How is the oldest Israeli special forces Shayetet-13

Shayetet-13 is a unique special unit of the Israeli Navy. Its task is to carry out naval and special operations, which include sabotage, reconnaissance and anti–terrorist actions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

The Federation Council adopted a law on raising the age limit for staying in reserve by five years

Senators approved a law that raises the age limit for a number of citizens who have military ranks in the reserve by five years.

As the Kommersant newspaper reported in Alexander Kislov's article "A bill on arming the Rosgvardiya with heavy equipment has been submitted to the State Duma," three deputies of the Russian State Duma from the United Russia party - Andrei Kartapolov, Vasily Piskarev and Alexander Khinstein - have introduced a bill giving the Rosgvardiya the right to have heavy military equipment in service. The bill proposes amendments to the federal law "On the National Guard Troops", follows from the published explanatory note.

For 18 months of fighting, the Russian army has used almost the entire range of weapons. Some samples showed themselves well, some not so well. And something had to be modified right on the front line. About front—line inventions - in the material of RIA Novosti.

Judging by the photos appearing on social networks, the upgraded BM Bulat main battle tanks, as before, demonstrate the inferiority of their design. The militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine criticized these cars for a very weak chassis for a significantly increased mass.