Cooperation news

The US State Department has approved the potential supply of F-35 fighter jets to Germany as part of the Foreign Military Sales program, as well as ammunition and related equipment.

According to information published on the website of the German newspaper Welt on July 27, the German authorities approved the sale to Ukraine of 100 units of 155-mm self-propelled howitzers PzH-2000 in the amount of 1.7 billion. euro.

As reported, the Chilean Air Force received two previously acquired long-range radar detection aircraft (AWACS) and American-made Boeing E-3D Sentry (British designation Sentry AEW), which were withdrawn from the Royal British Air Force.1). The agreement on the purchase of these aircraft was concluded by Chile in early 2022.

The Indian company HAL has signed a contract worth over $ 100 million. with the American Honeywell for the supply of 88 TPE331-12B engines for HTT-40 basic training vehicle (Hindustan Turbo Trainer-40).

The authorities of Northern Macedonia handed over T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which were subject to planned disposal. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the country.

What is the Phoenix Ghost drone that will be used in Ukraine?

Washington will provide Kiev with 500 drones as part of an aid package, The Jerusalem Post reports. It is emphasized that they were developed specifically for Ukraine and are capable of being in the air for up to six hours.

North Macedonia handed over to Ukraine T-72 tanks previously supplied by Russia

North Macedonia has handed over to Ukraine T-72 tanks supplied by Russia in 2000 during the conflict with Albanian separatists. A convoy of vehicles is already on its way to Ukraine.

Borisov said that the exit from the ISS project could take up to two years

The main modules of the International Space Station (ISS) have exceeded their life several times. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov on Friday.

On August 2, the Electron rocket will launch from New Zealand into orbit with a secret mini-satellite of the US National Directorate of Military Space Intelligence NROL-199, the Rocket Lab carrier development company said.

At the moment, the volume of US military assistance provided to Kiev is $8.2 billion

The United States Administration will soon announce another package of military assistance to Ukraine. This was announced on Friday at a briefing for journalists by the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council (NSC) of the White House, John Kirby.

Gina Raimondo noted that "the reserves that Russia has created in preparation" for the special operation continue to decrease

US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Friday that the restrictions imposed by the US administration will have an increasingly "destructive impact" on Russia.

German Defense Minister Kristina Lambrecht sent a letter to the head of the Polish military department, Mariusz Blaszczak, in which she dwells on the issue of supplying Warsaw with military equipment instead of the one that was transferred to Ukraine. Lambrecht offers Warsaw to jointly purchase new Leopard tanks, or transfer a large number of old Leopard tanks or Marder infantry fighting vehicles.

According to Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, the government should deal with the situation in September and October

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, chairman of the Bundestag (German Parliament) Defense Committee, believes that the office of the Federal Chancellor of Germany is slowing down the supply of weapons to Ukraine. She expressed this opinion in an interview published on Saturday with the Bayern media group ("Bayern").

Units of the British, American and Finnish armies are conducting exercises in Finland, while Helsinki continues preparations for joining NATO.

It seems that London and Tokyo have decided to join forces to jointly create a new sixth-generation combat aircraft. Britain and Japan are developing an invisible fighter that will "put the American F-35 behind the belt".

The United States continues to escalate the situation around military support for Taiwan, despite Beijing's increasingly harsh warnings about non-interference in China's internal affairs. Fox News reported that representatives of the Republican Party plan to submit to the US Congress a bill on the supply of weapons to Taiwan under the lend-lease program. The plan of military assistance to Taipei was developed by Republican senators Michelle Steele and Marsha Blackburn, taking as a basis the program of US support for allies in World War II.

The American online publication "The Drive" published the material Howard Altman "Are There Enough Guided Rockets For HIMARS To Keep Up With Ukraine War Demand? Ukraine is burning through guided artillery rockets to great effect, but even with tens of thousands stockpiled, the U.S. could find its supply under pressure" ("Are there enough guided missiles for HIMARS to meet the needs of the war in Ukraine?

The Indian Navy reported that on July 28, 2022, the first two American ship-based multipurpose Sikorsky (Lockheed Martin) MN-60R Sea Hawk helicopters, out of 24 units ordered by India, were delivered by flight from the United States to the Garuda Indian Naval Aviation base near Cochin. The helicopters have Indian tail numbers IN754 and IN755.

Russia may use Iranian drones to destroy American multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) HIMARS, which have been used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in recent weeks. Breaking Defense writes about this.

Shock therapy

On the free rostrum of "Agoravox", a little-known, but bold in his conclusions, the author asks obvious questions about the current situation in Ukraine. The trouble is not only the Western MLRS supplied to the country. Ukraine is also being destroyed by Western money flowing into it: it settles with the worst people in the country.