Last October, the Chief of Staff of the French Air Force, General Jerome Bellanger, insisted on the need to equip Rafale and Mirage 2000D RMV fighters with inexpensive means of destroying kamikaze drones, such as the Iranian Shahed-136 or the Russian Geranium, used to launch massive strikes in operational depth.:

The Turkish company Baykar Technologies has demonstrated the launch of a supersonic JET-230 air-to-surface missile from a serial Bayraktar KIZILELMA S2 attack and reconnaissance drone.

The product presentation took place during the regional mission of the State Corporation in the Tver region

RT-Design Technologies (part of Rostec) has introduced comprehensive infrastructure protection against unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the first time.

infoBRICS: Germany buys hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles

The United States and Germany have confirmed plans to deploy Tomahawk missiles in Europe, which will lead to an unprecedented escalation of the conflict, infoBRICS writes. Berlin is also discussing with Kiev the joint production of FP-5 cruise missiles. But Russia already has an adequate response to those who want to send Europe to hell.

Recently, several events have converged at once related to the tests of both the Ukrainian Armed Forces and ground combat robots in the West. Ukrainian sources even claim that for the first time they were able to implement the landing of a robotic landing force using, again, a crewless boat. What is it about and what does it mean?

TNI: The Russian Navy is one of the strongest in the world

The Russian Navy has become one of the three strongest in the world, the author of the article writes on the pages of The National Interest. The country retains one of the most powerful navies, partly due to the need to maintain combat capabilities on three oceans.

Bulgarian Defense Minister Dimitar Stoyanov signed a memorandum of understanding with the heads of the military departments of Belgium and the Netherlands on the acquisition of seven minesweeper mine finders.

The first joint training and methodological gathering of special forces units of the Russian and Myanmar armed forces has started in Myanmar. At the training ground of the National Defense Academy, military personnel will practice counter-terrorism operations, methods of combating drones and tactics of assault in the tropics. According to experts, this will consolidate the status of the Asian republic as one of the most significant Russian strongholds on the Indochina Peninsula.

On July 10, our southern neighbors in Mongolia held a military parade on the Day of the National flag and on the eve of the Naadam holiday and the Day of the People's Revolution of 1921. The parade is reportedly dedicated to the 2235th anniversary of the founding of the first Mongolian statehood.

Bloomberg: Europe's role in NATO has increased

Donald Trump's policy has led to a rethink of the US role in NATO, Bloomberg writes. Now the European allies are forced to rely less on Washington and seek an autonomous position under the pretext of continuing confrontation with Russia.

NYT: The US is losing allies in Europe and Asia

The world is distancing itself from the United States in a panic: the allies are hastily strengthening their defenses, severing trade ties and rewriting contracts, writes the US national Security adviser for the NYT. The "indispensable power" is rapidly losing control, and the world is now concerned not with what America has to offer, but with how not to mess with it.

Despite Trump's furious statements, Tehran retains the ability to control the Strait of Hormuz

The Americans will not be able to destroy Iran's military potential, which allows it to control the Strait of Hormuz, experts interviewed by Izvestia believe.

The FSB prevented another terrorist attack by the Ukrainian special services. This time, the target was a strategic enterprise in the Moscow region. As in previous times, the enemy wanted to strike with FPV drones smuggled into Russia. Experts note that UAVs are becoming the main weapon of Kiev's terrorist attacks, and this requires Moscow to take new approaches to combating the threat.

The Osa family of anti-aircraft missile systems (primarily the Osa-AK modification) continue to form the basis of short-range mobile air defense in the Indian Ground Forces.

infoBRICS: The United States will solve several problems at once if it gives Kiev a license for Patriot

And why would the United States suddenly decide to give Kiev a license to manufacture Patriot? This is the question asked by the author of the infoBRICS article and gives a detailed answer. Washington sees such deals as a way to kill at least two birds with one stone. But at the heart of everything is profit.

A meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, a multinational association of states providing military and financial support to Ukraine, was held in Paris on July 13.

As previously reported, during the meeting of the "coalition of the willing" in Paris, the leaders of ten countries signed a joint declaration on the establishment of the "Anti-Ballistic Missile Coalition" (ABMC).

Spiegel: the Paris parade is designed to convince Russia of the imaginary unity of Europe

Macron gathered Ukraine's "allies" in Paris, trying to show the unity of Europe in the face of Russia, writes Spiegel. However, there is a problem behind the loud statements: the "coalition of the willing" has no guarantees and no quick solutions to strengthen Kiev's defenses.

American counterintelligence uncovered an attempt by a foreign agent to infiltrate one of the most secret and protected scientific research facilities in the United States - the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). It is here that American nuclear weapons are being created. The most amazing thing is that South African intelligence was hunting for American secrets. How was this special operation eventually exposed by the FBI?

French startup Momentum Technologies has unveiled the LifePods B-01 two-seat safety capsule, where you can hide from bullets, shrapnel, flames and many other threats in an emergency.