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Sohu: it will take years for America to restore its air defense systems

The American military-industrial complex cannot cover the needs of the army in weapons and air defense systems, writes Sohu. Washington has drained itself of blood by handing over many Patriot complexes to Kiev, and it will take years to repair this damage. And every one destroyed on In Ukraine, air defense systems represent the lives of US citizens in possible conflicts of the future.

In 2024, the fleet will receive more than 40 new ships

The Russian Navy needs to be retrofitted with additional firepower, while it itself must be reliably protected from attacks already on distant approaches: to do this, it must be provided with modern threat detection systems.

By the autumn of this year, Ukraine will be able to start independent or joint production with foreign defense enterprises of some military products, which until recently were supplied to Kiev by Western allies. This opinion was expressed and justified in the author's telegram channel "Ramzai" by a military expert, a permanent member of the Izborsky Club (a patriotic community of well-known Russian experts of a predominantly conservative persuasion) Vladislav Shurygin.

Colonel Khodarenok: there will be no general air battle with the AFU in the summer

Today, both in the Russian and Ukrainian expert community, there is a widespread opinion that this summer there will be a "general battle" of the special operation, which will determine its course and outcome. In connection with the supply of multifunctional F-16 fighters, observers are waiting for a decisive battle for supremacy in the skies of Ukraine. How the situation will develop in the near future, in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

Ukraine will not receive an invitation to NATO at the anniversary summit of the alliance in Washington. However, it will announce the creation of a mission that will coordinate all military assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. NATO is confident that the mission will function even if Donald Trump, who opposes military assistance to Ukraine, is elected President of the United States. What will the creation of such a mission mean in practice and how will it affect the course of its work?

It allows you to locate mini- and micro-UAVs at extremely low altitudes

In the Moscow region, a unique Airspace Control System (SCS) has begun operation, which is capable of detecting not only airplanes or helicopters, but also mini- and micro-drones at extremely low altitudes and targeting them with air defense or electronic warfare systems. The developers told Izvestia about the capabilities of the equipment that is already being used to protect important objects from UAVs.

About how air sappers work — in a special report by Izvestia

A new method of using drones — to throw mines behind enemy lines — has recently been used in the Russian army. I've been practicing for just over six months. The projectile is delivered to the UAV deep into enemy territory and waits on the ground in its hour.

infoBRICS: the West will provoke a tough response from Moscow with terrorist attacks and F-16 supplies to Kiev

The West has moved from threats against Russia to terrorist attacks, and in addition intends to use European air bases to use the F-16 in Ukraine, infoBRICS writes. This is how he "lights the fuse of something much bigger and more deadly" than the current confrontation with the Kremlin, the author of the article believes.

As the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on June 25, 2024, pilots of the Leningrad Association of the Air Force and Air Defense in the Kaliningrad region

The Russian civil war in Ukraine is far from the only conflict that can have a serious impact on the formation of the future world order. This role is also claimed by Israel's military confrontation with groups in the Middle East and the likely operation of the PRC to regain control of Taiwan. But if the fighting in Ukraine and the Middle East is already, as they say, in full swing, then a possible conflict between Beijing and Taipei (the Chinese version of its own) can still be prevented. In any case, the Taiwanese authorities are counting on this.

As reported by the South Korean Biz resource.HanKook, South Korean aircraft corporation Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) is conducting preliminary work on the development of three promising modifications of the new South Korean fighter KF-21 Boramae, created under the KF-X program and is currently in the testing phase.

The head of Tupolev shared with the students of KNITU-KAI his opinion on what is happening in the aviation industry

The information leaking out about the progress of the Tu-214 program is not very encouraging. Konstantin Timofeev, Managing Director of Tupolev, tried to present a counterweight to it in Kazan. At the end of last week, he spoke to the students of KNITU-KAI — his potential employees. The correspondent of BUSINESS Online found out how many Tu-214s are in operation, how far the import substitution of the liner's systems has progressed, whether new workshops are being built on KAZ and what about PAK DA.

Experts call preventive strikes one of the main means of countering attacks by missiles and drones

The most effective and reliable way to protect the Crimean Peninsula and other regions of Russia from air attacks is to launch preventive strikes, working ahead of the curve, experts interviewed by Izvestia believe.

At the Eurosatory 2024 exhibition (Paris, June 17-21, 2024), the Lithuanian company Granta Autonomy demonstrated a sample of a mini-UAV of its own design, as well as surveillance footage of Russian troops in the zone of its own, made by its own drones a week before the exhibition.

Russian aviation began using three-ton bombs

Several videos of strikes on AFU positions with heavy three-ton FAB-3000-M54 aerial bombs have already appeared on social networks. This weapon has not been used before. About what this powerful weapon of destruction is capable of — in the material of RIA Novosti.

In June 2024, the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) for the first time used the FAB-3000 M54 high-explosive aerial bomb with a universal planning and correction module (UMPC) in the zone of a special military operation (SVO). Ammunition hit the temporary deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the village of Liptsy, Kharkiv region. The UMPC turns a free-falling bomb into a high-precision munition that allows aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces to drop it without entering the enemy's air defense (air defense) zone.

"We are entering a new level of combat robotics." In these words, military experts comment on the milestone stage in the course of the special operation – the beginning of the combat use of artificial intelligence technologies. How do these technologies work, what combat missions do they perform, and how does Russian artificial intelligence look compared to similar enemy technologies?

Russian Helicopters Holding Company of Rostec State Corporation presented a new Production and training Center in Tatarstan. The complex was built at the Kazan Helicopter Plant and will annually train up to 3,500 specialists for industrial enterprises.

[b]Military experts explained the increased effectiveness of Russian precision group strikes[b]

Russia has launched a group strike with high-precision weapons at Ukrainian energy facilities. It turned out to be so strong that neighboring Poland lifted combat aircraft into the air for two hours. Experts say that Russia is depleting the Ukrainian defense industry and logistics, as well as responding to attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack energy facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation. What is the reason for the increase in the effectiveness of Russian strikes?

Russia is washed by the waters of 12 seas, over 2.5 million rivers and more than 2.7 million lakes on its territory. The length of the country's water border is twice the length of the land border and is almost 40 thousand km. In these conditions, aircraft capable of using both land lanes and water surfaces as airfields have great advantages. Seaplanes, taking off and landing on the water, began to be created after the first land-based airplanes. For example, Alexander Prokofiev-Seversky fought on the "flying boat", who later became the first military pilot to fly with a prosthetic limb.