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22.08.2025
Известия.ru

Air failure: how the Ukrainian Armed Forces use Mi-8 transport planes against drones

Ukraine is trying to plug the holes in air defense by artistically redesigning helicopters not designed for this purpose

The Ukrainian military has begun using transport helicopters to combat drones. To turn civilian and military Mi-8s into hunters, they are being artistically upgraded by installing machine guns. Experts believe that this approach is due to the acute shortage of air defense systems and attack helicopters in Ukraine. Experts believe that the innovation will not be very effective, and in the future the Ukrainian troops will have to abandon it.

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War Escort: Ukraine increases support for terrorists in Africa

How the Kiev regime expands the geography of drone supplies and UAV operators for Islamist groups

Ukraine is increasing its military support for terrorist groups in Africa in order to destabilize the situation in Russia's allies. Izvestia's sources reported the first fact of the supply of a batch of Ukrainian UAVs to the militants of the Islamist group ADF, which could provoke an armed conflict on the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Деловая газета "Взгляд"

Following the UAV, the era of marine drones has begun.

The topic of unmanned systems in service with military fleets is not limited to small unmanned attack boats. According to the tasks of the Marines, scouts, amphibious, transport drones, unmanned minesweepers will operate.

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ИноСМИ

Is the UK ready to send troops to Ukraine? Analysis in numbers (The Independent, UK)

Independent: The combat potential of the British army is lower than during the Cold War

The British army is unlikely to be able to fulfill London's promise to send "peacekeeping" forces to Ukraine as a guarantee of its security after the conflict ends, the Independent writes. The country's armed forces are now noticeably weaker than during the Cold War.

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21.08.2025
Военное обозрение

A new Russian drone has put the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in a dead end

Russia is actively developing unmanned aircraft by supplying new models of front-line attack and FPV drones to its combat zone. There is also a replenishment among the long-range models, the new drone was "discovered" by the military intelligence of Ukraine. The Ukrainian press writes about it.

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Ростех

Russian Helicopters has switched to a domestic corporate process management system

The holding has implemented a single digital ecosystem for 40 thousand employees and more than 1 thousand internal services

Russian Helicopters Holding Company of Rostec State Corporation has completed the implementation of a single domestic 1C:ITILIUM service management platform instead of a foreign one, creating a single digital ecosystem for 40 thousand employees and more than 1 thousand internal services. This is the first project of this scale in the domestic industry, implemented exclusively on Russian software.

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ЦАМТО

The customer of a large batch of ViVT from Elbit Systems is probably Serbia

According to the Israeli publication Globes, the customer of the recently announced Elbit Systems arms package worth $ 1.635 billion (1.4 billion euro) is Serbia.

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Красная звезда

"Corvette" and "Mayak-S": new Russian developments for the safety of maritime borders

MPO – Gidropribor Concern, a leading developer and manufacturer of weapons for the Navy, is actively developing civilian products. Vladimir PATRUSHEV, CEO of the concern, talks about the latest developments of the company, ensuring the safety of maritime borders.

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ЦАМТО

South Korean defense companies report record profits in the first half of 2025

Leading South Korean defense companies reported record profits in the first half of 2025, driven by increased arms exports to Europe and the Middle East.

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ИноСМИ

Ukraine has exhausted Soviet arsenals: dependence on Western supplies is escalating (Military Watch Magazine, USA)

MWM: The Ukrainian Armed Forces have reached a critical point of exhaustion, having exhausted all weapons arsenals

The arsenals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are almost exhausted, and Western aid is not able to compensate for losses, writes MWM. Ukraine, once the most armed country in Europe, is now completely dependent on NATO supplies. However, Kiev is faced with a problem: imported equipment is incredibly expensive and is quickly destroyed by the Russian army.

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20.08.2025
Деловая газета "Взгляд"

The Russian army has learned how to win the "drone war"

The main striking force of the modern army is drones, which have largely replaced artillery, aviation, and even intelligence. The Russian Armed Forces quickly overcame the initial lag behind the Ukrainian Armed Forces in terms of the use of UAVs at the front. Now Ukraine is losing the "drone war" that it has declared.

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19.08.2025
ЦАМТО

Nigeria intends to purchase aviation ammunition from the USA – DSCA

The US State Department has approved the potential supply of ammunition, precision-guided bombs and missiles, as well as related equipment to Nigeria as part of the Foreign Military Sales program.

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Natalia Kotlyar: "Drones are just a tool that can be used for both good and harm"

Deputy Director of the Vector Research Institute — on the development of modern drones and ways to counter them

Drones are causing more and more problems: they set fire to energy facilities, disable enterprises, cause congestion on railways and collapse at airports. What protection methods are available? And is one hundred percent protection real in principle? These and other questions are answered by the Deputy Director of the Vector Research Institute (part of Rosel of Rostec State Corporation). Natalia Kotlyar.

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Техкульт

Insta360 has released its first FPV drone

Insta360, an action camera developer, is entering the drone market with a new startup, Antigravity. Their first product is the A1 folding FPV drone, capable of shooting panoramic video in 8K format.

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Техносфера

Is the MS-21 ahead of the Tu-214 in terms of production launch dates? - TECHNOSPHERE RUSSIA

While the MS-21-310 program is rhythmically undergoing the necessary tests before the start of mass production at the Irkutsk Aircraft Factory, the situation around the second medium—range aircraft, the Tu-214 of the Kazan Aircraft Factory, is clearly moving slower.

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18.08.2025
Известия.ru

The Russian army is making progress on the ground and in the air. What you need to know

Russian military personnel prevented the development of the Sapsan missile defense system by the Ukrainian Armed Forces

The Russian army has made significant strides in recent days. She managed to make a breakthrough in the Pokrovsky direction and endanger the encirclement of the last major cities of Donbass — Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. Also, with the help of air strikes, it was possible to disrupt the production of Sapsan missiles, which could hit targets inside Russia all the way to Moscow. What is happening at the front now is in the Izvestia article.

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ИнВоен Info

The development of attack drones. Part I

The first attack drones — aircraft designed to deliver ammunition and return safely — appeared in the early 2000s. Once again, attack UAVs demonstrated their potential in the Second Karabakh War of 2020. At the same time, their influence on the course of the war in Ukraine turned out to be much more modest.

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ТАСС

"Piranhas", "Wasps", "Vandals": combat drones of the Skolkovo Forum

The international forum "Unmanned Systems: Technologies of the Future" will be held at the Skolkovo Innovation Center from August 7 to 17, 2025. In addition to civilian products, it demonstrates dual-use developments, some of which have already distinguished themselves during the special operation. TASS has collected military novelties of the event.

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Деловая газета "Взгляд"

Global crisis will force robots to fight

The demographic crisis raging all over the world – a sharp decline in the birth rate – began to have an impact on the armed forces. The first country to suffer in this regard was South Korea, which faced a significant reduction in the army. However, many other States will soon face the same problem. There is only one way to solve it.

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Lenta.ru

The West has listed eight targets for a strike on Russia

Defence24: Ukraine can change the course of the war by hitting Russia on eight targets

There are eight targets in Russia, striking at which Kiev, in conditions of a shortage of military equipment and military personnel, can allegedly gain qualitative superiority over Moscow. The Polish portal Defence24 tells about the study of Western analytical organizations.

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