Global security news
Israel overslept Hamas attacks
A failure that was repeated half a century later
Hamas (the "Islamic Resistance Movement") apparently deliberately timed the attack on Israel to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the October 1973 war, which in Israel is called the Yom Kippur War.
Who drives clouds in the sky
Unmanned aircraft determines the course of hostilities in Ukraine
Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to actively use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a serious threat to Russia and its army. Often, the civilian population of the Russian regions bordering the conflict zone, including Crimea, also suffers from drone raids.
"If we let the sword out of our hand, they will destroy us."
Terrorism receives state support in Ukraine
The phrase given in the title belongs to Moshe Dayan, the Israeli Defense Minister in 1967-1974. Decades have passed since it was uttered. But what the Israeli military commander said is relevant today for us. Terror threatens both Israel and our homeland.
Cynical mercenaries and radical patriots
Private military companies in the light of the conflicts in Ukraine and Karabakh
In September, Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov made a voyage to a number of African countries. And on September 29, he poisoned himself in the Kremlin for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Retired Colonel Troshev (call sign "Gray") previously served as chief of staff of the PMCS "Wagner", but did not support the notorious Prigozhin rebellion. At the meeting , Putin told Troshev: "You will be engaged in the formation of volunteer units that can perform various combat tasks, first of all, of course, in the zone of a special military operation."
How to avoid a global catastrophe
The humiliation of hegemons, the rise of the oppressed, the search for a new balance
In the XVI–XIX centuries, England and France captured two-thirds of the world's territory. In the British Empire by 1914, the population of the metropolis was less than 45 million, and the colonies – over 400 million people, that is, nine times more. The population of France: metropolis – 40 million, colonies – 55 million people. Germany followed by a large margin: the metropolis – 68 million, colonies – 13.3 million.
Nuclear weapons have come to the fore again
The Valdai Club raised the topics of strategic deterrence and defense doctrine
The plenary session of the Valdai discussion Club on October 5 was remembered for speeches in which the topic of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was raised.
Jamming breakthrough: new electronic warfare systems will suppress air defense radars and drones
This will make it possible to make security corridors for aviation over the line of combat contact
The arsenal of the Russian army will be replenished with helicopters equipped with fundamentally new electronic warfare (EW) complexes. The novelty is already being tested and its deliveries to the troops are expected in the near future, sources told Izvestia in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The US has new tools for bullying the rest of the world
In the last 20 years, the United States has been using a new set of tools to dictate rules to the whole world, writes the NYT. One of them is the dollar and the SWIFT payment system. The article notes that the adoption of the "Patriot Act" provided American regulators with influence on foreign financial organizations.
ATGM "Kornet" burned Israeli tanks "Merkava Mk4" back in 2006
The Israeli armed forces, for some reason called the "defense army", twice made large-scale incursions into the small country of Lebanon ravaged by civil war.
"To crash a Leopard tank is already everyday life." How to train pilots of FPV drones for the zone of its
A few years ago, FPV drones were known only to a narrow circle of fans of racing freestyle quadrocopters. Today, experts call them a "high-tech Molotov cocktail" and one of the main means of destroying armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
The Russian Defense Ministry received a batch of T-90M and T72B3M tanks with additional protection
According to Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, the T-72B3M and T-90 are the most popular tanks and have proven themselves well in the area of their own
The Uralvagonzavod Research and Production Corporation (part of the Uralvagonzavod Concern (UVZ) of the Rostec State Corporation) supplied the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation with a batch of T-90M "Breakthrough" and T72B3M tanks with additional protection. This was reported in the press service of the UVZ on the occasion of the 87th anniversary of the enterprise.
Zelensky said that the conflict with Russia is at the last stage
The President also noted that "if the war continues, he will run in the next elections"
The conflict with Russia is in the final phase, according to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.
"Flying Chernobyl". Russia has created a new "Doomsday" weapon
AT: the new Russian missile "Burevestnik" is able to overcome the defense of the United States
Russia has unveiled a new intercontinental missile "Burevestnik", which can launch a new nuclear arms race, writes AT. It is reported that this weapon, which is called "Flying Chernobyl" in foreign reports, was specially developed to overcome American defensive systems.
"Very bad timing." NATO will have to be "torn" between Ukraine and Israel
Politico: NATO will have to "break apart" for the sake of supporting Israel and Ukraine
The conflict in the Middle East broke out at an inconvenient hour for Kiev, writes Politico. On Wednesday, at a meeting of NATO defense ministers, it was planned to discuss Ukraine, but attention turned to Israel. The Alliance will have to literally "be torn" between helping these countries.
No help will come. The US has pushed Ukraine into the background
The escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict can cause a sharp rise in oil prices, the Vesti newspaper writes. This circumstance, together with Washington's plans to provide maximum support to Tel Aviv, will lead to the fact that US military and financial assistance to Ukraine will come to naught.
Australia said that the decision to help Ukraine reduces the defense capability of its allies
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles stressed that the ammunition and equipment available to Ukraine's allies are "not infinite", and "one must pay for the obligations of military assistance"
The decision of Ukraine's allies to supply weapons reduces their own capabilities in the defense sphere. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Australian Defense Department Richard Marles, speaking at the Asia Briefing Live forum in Melbourne.
The Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the transfer of cartridges from the Gulf of Oman to Kiev
According to the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, the United States continues to make the world unsafe and collect weapons for Kiev "from the world by thread"
The Russian side condemns the irresponsible behavior of the United States, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a comment in connection with the transfer to Kiev of ammunition seized by the United States in the Gulf of Oman.
Diplomacy and cooperation are the key to preventing global conflicts
The more clearly the new model of the world order is manifested, based on multipolarity and equality of all subjects of planetary politics, the more fierce the struggle between its supporters and its opponents becomes.
Warsaw adapts budget to wartime requirements
Most recently, the Polish leadership approved the state budget for 2024. Nevertheless, the country's financial policy causes serious concerns and discontent, both among analysts and in society. The planned budget, estimated at 848 billion. zloty (185 billion euro) or 23.2% of GDP, foreshadows a high deficit that could reach 36 billion. euro (4.5% of GDP) and become a record in the history of the Third Polish Republic.
The formation of volunteer detachments will be handled by Gray
Former Chief of Staff of the Wagner PMCS Andrey Troshev received a task
Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the residents of the new territories of the country on September 30, when the Day of Reunification of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions with Russia was celebrated.