The first US Navy aircraft carrier in its class, the Gerald R. Ford, has successfully passed test tests and will take part in NATO exercises in the Atlantic Ocean next week. A record $ 13.3 billion was spent on the construction of the super-aircraft carrier, due to various technical problems, the ship was tested and refined for five years.

On September 27, 2022, in Cartagena (Colombia), the Colombian state shipbuilding company COTECMAR signed a contract with the international (headquartered in the Netherlands) shipbuilding group Damen Shipyards Group for the joint design and further construction of five frigates for the Colombian Navy under the Plataforma Estrategia de Superficie (PES) program based on the Damen SIGMA 10514 project. Earlier on September 22, the Ministry of Defense of Colombia announced the selection of the Damen SIGMA 10514 project based on the results of an international tender under the PES program for new frigates for the Colombian navy.

Goodbye, common sense

America has been obsessed with Russian gas pipelines in Europe for 40 years, writes the author of the article on the Substack platform. In his opinion, the sabotage on the "Northern Streams" is a reckless adventure of the United States, which can lead to a world war. "This senseless march to death can be stopped even tomorrow," he complains.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said at a press conference in Hawaii that he "will not guess" who is responsible for the explosions that occurred on the four highways of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines. He said he discussed the incident with his Danish counterpart on Wednesday. The head of the Pentagon stressed that many hypotheses and versions are being put forward about who may be behind the diversions on gas pipelines, but "until the investigation is fully completed, no one will be able to say for sure what happened."

Following the European Union, the North Atlantic Alliance also announced a decisive response to the sabotage against the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines. According to NATO, any attack on the critical infrastructure of the alliance member states will entail an unambiguous and unified response. This is written by the German publication Junge Welt.

At the end of September, for reasons not yet established, there were leaks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Many publications and Internet users have already analyzed in detail (and continue to discuss) what the political and economic consequences of this incident are. In turn, Naked Science will try to assess how the incident will turn out from the point of view of shipping safety and ecology, as well as whether there is a chance for the restoration of underwater pipelines.

Russia can strike at the American infrastructure if it establishes the involvement of the United States in the undermining of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines. This is the conclusion reached by the author of an article for the American edition of National Review.

American intelligence will take its toll not by skill, but by number

Specific state institutions – intelligence and counterintelligence, united under the common name "special services" – are designed to steal the secrets of hostile countries or rival powers and to protect their own secrets.

Poland has purchased a large batch of South Korean K4 anti-personnel automatic grenade launchers, the deal took place a few weeks ago, but officially announced it only now. According to the representative of the armaments Agency of the Ministry of National Defense of Poland, Lieutenant Colonel Krzysztof Platek, the supply of weapons and ammunition will be made within a few months.

The head of Tesla, Elon Musk, presented a prototype of a humanoid robot Optimus worth 20 thousand dollars. This is reported by Reuters.

Ukraine will still receive additional French Caesar self-propelled artillery installations, Paris has decided to transfer to Kiev part of the self-propelled guns intended for Denmark. This is reported by the newspaper Le Monde.

The Ukrainian armed forces are trained to operate such tanks, said Biden's national security aide Jake Sullivan

The United States will continue to assist Ukraine in obtaining Soviet-style tanks, which are trained to operate the Ukrainian armed forces. This was announced on Friday by Assistant to the US President for National Security Jake Sullivan at a briefing at the White House.

Kiev's receipt of Leopard 2 and M1 Abrams tanks seems unlikely due to the possible inefficiency of the machines. The publication of Military Watch magazine named the reasons for the possible refusal to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) with modern armored vehicles.

At the moment, the country's Defense Ministry "considers it unlikely that Russia will resort to nuclear weapons as part of the war in Ukraine, or that a nuclear incident will be intentionally caused"

The Swiss Federal Council (Government) has authorized the Ministry of Defense to create an analytical and coordinating body for the country's rapid response in the event of a nuclear incident in Ukraine. The government announced this on its website on Friday.

The second Caribbean crisis because of Ukraine?

Fears are growing in the world about a possible conflict between Moscow and Washington at the instigation of the Americans themselves, writes Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov in an article by TNI. Russia is accused of all sins, but it is the United States that continues to "test its strength."

Western experts do not exclude the possibility of the most severe consequences

On September 25, National Security Adviser to the US President Jake Sullivan said in an interview with NBC that Washington "directly privately" and "at a very high level" notified the Russian leadership about the catastrophic consequences of the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. "We were frank with them and stressed that the United States will give a decisive response together with our allies and partners," the adviser said, declining to give any details.

The Pentagon is striving to create weapons that even the most modern means of air defense are powerless against. The other day, the American military-industrial concern Raytheon received a contract worth almost a billion dollars for the development and testing of a hypersonic air-launched cruise missile HACM. It is expected that the promising ammunition will enter service with the Air Force in 2027. About the HACM project and other hypersonic developments in the USA — in the material of RIA Novosti.

According to Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkura, following the results of budget negotiations held in the government, it was decided to allocate funds for the purchase of an intermediate-range air defense system, which will allow it to be put into service by 2025.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine received installations for countering SKY CTRL drones. Presumably, it is capable of detecting any aerial targets in a ten-kilometer zone.

The commander of the US Air Force in Europe and Africa, General James Hecker, said that Washington disclosed to Kiev the location of Russian equipment, but did not give advice about possible solutions, but "simply provided intelligence information."