Cooperation news

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.

According to Douglas McGregor, the department, in turn, uses the funds to pay for the services of private companies producing military equipment under contracts with the US Department of Defense.

According to Alexis Tsipras, the Greeks should be concerned about the foreign policy pursued by the current government of the country under the leadership of Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, by sending weapons to Ukraine, is actually dragging the country into hostilities and destroying Greek-Russian relations that have been built with such difficulty for decades.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have abandoned a plan to send two landers to the surface of Mars as part of a joint program to deliver samples of Martian soil to Earth in 2033, now only one lander will go to the Red Planet, the US Space Agency reported on Wednesday..

NATO is a luxury item not needed by the US

For many decades, America has been convinced of the "colossal value" of NATO. But the time of the alliance has passed, writes FP. According to the author, Europe has settled well behind the US shield, and now it's time for her to worry for her own safety.

According to the Polish Ministry of Defense Armaments Agency, framework agreements related to the acquisition of tanks, tracked self-propelled howitzers and light combat aircraft in the Republic of Korea were signed in Warsaw on July 27.

According to Philippine officials, the government has decided to cancel the purchase of 16 Russian military transport helicopters Mi-17 for fear of falling under sanctions from the United States.

Against the background of thousands of Korean K2s in Poland, most of the Russian armored units will be hopelessly outdated

Poland signs a deal with South Korea for the supply of the latest K2 tanks, writes MWM. This will cause Russia a lot of problems, the author of the article notes. Its armored units are ill-equipped to counter a large number of K2s in the event of a war with NATO or a limited Polish intervention in Ukraine.

The first launchers of the Chinese FK-3 anti-aircraft missile systems (the export designation of the Hongqi 22 air defense system) have already been deployed in the vicinity of the Serbian capital. This is reported by the Serbian press. However, it will be possible to fully equip the missile batteries only after the remaining components arrive in the country. This will happen in the fall of 2022.