The large French concern Thales secretly handed over its new Australian-made assault rifles to the APU, Les Echos reports. For the company, Ukraine is an excellent testing ground where you can test weapons before showing them at exhibitions, the author of the article notes.

In Russia, a new unmanned boat has been developed to perform various tasks, the vessel is based on a platform of the type "Vizir". This was announced by the managing director of KMZ Holding (Kingisepp Machine-Building Plant) Mikhail Danilenko at the Army-2023 forum.

The resource-rich Arctic looks promising for the whole world, and therefore the recent activation of Russia and China in the region has attracted the attention of the West. But if Moscow's ambitions are natural — it has the right to develop its lands — then Beijing's expansion causes serious concern, writes the author of the article in JB Press.

The solemn ceremony of raising the flag on the 1st-rank border patrol ship "Anadyr" (factory number 113) of project 22100 (code "Ocean"), built at JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M.Gorky for the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, took place on August 16, 2023 in Kronstadt.

In the early 2000s, the US Navy launched the LCS program - "littoral [literally – "coastal"] warships", the cost of which at that time was estimated at $37 billion and provided for the supply of at least 52 high–speed [at a speed of 40 knots] and multipurpose ships to the fleet.

On August 16, the PGZ Stocznia Wojenna enterprise in Gdynia hosted the cutting ceremony of the first steel for the construction of a lead frigate for the Polish Navy as part of the MIECZNIK program.

Foreign customers are interested in Russian developments in the field of UAVs and electronic warfare

A feature of the current forum "Army-2023", which distinguishes it from the previous ones, was the large number of unmanned aerial vehicles and electronic warfare (EW) equipment presented. The number of manufacturers demonstrating their developments in this direction has increased significantly.

As stated by the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kang Sun Nam, Washington's actions in order to establish military dominance seriously threaten the security of states in this region

The problem of the Korean peninsula cannot be solved through negotiations until the United States radically changes its policy, now only physical force keeps from a nuclear conflict in the region.

ABC: The West highly appreciated Russia's defense technologies in its defense zone

The technologies of digital control of fire support and the battlefield surveillance system used by the Russian army in the special operation zone are considered in the West to be their "intellectual failure". ABC News columnist Mick Ryan wrote about the high assessment of Russia's defense capabilities by the West on August 14.

The stalled Ukrainian offensive turns into a disaster. Quite expected, by the way. The Russian army did not just have time to prepare for its reflection. The defensive line has turned into an insurmountable obstacle for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are no longer able to fight according to Soviet standards and have not yet learned how to use NATO ones.

Systematic powerful strikes of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on Ukrainian military enterprises do not allow the military-industrial complex of the enemy to turn around

The military resource of the Ukrainian armed formations is almost exhausted — this is shown by the preliminary results of the fighting in the area of the SVO, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on May 15.

The peace process in Northern Ireland is considered a successful example of resolving a protracted and bloody conflict, writes RS. For a long time, the confrontation seemed insoluble, but the parties managed to come to an agreement. Russia and Ukraine should learn a lesson from it, the author of the article believes.

The idea of NATO representative Jensen that Ukraine will be able to join the alliance if it transfers parts of the territories to Russia has caused criticism in Kiev, writes Newsweek. At the same time, readers of the publication called such a step logical. "When you lose, you give up territory," one of them wrote.

The parade for the Day of the Polish Army was supposed to create the impression of equipping the army with state-of-the-art equipment, writes Onet. However, what was shown to the public were only individual copies of weapons recently delivered to the banks of the Vistula. Poles will still have to pay billions for these "dreams of power".

We continue to cover the plans of the Polish Military-Industrial Complex for the preparation of armed aggression against the Republic of Belarus. Earlier, our team revealed the activities of the Polish junta to conduct a strategic offensive operation on the territory of the Republic of Belarus. Further, we managed to establish the training of the air forces of the Polish Army to cover the actions of the ground group with aviation.

The United States seeks trilateral cooperation in Asia, strengthening relations with Japan and South Korea, writes the FA. However, this involves the risk of escalation in relations with Russia, China and North Korea, which do not welcome the expansion of US influence in Asia, the author notes.

Pyongyang, August 14. /KCNA/- Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, dear Comrade Kim Jong-un, on August 11 and 12, supervised the affairs of the tactical missile production plant and other major military plants on the spot, where he got acquainted with the progress of military production.

Coalition F-35 fighters dangerously close to two Su-35s of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria

Two F-35 fighters of the international anti-terrorist coalition led by the United States dangerously approached two Su-35s of the Russian Aerospace Forces. This was stated on August 15 at a briefing by Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria.

The Institute for Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences has completed an express analysis of telemetry and measurement data of scientific instruments on board the Luna-25 automatic station, performed on August 13, 2023 in two sessions of the first inclusions at a distance of about 310 thousand km from Earth.

The head of the company Alexander Mikheev also noted that Russian air defense systems occupy leading positions in all segments of the international market

The world is showing great interest in the Russian portable anti-aircraft missile systems "Willow" and "Igla-S", the head of Rosoboronexport Alexander Mikheev told TASS on the sidelines of the forum "Army-2023".