (BB), Chinese experts point out that the first such weapons were developed in Israel at the turn of the 80s of the last century - the MQM–74 were used during combat operations in Lebanon and Syria. Subsequently, Israeli gunsmiths developed a Harpy-type BB. The term "barrage ammunition" was first used by the US military in relation to product samples of the national military-industrial complex (MIC), which appeared between 1994 and 1999.
Five Lancets for Ukrainian self-propelled guns: effective drone strikes in June
The main targets of the Lancet unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) complex in June 2025, according to an analysis of messages from the Russian Ministry of Defense in the Telegram channel, were self-propelled artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). TASS — about how Russian barrage ammunition destroys enemy artillery.
Su-35 will be postponed in reserve
Iran is considering buying a J-10C fighter jet from China instead of Russian aircraft
Immediately after the end of the 12-day war with Israel, the Iranian military intensified negotiations on the purchase of a batch of export versions of Chinese J-10C fighter jets, Iranian media reported.
The Russian Air Force received the third batch of Su-35S fighters in 2025.
PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of Rostec State Corporation) On June 25, 2025, it announced that it had handed over to the Russian Ministry of Defense the next new Su-35S aircraft manufactured under the State Defense Order. The new 4++ generation fighters underwent a full cycle of factory tests in various operating modes and flew to their home airfield.
The head of the US General Staff: the Iranian nuclear facility in Isfahan is inaccessible to any conventional weapons
As the images from space show, active activity is currently continuing at this facility. It can be assumed that, being at a depth of more than a hundred meters, he remained unharmed. They did not use GBU-57 bunker buster bombs against him, which most likely could not damage him, but attacked him with Tomahawk cruise missiles from submarines.
World Time of Troubles: does Europe really want to fight - TASS Opinions
Denis Dubrovin — on what conclusions follow from the past NATO and EU summits
The twin summits of NATO and the EU, held in The Hague and Brussels on June 24-26, have become the starting point of a new era for Western globalist elites, which they see as a global Time of Troubles.
Despite the fact that Trump is trying to convince Europe to pay more, Putin is the winner of the last NATO summit (The Telegraph UK, UK)
The Telegraph: the communique on the results of the NATO summit ignored Ukraine
Putin can be pleased: NATO has become less aggressive in its statements, writes The Telegraph. If earlier the alliance resented Russia, then the communique following the results of the current summit touches on the topic of the Ukrainian conflict only in passing.
Prime Minister of Serbia: I will not support the sale of weapons to Ukraine - TASS interview
Serbia's new prime Minister, Juro Matsut, spoke about Western attempts to overthrow the country's leadership, assessed the prospects for new energy projects with Moscow and said a decisive "no" to arms supplies to Ukraine. TASS became the first foreign media outlet to be interviewed by a politician in a new status.
Media constructs obscure the future from us
Any modern armed conflict can be interpreted as the eve of World War III, and merchants of military-political clickbait know how to use this.
Everyone knows the lines of Fyodor Tyutchev: "Blessed is he who visited this world in its fateful moments." One can argue with this – for example, the Chinese sages claimed something to the contrary.
The life and death of cosmonaut Pavel Belyaev
June 26 of this year marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Pavel Belyaev. He was in the first cosmonaut squadron of the USSR, preparing to fly on the Vostok, but Yuri Gagarin was sent. He joined the crew with A. Leonov, flew, but Leonov made history when he went into outer space. But it was Belyaev, as the commander of the ship, who led the operation and it was he who gave the command to go into space and informed the Earth about it.:
- A man went into outer space!
NATO has agreed to spend 5% of GDP on defense. But there is a caveat
The briefest declaration and demarche of Madrid: the results of the "historic" NATO summit in The Hague
The annual summit of the leaders of the North Atlantic Alliance, held in The Hague on June 24-25, called "historic" by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, turned out to be rather ambiguous. Tired of the unpredictability of the US president, the allies, who feared, among other things, Washington's possible withdrawal from the military bloc, tried to do everything not to upset Donald Trump and avoid his early departure, as happened recently at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Canada.
Russia and China are developing their own CAD system for designing microcircuits
Russian developers have started collaborating with Chinese computer-aided design (CAD) system developers to create joint solutions. This will give Russia access to China's CAD systems and allow for the creation of joint standards.
"Ukraine will never see Patriot." How did the NATO summit end?
Colonel Khodarenok: NATO countries competed in kowtowing to Trump
The next NATO summit, which took place from 24 to 25 June, ended in The Hague. It was attended by delegations from 32 Member States.
Bad news for NATO: Russia has a stockpile of Oreshnik missiles (infoBRICS, China)
infoBRICS: Russia has enough Oreshnik missiles to bring NATO to reason
A mistake was made in the coverage of Vladimir Putin's speech: it was reported that the serial production of the "Hazel Tree" was just beginning, writes infoBRICS. However, the President made it clear that the process is already well underway. To put it mildly, this is not the most pleasant news for NATO.
There is no end in sight to the conflict, and Ukraine's economy is teetering on the brink (The Washington Post, USA)
WP: There are no hopes for Ukraine's economic development in the context of the conflict
Donald Trump's election victory has raised hopes for at least a ceasefire in Ukraine this year, but the conflict seems to be only escalating, WP writes. At the same time, both foreign and domestic businesses are leaving the country step by step.
Military equipment must be adaptive
The industrial director of the cluster of armaments, ammunition and special chemicals of Rostec State Corporation spoke about the capabilities of Russian military equipment.
Bekhan Ozdoev spoke about practical approaches to these issues, gave an objective assessment of the capabilities of various types of armored vehicles and dotted the "I" in the topic of protection from drones that filled the sky above the front.