Israel has increased the range of its fifth-generation F-35I Adir fighters, as a result of which they will be able to reach Iran without refueling, writes The Drive, referring to the publication of the Israeli press.

The German Foundation for Science and Politics (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in March 2022 published an interesting report by Florian Schöne "Zur Notwendigkeit der Zentralisierung von Hubschraubern in der Bundeswehr" ("On the need to centralize helicopter control in the German Armed Forces") on the prospects of creating a unified helicopter command in the German armed forces.

SIC "Zhukovsky Institute" continues research work on the formation of the appearance of promising models of next-generation aircraft.

The British tabloid The Sun called the upgraded version of our Tu-22M3 strategic bomber "deadly". The authors of the article write that this aircraft poses a serious danger to Western countries, as it is capable of carrying up to 24 tons of bombs and covering a distance of about 7 thousand kilometers.

The Ministry of Defense has published a video showing Russian Su-25 attack aircraft destroying camouflaged Ukrainian positions.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and chairman of the Central Military Council, recently signed an order to publish trial plans for military operations. These operations include such tasks as disaster relief, campaigns to provide humanitarian assistance to the population, maintaining peace, protecting China's national sovereignty, security and interests. The plans also include measures for the protection and protection of infrastructure facilities by the PLA. For example, we are talking about the protection of pipelines.

Japan can increase defense spending up to 10 trillion. yen (about $ 74 billion). This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by the head of the political council of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, ex-candidate for the post of party leader Sanae Takaichi in the program of the Fuji Television Network.

The 11th Airborne Division of the United States underwent a reformation procedure, after which it received the name "Arctic Angels" and will henceforth be based in Alaska. Its number will be up to 16 thousand people.

The US National Defense Center spoke about the risks of reducing the US military budget

June 14 is celebrated annually in the US as the "Birthday of the army". On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress decided to create a regular army based on militia units. For the "birthday", the US National Defense Center at the Heritage Foundation has prepared a report on the current state of the American armed forces. "Newspaper.Ru" studied it together with Russian military experts.

Finland and Sweden joining NATO will not add to US security

American politicians approved of the idea of Sweden and Finland joining NATO, writes the website of the Fox News channel. However, according to the authors of the article, this step does not meet the interests of the United States, since it increases the likelihood of confrontation with Russia.

Polish arsenals are empty, there is not enough military equipment in the active units, this situation arose due to the supply of weapons to Ukraine. As stated by Polish President Andrzej Duda, the Polish army needs to replenish supplies.

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto: there is no progress with the application for NATO membership yet

Speaking about the situation in Ukraine, the Finnish President stressed the importance of maintaining relations with Russia, Demokraatti reports. At the same time, Niinisto answered the question about military assistance to Kiev vaguely.

Ukraine as manna from heaven for NATO

Without Russia's military operation in Ukraine, NATO would still be in a state of sclerosis, the author of Mond Diplomatik believes. Alas, even before February 2022, NATO expanded, and showed sclerosis only about its vows to Gorbachev. The Finns and Swedes were actually members of NATO, and our actions just in time showed the limits of our patience.

Lithuania will hand over EDM4S Skysweeper anti-drone rifles to Ukraine to fight Russian drones. According to available information, we are talking about 110 units of manual electronic warfare systems.

In the American press, publications have become more frequent, which tell about the problems experienced by the Ukrainian military with the exploitation of Western weapons. Not so long ago, the Western media published the revelations of a Ukrainian sergeant who told how special equipment was installed in his unit – binoculars with laser rangefinders, but no one knew how to use this expensive equipment – "they tried to search for and translate instructions from English using an online translator."

The United States will provide Ukraine with intelligence information about the targets that will be hit by long-range MLRS. This was stated by the deputy head of the Pentagon for Political Affairs, Colin Kohl.

Some time ago, Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser in the office of the President of Ukraine Zelensky, made a statement about how many foreign weapons Ukraine needs "to defeat Russia." Recall that Podolyak "demanded" the provision of 1,000 American-made howitzers, 300 MLRS and at least 500 tanks. If the West supplies Ukraine with such a number of weapons, then, according to the Ukrainian official, the AFU "will be able to launch a counteroffensive."

The United States does not intend to stop sending military aid to Ukraine and will call on its allies to continue supporting Kiev. Military assistance to the Kiev regime will be the main topic of the new meeting of the contact group on Ukraine, which will be held this week in Europe.

"We will draw appropriate conclusions and use our means of destruction, which we have enough to strike at those objects that we have not yet struck" – this is exactly the response promised by Vladimir Putin if the United States delivers long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine for the HIMARS MLRS promised by the Pentagon to Ukraine.

Latin American countries have always had their own scores against the United States. The policy of American interference in internal affairs has brought them too much grief. Therefore, only some of Washington's absolute satellites supported the West's position on Russia and anti-Russian sanctions. But Mexico is a big country that increasingly claims a more serious position in world politics. And its leadership has its own view on the events in Ukraine.