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.

On the eve of the HeliRussia-2023 exhibition, UEC-Klimov JSC held a regular conference of the General Designer of the enterprise Vsevolod Eliseev. The purpose of the annual event is to communicate with the operators of aircraft on which Klimov engines are installed.

As reported by JSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), on August 29, 2023, the first prototype of the "import-substituted" Russian short-haul aircraft SJ-100 (SSJ-NEW), manufactured by the Production Center of PJSC Yakovlev (part of the Rostec State Corporation UAC) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, made its first flight there. During the tests, the stable operation of all domestic systems, controllability and stability of the aircraft in the air were confirmed.

All agreements that have been concluded between Niger and France in the field of security and defense are canceled. This was stated by the National Council for the Protection of the Fatherland of Niger, Al-Arabiya TV channel reports.

Until recently, the main borrower in the global arms market was Poland, the bulk of whose debt falls on South Korea and was formed for the supply of tanks, self-propelled guns, light fighters and other equipment. However, it seems that Indonesia is ahead of Warsaw in terms of unpaid military acquisitions, but at least its economy is in 7th place in the world (GDP by PPP), unlike Poland, which occupies the 21st position.

Despite the debate in parliament, the British command defended the need for further reduction in the size of the army.

In previous publications, we talked about Poland's preparation for armed aggression against Belarus, as indicated by the strategic deployment of Polish troops.

The country's Defense Minister Krysztof Szalai-Bobrownicki explained this by the fact that Kiev has not yet excluded the Hungarian OTP bank from its list of "international sponsors of the war"

Hungary refused to discuss the allocation of funds by the European Union for military assistance to Ukraine, since the authorities of this country have not yet excluded the Hungarian OTP bank from their list of "international sponsors of the war."

As noted in the Swiss Federal Council, this step underlines Bern's support for "persons affected by the war and the political process of reconstruction of Ukraine"

Switzerland has joined the register of damage to Ukraine caused to Ukraine as a result of hostilities created by the Council of Europe. This was reported by the Swiss government - the Federal Council.

Reznikov demanded that companies from Poland return money for military orders

Polish companies must return money to Kiev for unfulfilled military orders. This opinion was expressed on August 29 by the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov.

On August 29, 2023, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine totaling up to $ 250 million. Thus, the total amount of US military assistance officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 now amounts to about $ 43.5 billion, and the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has reached $ 45 billion.