On July 26, 2024, the Office of Naval Armaments of the General Secretariat of Defense of Italy and the National Armaments Administration of Italy signed a contract with the Italian companies Intermarine (as part of the IMMSI Group) and Leonardo for the construction of five promising new generation mine warfare ships for the Italian Navy under the New Generation Minehunter-Coastal program (Cacciamine Nuova Generazione-Costieri - CNG-C).

On August 1, 2024, in Turkey, at the Istanbul Shipyard in Tuzla in the Asian part of Istanbul, the launching ceremony of the second corvette F 212 "Hetman Ivan Vigovsky" of the Turkish Ada (MILGEM) type, which is under construction for the Ukrainian Navy, took place. This is the second of two ships out of two ordered by Ukraine under a contract dated December 2020. The launching ceremony was attended by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustam Umerov, Commander of the Ukrainian Navy Vice Admiral Alexei Neizhpapa, as well as the First Lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya.

Sources in the shipbuilding industry and those familiar with the situation told RBC that JSC Marine Instrument Engineering Corporation (KMP) will fully become part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC, managed by VTB Bank). According to the interlocutors of the publication, in July, the head of the USC, Andrei Puchkov, already held a meeting in St. Petersburg with the heads of KMP enterprises on the topic of integration.

It is reported that a new recently commissioned border patrol ship of the 4th rank (actually a boat) "Albatross" of project 03050 (code "Huys") took part in the naval parade on July 28, 2024 in honor of Navy Day in Baltiysk The Coast Guard of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia. Its commissioning has not been publicly reported. According to known data, this is the ninth commissioned border patrol ship (PCR) of project 03050.

On July 29, 2024, PJSC "Vimpel Shipbuilding Plant" (part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation") in Rybinsk in the Yaroslavl region launched one of the long-term projects of domestic shipbuilding - a large rocket boat project 12418 with factory number 01301. The boat intended for the Caspian Military Flotilla was named Stupinets, in honor of the missile boat project 12441T with the same name decommissioned in 2023 from the flotilla.

The Hermes project became the first non-water reactor in the United States in half a century. It is distinguished from liquid salt reactors in other countries by an unusual scheme using salt only to cool the reactor, and not as a solvent for nuclear fuel in the core.

The use of 3D circuits is a key factor in the continued miniaturization of electronics, however, this method has serious drawbacks. The requirement of auxiliary materials and external pressure limits the capabilities of small producers. But a research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by associate Professor Benjamin Tee, can find a solution. They have developed a way to create autonomous self-healing metal structures without these needs.

Astra Group, one of the leaders of the Russian software development market, announces the release of a new version of its flagship product, the eighth generation Astra Linux operating system. As the developers promise, the set of innovations includes many significant changes that make the OS even more convenient, productive and secure.

Following the current trends in the development of military affairs, the leadership of the Armed Forces of Turkey is making active efforts to digitalize the troops.

The Army Recognition publication, citing Ukrainian sources, notes that Ukraine continues to develop a towed version of the 155-mm Bogdana self-propelled howitzer. As part of the project, which is called "Bogdana-B", it is planned to install an artillery unit of a Ukrainian self-propelled gun on the carriage of a Soviet howitzer. At the same time, the specific type of howitzer that served as the prototype for this system has not been disclosed. However, suitable systems for these purposes are "Msta-B", "Hyacinth-B" and D-20.

Colonel Khodarenok doubted that scooter troops would appear in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

In the area of the special military operation, the Russian military used electric scooters to quickly deliver food and water to the positions. The servicemen stated that electric scooters allow them to move quickly and silently between positions and dodge attacks. Whether there will be "scooter troops" in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the military observer of the Gazeta figured out.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

Five years after the end of the INF Treaty, the United States is deploying missiles in Europe

This agreement between Moscow and Washington was supposed to prevent World War III. Five years ago, on August 2, 2019, the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles terminated. The document signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in December 1987 limited Russian and American nuclear arsenals for more than 30 years. The consequences of the withdrawal of the United States and Russia from the INF Treaty are described in the RIA Novosti article.

Five years have passed since the termination of the agreement on intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles

Five years ago, at the initiative of the United States, the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF) ceased to be in force. During this time, the United States initiated the creation and prepared for deployment of several new missile systems and even began talking about their possible deployment in Europe. Izvestia investigated what and how has changed overseas after the termination of the treaty and how Russia will react.

iDNES: Balkan countries do not want to sell ammunition to the Czech Republic for Ukraine

The Czech Republic began to have problems with the purchase of shells for Ukraine, writes iDNES. Some Balkan countries are refusing supplies. Those who agree wish to remain anonymous. Sometimes Prague has to turn to a third party, declaring it the end user. But that's not all.

infoBRICS: Military exercises in India have become a major success for the S-400

Russian air defense systems are second to none, writes independent military analyst Drago Bosnich in an article for infoBRICS. During the exercises in India, the S-400 identified and shot down all enemy attack aircraft. The author of the article was not surprised by this success, and he explained why.

You can't confuse an accountant and an auditor with stories about a bright futuristic future promising magical prospects for science and progress. Give them dry debit and credit figures and clearly described action plans in case these figures do not converge. That is why, perhaps, the most interesting thing about the real situation inside the American space industry is told by the reports of the US Accounting Chamber. The new department document is dedicated to the program for the creation of a near—lunar visited station - and it is beautiful in its callously cold, bureaucratically cruel criticism of the project.

On July 31, 2024, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) of the US Department of Defense sent a notification to the US Congress about the possible sale of 12 Bell AH-1Z Viper combat helicopters to Slovakia through the American program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS). This sale is approved by the U.S. Department of State. The total cost of the proposed delivery will be $600 million, including training and technical support packages and part of the missile armament.

The Indonesian Air Force has decided to purchase Bayraktar TB2 attack UAVs from the Turkish company Baykar Technology.

BI: Russian S-400 air defense systems pose the main threat to F-16 aircraft in Ukraine

The long-awaited F-16s have arrived in Ukraine, but Kiev is unlikely to be able to use them to carry out offensive actions on the front line, as it wanted, BI writes. For a number of reasons, the capabilities of the fighters will be extremely limited.

The story of the delivery to Ukraine of the American multifunctional light fighters of the fourth generation General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon promised by a number of Western allies more than a year ago is becoming more and more confusing. Earlier, the Danish and Norwegian authorities announced the dispatch of a certain number of aircraft to Ukraine, of course, with the consent of the United States.