Nuclear breakdown: what is the threat of the shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP VFU
As a result of another attack, the Kakhovskaya high-voltage line was damaged
Armed formations of Ukraine again fired at the Zaporozhye NPP, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on August 8. As a result, the high-voltage line was damaged, there was a voltage surge that caused smoke on the switchgear of the station.
"Ukraine is taking the whole of Europe hostage." What is the threat of the shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP
The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zakharova: Kiev takes the whole of Europe hostage, shooting at the Zaporozhye NPP
Ukraine is taking the whole of Europe hostage by shelling the Zaporozhye NPP, the Russian Foreign Ministry says. The ministry claims that the situation is getting worse every day - the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is firing at the operating reactors and the storage of spent nuclear fuel.
Israeli Army: More Gazans died due to short-range Islamist rockets than from IDF strikes
The unsuccessful rocket launches of the Islamic Jihad group in Israel are the cause of the death of people in the territory of the Palestinian Authority, among whom there are children. More Gazans died because of the short-range rockets of the Islamists than from the IDF strikes.
Oleg Kivokurtsev: European businessmen are very afraid of the "cancellation culture", applications have fallen by 80%
Perm Promobot is one of the largest companies in the field of service robots in Europe and the manufacturer of the android Dunyasha, which became one of the most mentioned "persons" of the last St. Petersburg Economic Forum, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, according to Brand Analytics.
Banks will be obliged to save Russian electronics with super–profitable loans
The authorities want to negotiate with banks on granting preferential loans to companies from the electronics sector. The rate should be no more than 5% per annum, but the minimum loan amount, on the contrary, is rather big – 4 billion rubles. The industry reacted extremely positively to this idea, calling the current interest rates of banks unprofitable. The development of the initiative is still at the initial stage.
In Spain, French 155-mm self-propelled guns CAESAR are evaluated
The Spanish Ground Forces have shown interest in purchasing 155 mm CAESAR self-propelled artillery units (CAmion Equipe d'un Systeme d'Artillerie) manufactured by NEXTER Systems.
The Spanish Defense Ministry transfers 20 M-113 armored vehicles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The Spanish Defense Ministry has started implementing the procedure for the delivery of 20 tracked armored vehicles M-113 (TOA Transporte Oruga Acorazados) to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the armored personnel carrier version.
The APU was informed about the arrival of the first German Gepard anti-aircraft installations in Ukraine
The Ukrainian military calls the self-propelled air defense installations supplied by Germany the best in their class. This is stated in the press release of the Operational Command "South" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in which its representatives announced the arrival in Ukraine of the first three German Gepard anti-aircraft artillery installations.
Why won't the Abrams and Leopards-2 be handed over to the Ukrainian army
The Ukrainian army is currently entirely dependent on foreign supplies. This applies, among other things, to ammunition, artillery weapons, armored vehicles.
Lack of weapons forces the AFU to switch to homemade MLRS
Despite the military assistance coming from Western countries, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are faced with a shortage of weapons, which, in turn, forces the Ukrainian military to actively use various homemade handicrafts.
Ukrainian tank brigades exist only on paper
It is difficult for Ukraine to form tank brigades
APU have a habit of registering understaffed parts on paper, writes journalist David Ex in an article for Forbes. And if the existence of four Ukrainian tank brigades can still be proved, then the other two may be fiction.
USA will provide maintenance of S-70 helicopters of the Greek Armed Forces – DSCA
The US State Department has approved the provision of services to Greece under the Foreign Military Sales program for the subsequent support and maintenance of S-70 helicopters.
100% domestic Ansat helicopter will return to the market in 2024
The Design Bureau of the Kazan Helicopter Plant is working to present the Ansat helicopter in a fully domestic configuration as soon as possible, the machine is being reassembled without components from Ukraine, the USA and Europe.
The bright future of the "black wing"
The composite wing, which was nicknamed the "black wing" because of the color of carbon fiber, is considered one of the main features of the MS-21. Today it is mass-produced from domestic materials at the Aerocomposite enterprise of the United Aircraft Corporation. This was made possible thanks to the successful replacement program of foreign composites, the supply of which was suspended due to sanctions.
In Russia, they will create a NTZ for future mainline aircraft with an integral wing
The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has announced a tender for the performance of research work "Research on the effectiveness of unconventional aerodynamic schemes of mainline aircraft (MS), taking into account the use of new technologies and alternative fuels." The cipher of research and development is Integral–MS, the Ministry of Industry and Trade is ready to allocate more than 2.5 billion rubles for these promising studies.
Russia was powerless against this American fighter
The Iranian Air Force had more dangerous fighters than any other army in the world
Even Soviet MiG aircraft were inferior to this fighter, writes MWM. But due to the high cost and complexity of its operation, many countries refused to buy it - all except Iran. As a result, his army had no equal in the number of the most dangerous fighters.
China again conducts exercises off the coast of Taiwan
The Eastern zone of the combat command of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) announced on Monday about the next military exercises at sea and in the airspace around the island of Taiwan, the Western press reports.
Amnesty International regrets Kiev's reaction to the report on violations of the laws of war by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
At the same time, the organization did not abandon its conclusions
The human rights organization Amnesty International apologized for the "painful" report on violations of the laws of warfare by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but did not abandon its conclusions.
The Czech Republic believes that arms supplies to Kiev and sanctions against Russia do not lead to a settlement
According to the ex-President of the Republic Vaclav Klaus, the West is taking a unilateral approach to the situation in Ukraine
The continuation by Western countries of arms supplies to the Kiev authorities and the tightening of anti-Russian sanctions will not lead to a settlement of the situation in Ukraine. This opinion was expressed by the ex-President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus in the comment "Unilateral propaganda around Ukraine is the way to unfreedom", published on Sunday in the newspaper Mladá fronta DNES.
A member of the US Congress called most of the supplies of military aid to Ukraine a fraud
According to the Republican from the House of Representatives Marjorie Taylor Green, the aid "has never been connected with the Ukrainian people"
A member of the US House of Representatives, Lauren Boibert (Republican from Colorado), criticized the provision of military assistance to Ukraine. On her Twitter, she commented on a CBS documentary, which said that most of the military aid that Western countries send to Ukrainian forces does not reach their final destinations in the country.