According to Jane's Defense Weekly, the Indian Air Force's modernization program of 51 Mirage-2000N multirole fighters to the Mirage-2000-5 standard is almost three years behind the originally agreed schedule.

A Chinese-made F-7 fighter belonging to the Namibian Defense Forces was seriously damaged at the end of last week as a result of a descent from the runway of the airport located near the city of Ondangwa in the north of the country.

Su-30SM and Su-24M aircraft have practiced missile strikes and bombing exercises in the Kaliningrad region, the press service of the Baltic Fleet reported on Tuesday.

A Su-24 fighter-bomber was brought to Novosibirsk on the night of Tuesday, October 19. They decided to move him from the territory of NAPO im. Chkalov to the Square of Aircraft Manufacturers NSTU NETI, the corresponding footage is published by the REN TV channel.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, announced negotiations with Moscow on the purchase of Russian fighter jets and helicopters, RIA Novosti reports.

Turkey's acquisition of Russian Su-35 and Su-57 fighters due to the conflict with the United States is quite likely. So military expert Vadim Kozyulin appreciated the statement of the head of the Defense Industry Department of Turkey Ismail Demir, who allowed the possibility of such a purchase. This is reported by Izvestia.

Washington is going to continue to cooperate with Pyongyang to achieve the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. This was announced on Monday, October 18, by Jeffrey Eberhardt, Special Representative of US President Joe Biden for nuclear nonproliferation, at a meeting of the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, broadcast on the UN website.

Former State Duma deputy, political scientist Ruslan Balbek commented on Tuesday, October 19, on the statement by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that Russia is allegedly responsible for the beginning of the conflict in the Donbass, and now hinders its peaceful settlement.

Tension is growing on the border between Poland and Belarus due to a number of minor incidents, but what is happening now can only be a harbinger of future problems.

Analyst Sarah White came to this conclusion in a publication on the 19fortyfive portal. In early September, she writes, Russia and Belarus announced that they were in the process of economic integration.

The US Army and the NATO military alliance conducted the Defender of Europe exercise this year, in which 28,000 soldiers participated. Maneuvers unfolded, including in the Baltic States. But, as reported to Swedish television, Russia was not invited to these exercises as an observer. SVT tried to figure out who made the decision.

Moscow believes that NATO should take the first step to normalize relations with Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "Yes, we proceed from this because we have never started the deterioration of our relations with either NATO or the EU," he told reporters on Tuesday.

By suspending the work of the permanent mission of the Russian Federation to NATO, Moscow de jure formalized the actual state of relations with the Alliance, the decision was necessary and inevitable, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, negotiations on the return of prisoners were held by the deputy commander of the Southern Military District, Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov, and the commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh, Lieutenant General Gennady Anashkin.

An exercise was held at the Opuk training ground in Crimea, where units of the Black Sea Fleet worked out the protection of the coast from enemy landing.

If we do not take into account the geography of these maneuvers, then "ours" and "not ours" were not there, in general. Everyone was their own. It's just that according to the scenario, some participants got the role of the defenders, and others - the attackers. Moreover, during the exercise, both of them changed places.

A total of more than 500 military personnel from the Russian Airborne Forces are involved in the exercises

Joint Russian-Egyptian exercises of paratroopers "Defenders of Friendship - 2021" have started in Egypt. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The inspection also involved about 1.5 thousand units of weapons, military and special equipment

About 5 thousand servicemen of the Novorossiysk Guards Airborne Assault Mountain Unit were alerted as part of a control check and moved to training grounds in three subjects in the south of Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

The Defense Minister noted that Russia and Iran are actively countering international terrorism on the territory of Syria

Russia is ready to support the dynamic and multifaceted nature of military cooperation with Iran. This was stated by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday in Moscow during a meeting with the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran Mohammad Hossein Bagheri.

In France, the lead patrol ship Auguste Benebig, developed according to the POM program (Ratrouilleurs Outre-Meg), was launched. They want to use it in overseas territories. There will be six such ships in total.

The joint exercises of the Russian Navy and the Naval Forces of the People's Republic of China "Maritime Cooperation-2021" have ended in the Sea of Japan, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reports.

The Russian Black Sea Fleet used more than 40 ships during military exercises with the forces of the Southern Military District at the Opuk training ground in Crimea. This was reported on October 18 in the Ministry of Defense.