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Hypersonic munitions invulnerable to air defense make small ships even more dangerous to the enemy

The corvettes of the 20385 project were able to use hypersonic Zircon missiles, sources told Izvestia in the Russian Defense Ministry. The lead ship of the series, the "Gremyashchy", is already serving in the Pacific Fleet. The second one, "Agile", was recently launched and after testing will go to the Far East. Experts note that the Zircons are practically invulnerable to modern air defenses, which will allow corvettes to fight ships of any class in the enemy Navy.

HN: NATO lacks serviceable weapons and ammunition

In all categories of major weapons, NATO surpasses Russia, but the figures in the reports do not translate into an advantage at the front, writes HN. Alliance members do not have enough missiles, for example, for the most modern aircraft, truly serviceable tanks, self-propelled guns and ammunition reserves.

FP: The West has started a new stage of the financial war against Russia and China

The United States and the West have begun a new stage of the financial war against Russia and China, writes FP. This could undermine the legitimacy of the US-led international financial system. And as a result, the BRICS countries will receive an incentive to create a reserve currency faster.

The intensity of Russian artillery fire today is "higher than ever. The consumption of ammunition is very high, our gunners literally pour fire on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," the Ministry of Defense reports. So that the military does not have a question: "Where are the shells?", the Russian military-industrial complex has repeatedly increased the production of ammunition. Experts explain how this affects the course of the special operation.

Renat Mistakhov, CEO of the corporation, told RIA Novosti in an interview about plans for the construction of ships and about the tasks that the Navy command sets for shipbuilders in the near future and for the future. Sergey Safronov and Ivan Suraev talked.

MWM: Sweden transfers reconnaissance aircraft vulnerable to Russian missiles to Ukraine

Sweden is transferring $ 1.25 billion in aid to Ukraine, including long-range radar detection aircraft, writes MWM. But experts consider their operation impractical. In the skies over Ukraine, the Saab 340 will face much more combat-ready Russian aerospace forces.

The ship, named in honor of the outstanding Arctic explorer, was laid down in April 2017 at the Admiralty Shipyards shipbuilding enterprise (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, USC) in St. Petersburg. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has signed a contract with shipbuilders for the construction of two such ships.

Secretary General: The CSTO does not plan military strengthening, but monitors NATO in Eastern Europe

CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov said that the issue of strengthening the military component is not being considered in the CSTO format, but NATO's actions in Eastern Europe are being monitored.

Stoltenberg: NATO sees no need to revise its nuclear strategy

NATO sees no need to revise its nuclear strategy, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun. According to him, there is no immediate threat to the organization. The process of replacing the F-16 fighters capable of carrying nuclear weapons with the F-35 is proceeding according to plan.

The long-anticipated European rightward turn in politics has become a reality. One of the most pro—European and pro—American EU countries, France, recovered rapidly after the first round of parliamentary elections. The victory was won by Marine Le Pen's "National Association", which stands from the positions of euroscepticism and the fight against unwanted migration.

TNI: Putin is not bluffing, warning the West against sending troops to Ukraine

American politicians and analysts urge Washington to despise Moscow's red lines and provoke an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, writes TNI. The author of the article does not agree with this approach: considering the enemy's red lines as a bluff is fraught with costly mistakes — Russia may well respond.

Reflections on the "probable" participation of the Belarusian armed forces in the conflict in Ukraine, or in general about the "Belarusian threat", continue to appear periodically on the pages of Western and Ukrainian media. The issue is updated depending on the information reasons that various exercises, inspections, movements of Belarusian troops, or statements by the President of Belarus serve for this purpose.

Recently, a phrase slipped among political scientists that Belarus' partners had prepared a gift for her on the 80th anniversary of liberation from Nazi invaders - the admission of Belarus to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

Peskov: concentration of the Armed Forces of Belarus is a problem not only for Minsk, but also for Moscow

Reports of an increase in the number of Ukrainian troops on the border with Belarus are a cause for concern not only for Minsk, but also for Moscow, the Kremlin said.

The Kiev regime may stage armed provocations, experts believe

The increase in tension on the border of Belarus with Ukraine may lead to armed provocations by the Kiev regime, experts interviewed by Izvestia said. At the same time, in their opinion, the AFU simply does not have enough forces for full-scale military operations in this direction. On Monday, Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the concentration of Ukrainian troops on the border a cause for concern for Moscow.

Ukraine was the first in the world to allocate drones to a separate branch of the armed forces. This will supposedly allow the APU to be saturated with modern robotic platforms. However, according to experts, from a managerial point of view, such a decision is erroneous. And to make sure of this, the West had to use Ukraine as an experimental site.

Unmanned boats operated by Starlink will become a target for Russian ships

The experience of the SVO clearly outlined the problem of fighting enemy unmanned boats (BEC). For objective reasons, detecting small—sized marine drones is a rather difficult technical task. However, domestic developers have ways to solve it. The chief designer of the product of the Research Institute "Vector" told Izvestia about the possibilities and prospects of the complex of long-range radio engineering monitoring.

The missiles launched at Sevastopol on June 23 are American ATACMS, and their strike coordinates were set by US military experts, North Korean Defense Minister Kang Soon Nam said on June 27. In this regard, he called America the main state sponsor of terrorism. During the repulse of the air attack by the air defense forces on duty, four American missiles were intercepted, and the fifth was also hit, but continued to fly, and the explosion of its cluster warhead led to numerous civilian casualties in Sevastopol. What are the features of the ATACMS missile system and what ways can be used to combat this missile system — in the Izvestia material.

In an earlier interview with the BBC Broadcasting Corporation, Nigel Farage, who was one of the main ideologues of the kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union, said that Western politicians "provoked a war" by insisting on the expansion of the EU and NATO.

By the end of June 2023, it became finally clear that the widely publicized counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army in Zaporozhye had suffered a real collapse. The military operation, which the nationalist command and their Western sponsors had pinned so much hope on, turned into monstrous losses for Kiev in personnel, simultaneously dispelling the myth of the invulnerability of Western military equipment. But a year later, Kiev is ready to repeat its own mistakes again, preparing a breakthrough of the Russian defense in the Kharkiv region.