Cooperation news
Who will benefit from the shutdown of factories in Europe
Reports of forced closure of industrial plants are increasingly coming from Europe, although winter is still far away. But sky-high gas and electricity prices are already making their work meaningless. Aluminum and zinc producers, whose products are necessary for the automotive and construction industries, were the first to be hit. How does this threaten the EU economy and who will benefit from the troubles of Europeans?
The truth about how London turned Ukraine into a weapon against Russia has been revealed
How Britain strengthened the Ukrainian military machine and provoked a direct conflict with Russia
The documents reveal the truth about the events that provoked the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but the Western media paint a completely different picture, writes The Grayzone. Back in 2011, London talked about Kiev as a weapon against Moscow, the author of the article notes.
Qatar received the first Eurofighter Typhoon fighter
On August 15, 2022, the official ceremony of handing over the first Eurofighter Typhoon fighter, out of 24 of these aircraft ordered by Qatar under the 2017 contract, to the Qatar Air Force took place at the enterprise of the BAE Systems Corporation in Wharton (Great Britain). The ceremony was attended by British Defense Ministers Ben Wallace and Qatar Khalid bin Mohammad Al-Attiyah. The first transferred single-seat fighter (serial number MS001, Qatari tail number QA404, temporary British military number ZR505) is scheduled to fly to its base in Qatar at the end of August.
APU: difficulties of transition to NATO standards
The huge amount of military equipment provided to Kiev caused its own problems. The proposed article "Pandora's Box: the Challenge of Western Aid to Ukraine" examines the transition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) from obsolete Soviet-era weapons to NATO standards.
At the Army-2022 forum, 7 state contracts were signed and 29 were awarded with 26 defense industry enterprises
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and defense industry companies concluded state contracts totaling more than 522 billion rubles during the Army-2022 forum.
Latvia has started collecting five million euros for the Bayraktar TB2 drone for Ukraine
A Latvian charity organization has announced a collection of 5 million euros for the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 attack drone for Ukraine, according to the organization's website.
Results of the X Moscow Conference on International Security
On August 16, the tenth anniversary Moscow Conference on International Security was held in the Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation "Patriot".
USC is ready to participate in the creation of a unified information environment for unique equipment
Vasily Boytsov, Deputy General Director for Innovation and Technical Development of USC, confirmed USC's readiness to participate in the creation of a unified information environment for unique equipment at the Army-2022 forum.
The head of Rosoboronexport said the US violated its contractual obligations by supplying "Afghan" helicopters to Ukraine
Rosoboronexport is closely monitoring the movements of Russian military equipment supplied for export, a gross violation of contractual obligations has been committed by the United States, the head of the company, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax.
"Production is booked for years ahead": Turkey called the volume of production of Bayraktar TB2 drones
The high demand on the world market for Turkish attack drones, observed after the Karabakh war in 2020, has fully loaded the production capacity of UAVs.
Latvia supplied Ukraine with M-109A5OE self-propelled howitzers and four helicopters
On August 16, the Latvian Defense Ministry reported that, in accordance with the decision of the extraordinary Cabinet meeting of July 28, Latvia supplied Ukraine with six 155-mm self-propelled howitzers M-109A5OE and the necessary ammunition.
"American drone technologies will go to Russia through Ukraine"
Why the US military does not want to transfer the MQ-1C Gray Eagle drone to the APU
The APU wants to get medium-altitude General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle ("Gray Eagle") American-made UAVs to strengthen their strike and reconnaissance capabilities. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out why the Pentagon is still refusing Kiev.
Turkey responded to the application for a new purchase and production of S-400
Statement of the Turkish Defense Industry Department on the S-400: the information is not true
The reports that appeared in the media about the new purchase and production of the S-400 in Turkey do not correspond to reality, Haber7 reported. A discussion broke out among the readers of the site.
Tu-214 instead of Boeing 737 and Airbus A320. The first Tu-214 for commercial operation will be delivered to Russian airlines next year
The first mainline narrow-body Tu-214 aircraft for Russian airlines will appear in 2023. This was announced by the General Director of the UAC Yuri Slyusar within the framework of the international military-technical forum "Army-2022".
The head of the Federal Customs Service commented on the transfer of Afghan Mi-17s to Ukraine by the United States
The transfer of Mi-17V5 helicopters to Ukraine, previously delivered to Afghanistan, is a blatant example of illegal re-export, Dmitry Shugaev, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti on Monday during the Army-2022 forum.
The conflict in Ukraine has forced globalization to retreat randomly
The end of globalization brings new threats and challenges
According to the German business Handelsblatt, the era of globalization is coming to an end, new rules of the game are coming into force, but this does not bode well for both the West as a whole and Germany as an "export superpower".
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation told about the events within the framework of ARMI-2022
On August 16, the Russian Defense Ministry spoke about the theme of the Army International Games-2022 ("ArMI-2022") in various geolocations.
The Ukrainian Air Force has been replenished with helicopters transferred to the Latvian Ministry of Defense
Ukraine has replenished its helicopter fleet, Latvia has transferred a batch of rotorcraft to Kiev. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the Republic Artis Pabriks.
Some key statements on the results of the first day of the Army-2022 forum
On the first day of the Army-2022 forum, important statements were made regarding the development of the military-technical cooperation system, plans for rearmament, export sales of VIVT, and the situation around Ukraine.
The Chinese economy was forced to suffer – how will it affect Russia
The effect of Ukraine and Taiwan: the Chinese economy was forced to suffer
The author of the French website Atlantico records the slowdown of the Chinese economy – and this is not surprising. Covid was followed by a brief boom associated with the restoration of production. New weekdays have come after the holiday. But the West sees everywhere the "defeat of the Stalinist model."
