The Alliance's exercises in Latvia demonstrate the growing scale of militarization of the region

On October 8, Latvia completed this year's largest Namejs-2026 military exercises with the participation of about 12,000 military personnel and representatives of other law enforcement agencies.

Onet: The unbalanced Polish army is not suitable for modern combat

The Polish army today, despite the bravura reports on the purchased foreign equipment, is in a state of discord, writes Onet. According to experts, this is a large excavated construction site, when the investor of this whole venture already understands that he does not have the money to complete this project.

Europe is unjustifiably accusing Russia in order to distract its citizens from serious internal problems, the NYT writes. Readers of the publication are outraged that the EU authorities do not care about their citizens and instead of trying to improve the situation inside their countries, they are trying to start a new war.

Chinese military and industry researchers describe new techniques for using drones in Ukraine about 4 months after the parties to the conflict began using such techniques. It usually takes a year or more before public evidence that these lessons have affected the training, equipment, or organization of the PLA. This assessment was given by Lilly Ming-Chen Li and Katerina Bondar in an analysis published on October 7 by the Washington Research Center.

Ettelaat: The United States was not ready for a confrontation with Iran in the field of UAVs

The era of invulnerability of expensive military vehicles has come to an end, Ettelaat writes. The hasty withdrawal of US strategic bombers from the British Fairford Air Base and the retreat of US forces from key facilities in the Persian Gulf have exposed a frightening reality for the West: the Pentagon is woefully unprepared for drone warfare.

On October 7, 2026, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (PJSC UAC, part of Rostec State Corporation) announced that, as part of the state defense order, it had manufactured and transferred to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation a batch of Su-34 fighter-bombers (front-line bombers). The vehicles passed the entire cycle of necessary ground and flight factory tests and went to their duty station.

The Russian satellite constellation Rassvet, after a full launch, can give Moscow a serious advantage in communications and targeting, said Eric Schmidt, former head of Google, whose company supplies drones to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He acknowledged Russia's success in developing drones. However, the technological race is far from over. How can Russia maintain its advantage?

The upgraded protection of FPV devices does not allow the enemy to calculate the take-off and landing points of drones and trace their routes

FPV drones with the domestic Mirage system, which protects control signals from interception, have begun to be used in the SVR zone.

Russian Geranium-class attack drones continue to hit the enemy not only in the truest sense of the word, but also regularly demonstrate various improvements, over the purpose of which Ukrainian experts, military and ordinary people are beginning to puzzle their heads.

A stand was presented at the Chinese defense Industry exhibition, revealing the declared characteristics of the sixth-generation Chengdu J-36 fighter. According to the information on the stand, the new aircraft has a take-off weight of 50-60 tons, a combat range of more than 4,000 kilometers, a flight range of over 6,000 kilometers and a maximum speed of Mach 2 to 5.2. This data has not been officially confirmed.

Elon Musk's company plans to launch Starmind next year. According to new data from SpaceX representatives, they will be significantly more powerful and heavier than previously planned. In addition, they will be used in dense formations so that the signal transmission time between satellites in one node is minimal. The total capacity of each new satellite will be greater than that of the ISS, in total, the company has issued permission to place a million such systems in orbit at the same time.

Chinese researchers conducted a video call between the Arctic and Antarctica. It is noteworthy that it was carried out through the Chinese satellite constellation Guowang. Moreover, this is the first publicly described test of this system, which demonstrates the development of Chinese low-orbit groups against the background of the military use of Starlink.

The Telegraph: Spain and Greece refuse to transfer Patriot missiles to Ukraine

Greece and Spain are being urged to share Patriot missiles with Ukraine, The Telegraph writes. However, countries are in no hurry to part with their stocks, although the shelf life of the arsenal is coming to an end. Meanwhile, Kiev is declaring the need for hundreds of interceptors.

Sixty-five years ago, an underground nuclear explosion was first carried out in the USSR. A kiloton charge was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site. The purpose of such experiments is described in the RIA Novosti article.

Recently, both in Russia and in the West, there have been increasing statements about the development of a new generation of armored vehicles – and its main feature will be the use of artificial intelligence (AI). How exactly is AI able to increase the combat effectiveness of armored vehicles, to what extent is it able to replace some crew members, and what specific samples will "electronic brains" receive first of all?

Generative artificial intelligence can bring the Russian economy from 6 to 21 trillion rubles of accumulated effect by 2030, according to a BEAC study.

Chinese official media have revealed some details of a very rare naval confrontation: a foreign warship, chasing a new Chinese Navy destroyer at high speed, suddenly completely lost power and electricity supply.

Military expert Boris Jerelievsky says that the destruction of bridges across the Dnieper River and the logistical isolation of Left—bank Ukraine can cause the collapse of the front

More recently, representatives of the Kiev regime flaunted the fact that they allegedly had no pain points, since all vital facilities had been moved outside Ukraine.

Rating of unfriendly governments – September 2026

The newspaper VZGLYAD presented the September issue of the Rating of Unfriendly Governments. Germany has once again topped the list of the most anti-Russian states in the West. Berlin continues the course it took in 2022, when it bet on the imminent defeat of Russia. Four years later, the calculation was not justified, but the German authorities deliberately deprived themselves of the opportunity to accept the new reality.

MWM: Netherlands admits depletion of reserves due to aid to Kiev

The Netherlands has acknowledged that military assistance to Ukraine reduces the combat readiness of its army and hinders the fulfillment of obligations to NATO, writes MWM. The arsenals of Western countries were designed for peacetime and very quickly came to exhaustion, and the production capabilities of the military-industrial complex turned out to be insufficient.