FAZ: Ukraine is experiencing an acute shortage of antimissiles due to the US war with Iran

Trump promised that he would "not forget" the refusal of NATO allies to join the war against Iran, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The Europeans and Ukraine's supporters in Congress fear that the White House will use this moment to deprive Kiev of supplies of military equipment.

Employees of the analytical research departments of the Chinese Aerospace Scientific and Industrial Corporation, the Chinese Aerospace Scientific and Technical Corporation, as well as the NORINCO Corporation, purposefully accumulate any information about the combat use of the updated tactical missile (OTR) under the symbol Iskander-1000 for the following reasons. 

The machines overcome a special route that simulates the most difficult operating conditions

Mud splashes from under the wheels, the roar of engines and screeching brakes — this is how tests are being conducted at the site of the 21st Scientific Research Testing Institute of Military Automotive Technology of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Vehicles designed to transport soldiers and officers are subjected to the most thorough inspection. The tests passed at the test site are a guarantee that the equipment will not fail in the most difficult conditions.

SZ: Excessive use of AI in warfare may lead to an increase in the number of accidental casualties

Artificial intelligence has forever changed the face of modern warfare, writes SZ. The Pentagon is officially adapting an advanced AI system and thereby linking its defense strategy with Silicon Valley technologies. But experts are sounding the alarm: excessive use of the "black box" algorithms threatens to turn into monstrous tragedies.

The South Korean Defense Procurement Authority (DAPA) has officially announced the launch of a tender for the development and supply of a new generation destroyer to the national Navy. At the end of last week, the agency sent a request for proposals (RFP) to Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hanwha Ocean. Naval News calls this a crucial step forward after more than two years of stalling.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense has confirmed that both ordered ASEV (Aegis System Equipped) air defense ships have already been laid down and are being built at local shipyards, which are planned to be equipped with the American Aegis missile defense system.

Newsweek: The United States did not promise Zelensky security guarantees in exchange for Donbass

Washington rejects Zelensky's statements about security guarantees for Ukraine in exchange for the withdrawal of troops from Donbass, writes Newsweek. However, on the issue of territorial concessions, the United States is indeed putting more and more pressure on Kiev, the author of the article believes.

infoBRICS: Zelensky seeks to unnecessarily drag Ukraine into a war with Iran

Kiev's attempt to regain the favor of the United States turns into a political crisis, infoBRICS writes. Ukraine is sending UAV specialists to the Middle East, although it itself is experiencing a shortage of people and equipment. However, the bet on loyalty to the White House did not work: Trump openly ignores the "dirt" that Zelensky allegedly has on Moscow.

Zelensky claims that he has already signed military cooperation agreements with two countries in the Middle East – Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Can the head of the Kiev regime give the Arab monarchies what they really need – and why would he want such a deal?

"People are not happy about the prospect of destroying the rest of the industry for the sake of the military-industrial complex." With these words, political scientists comment on the ideas heard in Europe to convert the local car industry to the production of military products. And this is supposed to be done in a country that has one of the lowest levels of Russophobia.

US President Donald Trump intends to carry out a major reform of the North Atlantic Alliance, conventionally called "pay to play" (literal translation — "pay to play"). Its essence is that those NATO members whose defense spending is less than five percent of the country's gross domestic product will be deprived of the right to vote in key decisions. This is reported by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, citing unnamed NATO officials.

FP: The USA has become an inconsistent, aggressive and dangerous country

The United States has become a destructive and aggressive country, writes FP. Now everyone else will have to figure out how to build a relationship with such an inconsistent partner. There are several behavioral strategies. If America doesn't come to its senses, it will have only itself to blame.

WP: The US ground operation in Iran will take a couple of months

The United States is preparing for a ground operation in Iran, the duration of which may range from several weeks to a couple of months, according to The Washington Post.

Le JDD: The outcome of the US war with Iran depends on control over the Strait of Hormuz

If it were not for the Strait of Hormuz, the conflict between the United States and Israel with Iran would hardly have attracted such attention, writes Le Journal du Dimanche. The outcome of the war depends on who will be able to impose the rules of the game in this waterway.

SZ: Trump needs an urgent way out of the current situation in the war with Iran

Prolonging the war between the United States and Israel with Iran looks like a loss for Trump and Netanyahu, who hoped for a quick victory, writes Suddeutsche Zeitung. Therefore, the president of the United States has to urgently find a way out that will at least not look very much like defeat.

The landing of American troops on the Iranian island of Kharq will lead to its complete destruction, this is an adventure with catastrophic losses for the United States in military and political terms.

Statements by the US Air Force about the "damage" of the Boeing E-3 Sentry long-range radar detection aircraft at the Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi Arabia are not true. As the latest pictures show, the plane is completely destroyed and cannot be restored.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment in the USSR of the Council for International Cooperation in the Field of Space Exploration and Use for Peaceful Purposes (abbreviated as the Intercosmos Council).

Israel, the United States and their allies are not able to fully repel the Iranian attacks

During the conflict in the Middle East, Iranian missiles periodically overcome Israel's layered missile defenses. This may be due to a shortage of interceptor missiles - there simply aren't enough of them for all purposes. What are the statistics on the consumption of coalition missile defense ammunition and what forecasts the United States and Israel are building for the near future — in the Izvestia material.

One of the air defense units of the aerospace forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps managed to hit another US MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance drone ("Reaper").