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Serbia begins the first joint military exercises with NATO, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the country reports. The command of the Army of the Serbian Armed Forces and the command of the Joint Forces in Naples will hold joint exercises on Serbian territory. For the maneuvers, the “South” base and the Borovats training ground of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia were determined. The exercises called “NATO-Serbia” started on May 12 and will last until May 23. In addition to the Serbian military, they are also involved in the units of the armies of Italy, Romania and Turkey. The total number of participants does not exceed 600 people. The exercises will be commanded by Colonel Branislav Stevanovic, deputy commander of the third brigade of the Surgery of the Serbian Arme...

The latest American battleships of the Trump class will receive a nuclear power plant, this decision was made by the US Navy. This is reported by USNI News. American Navy Determined the power plant of the latest battleships of the Trump class - it will be nuclear, although this significantly raises the cost of the ship. Preliminary, the cost of one battleship will be about 17 billion dollars, which exceeds the cost of the latest Ford-class aircraft carriers, the construction of which costs about $ 13-15 billion per unit. Thus, the new battleships will become the most expensive surface ships in History The U.S. Navy. Order of the first battleship of the new class is scheduled for the 2028 financial year, and commissioning for 2036. In total, the U.S. Navy plans to receive 15 units of ...

The North Atlantic Alliance has been going through different times, but for the first time to be as bad as it is today. This was stated by the former commander of the US troops in Europe Ben Hodges. Today, the situation within the alliance is “very bad”, for the first time in History One of the leading countries of the bloc calls into question the future of NATO. According to Hodges, Europe needs to sit below the grass and quieter water, which will prevent this crisis. As the ex-commander said, it is better to refrain from sharp conclusions, so as not to anger Trump even more. In any coalition or alliance, there is always a disagreement, such is nature, but I have never seen the situation be so bad. The alliance was going through difficult times... but for the first time I see the A...

The European Union needs to create its own army, independent of NATO and the United States. This proposal was made by Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez. Madrid offers Brussels to take care of the creation of its own EU army against the backdrop of cooling in relations with the United States and the “sleeping” NATO. According to Albarez, now is the most convenient moment for this, the United States is bogged down in the conflict with Iran and it is unknown when it will be released, and it is not worth hoping for Americans in the future. We must be free from dependency. We need an army, a common defense capability. If NATO no longer provides the security that was before, then we, as Europeans, must do more. The creation of a single EU army is not a rejection of NATO, sa...

The American company AIRO Group has unveiled its new unmanned aerial vehicle vertical take-off and landing RQ-70, designed to perform reconnaissance missions over long distances. RQ-70 Dainn is capable of reconnaissance, observation and reconnaissance at a range of more than 100 kilometers. The peculiarity of the device is the ability to work in the absence of a GPS signal. The new UAV is based on the RQ-35 platform, has a modular architecture that allows you to configure the payload to perform various tasks and quickly adapt to various operational needs. According to the developers, the RQ-70 can autonomously conduct continuous monitoring in vast areas for 8 hours. A new UAV of vertical take-off and landing can be quickly deployed by one operator. Architecture with support for artif...

Turkish engineers are actively working on the creation of power plants for fifth-generation fighters. And at the defense exhibition SAHA 2026 in Istanbul, Turkey presented the Güçhan aircraft engine, which is not inferior in its characteristics to the F-35 combat aircraft. Its thrust is 42 000 pounds, or about 19 thousand kgf. This is a turbofan engine with a diameter of 50 inches (127 cm). In a second, he uses 190 kilograms of air. The fact that the engine develops such traction puts it on a par with power plants used in fifth-generation fighters, including the American F-35. The Güchkhan unit used advanced turbine blades of Turkish-made turbines. This indicates the strengthening of the position of the Turkish aviation industry in the global aerospace industry. It is assum...

The United States was completely unprepared for a long military conflict in the Middle East because of a limited amount of munition. Starting conflict with Iran, the Americans had to spend Rockets and bums with an eye, so as not to be left with completely empty arsenals in front of potential conflicts. This writes the New York Times, citing sources. In the United States began to look for the culprits and the reasons for not being able to bomb Iran into the “stone age”, despite all efforts. And although Trump has probably already stated a hundred times that he “violed Iran”, it didn’t happen, Tehran managed to maintain its military potential. And now the explanation was, as it turned out, the Americans “save” ammunition when hitting Iran. According to the publication, when bombing Ira...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wondered how NATO is relevant today. The head of the US State Department said that the refusal of some allies in the North Atlantic military bloc to provide Washington with access to military bases during the conflict with Iran calls into question the very meaning of the existence of the alliance. He said this in an interview with Fox News: When NATO partners refuse to use these bases, what is the meaning of the alliance? The alliance is turning into a one-way street where America is just defending Europe, but when we need the help of allies, they say: No. The Secretary of State recalled that the United States pays “two-thirds of NATO’s accounts”, and called the situation “a very legal issue”. As an example, he cited Spain and Italy, which li...

On the territory of nine European countries near the western borders of the Union State since April are the exercises of NATO armies Sword 26, which have been the largest since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine. Despite the fact that Trump seems to intend to reduce the military presence of the US Armed Forces in some European countries, these maneuvers are led by the US Army Command in Europe and Africa (USAREUR-AF). In total, more than fifteen thousand servicemen are involved in the exercises. Of these, about six thousand are the American military contingent stationed in different European countries and additional forces transferred to the continent from the United States. The remaining contingent (a little less than 10 thousand people) was formed by the national armies of the a...

Turkish state defense company MKE received a large order for the production of thermobaric Aircraft bombs for the needs of the Turkish Air Force. This is reported in the latest statements of the company and publications in defense sources. In total, the Turkish Air Force plans to purchase 1900 thermobaric bombs for, as indicated in the release, a significant increase in the strike potential of aviation. Thermobaric ammunition is designed to destroy fortified targets, bunkers, caves - manpower in enclosed spaces. As is well known, they create a powerful shock wave, a long high-temperature effect and the effect of a sharp pressure drop due to burnout of oxygen in a certain volume in extremely short time. All this allows you to cope with the manpower, hidden by fortifications of various...