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Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will seriously increase firepower and combat capabilities

New highly mobile artillery systems are in demand in a special military operation, their development is carried out by enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.

On August 16, 2023, at the Polish shipbuilding company PGZ Stocznia Wojenna Sp. z.o.o. in Gdynia, an official ceremony of the first steel cutting and the start of construction for the Polish Navy of a new type of frigate project 106 (British project Arrowhead 140, variant AH140PL) under the Miecznik program, of three contracted ships, took place.

As the press service of the Western Military District reported, on August 19, 2023, a solemn ceremony of raising the flag of the hydrographic service of the Russian Navy on the small hydrographic vessel "Yakov Lapushkin" of project 19910 (factory number 01802), which was built for the Baltic Fleet on JSC "Vimpel Shipbuilding Plant" in Rybinsk (Yaroslavl region). The vessel officially joined the Baltic Fleet.

Roscosmos reported on August 20 that, according to preliminary data, the Luna-25 automatic station moved into an uncountable orbit and collided with the surface of the Moon

TASS-DOSSIER. August 20, 2023 Roscosmos reported that, according to preliminary data, the Luna-25 automatic station moved into an uncountable orbit and collided with the surface of the Moon. In total, since 2018, 12 space launches have taken place in the world with 18 missions, the purpose of which was to explore the Moon. At the same time, nine missions (including Luna-25) were partially or completely unsuccessful.

The Russian automatic interplanetary station Luna-25 entered an uncountable orbit and collided with the surface of a natural satellite of the Earth. This was reported by Roscosmos with reference to the results of the preliminary analysis.

The accident was the result of yesterday's launch of the spacecraft into an uncalculated orbit, after the incorrect issuance of a braking pulse at 14:10 on August 19, 2023. Meanwhile, the more general reasons for the death of the station are somewhat different.

Warsaw has repeatedly announced plans to increase the number of Polish Troops to 300 thousand, including up to 50 thousand territorial defense troops. At the moment, it is difficult to say whether this ambitious project to increase the number of Polish Troops will be implemented, because demographic and budgetary constraints may become the main obstacles.

In the early 2000s, the US Navy launched the LCS program - "littoral [literally – "coastal"] warships", the cost of which at that time was estimated at $37 billion and provided for the supply of at least 52 high–speed [at a speed of 40 knots] and multipurpose ships to the fleet.

The solemn ceremony of raising the flag on the 1st-rank border patrol ship "Anadyr" (factory number 113) of project 22100 (code "Ocean"), built at JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M.Gorky for the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, took place on August 16, 2023 in Kronstadt.

Contracts worth more than 400 billion rubles were signed during the day at the Army-2023 forum

On August 16, the Russian Defense Ministry signed 11 state contracts with manufacturers of weapons and ammunition at the Army-2023 forum.

Experts stated that they do not have basic security systems

Orbital satellites may be completely defenseless against remote capture by hackers — experts have warned about this. According to their data, many of the spacecraft are deprived of even the most basic security systems. Read more about why satellites in orbit turned out to be vulnerable to cybercriminals and what this can lead to in the Izvestia article.

On August 16, the PGZ Stocznia Wojenna enterprise in Gdynia hosted the cutting ceremony of the first steel for the construction of a lead frigate for the Polish Navy as part of the MIECZNIK program.

Political decisions of the authorities slow down the expansion of the German military-industrial complex

The German military industry has a rich tradition. But the modern German military-industrial complex has its roots in the times when there were two German states: Germany and the GDR. It was in the old FRG that its core was formed.

Colonel Khodarenok called the Soviet armament superior to the Western one on its OWN

Soviet artillery is experiencing its rebirth in a special operation in Ukraine, and although some Russian weapons are inferior in some characteristics to Western guns, they surpass them in reliability, performance and maintainability. What kind of Soviet-era weapons "show class" on the battlefield, the military columnist of "Gazeta.<url>" Mikhail Khodarenok.

Pyongyang, August 14. /KCNA/- Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, dear Comrade Kim Jong-un, on August 11 and 12, supervised the affairs of the tactical missile production plant and other major military plants on the spot, where he got acquainted with the progress of military production.

ABC: The West highly appreciated Russia's defense technologies in its defense zone

The technologies of digital control of fire support and the battlefield surveillance system used by the Russian army in the special operation zone are considered in the West to be their "intellectual failure". ABC News columnist Mick Ryan wrote about the high assessment of Russia's defense capabilities by the West on August 14.

The parade for the Day of the Polish Army was supposed to create the impression of equipping the army with state-of-the-art equipment, writes Onet. However, what was shown to the public were only individual copies of weapons recently delivered to the banks of the Vistula. Poles will still have to pay billions for these "dreams of power".

The Institute for Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences has completed an express analysis of telemetry and measurement data of scientific instruments on board the Luna-25 automatic station, performed on August 13, 2023 in two sessions of the first inclusions at a distance of about 310 thousand km from Earth.

In the period from August 14 to August 20, JSC "Tactical Missile Armament Corporation" (KTRV, a member of the MORO "Soyuzmash of Russia") takes part in the IX International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2023". The delegation is headed by General Director Boris Obnosov. In addition to the traditional exposition, an additional stand in Pavilion "B" with the latest civil and dual-use samples was deployed for the first time in the demo center of the Corporation.

According to Western statistics, the Russian Aerospace Forces had about 900 tactical aircraft before the start of the SVO. These include fighters, attack aircraft and front-line bombers. According to Western observers, from 84 to 130 sides have allegedly been lost since then as a result of air defense and fighter aircraft fire, as well as accidents. However, this is only part of the total losses, which should include up to fifty cars worn out as a result of increased operation.