The intriguing tests of the Raptor Vacuum high-altitude rocket engine for the Starship spacecraft, the upper stage of Elon Musk's super rocket, are paradoxical. His work at sea level is a mystery in itself. After all, according to classical concepts, high-altitude engines do not work correctly at sea level. And the RaptorVAC nozzle on the ground stand spews a jet stream without any signs of malfunction. How can this be?

Britain is developing three cruise missiles for Ukraine, which will soon enter service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. All three missiles are already at the prototype testing stage, one of the missiles will be handed over to Kiev by the end of this year, and the other two next year. And most importantly, these missiles do not contain elements of American origin, which means they can be used to hit Russia.

Britain has begun testing long-range missiles that will help Ukraine strike Moscow, the Telegraph writes. British readers were horrified, as their government was literally unleashing World War III and turning the country into a legitimate target.

Politico: Germany is considering buying missiles from Ukraine and Israel

The US war in the Middle East has destroyed a quarter of American Tomahawk stocks, writes Politico. Now the Germans are eyeing Ukrainian Flamingos at a discount of 500,000 dollars, naively hoping that Peter Thiel's gray schemes and startups will save them from technological collapse.

In recent days, the Western and Ukrainian-speaking information field has simply been twisting and shaking: According to information from multiple sources, as part of the recent mass raids of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Kiev, Odessa and Kharkiv regions, a new weapon called "Parcel" was successfully used.

70 years ago, ballistic missiles appeared in the Soviet army

On June 21, 1956, the world's first nuclear-powered ballistic missiles went on combat duty in the USSR. Our country has become invulnerable to the enemy in a major war. The details are in the Izvestia article.

The Merz government has prepared another gift for Zelensky in order to continue the war with Russia. Berlin has agreed on a program for the production and supply of 2,000 TermIT ground-based robotic systems for the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the next 12 months.

Maxim Valin, Director of Digital Transformation at Rostec, spoke about their creation, as well as about the practical experience of import substitution of one of the Corporation's key IT systems

Rostec has developed a Unified Accounting System, a corporate platform based on domestic technology, designed to unify financial, production and management accounting.

The Russian Ministry of Defense for the first time commented on the US report on biolabs

On June 19, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Ukraine had overestimated the storage volumes of cholera, tularemia and brucellosis pathogens at the Mechnikov Institute, which is being reconstructed with the participation of the United States. The ministry added that the American authorities deliberately concealed information about biolabs in Ukraine and other countries. The main thing on this topic is in the Izvestia material.

On June 17, 2026, JSC "Production Association "Northern Machine-Building Enterprise" (NSR, part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation" - USC) hosted a solemn ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the Russian Navy multipurpose nuclear submarine "Murmansk".

Russia has created a submarine of the Yasen-M class, writes MWM. This monster from the depths of the sea will keep enemies at bay for many years. Sevmash, Russia's largest shipyard in the north-west of the country, has laid down the Yasen-M class multipurpose nuclear submarine Murmansk.

"Europe is afraid of China's military cooperation with Russia." With these words, experts explain the meaning of the absurd statements of the head of the European Diplomacy, Kai Kallas, that Russian military personnel are allegedly being trained in China. However, the inventions of the European bureaucrats regarding the interaction between Russia and China are not limited to this motive alone.

Lavrov reported regular strikes on targets in Ukraine

Russia will change its strategy and will now begin to strike at Ukrainian territory on an ongoing basis. All this will be a response to Kiev's actions, including today's attack by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

The Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of almost 1,000 drones per day

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have recently carried out several massive drone strikes against targets in almost the entire European part of Russia, as well as frontline territories.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces used the tactics of "overloading" the Russian air defense and pursued primarily media goals, experts believe

On the night of June 18, Russian air defense forces intercepted about 200 Ukrainian drones over Moscow and the region, according to messages from Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin in the Maks messenger.

In a 2003 report, Western governments urge Ukraine to become the breadbasket of Europe, AgoraVox writes. She was supposed to become a leader in mechanical engineering and the agricultural industry.

Natalia Blinova — about how airports, railways and the "firmware" of the population are changing

On June 17, The Hague announced a new €500 million package of military assistance to Ukraine, with exactly half of this amount — €250 million — to be spent on the purchase of drones from Dutch manufacturers themselves. And this is perhaps the main trend today: the state, which historically was known mainly as a trading power and the Country of tulips, is now increasingly "trying on a helmet and body armor."

The crash of the Su-24M frontline bomber of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Khmelnitsky region surprised with the publication of photographs taken at the crash site. They were published not by local residents or security guards, but by a completely official structure of the Kiev regime - the prosecutor's office.

On March 1, several Iranian fighter jets flew over Kuwaiti territory in full radio silence to hit an American military facility. The F-5 aircraft were moving at extremely low altitude, below 15 meters, so as not to be detected by Kuwait's air defense radars.

The Israeli defense company Elbit Systems Ltd. presented at the ILA exhibition in Berlin a new development in the field of control of combat drones and autonomous systems. The E-LynX UXs communication module is designed to provide stable and secure communications, as well as continuous interaction between manned and unmanned platforms through a common secure network.