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Things to remember from Macron's July 14 interview

Emmanuel Macron, who won the election, decided to celebrate the French national holiday on July 14 (the anniversary of the French Revolution) with a big interview, Figaro reports. What does Macron promise to celebrate his second five-year term in power? First of all, the fight against Russia and the victims in the name of Ukraine. Readers are angry.

The draft US defense budget for a record amount for the country has been approved by the House of Representatives of Congress. The amount of military expenditures in case of final adoption of the project will amount to $ 840 billion. There has never been such a sum in the history of US military budgets.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress voted for an amendment to the draft military budget approved by it for the 2023 fiscal year, which prohibits the sale of new F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, Politico reported.

The new CEO of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, met with the leadership of the state corporation. He was appointed to the position of head of the corporation on Friday. This is reported by TASS.

Lockheed Martin has signed a contract worth $ 58.8 million for the development and supply of prototypes of a new electronic warfare and reconnaissance complex, which will be installed on Stryker combat vehicles and further used in infantry units of the US army.

The Turkish Defense Industry Department has announced a competition for the development of a turbofan engine. The promising power unit is designed for the fifth-generation TF-X fighter, Defense News reports. To say that I was very surprised is to say nothing at all.

Yuri Borisov, who replaced Dmitry Rogozin in this post, became the new CEO of Roscosmos from mid-July. Naked Science understands what inheritance (and in what condition) he got it.

As a result of a serious personnel reshuffle, the curator of the "defense industry" in the rank of Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov moved to the post of head of Roscosmos, and his place was taken by the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov. The new deputy head of government made a policy statement – it was decided to move from an absolutely market-based industrial policy to a policy of protecting technological sovereignty. How will this happen?

Dmitry Rogozin spent a little more than four years as the head of Roscosmos. Looking back now, it is clear that he managed to do a lot. In 2018, when he came to the position of head of the state corporation, the situation in the industry was not the best.

A full-scale hybrid war has been unleashed against Belarus, which is offensive in nature. This was stated by President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on July 12 at the Palace of Independence at a ceremony honoring graduates of military universities and senior officers. The Belarusian leader also regretfully pointed out that the policy of the West is bringing the world closer to the abyss of a big war in which there will be no winner.

Canada has decided to join its allies with plans for space and create a special space unit that will be responsible for operations on earth and space. As stated in the Ministry of Defense, the military appreciated the importance of space troops for the security of the country.

Kiev's hopes for massive supplies of Western military equipment under the so-called lend-lease organized by the Americans are slowly melting away along with plans for a counteroffensive that was to take place after the AFU was saturated with American weapons. As it turned out, Washington still has not decided on the final powers of the US president under this program.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on the provision of armed forces during counter-terrorism and other operations abroad.

A protocol between the Russian Federation and Belarus on extending the operation of the radio station of the Vileika naval strategic nuclear forces has been submitted to the State Duma for ratification, the document is available in the Duma database.

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.

The agency plans to recover more than 500 million rubles for non-compliance with the conditions for the development and production of microchips for satellites

The Kommersant newspaper found in the file of arbitration cases that on June 30, the Ministry of Industry and Trade filed a lawsuit for 512 million rubles against the Russian microelectronics design center of JSC SPC Elvis.

The series of strategic nuclear submarines of the Borey-A project and multipurpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M project can be continued, this option is currently being considered. This was reported by a source in the Russian defense industry.

In May, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the revived Moskvich plant would produce electric cars in the future. Plans to launch domestic production of electric cars were announced by KAMAZ, Kaliningrad Avtotor, and Lipetsk Motorinvest.

Ukraine received a shipment of American weapons worth $ 400 million — analysts doubted how long it would last

Washington will be able to continue to supply Kiev with weapons, but the US has already reached the limit on some systems, the Washington Times writes. Experts note that military assistance to Kiev may stop for other reasons: a disrupted supply system, reduced support for such a strategy in American society and corruption in Ukraine.

The results of observations of the course of the Ukrainian conflict confirm the validity of the modernization efforts of the US army

The "Lessons" that the US received during the observation of Russia's special operation in Ukraine showed that the US army chose the "right priorities" for its modernization, Defense News writes.