Colonel Khodarenok believes that the APU will try to attack Russian thermal power plants in winter

On August 29, Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles carried out a number of strikes on targets in many Russian regions. This attack is regarded as the largest in all 18 months of its existence. How this became possible, what are the further trends, what to do to prevent such incidents, the military observer of the Newspaper was investigating.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

The autumn campaign promises to be hot

The APU landed a DRG of up to 40 people at Cape Tarkhankut in the western Crimea. As expected, more than half of the saboteurs who landed were destroyed, the rest were lucky to escape.

The TCG Gediz frigate of the Turkish Navy has received a special marking that indicates the defeat of attack drones from weapons on board.

The European expert called Serbia a "Trojan horse" of Russia

Serbia will turn out to be Russia's "Trojan horse" in the EU, CNN reports. After the start of the SVO in Ukraine, the West began to actively lure Belgrade to its side so that it would distance itself from Moscow. This approach is fraught with the "import of Russian influence" to Europe, experts noted.

China continues to develop technologies designed to increase the combat capability of the PLA Naval Forces. According to the South China Morning Post, a successful test of the enemy submarine detection system based on terahertz wave technology was conducted.

Western resources monitoring the state of the Chinese fleet report on the launching of the new Type 052DL destroyer, which is being built at the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry shipyard, on August 30, 2023.

The oceanographic research vessel "Evgeny Goriglejan", built in the interests of the Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research (GUGI) of the Ministry of Defense, became part of the Russian Navy. The ceremony was held at the Baltic Shipbuilding plant "Yantar". This was reported by the USC press service.

Bhavanjot Singh, senior scientific and Technical manager of the American Army Command for the Development of Combat Capabilities (DEVCOM), for the first time mentioned the possible equipping of the four-legged unmanned ground vehicle Vision 60 (Q-UGV) produced by Ghost Robotics with an army rifle Next Generation Squad Weapon.

The German concern Rheinmetall, which produces, among other things, Leopard 2 tanks, has partially lost its status as a manufacturer of "miracle weapons" due to losses in Ukraine and international competition.

A photo appeared on the network showing the ambassador of the Kiev regime to Germany, captured at the KMW defense concern plant in Kassel against the background of a 155-mm Boxer RCH155 self-propelled gun and a Leopard 1A5 tank undergoing repair.

The Ukrainian army will remain without a new domestic self-propelled mortar, the company "Ukrainian Armored Vehicles" has frozen work on a promising 120-mm mortar complex "Smereka".

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation during the military-technical forum "Army-2023" signed a state contract for the supply of the latest self-propelled artillery units (ACS) 2C43 "Malva" on a wheeled chassis to the Russian armed forces. In the same place, in Kubinka near Moscow, the novelty itself was presented at the exposition of promising weapons samples. About the ACS, unique for the Russian army, in the material of TASS.

The Russian armored car AMN -590911 "Spartak", having received a 57-mm automatic cannon, can now destroy an enemy located at a distance of 7000 meters.

Taiwan may soon receive American high-precision cruise missiles AGM-158 JASSM with a range of 370 km. Washington does not rule out making a positive decision by the end of the year. This is reported by the Taiwanese press.

Ukraine is working on modifications of subsonic cruise missiles "Neptune", which can be used to strike Moscow and other targets in Russia. This was reported to the American edition of The Drive on condition of anonymity by a Ukrainian official.

The German Chancellor avoided a direct answer to the question about possible deliveries of Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Kiev

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz avoided a direct answer to the question about possible deliveries of Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Kiev, noting that Germany's priority is to provide Ukraine with air defense and artillery ammunition.

Denmark and the Netherlands will supply Ukraine with F-16 fighters, but even this will not help the APU, Milliyet writes. Russian Su-35 and MiG-31 aircraft are superior to the F-16. Moreover, Ukrainians simply cannot cope with the maintenance and management of Western equipment, especially in combat conditions.

The transfer of the F-16 to Kiev will not be a panacea, CNN reports. It will take months to train pilots — not counting the time to learn English. In addition, the vaunted fighters have not fulfilled any of their goals in 10 years and have never encountered a powerful Russian air defense.

Russia has transferred Tu-95 and Tu-160 bombers to the Olenya airbase on the Kola Peninsula, Ilta-Sanomat reports. The shortest distance from there to the Finnish border is only about 150 kilometers.

On August 29, the Polish company PZL Mielec demonstrated the first part of the fuselage of the F-16 fighter released by it – one of the elements of the rear part of the aircraft body.