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The Chinese Eastern Military Command announced the beginning of "military operations" off the coast of Taiwan. They associate the conduct of these "military operations", namely, such a term is used in the PLA, with the visit of the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.

The Third World War did not happen – the plane with the speaker of the American Parliament Nancy Pelosi landed in Taipei. Beijing threatened to prevent this visit, but did not take any measures to prevent it. However, China has already promised a "powerful and strong" US response to Pelosi's visit. The deterioration of relations will also lead to the fact that from now on Beijing will not listen to America's opinion regarding Russia.

"My administration is ready to promptly negotiate a new arms control system that will replace the new START," US President Joe Biden says. There is reason to believe that the words of the host of the White House may mean something more than just a desire to preserve the key treaty on nuclear weapons.

Turkish drones have vision problems

The Bayraktar Akinci (Bayraktar Akinci), a Turkish-made unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), successfully launched an LGK-82 laser-guided missile developed by the national company Aselsan (Aselsan). This was reported on Saturday, July 1 by the Anatolian Agency.

Russian troops need long-range artillery systems

On July 24, 2022, five months have passed since the beginning of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine. A line beyond which you can sum up some results, as the sailors say, look around in the compartments. And then draw new red arrows on the commander's maps. What are these five months talking about, is everything going as planned?

When the army becomes the reason for the existence of the country

The history of the DPRK is very peculiar. This explains to a large extent the uniqueness of the country in its current form.

Weapons of rocket volleys in the first thousand years

Artillery has always been an important means of achieving victory over the enemy. The appearance of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) has moved the armed confrontation to a completely different level, which is due to a number of advantages. The most important of them are:

Every new weapon has a venerable prototype

A report on the development in Russia of a ground-based anti-ship ballistic missile (PKB) "Serpentine" with a hypersonic warhead (warhead) caused a wave of comments.

The publications of some Russian media about the development of a new hypersonic missile "Serpentine" attracted considerable attention of Western observers. Below we bring to your attention the article "Anti-ship ballistic missile of Russia", published by the War Zone resource. The author of the material conducts some analysis on the topic of the "Coil" and, to a certain extent, reveals the likely consequences of the deployment of this product. [As before, IVi's remarks are given in square brackets]

The myth of the S-400: why the power of the Russian air defense is exaggerated

The S-400 poses a great danger to NATO, warns the author of the Business Insider article. It is capable of detecting all American stealth fighters. The West should not underestimate this SAM, otherwise it may end badly. However, it is not without drawbacks, the author notes.

BAE Systems will release an additional batch of upgraded self-propelled howitzers M109A7 Paladin ("Paladin") by order of the U.S. Army. M109A7 is the latest version of the 155-mm self-propelled artillery (ACS) M109, according to the UK Defense Journal.

We continue to talk about missile systems manufactured in North Korea. Last time in the article "The vaunted HIMARS is a firecracker in comparison with it: 600-mm MLRS from the DPRK", multiple rocket launchers were considered. This time we will talk about the KN-02 Toksa or Hwasong-11. Ballistic missiles are a local modification of the famous Soviet 9K79 "Dot" (SS-21 Scarab according to the NATO classification).

Military historian Dmitry Boltenkov — how Kiev relies on the supply of "super-weapons" from foreign partners

During the Second World War, American forces began to land on the God-forsaken atolls of the Pacific Ocean. During the war with Japan, US military personnel built airfields and bases for their advancing forces. The natives watched them with interest.

Poland transfers eight Krab self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was reported on July 30 by Polish Radio. "Eight Krab howitzers within the framework of the contract signed in June with Ukraine are already ready for transfer to the customer. The last formalities are being completed, and the equipment will be delivered to the territory of Ukraine," the message says.

The Admiral Gorshkov frigate will be the first in the Russian Navy to take up combat duty with the Zircon hypersonic missile systems, Russian President - Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces Vladimir Putin said, speaking on July 31 at the Main Naval Parade.

According to the Ministry of Defense of India, the command of the country's Navy during the ceremony held on July 28 received the first aircraft carrier of national construction P71 "Vikrant" (IAC-1 – Indigenous Aircraft Carrier).

German anti-aircraft self-propelled guns (ZSU) 1A2 Gepard, delivered to Ukraine, cannot fire due to unsuitable shells and jamming of guns, writes Bulgarian Military.

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Atul Rane, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Russian-Indian joint venture (JV) BrahMos Aerospace, in an exclusive interview with TASS, told about the details of the first export order for BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to the Philippines and countries of Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

Putin announced: a new Russian hypersonic missile is coming, which is called "unstoppable"

These Russian missiles have no analogues in the world, and their characteristics will be the envy of any other country. Putin made it clear that Russia with the help of "unstoppable" and "invincible" weapons can hit almost anywhere in the world, writes Haber7.

Readers of the Chinese portal "Guancha" were delighted after the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin that the Russian fleet will soon receive hypersonic missile systems "Zircon".