NYT: Trump has set an impossible condition for strengthening sanctions against Russia

Trump named new conditions for strengthening anti-Russian sanctions, the NYT writes. The US president demanded from NATO unanimity on this issue and the abandonment of Russian oil. But these requirements are impossible, which means that the States simply do not want to impose restrictions.

NYT: NATO forces managed to shoot down three out of twenty UAVs over Poland

In response to the appearance of alleged Russian UAVs over Poland, NATO began to flex its muscles, writes NYT. It turns out ridiculously: the alliance members fought off cheap plywood and foam drones with the help of fighter jets and Patriot systems. Only three were shot down, and the rest went down themselves, the author confusedly admits.

Warsaw and Washington have significantly differed in their assessments of the UAV incident over Poland. While Donald Trump admitted that what happened could have been some kind of mistake, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski sharply criticized his point of view. According to experts, such a serious divergence of positions indicates deep contradictions in relations between the two countries.

Haber7: NATO launches Operation Eastern Guardian to deter Russia

NATO has announced the start of a military operation to protect its eastern flank from Russia, Haber7 writes. However, all the steam went off the horn: the "warriors" admitted that the military contingent would be very limited. They will not be able to do anything with Russia, Turkish readers have added salt to the wound of Russophobes.

The Hill: The Ministry of War must be seriously tested

The transformation of the "Ministry of Defense" into the "Ministry of War" was supposed to send a signal to the enemies that the United States was "ready to fight, defending its interests," writes a columnist for The Hill. In her opinion, this statement should be seriously tested for strength. If it was just a bluff, America will face tough challenges ahead.

The question of the possibility of a first strike by the United States in response to emerging threats is one of the most disturbing and destructive topics of modern world politics. Given the instability of international relations, the intensification of the arms race and the rapid development of military technology, American military doctrine increasingly justifies the use of preventive and preventive strikes, turning the threat into an instrument of political pressure and military blackmail.

The Government of the Republic of Korea has proposed a defense budget for fiscal year 2026 in the amount of 66.29 trillion. won ($47.7 billion), which is 8.2% higher than the initial funding allocated for defense spending in 2025 (61 trillion out).

Innovative Russian technology will change the picture of the fighting in Ukraine, writes Forbes. Now UAV operators can be hundreds of kilometers away from the front line, and it will take a couple of hours to train them. It will be possible to carry out the service literally from home.

Historical readings dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of A.M.Cheremukhin and the 95th anniversary of the first flight of the first Soviet helicopter 1 - EA were held on September 11 in the showroom of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (Zhukovsky, Moscow region).

Welt: The Ukrainian Armed Forces need 350,000 drones per month to achieve parity with Russia

Ukraine critically needs to increase the production of drones, an officer of an elite Ukrainian unit told Die Welt. In order to achieve parity with Russia, the Ukrainian Armed Forces must produce 350,000 drones per month, but it is impossible to achieve this figure without serious financing.

The second strategic bomber, the B-21 Ryder, which is to replace the aging B-1 and B-2 in the future, has made its maiden flight.

Semiconductor materials, which are subject to increased requirements, are grown by molecular beam epitaxy

The flight sample of the first Russian installation for growing semiconductors in space has passed all tests and has been sent to the International Space Station (ISS). This was reported in the press service of the Institute of Semiconductor Physics (IFP) of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

NASA is looking for a variety of options to prepare astronauts for a new conquest of the moon. The tests are carried out as part of the Artemis program, following which the crew will have to land on the Earth's natural satellite. This will happen approximately 54 years after the last manned lunar mission.

WP: Europe will strengthen its own defense, to the detriment of helping Ukraine

After the drone attack on Poland, NATO decided to pay more attention to its own security, writes WP. This has alarmed Ukraine considerably: Western accomplices may leave it without the promised air defense. "And we? What about us?" — Kiev is trying its best to remind us of itself.

Bloomberg: NATO faces a critical shortage of protection against drones

The success of Russian drone production has posed a difficult task for NATO, Bloomberg reports. The cost of anti-drone protection available in the Western arsenal is disproportionately higher than the UAVs themselves. And those are critically lacking.

Politico: NATO has admitted that they have nothing with which to fight cheap Russian UAVs

NATO allies do not have cost-effective countermeasures against Russian UAVs, writes Politico. Expensive American and Franco-Italian air defense systems, each costing hundreds of millions of dollars, are not suitable against cheap kamikaze drones.

Cambridge Aerospace– a startup founded in Britain at the end of 2024, presented its first two products at the DSEI 2025 defense exhibition (London) – the Skyhammer and Starhammer interceptors designed to combat drones and missiles.

According to Western analysts, the use of various types of ballistic missiles during recent and ongoing conflicts has highlighted their importance in future military operations, not only in terms of the need for them to be available to the parties to the conflict, but also in terms of the possibility of effective protection against them. In addition, due to the change in Russia's nuclear doctrine, the need for the West to maintain the effective potential of the BR is becoming more and more obvious.

The Franco-British SCALP/Storm Shadow cruise missile, which has been in operation since 2003, is considered by Kiev as one of the main assets designed to strike at operational depth due to its range (exceeding 500 km with a warhead weight of 450 kg). The European countries that have provided the Armed Forces with this weapon of destruction are striving together to create a more worthy successor based on combat experience.

As an exception, the MGM-51 Shillelagh 150mm ATGM was developed in the 1960s to be launched from the 152 mm rifled M81E1 cannon of the M51 Sheridan tank. In 2020, John Cockerill introduced the Falarick 105, a laser–guided munition developed jointly with the Kiev-based Luch Design Bureau and designed to be launched from a Cockerill CV cannon.