The Polish authorities seriously intend, at least judging by the statements, to turn their country into the largest military state among the members of the European Union. Warsaw has repeatedly announced and, as far as possible, is implementing plans to increase the size of the national army and large-scale purchases of various types of weapons. Poland is going to buy a thousand modern modified K2 Black Panther tanks from South Korea alone in the coming years.

As a designer, Ganichev created Grad and made the Russian Federation a leader in the production of MLRS

August 25 marked the 105th anniversary of the birth of the founder of the Russian school of multiple launch rocket systems, designer Alexander Ganichev.

The official Paris makes the main bet in tank building on the modernization of the Leclerc MBT and the MGCS developed jointly with Germany - the "European tank of the future". However, there are calls to create a new own OBT.

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen revealed the order of delivery of American tanks to the local army, according to which the first vehicles should be shipped next year.

The Ministry of Defense assessed the successful use of unmanned complexes during its

The Ministry of Defense has decided to increase the supply of combat robots of the Uran family to the troops, a source in the military department told Izvestia. We are talking about the complexes "Uran-6" for mine clearance and "Uran-14" for extinguishing fires.

The German startup Transportsysteme, founded by people from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, has developed a FORMIC cargo robotic platform. Its peculiarity is that it uses the swarm principle to form a transport vehicle of the required load capacity from individual robots. At the same time, robots do not need to be assembled into a single mechanism, they retain autonomy and can quickly switch to new tasks.

According to the definition of one of the German publications, modern machine guns (Maschinengewehre, MG) are fully automatic support weapons with a high rate of fire and firepower. The supply of ammunition from him, as a rule, occurs with the help of a machine gun belt.

The Arctic is often viewed as an arena for a new global conflict, while being especially afraid of Russia. This view is not entirely correct, researcher Heather Exner-Pirot told Le Figaro. The game for the Far North has been played for a long time and by different countries, but it is purely geopolitical, not military.

As reported, on August 23, 2023, a large diesel-electric submarine B-608 Mozhaysk (factory number 01618) of project 06363, built for the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg at Admiralty Shipyards JSC (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC), entered the Baltic Sea for the first time. - USC). This is the fifth of six Project 06363 submarines being built for the Pacific Fleet.

On August 25, 2023, the head office of the Indonesian State Shipbuilding Association RT PAL in Surabaya hosted the official laying ceremony for the Indonesian Navy of the head of two ordered frigates of the Arrowhead 140 (AN140) project under license from the British Babcock International group.

Submarines of the U-212A Todaro class have become a successful project for the German defense industry. They are in service with the German and Italian Navies, and their upgraded versions are equipped with fleets of many countries of the world.

Russia's security directly depends on innovations in this area

The XI Moscow Conference on International Security was held in the context of a radical change in the military-political situation in the world, the formation of a real multipolar world order. Heads and representatives of defense departments, international organizations, experts and political scientists exchanged views on strengthening constructive cooperation in the new realities. Hybrid warfare strategies have become one of these realities.

According to the telegram channel MarZOeV / Oleg Marzoev, the 18th Combined Arms Army has been deployed on the basis of the 22nd Army Corps of the Black Sea Fleet. A new 25th Reserve [combined arms] army has been deployed on the territory of the former Soviet Volga-Ural Military District. A new 67th Motorized Rifle Division has been deployed as part of the army.

This year, Winston Churchill's book "World War II" celebrates its 70th anniversary. In one of the chapters of her first volume ("The Coming Storm") the British politician gave a very accurate description of the Polish state, in relation to all its hypostases in which it has been throughout its existence.

Experts: PMCs "Wagner" will maintain its position in Africa

Vladimir Putin assured that the investigation of the accident with the plane of the founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, would be brought to an end. The President called Prigozhin a talented man with a difficult fate and noted the contribution of the Wagnerians to the fight against neo-Nazism. The expert community believes that the PMCs themselves should decide on their future in the next couple of months. What options do the Wagnerians have?

In recent days, the Ukrainian command was forced to make some adjustments to the counteroffensive strategy. The Wall Street Journal writes about this, citing informed sources. This decision was made by the military-political leadership of Ukraine after several weeks of disputes with the US military.

Russia has rationalized its actions and achieved military successes, which cannot be said about Ukraine. Carried away by fantasies of victory, she spends resources on unrealistic goals, which leads the APU to failures and puts the alliance with Washington at risk. To avoid a tragedy, she needs to moderate her ambitions, writes UnHerd.

Pro-Ukrainian optimism in the West is crumbling, writes Nové slovo. The fog of propaganda that does not take into account reality is dissipated, and a lot of surprises are revealed. And there they are already surprised to hear that, it turns out, Ukraine is not winning. The tone of the leading media writing about the conflict is changing.

From a military point of view, Ukraine's victory is unthinkable, General Marco Bertolini said in an interview with Libero. Kiev's goals are unattainable, and the West is becoming increasingly skeptical about the potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is necessary to accept the current state of affairs and sit down at the negotiating table, the military believes.

Ukraine should forget about membership in NATO and the EU, writes Resalat. The West will not risk the appearance in its environment of a country torn apart by internal contradictions and in a state of conflict with a powerful superpower, the author believes.