Cooperation news

On June 2, 2023, the official ceremony of handing over to the Senegalese Navy the lead small patrol ship Walo in a series of three units of the OPV58S project ordered by Senegal under the 2019 contract took place at the enterprise of the French Piriou shipbuilding group in Concarneau (France). The ship is due to arrive in Dakar in Senegal in July. All three ships are to become the largest patrol units of the Senegalese fleet.

After the West sends the F-16 to Ukraine, military operations will become more bloody, but this will not turn the tide of the conflict in favor of Ukraine, retired General Mitar Kovach said in an interview with Pechat. In addition, the armed confrontation in Europe may flare up with renewed vigor.

On June 13, 2023, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine totaling up to $ 325 million. Thus, the total amount of US military assistance officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 now amounts to more than $ 40 billion, and the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has reached $43 billion.

The APU failed at the very beginning of the counteroffensive. To turn the situation around, Ukraine desperately needs resources, but it lacks its own forces, and the West is hesitating with help. In such conditions, Kiev will most likely have to freeze the operation, the author of the article on "Guancha" believes.

Ukraine's membership in NATO is a bad idea, writes TAC. This step could undermine confidence in the security guarantees provided by the alliance, endanger the current members of the bloc and "fuel Russia's paranoia" by upsetting the geopolitical balance in Eastern Europe.

The armed formations of the Kiev regime are suffering heavy losses in Western armored vehicles, so the APU has already lost four of the six Leopard 2R delivered from Finland.

The United States expects to conclude a major contract with India for the supply of Predator MQ-9B SeaGuardian multipurpose unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Washington hopes that the Indians are already "ripe" for a deal that will bring the United States several billion dollars. This is reported by Reuters.

The largest-ever maneuvers of the NATO Air Forces on German soil, of course, were not planned as a "signal to Russia" and a reaction to the Ukrainian events, writes WirtschaftsWoche. They were not planned, but they became. So Chancellor Scholz did not want to send tanks with black crosses to the fields of Ukraine. I didn't want to, but I sent it. And he went on maneuvers.

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has announced that it has reached an agreement with the Norwegian Defense Procurement Agency (NDMA) to coordinate the specification of 54 new Leopard-2 MBT.

Ukrainian troops lost most of the M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles transferred to the United States and thrown into battle during the AFU counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye direction. Egyptian analyst Ahmed Adel writes about this in the InfoBRICS publication.

Alexey Rakhmanov, General Director of USC, spoke about the situation in the shipbuilding industry, how the United Shipbuilding Corporation copes with new challenges, the results of the corporation's work in 2022, as well as plans for the construction and delivery of ships, necessary state support measures and prospects for international cooperation in an interview with Interfax on the eve of SPIEF-2023..

On June 7, Japan adopted a law on the support of the production and export of PVN, aimed at overcoming negative trends in the national defense industry, which seeks to expand its capabilities to compete in this area with Western manufacturers.

The German government intends to improve the country's air defense system by acquiring the Israeli Arrow 3 air defense system, which is allegedly capable of effectively fighting nuclear missiles.

The Polish press drew attention to numerous shots that recorded the defeat of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the minefields placed by the soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Observers are forced to admit that "it is possible to partially stop the Ukrainian offensive." At the same time, it is pointed out that in the Polish army there are practically no modern means of setting barriers, similar to the Russian engineering system of remote mining (ISDM) "Agriculture".

According to Indonesian and Israeli resources, Indonesia eventually signed a contract for the purchase of 12 French-made Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters withdrawn from the Qatar Air Force (nine single-seat Mirage 2000-5EDA and three two-seat Mirage 2000-5DDA).

Russia does not abandon plans to create an entire line of civil aircraft of completely domestic production. A regional SSJ-100 New is on the way, followed by the newest medium–haul MS-21, and in the longer term, Russia will have its own long-haul liner. Why do we need such a car and when will it appear?

The Chinese state-owned multi-profile holding NORINCO is actively promoting weapons systems of its own design to foreign markets.

A ceremony of the official transfer of the first OPV-58S (Offshore Patrol Vessel) class patrol ship, "Walo", to the command of the Senegalese Navy took place at the enterprise of the French company Piriou in Brittany.

The heavy losses of Western armored vehicles suffered by the AFU during the counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye direction will be compensated by new supplies. The United States is ready to transfer another batch of Bradley infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. This is reported by the American press with reference to sources in the Pentagon.

The United States and Australia continue to discuss the issue of supplying 41 F/A-18A/B Hornet fighter-bombers, which have been decommissioned by the Australian Air Force, at the request of Ukraine.