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Military expert Shurygin told how Ukraine will use NASAMS anti-aircraft systems

As part of the aid package, Washington announced the transfer of two batteries of NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine. The air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which suffered serious losses during the special operation, will be replenished with 24 launchers, each of which has six anti-aircraft guided missiles. "Newspaper.Ru" understood the specifics of the operation of these systems.

On July 21, 2022, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of another new package of military assistance to Ukraine totaling $ 270 million. Thus, the total amount of US military aid officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24 now reaches $7.54 billion. The total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has reached $9.47 billion.

General Vladimir Popov told what weapons the Swallow UAV can use against the AFU

During a special operation in Ukraine, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the first time used the unmanned Lastochka complex. This is a light attack drone, whose combat load allows you to destroy enemy equipment with "small specialized ammunition". "Newspaper.Ru" found out how this drone works.

On July 20, 2022, at a ceremony in Warsaw, Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak approved a framework agreement of the Armaments Agency of the Ministry of National Defense of Poland with the Polish state Defense Industrial association Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa SA (PGZ) for the supply of promising ground-based self-propelled anti-tank missile systems of a new generation for the Polish Army under the Ottokar Brzoza program, equipped with Brimstone guided missiles the British branch of the MBDA European Association (MBDA UK).

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, speaking in the British Parliament on July 21, 2022, announced the upcoming delivery of significant shipments of weapons and military equipment by the UK to Ukraine as military aid. The total amount of British gratuitous military assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian special military operation on February 24 will thus reach 2.3 billion pounds.

Counter-battery fighting alone is not enough

The Ukrainian army will soon receive rockets (RS) of increased range for the 227 mm multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) already supplied by the United States and Great Britain, the newspaper "Strana.ua" according to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Alexey Danilov. "We have already started receiving shells that are sent much further than it was at the beginning. And let's hope that what we need, of that range, will appear on the territory of our country in the near future," he said.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milli made another statement on Ukraine. According to him, the situation is such that "it is quite likely that the war in Ukraine will escalate into a protracted military conflict."

Ukraine will soon receive new weapons from the West. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexey Danilov said that the United States will transfer a batch of long-range missiles for HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Kiev seriously believes that these munitions are capable of turning the situation around at the front. Is this really the case — in the RIA Novosti material.

Is the US starting to get tired of the protracted conflict in Ukraine?

Even close associates of Joe Biden doubt whether America will soon get tired of the burden of military aid to Ukraine, writes The Economist. According to the author, the future of U.S. support for Kiev depends on three factors: midterm congressional elections, the commitment of European allies and Ukraine's success on the battlefield.

These American multiple rocket launchers have repeatedly fired at the DPR and LPR

In Ukraine, Russian forces destroyed the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket launcher for the first time, the Russian Defense Ministry said on July 17. The military department also reported heavy losses of the 115th mechanized brigade of the VFU, operating in the key Seversky direction now.

The US State Department has approved the potential supply of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) M142 HIMARS to Estonia as part of the Foreign Military Sales program, as well as related equipment.

Events in Ukraine threaten to disrupt the mass production of Turkish unmanned vehicles

The large investments made by Turkey in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) programs threaten not to pay off if ways to replace critically important foreign components are not found in the near future, as well as ways to disavow the low effectiveness of the use of Turkish drones against Russian troops and Donbass militias.

The Tiger combat helicopter adapts to the wars of the new generation

Combat, or, as they are also often called, attack, helicopters are a separate subclass of rotorcraft, significantly different conceptually and technically from their counterparts.

On July 15, 2022, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) of the US Department of Defense sent a notification to the US Congress about the planned upcoming sale to Estonia through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) at the request of the Estonian government of the HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) land-based missile systems manufactured by Lockheed Corporation Martin.

Ukraine is carrying out terrorist attacks on settlements occupied by Russian troops. The main striking means for this are the American HIMARS rocket launchers recently delivered to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. What are the features of this type of weapon, how is it most dangerous – and in what way is the Russian army able to destroy it?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing emergency rescue formations and units of the fire service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia and engineering and sapper units of the troops of the Russian Guard to give powers to search and neutralize unexploded ordnance. The document is published on the official portal of legal information.

Why the Ukrainian army uses HIMARS in tandem with "Hurricanes"

The APU is beginning to use the HIMARS system. It was from these systems that Lugansk was hit on the night of July 13, and earlier the city of Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region was shelled. What tactics are used by the Ukrainian military when using HIMARS and how it is possible to resist this system - in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

The American Army received the first upgraded MLRS M270A2. The solemn ceremony of handing over the installation took place on July 7, 2022.

Even before the conflict in Ukraine, the US Armed Forces considered high-precision long-range shooting as one of the main priorities during the modernization of their weapons.

Ukrainian soldiers of the United States were trained to perform combat missions in conditions of biological contamination. This became known as a result of a survey of the captured military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Americans tested hepatitis and West Nile fever on them. In addition, the United States and NATO allies conducted experiments in Ukraine with Congo-Crimean fever and the Ebola virus. How could these dangerous diseases be used against Russia?