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Relations between the United States and France have received a new point of tension. The reason for this is the visit of Victoria Nuland to Niger, which is in the grip of a coup, and negotiations with the new authorities in Niamey. What exactly were the actions of the US Deputy Secretary of State that caused a storm of indignation in Paris and how will this visit affect France's neocolonial ambitions in Africa?

[b]Military expert Denisentsev: Abrams tanks and Apache helicopters can be used by Poland in the event of an attack on the Union State[b]

"It cannot be ruled out that Warsaw is preparing for offensive actions against Moscow and Minsk... The area is of enormous strategic importance." In these words, experts assessed Poland's plans for large-scale purchases of American tanks and combat helicopters. However, the most interesting thing is where exactly the Poles intend to deploy and use these weapons systems.

Artificial intelligence (AI) managed to pilot the XQ-58A Valkyrie combat drone in the sky over Florida for three hours. This was preceded by several million hours of training on flight simulators and flights on the X-62 VISTA, which used the same algorithms. The results of this experiment by the US military proved that AI can perform important tactical tasks in the air autonomously.

Vilnius Summit: not so much defending Ukraine as aggression against Russia

In the month that has passed since the meeting of the NATO Council at the level of heads of state and government in Vilnius on July 11-12, 2023, the excitement associated with Ukraine's hopes to become a member of the alliance has noticeably weakened. And Kiev switched to receiving some security guarantees from the United States.

Barrage ammunition from the Middle East

Today, barrage ammunition has become one of the dynamically developing areas in unmanned vehicles, which has already formed a separate class of corresponding systems.

Alan Lushnikov, President of Kalashnikov Concern JSC, spoke about the new capabilities of the UAV, the modernization of the AK—12 and the beginning of serial deliveries of the microwave sniper rifle

Serial deliveries of the upgraded Kalashnikov AK-12 assault rifle and the new microwave sniper rifle to the troops will begin this year, Alan Lushnikov, President of Kalashnikov Concern JSC, said in an interview with Izvestia.

How many weapons has Germany already provided to Ukraine

Russia admits that Germany will cross the "red line" and decide to send long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine. This was reported to Izvestia by the Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechaev.

The Ukrainian puppet regime associates a lot of hopes with the imminent delivery of American M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks.

Already at the beginning of the special operation, it became clear that unmanned aerial vehicles play a full-fledged role in it, and many Russian developers began to produce various copters, combat FPV drones (first-person view). The Oko Design Bureau, created in 2022 by IT specialists Andrey Ivanov and Vadim Zhernov, decided from the very beginning to turn society's idea of drones around. Why the Hi-82 drone shocks with its appearance and what tasks it can perform — in the TASS material.

According to Reuters sources in government agencies and defense enterprises of India, in recent months, the country's authorities have banned national manufacturers of military UAVs from using components manufactured in China due to the potential presence of vulnerabilities in security systems.

Russia has localized the production of kamikaze drones, the Russian army uses its own version of the drone called Geran-2, and not the Shahed-136 supplied by Iran. This conclusion was reached by experts from the British organization Conflict Armament Research, which tracks the supply of conventional weapons, ammunition and related military materials to areas affected by the conflict.

The first group of Ukrainian pilots will complete training on the F-16 only by next summer, writes WP. Six military personnel will be trained, two more are in reserve.

The technologies that made it possible to develop hypersonic weapons have launched a new round of rivalry between the world's largest powers, such as China, Russia and the United States. At the same time, Beijing and Moscow, unlike Washington, have achieved tangible results in this area today.

Russian air defense systems are the best in the world, and the S-400 and S-500 have no analogues at all – and foreign analysts recognize this, writes MWM. However, compact low-speed drones pose a new challenge, and Moscow is already developing new radars to combat them.

According to the agency, the onboard complexes of the aircraft worked automatically

Two Su-34 and two Su-35 aircraft of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation in Syria recorded the impact on them of the guidance and radar systems of two F-35 fighters of the anti-terrorist coalition led by the United States.

Another drone suppressed by means of electronic warfare crashed near the Karamyshevskaya embankment

On Friday, August 11, an attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to strike with the help of UAVs on the territory of Moscow was stopped. The drone was suppressed by means of electronic warfare, it crashed near the Karamyshevskaya embankment.

On August 12, 111 years have passed since the creation of the Russian Air Force (Air Force). By order of the military Department on August 12, 1912, the issues of aeronautics and aviation were removed from the jurisdiction of the Main Engineering Directorate and transferred to a specially created body — the Aeronautical Part of the General Staff, the Ministry of Defense recalled.

As reported on August 11, 2023 by PJSC United Aircraft Corporation, another heavy military transport aircraft Il-76MD-90A was manufactured and handed over to the customer in Ulyanovsk at the branch of PJSC Il - Aviastar (part of PJSC United Aircraft Corporation of Rostec State Corporation). The new aircraft has joined the aviation regiment of Military Transport Aviation (VTA) of Russia.

Alexander Kovalev — about the prospects of the F-16 in the conflict in Ukraine

The American multifunctional fighter F-16 was first put into operation in 1978. A year before that, I graduated from the Armavir Higher Military Aviation School.

The Turkish company TUSAŞ, working in the aerospace industry, has achieved a new export success by supplying Chad with both HÜRKUŞ aircraft and ANKA attack drones.