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The Australian army is writing off the last available M1A1 Abrams tanks, which Ukraine may be able to get, as it has recently publicly requested them.
The American concern Boeing is gradually increasing the production of homing missile warheads for missiles used in the Patriot air defence system.
Chinese defence companies are facing problems exporting their own weapons due to the high level of competition in the global market.
The Philippines has launched naval and air exercises with the US, Canada and Australia, it says, as Beijing asserts its territorial claims to the entire South China Sea.
The South Korean government has authorised the construction of a test facility in 2025 to develop a nuclear propulsion system for submarines.
Croatia wants to purchase M142 HIMARS missile systems from the United States as part of the modernisation of its armed forces.
The Bundeswehr has received the first battery of the new IRIS-T SLM air defence system.
Rheinmetall will supply the Spanish army with about half a million modular projectile charges for 155 mm long-range artillery ammunition.
The Secretary of the Russian Security Council arrived in Tehran on Monday, 5 August, to meet with senior officials as Iran prepares for war with Israel.
Two Katyusha missiles were fired at the Al Asad airbase in western Iraq. At least five US servicemen were killed and one was seriously injured.
Space reconnaissance data shows that a Su-34 fighter-bomber was destroyed as a result of the attack on the Morozovsk military airfield in Rostov Region on 3 August 2024.
Ukraine has learned to strike extremely deep in Russia, as Russian air defences are stretched.
The US Army has ordered an additional batch of M109A7 and M992A3 tracked armoured artillery support vehicles worth $493 million.
In 2023, it became known that Ukraine received in service modern anti-aircraft systems Skynex. Now the system appeared on video for the first time.
The president has published a video of the planes in honour of the 20th anniversary of the Ukrainian Air Force. Zelensky did not tell how many F-16s Ukraine received, but according to Western media, it is 6 aircraft. By the end of the year Ukraine will receive another. 14 fighters. The rest of the planes should arrive in Ukraine in 2025. In total, there will be about 80 units.
