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The space industry, which emerged at the junction of rocket engineering and aviation, has historically been closely linked with the aircraft industry. The genius of theoretical cosmonautics Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, in parallel with the creation of the theory of rocket flight, published in 1903, developed aeronautical devices.

The APU also used NATO weapons, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire regime said

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on Tuesday shelled the center of Donetsk with American MLRS HIMARS and NATO weapons. This was reported in the representation of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in the JCCC.

Since 2011, Vietnam and Israel have been experiencing increasing cooperation in the defense sector. According to expert estimates, to date, the value of military-industrial complex transactions between Hanoi and Israel has amounted to $1.5 billion. In particular, an Israeli businessman founded a $100 million factory in Vietnam to assemble Tavor assault rifles.

About 50 people and 10 pieces of equipment were involved in the exercises

Calculations of the Bastion complexes of the coastal missile unit of the Baltic naval base of the Baltic Fleet, as part of a planned exercise, have worked out tactics for launching missile strikes against a detachment of warships of a conditional enemy in the sea area off the Kaliningrad coast, the press service of the fleet reported on Tuesday.

Ukraine will receive the German IRIS-T SL medium-range anti-aircraft system in the "coming weeks", the delivery of which was announced to Kiev by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in early summer. This was stated by German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock.

According to the source of the publication, the weapons will be transferred in 2023, and some types of equipment may be earlier

Germany plans to supply Ukraine with additional weapons worth more than €500 million. This was reported by Reuters on Tuesday .

The small rocket ship Mytishchi of the Baltic Fleet successfully fired a Kalibr cruise missile at a ground target in the White Sea. This was reported on August 23 in the press service of the fleet.

The Russian military, during a special military operation in Ukraine, captures a lot of captured equipment supplied by Western countries to the Ukrainian army. These equipment and weapons are sent to Russia, where they are carefully studied. This was stated by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in an interview with the TV channel "Russia 1".

As the newspaper reported, ammunition should be exported to Ukraine directly by German defense enterprises

The German government for the first time approved the delivery to Ukraine of 255 long-range guided artillery shells Vulcano 155 mm caliber, designed for self-propelled howitzers, but the date of transfer of ammunition to Kiev has not yet been called. This was reported on Sunday by the newspaper Welt am Sonntag .

At the same time, ITS increases interest in weapons from Russia, according to the interviewed experts

The international military-technical forum "Army-2022" did not show the guests revolutionary novelties, but interest in the weapons and equipment demonstrated at it is growing due to their use in a special operation in Ukraine, according to military experts interviewed by TASS.

Timely strikes on weapons depots allow to disrupt the enemy's plans, experts say

The Armed forces of the Russian Federation carried out precise missile strikes on the military infrastructure of the armed formations of Ukraine (VFU). An ammunition depot with HIMARS missiles and Western—made anti-aircraft complexes was destroyed in the Odessa region, and a fuel depot was destroyed in the Zaporozhye region, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The Forum has become a record for the amount of contracts concluded

The Army-2022 Forum has become a record in terms of the amount of contracts concluded — it exceeded 500 billion rubles. The main agreements relate to the supply of strategic weapons, hypersonic missiles, drones and armored vehicles.

On behalf of the US Army, the Boeing division and the Finnish-Norwegian company Nammo jointly developed and tested an artillery shell with a ramjet engine (RAMJET) for long-range shooting. According to Nammo representatives, during toasts at the Andøya training ground in Norway, a Ramjet 155 projectile was fired from a cannon, and its RAMJET successfully ignited. In flight, the projectile demonstrated stability and good controllability of the combustion process of the engine.gorenje

The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin handed over to the operational and combat tactical formation (OBTF) "Cascade" two new complexes of MLRS "Cheburashka" produced in the Donbass.

The International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2022" has completed its work. The reference material summarizing the results of the forum is published on the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Promises of assistance to Ukraine are quickly "forgotten", but monitoring shows that the United States plays a leading role in providing support to Ukrainians

The West is tired of helping Ukraine and has been abruptly "jamming" new promises lately, writes Newsweek. Pro-Ukrainian politicians are beginning to doubt the effectiveness of such support. Readers of the magazine call assistance to Ukraine a "black hole".

Bob Menendez gave Turkey a signal about sanctions over the S-400

Robert Menendez, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, said he was concerned about reports of Turkey's plans to continue purchasing Russian S-400s. Such steps by Ankara, in his opinion, will constitute a violation of US sanctions.

Why the "world's best projectile" Super Vulcano will not help Ukraine

In the next package of assistance to the APU from Berlin, high-precision 155-mm Vulcano shells are announced. This is a joint Italian-German development, which has a range of up to 120 kilometers. They are used for self-propelled artillery installations PzH 2000, but can be used for any artillery systems of NATO caliber. In total, 255 such guided missiles were promised to Kiev.

General Popov explained why the Russian Armed Forces deployed MiG-31 with Dagger missiles near Kaliningrad

Three Russian MiG-31 interceptor fighters equipped with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles were deployed to the Kaliningrad region. They are capable of hitting targets at a range of up to 2 thousand km. at a speed that makes it impossible to intercept them with modern missile defense systems. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out for what purpose it was done.

On August 19, 2022, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of a large-scale new package of military assistance to Ukraine totaling $ 775 million. Thus, the total amount of US military aid officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24 now reaches $9.9 billion. The total amount of US military aid to Ukraine since 2014 has exceeded $ 12.6 billion.