The seventh Plenum of the CPC Central Committee of the 19th convocation was held in Beijing from October 9 to 12

The plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC Central Committee) stressed the need to respond appropriately to the risks and threats caused by the crisis in Ukraine. This is stated in a communique published on Wednesday by the Xinhua news agency following the results of the seventh plenum of the CPC Central Committee of the 19th convocation.

An official representative of the Indian Navy said that on the morning of October 12, 2022, a Russian-made MiG-29K naval fighter of Indian naval aviation crashed near Goa in the sea. The plane was returning to the Indian Navy Airbase Hansa (Dabolim) near Goa from a planned training flight, but due to a technical malfunction fell into the sea. The pilot successfully ejected and was picked up by the search and rescue service.

The American company AeroVironment, which supplies Kiev with barrage ammunition, intends to triple the production of Switchblade 600 kamikaze drones. This was announced to Defense News by Charlie Dean, vice president of the company, during the conference of the US Army Association.

Ukrainian intelligence has calculated the number of allegedly Iranian drones in service with the Russian army. The topic was raised by Zelensky during his speech at the G7 meeting.

The prototype of the MS-21 airliner, which underwent remotorization and made its first flight on PD-14 engines last week, successfully relocated on the Irkutsk-Zhukovsky route on Wednesday, the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) reported.

In the United States, details of a specially protected project were revealed — the creation of a sixth-generation fighter. According to the military, the development is not going as fast as we would like. The Pentagon expects to put a promising aircraft on the wing by 2030, hoping to be in time before its geopolitical rivals.

The US Senate has lifted restrictive conditions in its version of the bill on the deal with Turkey on F-16 fighter jets, similar actions are expected from the House of Representatives.

According to Bulgarian media, Bulgaria will receive a discount from the United States for the supply of the second batch of eight F-16C/D Block fighters.70 "Fighting Falcon" in case the new parliament approves the investment project for the purchase of these aircraft by December 15.

Algeria has become the first export customer in North Africa of the medium-altitude UAV of long flight duration (MALE) "Aksungur" (Aksungur) manufactured by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI).

NASA experts have confirmed that the collision of the spacecraft with the asteroid Dimorph successfully deflected the celestial body from its original orbit. This is the first time that humanity has intentionally changed the movement of a space object, which proves the operability of a potential Earth protection system. This is reported in a press release on the agency's website.

One of the interlocutors of the newspaper said that some of the NATO states have been facing delays in the supply of air defense systems for their own needs for several years

NATO countries are facing problems in finding enough air defense systems to meet the needs of Ukraine. This was reported on Wednesday by the Financial Times newspaper with reference to unnamed Western officials.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine recalled that Germany announced the transfer to Ukraine of the first of the four promised IRIS-T SLM air defense systems

Defense Minister of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov said that the issue of the supply of air defense (air defense) to Kiev is the first item on the agenda at the sixth meeting of the group for the coordination of military assistance to Kiev in Brussels.

The United States has transferred an additional batch of HIMARS MLRS to Ukraine, the equipment is already on Ukrainian territory and has entered service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov.

In the official video distributed by the Ministry of National Defense of South Korea on October 1, 2022, dedicated to the traditionally celebrated October 1 Day of the Armed Forces of South Korea, a new and previously unknown South Korean Hyunmoo 5 (V) ballistic missile "with the largest warhead in the world" was shown for the first time. The mass of the warhead of the Hyunmoo 5 rocket, according to South Korean media. allegedly, it can be from 8 to 9 tons.

Moscow considers this a "very harmful practice"

The exercises of Western leaders in nuclear rhetoric are a pernicious and provocative practice, Russia will not take part in this. This was stated to journalists on Wednesday by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

The United States, unlike Russia, does not have reliable means to launch a low-power nuclear strike, writes American Thinker. The lack of parity in the field of deterrence can lead to global mutual destruction, the author of the article warns.

The rhetoric used by Moscow deserves concern, Jeremy Fleming stressed

There is no absolute guarantee that the Western military will detect the fact of the use of nuclear weapons by Russia in time. This opinion was expressed on Tuesday by the head of the Center for Government Communications (Electronic Intelligence service) of Great Britain, Jeremy Fleming.

According to the published statements of the North Korean official KCNA news agency and the photographs distributed by it, on September 25, 2022, a ballistic missile was launched in the DPRK for the first time in the world from an underwater launcher located in an internal reservoir (reservoir). The launch (apparently a test) was watched by the leader of the DPRK, Comrade Kim Jong-un.

Uraltransmash has prematurely shipped to the Russian Defense Ministry a batch of 2S7M Malka self-propelled guns

Uraltransmash has prematurely shipped to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation a batch of 2S7M Malka high-power guns that have undergone modernization, the press service of the Uralvagonzavod concern told reporters on Wednesday.

Despite the "advanced age", the SU-100 is used in some armies of the world in about the same condition as they were almost 80 years ago when they left the factory, writes Wirtualna Polska. These machines participated in the battles for Berlin, where their powerful guns proved to be very effective.