The world is purposefully moving towards multipolarity, writes Al Hadath. Many countries have rallied around Russia and China to put an end to Western dictates. And the participation of the Egyptian President at the Russia-Africa summit will potentially expand cooperation between Moscow and the African continent.

The weapons supplied to Kiev are often inferior to Soviet-made models

Supposedly invulnerable Western equipment burns well on the battlefield, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council on July 21.

The American web resource "The Drive" has published an interesting material by Howard Altman "A Sobering Analysis Of Ukraine's Counteroffensive From The Front" ("Sobering front-line analysis of the Ukrainian counteroffensive"), which sets out critical considerations about the offensive actions of the armed forces of Ukraine, expressed by a senior researcher at the British International Institute for Strategic Studies (International Institute for Strategic Studies - IISS) and the Center For New American Security (CNAS) by Franz-Stefan Gadi after his trip with a group of military analysts to the war zones in Ukraine.

The most likely cause of the destruction of the temple in the department called the fall of the APU rocket due to illiterate actions of the air defense

Kiev's information about the defeat of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odessa as a result of a high-precision weapon strike does not correspond to reality. This was stated in the Russian Defense Ministry.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting with permanent members of the Security Council via videoconference on July 21.

Type 218SG submarines are tested before delivery to the customer

Acceptance tests of three Type 218SG submarines built by the German concern ThyssenKrupp for the Naval Forces of the Republic of Singapore are being completed. According to the current plan, all three will be accepted by the customer by the end of this year, and next summer will join the Singapore fleet.

At the Naval Base in Toulon, an official acceptance ceremony was held at the General Directorate for Armaments (DGA) of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of France for the first (out of four ordered) integrated supply ship, (A725) "Jacques Chevalier".

Over 30 aircraft and helicopters are involved in maneuvers from both sides

The Russian-Chinese naval exercises "North/Interaction-2023" started in the waters of the Sea of Japan, the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) reported.

About 100 military personnel and more than 10 units of military and special equipment were involved in the activities according to the combat training plan

Combat crews of the launch batteries of the Bal and Bastion missile systems of the Baltic Fleet are involved in exercises on the Kaliningrad coast of the Baltic Sea, where they are solving tasks to counter a conditional enemy, the press service of the fleet reported on Thursday.

The specialists of the Franco-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis obtained the first results of the program to create a railgun – an electromagnetic gun designed for installation on warships. This is reported by the publication Zone Militaire, which received information from the French Defense Procurement Agency.

The main directions of modernization of the NATO bloc

The main source of military threat to Russia's security is the Armed Forces of the United States and the NATO bloc led by them, which have accumulated by now, without exaggeration, a colossal combat potential. And yet they continue to increase it.

Israel's missile weapons inherit Soviet and Western models

The peculiarity of Israel's geopolitical position, given that this country has a very strong science and a powerful military-industrial complex, led to the advanced development of missile weapons of all classes. Moreover, some samples of these weapons, in fact, become "their own classes", having no direct analogues outside the Jewish state.

The coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council of the department, John Kirby, said that they were delivered to Kiev about a week ago

Ukraine has been using cluster munitions supplied by the United States for about the last seven days. This was stated on Thursday at a briefing for journalists by the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council (NSC) of the White House, John Kirby.

We are talking about the unrealized NASA PHLOTE project (Phobos L1 Operational Tether Experiment)

A student of Samara University named after Korolev Daria Neryadovskaya mathematically justified the possibility of using a "space elevator" to conduct remote studies of the Mars satellite Phobos, a university student told TASS on Thursday.

There are not enough Japanese and European modules, Roscosmos cosmonaut Dmitry Petelin said

Russian crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) have printed most of the models of its modules, reports the special correspondent of TASS, cosmonaut of Roscosmos Dmitry Petelin.

On July 17, 2023, the first two multi-purpose transport helicopters H225M Caracal (tail numbers "70" and "71"), manufactured by Airbus Helicopters under the 2018 contract for the supply of 16 vehicles, arrived from France as part of the 86th Helicopter Brigade of the Hungarian Air Force at the Szolnok Airbase.

Saudi Arabia has announced its intention to support Turkey's struggling economy. One of the areas of further cooperation was the conclusion of a large contract with Baykar for the supply of UAVs.

Serbia plans to join the SiRTAP (Sistema Remotamente Tripulado de Altas Prestaciones) reconnaissance UAV development program, which is led by Airbus in the interests of Spain and Colombia.

During the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, both sides of the conflict actively use drones, the most common of which are civilian UAVs. They are massively used as reconnaissance vehicles or converted into attack drones carrying weapons up to mines.

Also, a number of areas in the international waters of the Black Sea are declared temporarily dangerous for navigation

From July 20, vessels heading to the Black Sea waters to Ukrainian ports will be considered by the Russian side as potential carriers of military cargo.