Iran may unwittingly boost Turkish UAV and American missile sales, Forbes reports.

— When a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials crashed in the country’s northwest, killing all aboard, Turkish Bayraktar AKINCI UAV entered Iranian airspace amid poor weather conditions to aid the search and rescue mission.

— Turkish media gave wall-to-wall coverage of the UAV’s mission, AKINCI located the crash site and passed on “critical information” to Tehran.

— And also, officials from the United States and the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council countries met in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, on Wednesday.

— At these meetings, the U.S. aims to promote its objective of building a regional missile shield.

— If successful, the initiative will undoubtedly pave the way for even more lucrative American and Western arms sales to the region.

#BREAKING Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s helicopter made an emergency landing due to bad weather conditions.

He says he’s fine now.

Americans told the Russians that if they use nuclear weapons, “we will hit all Russian targets and positions in Ukraine with conventional weapons, we will destroy them all,” Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski says.

Chief of Staff of Malian Air Force, General Alou Boi Diarra

Bayraktar drones have made miracles for us.

And they are not coming from the U.S. or from France.

We bought them from Türkiye.

American GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs on Ukrainian Su-27/MiG-29 fighter jet.

The GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) has a maximum range of greater than 60 nautical miles (nm) or 69 miles (111 km).

A part of the floating American pier in the Gaza Strip broke apart and drifted into the Mediterranean Sea before washing ashore near Ashdod, Israel.

Russia just hit a large conscrution store & hypermarket in Kharkiv.

More than 200 people may have been inside the hypermarket at the time of the impact, Zelensky says.

“Only crazy people like Putin are capable of killing and terrorizing people so vilely,” he said.

If Ukraine had enough air defense and aircraft, such strikes would simply be impossible.

Russians now trying to protect their infrastructure with nets in Moscow and other areas against Ukrainian drone attacks.

Iranian-made Russian Mohajer-6 UCAV with Ghaem-5 guided bombs crashed in Kursk.

Chinese PLA armed robot dogs demonstrate their capabilities in military exercises in Cambodia.

Japanese pilot with F-35 Helmet Mounted Display System (HMDS).

The helmet was priced around $400,000 when it was first released, but the unit price has now dropped to around $200,000.

Russia produces artillery shells three times faster and four times cheaper than Ukraine's Western allies, Sky News reports.

Russia will produce 4.5 million ammunition in 2024.

The U.S. and European countries are expected to produce 1.3 million shells.

A projectile produced in the West costs on average $4,000, while one produced in Russia costs only $1,000.

Swarm of 10 autonomous Chinese drones manoeuvre through a bamboo forest in China. (May 2022)

They were the first to successfully fly outdoors and navigate unprogrammed obstacles.

German Chancellor Scholz rejected calls to allow Ukraine to strike military targets on Russian territory with Western weapons.

"Germany’s policy on Ukraine is to prevent the outbreak of a big war," he said.

Baltic countries and Poland will send troops to Ukraine if Russia achieves serious successes on the eastern front, Der Spiegel reports.

According to Spiegel, German parliamentarians were informed about this by their Baltic colleagues.

French President Emmanuel Macron believes that Europe has a large number of external and internal enemies and “may die.”

"We have never had so many external and internal enemies. I really believe that our Europe can die."