On June 30, Ukraine and Sweden signed an agreement on Kiev's purchase of 16 multirole JAS-39E Gripen fighters manufactured by the Swedish company Saab AB.

The German government is negotiating with the German division of the European concern MBDA (MBDA Deutschland) in order to organize cooperation with the American Raytheon Technologies to develop a ground-based version of the BGM-109 Tomahawk.

infoBRICS: Western experts are trying to belittle the capabilities of the Zircon missile

Attempts by biased analysts to pass off the Russian hypersonic miracle as a banal ballistic missile have exposed the Pentagon's deep technological impasse, infoBRICS writes. Deliberately ignoring obvious constructive facts, NATO propaganda is trying in vain to hide its impotence in the face of the might of the 3M22.

The famous phrase from the Soviet film "robots work hard, not humans" ceases to be fiction. Autonomous systems equipped with artificial intelligence are ready to replace ordinary workers in production.

The i Paper: The British Ministry of Defense has curtailed plans to rearm the Navy

The British Ministry of Defense has revised procurement plans for the Navy, writes The i Paper. Instead of huge destroyers, small ships will be acquired, which will be assigned the role of future command centers for drones. And where will drones come from? No one has thought about it yet.

TNI: the scheme of admission of new countries to the EU does not meet the challenges of the times

Friedrich Merz's plans to gradually draw the bankrupt Kiev regime into the structures of the European Union finally bury the classic model of unification, writes TNI. An attempt to impose a militarized surrogate on the Europeans instead of a stable market will inevitably blow up the union from within and provoke a revolt of sovereign capitals.

According to PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of Rostec State Corporation), on June 25, 2026, the first flight of the first prototype of the upgraded Yak-130M combat training aircraft took place at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, a branch of PJSC Yakovlev (part of the UAC). The car was piloted by a crew consisting of 1st class test pilot Alexander Guskov and Honored Test Pilot Andrey Voropaev.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces began using balloons to launch Hornet rockets to new regions of the Russian Federation

An interesting document compiled by military experts entitled "Atomik Cherry" has been published on the electronic platforms of the BARS-Sarmat Central Command, whose convoys of mobile firing groups are currently patrolling the Novorossiya highway.

For the first time in the history of the United States Air Force, all twenty-two generals commanding fighter squadrons of the National Guard have signed a single appeal to Congress.

Euractiv: Turkey wants to sell S-400 to South Korea for F-35

Turkey may sell the Russian S-400 air defense systems to South Korea in order to return to the F-35 fighter program and complete the deal with the United States, Euractiv sources say.

The Ministry of Defense is changing its tactics against drones: mobile groups receive FPV interceptors, and the drones themselves receive artificial intelligence, said Minister Andrei Belousov. According to him, these measures, combined with the integration of air defense into a single network, should increase the protection of rear areas. What other help might the "hunters" of enemy drones need?

On June 29, the Command of the US Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) officially announced the successful launch of the AGM-158C LRASM long-range anti-ship missile system from a B-2A Spirit strategic bomber.

The Times: Russia has equipped a floating regasification plant with machine guns

The Russian regasification vessel Marshal Vasilevsky was equipped with machine guns, The Times claims. The experts cited by the publication believe that this was done to prevent possible attacks on the ship, including from European countries.

Risks of escalation forced the alliance to classify the composition of the forces — how will the Russian Navy react

NATO's Breeze-2026 naval exercises began in the Black Sea on June 30. The training is conducted under the supervision of the Bulgarian Navy and will last about a month.

On June 29, the Polish Ministry of Defense Armaments Agency announced the signing of a package of contracts under the Orka program, which provides for the supply of three naval submarines to the Polish Navy, as well as the provision of temporary solutions.

Sergei Ivanov headed the Ministry of Defense in perhaps the most difficult and low-money period for the military department – from March 2001 to February 2007. It was a genuine desert crossing for our Armed Forces. It was only towards the end of his tenure that the financing of the structure entrusted to him began to slowly improve.

Ukraine's peace initiatives are facing reality at the front — the Russian army is stepping up its offensive in all directions

Despite the public freezing of diplomatic tracks, the dialogue on Ukraine continues through closed channels. According to Vladimir Putin, Kiev regularly sends new initiatives, trying to find the ground for local truces.

Putin rejected Ukraine's proposal to limit fighting to four regions

Vladimir Putin said that the Ukrainian side had proposed limiting the conduct of hostilities to only four regions — the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, as well as the Lugansk People's Republic (LNR) and the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

Bloomberg: the reduction of the US contingent will hit the economy of small towns in Germany

The Pentagon's audit of the contingent threatens to turn into a disaster for German municipalities, Bloomberg reports. Against the backdrop of the protracted economic downturn in Germany and the rising cost of energy due to sanctions, the withdrawal of Americans will deprive stagnating regions of hundreds of millions of euros and finish off local businesses.

Telegraph: Chairman of the Defense Committee called for the return of military service

Germany is desperately trying to increase the number of the Bundeswehr to 260 thousand by 2035, writes the Telegraph. Young people don't want to become "cannon fodder," but the government seems to have already decided everything. There are no volunteers — there will be conscripts.