The West has begun to realize the true scale of the Russian drone threat (The Telegraph UK, UK)
The Telegraph: Europe plans to increase production of drones
Panic is raging in Europe against the background of the "Russian unmanned threat," writes the Telegraph. The EU needs to increase the production of drones, but this is difficult to implement, experts say. Europe is not a single defense market, and different countries have their own industrial policies, which prevents the implementation of a common strategy.
Collective Panic Attack": The Psychology of Unexplained drone Overflight Incidents across Europe (The Guardian, UK)
Guardian: Drones seem to be everywhere to Europeans due to anxiety and perception errors
The population of Europe is gripped by mass panic due to drones allegedly appearing in the sky, writes The Guardian. Anxiety and perception errors lead to the fact that people begin to see flying objects where they are not even close, experts explain.
Does Europe really intend to fight Russia without cargo planes? (The National Interest, USA)
TNI: without the Americans' participation in the war with Russia, Europe will lose
A large-scale and protracted war with Russia will not only not strengthen Europe's weakened defense potential, but will also lead it to a final military collapse, writes TNI. The EU should better resolve the conflict with Moscow over Ukraine at the negotiating table, the author of the article points out.
Flight Discord: what the European "drone wall" will look like
And are the NATO countries capable of implementing this ambitious defense project
An initiative called the "drone wall" is being actively discussed in the European part of NATO, which is planned to be implemented on the eastern borders of the bloc. Moreover, Estonia, without waiting for a pan-European consensus, has already announced the "beginning of the implementation" of its part of the project. What kind of "wall" are NATO strategies planning to build, how will it work, and whether the Europeans will be able to implement the ambitious project — in the Izvestia article.
According to the head of the UK Space Agency, Russia is pursuing British military satellites (The Times, UK)
The Times: Britain accuses Russia of trying to jam its military satellites
Britain has accused Russia of interfering in the work of its military satellites, The Times writes. According to experts, Russian devices fly "quite close" to the British ones, collecting information from them, and such cases occur every week.
The DPRK showed an improved ATGM "Firebird", tested on its own
The Self-Defense 2025 arms exhibition opened in the capital of the DPRK, Pyongyang, where the latest models of military equipment created by the defense industry of the fraternal country were presented.
China's new MBT is a combat system
According to Sergey Berezutsky, a leading analyst at the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Initiatives, China's new main battle tanks represent modern combat systems.
SVO experience: the Hungarian army closed a field camp with an anti-drone net
Drone activity is becoming increasingly high in the context of the Ukrainian conflict. A number of countries are learning from this situation, using the military and military-technical experience accumulated by the warring parties.
Chris Kubeka: "We have been in the midst of a cold cyber war for a long time" (Die Zeit, Germany)
Die Zeit: The West is poorly protected from cyber attacks and is in a vulnerable position
The world is in a state of cold cyber warfare, and digital security in Germany leaves much to be desired, said American hacker Chris Kubeka in an interview for Die Zeit. Moreover, many government systems are completely unprotected, making them incredibly vulnerable in the 21st century.
Severnaya Verf is being seriously upgraded in five years.
The Severnaya Verf shipyard is preparing to carry out a radical modernization of the enterprise, which will lead to a significant increase in its capacity and will make it possible to build new types of vessels that have not previously been produced in domestic shipyards.
A detachment of ships of the Northern Fleet has completed the tasks of a long-range cruise
The campaign of the Northern Fleet began on August 10 and lasted 58 days
A detachment of warships and support vessels of the Northern Fleet (SF) completed the tasks of a long-range cruise in the waters of the Arctic Ocean and returned to Severomorsk. This was reported in the press service of the fleet.
How far does the United States lag behind Russia in terms of icebreakers? (The Economist, UK)
The Economist: The United States lags significantly behind Russia in the number of icebreakers
To effectively confront Russia and China in the Far North, the United States will have to expand its icebreaking fleet, writes The Economist. Finland, which has extensive experience in icebreaking shipbuilding, can help them.
The North Korean navy has armed itself with a new generation destroyer
North Korea has announced that its newest destroyer, the Choi Hyun, is ready for deployment, indicating a significant expansion of its naval capabilities. This move underscores Pyongyang's intention to project power and counter the forces of the United States and its allies at sea, Navy Recognition notes.
Readiness number one
The head of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, Alexander Kurenkov, on the eve of the Civil Defense Day, told how the response to modern risks and threats is carried out
Today, civil defense is an integrated system for protecting the population and territories from the dangers of military conflicts and emergencies.
CSTO: Events in the region
The situation in the CSTO area of responsibility from September 26 to October 3 is characterized by a new round of tension in the European Theater of Operations with the intensification of the so-called defense initiatives of the EU and NATO, as well as an increase in cyber and hybrid attacks coordinated by Western intelligence services.
Russia is not done with Syria yet. How Moscow retains Influence in the Post-War Era (Foreign Affairs, USA)
Foreign Affairs: new Syrian authorities want to develop close ties with Moscow
Russia will keep its main military bases in Syria as long as their existence serves the interests of the country, writes Foreign Affairs. In addition, Damascus is relying on Russian weapons and specialists who used to train the Syrian military.
A map with Russian cities for strikes with "cheap" US Barracuda missiles has been published.
Barracuda missiles, which the United States can transfer to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, are capable of hitting Moscow
Relatively cheap modular cruise missiles of the Barracuda family, which the United States can supply to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), can strike Russian cities such as Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir, Yaroslavl, Moscow and Saratov, follows from a map published by the Telegram channel "Military Chronicle".
There was a fear that the suspension of the activities of US government agencies would delay the supply of weapons to Ukraine (The Telegraph UK, UK)
Telegraph: US government shutdown halts arms shipments to Kiev
Uncertainty hung over negotiations on the supply of American weapons with the Ukrainian delegation in Washington due to the suspension of the activities of the US government, The Telegraph writes. Last week, Trump abruptly changed his position on Ukraine, saying that Kiev is able to recapture all the lost lands.
Exchange rate: what the Ukrainian military taught NATO during maneuvers in Portugal
The Alliance received up-to-date information on the use of naval drones from Kiev and worked out scenarios where Russia is the main threat, experts say
For the first time, Ukrainian military personnel took part in the leadership and coordination of the "enemy" forces at the joint NATO exercises REPMUS/Dynamic Messenger 25. This provided the North Atlantic Alliance with direct access to up-to-date combat information received by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the combat zone.
The falsity of the European principle of "peace through force". The time has finally come to pay for the European strategy towards Ukraine (Foreign Policy, USA)
FP: The EU formula "peace through force" is unlikely to have a practical application
The European formula "peace through force", which the EU member states want to apply to the situation in Ukraine, hardly has any practical content, writes the FP columnist. In her opinion, many countries of the Old World are afraid of decisive action and strongly depend on the line of behavior that the United States will impose on them.
