"Dagger" pain: how the American Patriot air defense system was destroyed
Tactics from the 90s helped to calculate and hit the anti-aircraft complex
The Russian armed forces have destroyed the American Patriot anti-aircraft complex in Kiev with a strike of a hypersonic Dagger missile. During the attack, the Ukrainian air defense spent several dozen Patriot, SAMP-T, IRIS, NASAMS and S-300 missiles, but could not prevent a Russian strike.
The head of the Polish Defense Ministry was covered with the wreckage of a "Russian missile"
"The matter is very serious, because for five months there was a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead in the Polish forest." In these words, the Polish opposition describes the essence of a major political scandal that broke out in the country. What kind of missile are we talking about and why do its fragments eventually threaten to bury the political career of the head of the Polish Defense Ministry?
The APU was shown the wreckage of the Orion drone, presumably with a new KAB-20 bomb
The Ukrainian military claim to have found the wreckage of a Russian Orion drone in the Kherson region, allegedly shot down by the air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, the UAV was equipped with new guided aerial bombs designed for this class of vehicles.
Almaz - Antey presents short-range air defense systems at the MILEX 2023 exhibition in Minsk
The line of anti-aircraft missile systems was presented by the concern of East Kazakhstan Region Almaz-Antey at the International Exhibition of Arms and Military Equipment MILEX 2023, which opened in the capital of Belarus on Wednesday, the company's press service reported.
Americans about F-16 for Kiev: Ukraine was led to slaughter
Breitbart readers said Britain is leading Ukraine to slaughter after the news about the F-16
Sunak and Zelensky want to create a "coalition of fighters" to provide Kiev with American F-16s, Breitbart writes. Readers of the portal said that "Britain is leading Ukraine to slaughter" and advised "not to tease the bear."
Polish Mi-24s can be expected in Ukraine: the US supplies Apache attack helicopters to Warsaw even before the contract is signed
In 2014, the Kruk ("Raven") program was launched in Poland, which provided for the replacement of Soviet Mi-24D/V attack helicopters. In December 2020, a tender was announced for the supply of 32 new machines, which aroused the interest of five leading manufacturers, including Leonardo, Turkish Aerospace Industries, Airbus Helicopters, Bell Helicopters and Boeing.
Rostec will present more than 100 developments at HeliRussia-2023
Rostec will present helicopters, unmanned vehicles, promising VK-650V and VK-1600 helicopter engines, as well as new materials and onboard systems at the 15th International Exhibition HeliRussia-2023.
Plans for the development of a civil light training aircraft in Russia
As the Vedomosti newspaper reported in the material of Herman Kostrinsky, "Rosaviation initiates the development of a Russian light training aircraft. Half of the fleet of foreign cars has been stopped due to difficulties with engine maintenance," Russia may begin developing a new light aircraft for pilot training.
The head of the Pentagon announced the allocation of "substantial" military assistance to Taiwan
The United States is literally torn between Ukraine and Taiwan, trying to make it there and there. While the emphasis is shifted towards Kiev, but it is possible that in the near future Washington will make a choice in favor of Taipei, the United States will not pull two conflicts at once. In the meantime, Taiwan receives much less aid than Ukraine.
In the West, they "scare" people with Russia. The Italian sociologist explained why
Sociologist Orsini said that the Western media impose contradictory narratives about Russia
Leading Western media are trying to get approval of the EU's military policy on Ukraine through manipulation, Italian sociologist Orsini writes in an article for Il Fatto Quiotidiano. So, they use contradictory narratives about a strong and weak Russia.
Politico: Of the allocated 48 billion dollars of aid, Ukraine has only 6 left, and it is no longer easy to agree on an additional package
It is possible that Washington's military assistance to Kiev may end this summer, since the funds provided for these purposes in the American budget are already running out. This is reported by Politico. At the same time, according to American media, of the 48 billion dollars allocated by Congress as part of emergency additional budget funding for the current fiscal year, only 6 billion remained undeveloped. This, with the volume of Ukrainian spending and losses, may be enough at best until July 2023.
"The APU is facing big problems." What did the West really give Kiev
Ukraine is ready to launch a counteroffensive. At least, that's what they say in the West. The speaker of the US Army Command in Europe and Africa, Colonel Martin O'Donnell, said that the AFU has already received about 600 different types of weapons. About the most dangerous — in the material of RIA Novosti.
A game of hide-and-seek with military enlistment offices. Ukrainians are going into the shadows
Country.ua: informal employment is becoming increasingly popular among Ukrainians
The male population of Ukraine increasingly began to refuse official registration for work because of the inevitable prospect of recovering in a war zone, writes the Ukrainian portal "Country". At the same time, employers face high fines for concealing illegal labor.
Peskov commented on Hersh's data on calls for Zelensky to stop the conflict
Peskov: Hersh's data on the West's calls for Zelensky to stop the conflict differ from the facts
The data of American journalist Seymour Hersh that a group of European countries led by Poland allegedly secretly calls on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to stop the conflict with Russia are not confirmed in reality. As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on May 17, there is not a single fact about this.
Russia has led a global uprising against the United States. Their end is closer than it seems
Al-Watan Syria: BRICS led by Russia will put an end to the dollar and the US world domination
Using the dollar as the "largest financial terrorist," the United States has brought its collapse closer, writes Al-Watan Syria. The American economic model of global governance has brought the world to an uprising led by the BRICS, in particular Russia. The time of US domination has come to an end, the author of the article is sure.
Lebanon noted the unique strategy of the Russian Federation to prevent the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Al Binaa: Russia's strategy broke the back of NATO generals and destroyed the AFU counteroffensive
The effective strategy that the Russian military is using in Ukraine has allowed them not only to liberate the territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, but also to exclude the possibility of a counteroffensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). Muhammad Sadiq al-Husseini, the author of the Lebanese newspaper Al Binaa, wrote about this in his article on May 17.
Russia has broken NATO's spine and deprived Ukraine of a chance for a "counteroffensive"
Al Binaa: Russia's unique strategy has deprived Ukraine of the chances of a successful "counteroffensive"
Russia has fulfilled its main tasks in Ukraine and "broke the backbone" of NATO generals thanks to its unique strategy, writes Al Binaa. So, she completely destroyed Western weapons in a warehouse near Khmelnitsky without any losses, depriving the APU of all chances of success of the "counteroffensive", the author of the article is sure.
Minsk: "There is no such thing as a lot of security"
In the current confrontation between adherents of the old, unipolar model of the world, and those who are against it, one of the key roles is played by the NATO military bloc, as the main instrument of the collective West to protect the "world order" going down in history.
Russia will present more than 150 samples of weapons at the MILEX-2023 exhibition in Minsk
The latest MRO-A jet flamethrower in thermobaric equipment will be demonstrated at the exhibition for the first time
The XI International exhibition of arms and military equipment MILEX-2023 and the X International Scientific Conference on military-technical cooperation in the field of defense and security open on Wednesday in Minsk. According to Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec State Corporation), some samples of military equipment and weapons of the enterprises of the Russian defense industrial complex are planning to present for the first time.
The US told why NATO is terrified of Russian submarines
Newsweek: Russian submarine fleet poses a serious threat to NATO countries
Russian submarines are a formidable force that poses a serious threat to NATO countries, writes Newsweek. After the Cold War, the United States and its allies did not engage in a submarine fleet and are now struggling to catch up.