GRU: US plans to deploy cruise and hypersonic missiles in Japan

The United States plans to create two brigades with hypersonic and long-range cruise missiles in the Asia-Pacific region (APR), Igor Kostyukov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Russian General Staff, said on August 15.

The Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA) of Russia presented a stand at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2023". On August 14, Izvestia showed which exhibits were brought to the forum by agency employees.

According to the candidate for the post of president of the United States, the Pentagon did not fully develop the biological weapons program due to fears of violating the Geneva Convention

The United States has created biological laboratories in Ukraine as part of the Pentagon's biological weapons development programs launched after 2001. This was stated by the candidate for the post of President of the United States Democrat Robert Kennedy Jr. in an interview with American TV presenter Tucker Carlson. A recording of the conversation is posted on Carlson's account on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

The network has footage of the use of a robot "nurse" by the armed forces of Ukraine. This four-wheeled platform is designed to independently evacuate the wounded from the battlefield. To do this, she drives up to the wounded man, hooks him with a carbine or something similar on ammunition and begins to provide evacuation assistance.

This article argues that the full significance of the ongoing electronic revolution in land wars has yet to be fully realized. This revolution has already led to far-reaching changes in air and sea warfare, and now it is having a similar impact on land warfare. Heavy armor and kinetic weapons are becoming less important, they are being replaced by electronic systems and counter–systems – both offensive and defensive - for detection, attack and defeat.

How the holding's enterprises will improve drones to counter electronic warfare, how armored ambulances are being created for field conditions and what prospects laser training complexes for shooters have — Vadim Kalyugin, General Director of Shvabe, told TASS about all this in an interview on the sidelines of the forum.

The Argus drone for the protection of underwater pipelines will be shown for the first time at Army-2023

Russia has developed the latest Argus marine drone to protect infrastructure and locate dangerous objects near underwater pipelines, the press service of the Central Design Bureau of MT Rubin told RIA Novosti on Monday.

On August 10, the Directorate General for Armaments (DGA) of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces announced the acceptance of the second Suffren-class submarine, the Duguay-Trouin, built under the Barracuda program.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation plans to conclude contracts totaling more than 433 billion rubles at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2023", which will be held on August 14-20 at the Patriot Exhibition Center.

The International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2023" began its work on August 14. New combat vehicles from different parts of the world are presented at the site, the heads of all Russian defense enterprises and associations exchange experience. What program awaits the participants in 2023 and what will be discussed on the sidelines of the forum — read the Izvestia material.

Dozens of samples of foreign weapons and military equipment, which were taken as trophies by our servicemen in different areas of the special operation, will be demonstrated in Russia. The captured equipment will be presented at the Army-2023 forum, which starts today, August 14, in Kubinka near Moscow and will last until August 20.

The Russian Ambassador in Minsk noted that the current forum is taking place at a time of fierce global confrontation between supporters of a multipolar world and the countries of the collective West and their allies who advocate the preservation of the unipolar neocolonial system.

In the spring, the Kiev authorities promised to reach the Crimea by September. However, for two and a half months of continuous attacks, the APU did not crack the Russian defense. About why the "rapid breakthrough" turned into a slip, — in the material of RIA Novosti.

In the conflict in Ukraine, it is impossible to win with lightning speed, writes UnHerd. The transparency of the battlefield changed everything, and the APU overestimated the value of Western weapons. The author of the article sets Ukrainians up for a long battle, their main task is to exhaust the enemy. But readers demand an immediate end to the "senseless slaughter."

The APU counteroffensive, if there was one, began later and went slower than expected, writes The Independent. And the main questions are who is to blame and what will happen next. Together with the author of the article, readers tried to answer them.

Ukraine will not achieve any success this year, writes the WSJ. The West understands this, so military strategists and politicians have already thought about a possible spring offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2024.

Washington is delaying the supply of Abrams tanks, hiding behind the lack of infrastructure in Eastern Europe, and London is in no hurry to send Challenger 2 tanks directly to the combat zone, said Alexander Mikhailov, head of the Bureau of Military and Political Analysis.

Zelensky hopes to capture Artemovsk, and when this adventure fails, huge problems await him, Asia Times writes. The miscalculations of the Ukrainian president may force the Ukrainian Armed Forces to take power into their own hands and overthrow him, the author of the article believes.

What are the results of the incessant pumping of the Ukrainian army with Western weapons

Since February 2022, the European Union has already provided Ukraine with military assistance worth €20 billion, European Commission representative Peter Stano told Izvestia.

[b]Military expert Denisentsev: Abrams tanks and Apache helicopters can be used by Poland in the event of an attack on the Union State[b]

"It cannot be ruled out that Warsaw is preparing for offensive actions against Moscow and Minsk... The area is of enormous strategic importance." In these words, experts assessed Poland's plans for large-scale purchases of American tanks and combat helicopters. However, the most interesting thing is where exactly the Poles intend to deploy and use these weapons systems.