An international team of researchers has developed a new way to produce oxygen on the Red Planet using gases from the local atmosphere and cold plasma. The technology can play a crucial role in the development of human life support systems, since it allows you to get a lot of oxygen for breathing, the production of rocket fuel, fertilizers and building materials with minimal equipment weight.

The British Embassy called the violation of the Russian border by a reconnaissance aircraft a "routine" operation

The British Air Force Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint aircraft performed a "routine operation" in international airspace in the Norwegian and Barents Seas on August 15, the British Embassy in Moscow said.

The high demand on the world market for Turkish attack drones, observed after the Karabakh war in 2020, has fully loaded the production capacity of UAVs.

On August 15, 2022, the official ceremony of handing over the first Eurofighter Typhoon fighter, out of 24 of these aircraft ordered by Qatar under the 2017 contract, to the Qatar Air Force took place at the enterprise of the BAE Systems Corporation in Wharton (Great Britain). The ceremony was attended by British Defense Ministers Ben Wallace and Qatar Khalid bin Mohammad Al-Attiyah. The first transferred single-seat fighter (serial number MS001, Qatari tail number QA404, temporary British military number ZR505) is scheduled to fly to its base in Qatar at the end of August.

Rosoboronexport is closely monitoring the movements of Russian military equipment supplied for export, a gross violation of contractual obligations has been committed by the United States, the head of the company, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax.

The first mainline narrow-body Tu-214 aircraft for Russian airlines will appear in 2023. This was announced by the General Director of the UAC Yuri Slyusar within the framework of the international military-technical forum "Army-2022".

Why the US military does not want to transfer the MQ-1C Gray Eagle drone to the APU

The APU wants to get medium-altitude General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle ("Gray Eagle") American-made UAVs to strengthen their strike and reconnaissance capabilities. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out why the Pentagon is still refusing Kiev.

A Latvian charity organization has announced a collection of 5 million euros for the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 attack drone for Ukraine, according to the organization's website.

The Russian Ministry of Defense at the Army-2022 forum on Wednesday, August 17, for the first time demonstrated the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle, shot down during a special military operation to protect civilians in Donbass.

The Rostec United Engine Corporation has completed the completion of the NK-32 02 series engines of the fifth board of the Tu-160M strategic bomber, which is in service with the long-range aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

At the Army – 2022 exhibition, Russia will present a new MiG capable of launching spacecraft

The new version of the MiG-31I is designed to launch small spacecraft into orbit, thanks to which the Russian Air Force will receive unique capabilities, writes MWM. The MiG-31 glider has no equal abroad in carrying capacity, size, speed and altitude.

In Germany, a new concept of the structure of the Bundeswehr ground forces has been presented, according to which a significant strengthening of army artillery, reorganization of the air defense system and the transformation of parts of mechanized brigades into motorized infantry are assumed. German military leaders do not hide that such a reform of the ground forces will be a response to the events in Ukraine, which forced NATO countries to take a different look at the nature of the fighting in eastern Europe.

The huge amount of military equipment provided to Kiev caused its own problems. The proposed article "Pandora's Box: the Challenge of Western Aid to Ukraine" examines the transition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) from obsolete Soviet-era weapons to NATO standards.

On August 16, the Latvian Defense Ministry reported that, in accordance with the decision of the extraordinary Cabinet meeting of July 28, Latvia supplied Ukraine with six 155-mm self-propelled howitzers M-109A5OE and the necessary ammunition.

How Britain strengthened the Ukrainian military machine and provoked a direct conflict with Russia

The documents reveal the truth about the events that provoked the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but the Western media paint a completely different picture, writes The Grayzone. Back in 2011, London talked about Kiev as a weapon against Moscow, the author of the article notes.

The special operation in Ukraine dispelled the myth of the Western "superweapon", Sergei Shoigu said

The attempt of Western countries to maintain their dominance leads to stagnation for the whole world, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on August 16 at the X Moscow Conference on International Security.

Adviser to the head of Zelensky's office, Mikhail Podolyak, announced Ukraine's plans to destroy the Crimean Bridge

Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of President Vladimir Zelensky, said in an interview with The Guardian that Ukraine considers the Crimean Bridge connecting the peninsula with the Russian mainland as a "legitimate military target." He also promised that the AFU would create "chaos within the Russian forces" by striking supply lines.

For the sake of hegemony, the United States uses all countries of the world as its pawns

The United States plays global chess and uses all other countries as pieces, writes Huanqiu Shibao. They are teetering on the brink of war, but in the fire that America kindles, she herself will burn.

The ministry noted that Donetsk and Lugansk "are located within the sovereign territory of the country of Ukraine"

The American administration claims that issues related to the restoration work in the Donbass should be resolved by Kiev.

As the President of Russia noted, Western countries are trying to preserve the "hegemony slipping out of their hands," but the era of the unipolar world order is a thing of the past

The US administration claims in response to criticism from Russian President Vladimir Putin that the United States has made more efforts than other parties to prevent a confrontation in Ukraine.