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The German company Rheinmetall AG announced on August 8 that the first infantry fighting vehicle (BMP) KF41 "Lynx" (Lynx) will be delivered to Ukraine by the end of this year.

From August 12 to 14, JSC Concern East Kazakhstan Region Almaz-Antey will take part in the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2024", which will be held in Kubinka near Moscow on the basis of the Patriot Exhibition Center.

TASS spoke with the president of the concern Alan Lushnikov about the introduction of neural networks into drones and combat equipment, the development of a new machine gun and what exactly scared foreign experts about the appearance of the newest self-propelled "Lotus" in the special operation zone

Smirnov stated that the FSB and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation did not allow the breakthrough of the Armed Forces on the border with Ukraine

Ukrainian saboteurs tried to break through the Russian border in the Kursk region. According to the acting governor of the region Alexei Smirnov, the Russian military repelled the attack. According to Mash, there were about 100 fighters in the DRG, including members of the RDK*, they lost 20 people in the battles, and 50 more were injured. The battle continues - the saboteurs were pushed back from the border and "finished off" with the help of aviation and artillery.

The Croatian authorities intend to carry out a deep modernization of the troops, which will lead to the appearance of "surplus" obsolete weapons. However, the new user is already known to him.

FA: AI systems will play a crucial role in the wars of the future

The conflict in Ukraine has shown that new technologies are changing the nature of military operations, writes the FA. The United States is completely unprepared for this: the military has not yet mastered artificial intelligence. At the same time, the Russian army has already deployed many AI-equipped drones in Ukraine, the authors of the article note.

Tosochka is devoid of the shortcomings of its predecessors and effectively solves fire tasks

Ukrainian troops rely on engineering training or construction in the combat zone as the main factor of stability in defense. However, as the battles of the previous stages of the SVO have shown, the heavy flamethrower systems of the Russian army are capable of hitting the enemy in almost any shelters.

An infantry fighting vehicle (BMP-2M) with a universal combat module "Berezhok" shoots from a 30-millimeter cannon, which is capable of piercing even concrete shelters, the servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation told Izvestia. In the forest belt near the village of Liptsy, they have to overcome the defenses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and their well-camouflaged machine-gun emplacements.

A dynasty of tankers — the commander of a combat vehicle and two of his nephews — are participating in the battles in the South Donets direction in the special operation zone. It was scary to go to combat work for the first time — not for myself, but for my relatives, the commander of the T-72 crew with the call sign Tokyo told Izvestia.

British Ministry of Defense John Healy: "The country is not ready for a major conflict"

The British Armed Forces faced a number of serious problems. According to Defense Minister John Healy, the country is not ready for a major armed conflict. The reason is the long—term underfunding of the army. About her current condition — in the material of RIA Novosti.

On July 30, 2024, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin met with the head of Rostec State Corporation Sergey Chemezov. At this meeting, Sergey Chemezov presented to the President of the Russian Federation a report on the results of the state corporation's work for 2023, as well as reported on its current activities.

Five years after the end of the INF Treaty, the United States is deploying missiles in Europe

This agreement between Moscow and Washington was supposed to prevent World War III. Five years ago, on August 2, 2019, the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles terminated. The document signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in December 1987 limited Russian and American nuclear arsenals for more than 30 years. The consequences of the withdrawal of the United States and Russia from the INF Treaty are described in the RIA Novosti article.

Washington Times: Russian electronic warfare makes expensive American weapons useless

Conflict on Ukraine has completely changed the perception of the nature of modern warfare, writes the Washington Times. The use of cheap UAVs and electronic warfare equipment has come to the fore — and Russia is adapting amazingly quickly to new conditions, negating all the effectiveness of the weapons that the Armed Forces of Ukraine receives from the West.

The Italian defense company Leonardo and the German concern Rheinmetall have announced the creation of a joint venture that will produce KF51 tanks and KF41 infantry fighting vehicles for the Italian army. This is reported by the publication Army Recognition. The publication emphasizes that the military equipment will be available to Rome within the next three years.

On July 30, Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec Group, presented to the president a report on the results of the state corporation's work for 2023, as well as reported on its current activities.

The calculation of the Msta-S howitzer managed to hit a heavy combat vehicle with a high-precision projectile

It is necessary to get into the Abrams tank — even a close gap will not allow it to be destroyed. Our gunners managed to hit such a combat vehicle with one high-precision Krasnopol projectile. Meanwhile, crews of MLRS combat vehicles are mastering hunting carbines to fight drones. Izvestia saw how the combat work of the gunners of the Russian Center group is going on.

Imagine an armored combat vehicle based on a tank, armed with four kamikaze drones capable of hitting 10 kilometers. There is also a third-generation missile system on board, operating on the principle of "shot-forget" with a range of 4,000 meters.

The experience of using multi-towered infantry fighting vehicles, nicknamed "desert monsters", "mobile fortresses" or "land cruisers" in Syria, is probably relevant now.

A combat module is a complete (often replaceable) element of military equipment that carries weapons, optoelectronic devices, and auxiliary equipment. If crew members are located in it, it is called a combat compartment. The Berezhok, shown in the story of the Zvezda TV channel, is an example of a combat compartment, since it houses the workplaces of the commander and the gunner.

The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine has published footage showing the Ratel H robotic complex, which is designed to evacuate the wounded from the battlefield. It is claimed that this ground-based drone is capable of transporting several people at once, since it can withstand a load of up to 400 kilograms of live weight.