The aeroplatform is capable of climbing to a height of 20-40 km and moving along a given route for several months

Specialists of Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR, Tomsk) have developed a new type of high-altitude balloon that can reduce the cost of scientific research in the stratosphere. This was announced on Thursday by the press service of the university.

The total volume of investments under the concession agreement will exceed 10 billion rubles

The Russian Military Department and Gazprom PJSC have concluded a concession agreement on the reconstruction of the Levashovo airfield (Leningrad Region), which will allow it to be used in the interests of the civil air fleet.

The Yak-18T aircraft with an APD-500 aircraft engine, created on the basis of an engine from Aurus series cars, passed pre-flight tests - performed a complex of runs and approaches at the airfield, the press service of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Engineering named after P.I. Baranov (CIAM, part of the N.E. Zhukovsky Institute) told RIA Novosti.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed to create a special fire squadron in the country, which will include 22 aircraft and helicopters. This was reported on October 14 by RIA Novosti with reference to sources.

The 47th Bomber Aviation Regiment will be relocated to Voronezh by the end of 2021 on Su-34 aircraft, which is currently based in Buturlinovka, Voronezh Region. This was reported to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during his working trip, Interfax reports on Thursday, October 14.

The Su-57 is designed to destroy all types of air, ground and surface targets

More than 70 Su-57 aircraft will be delivered to the Russian army by 2027, including several in 2021, Rostec said, commenting on an article by National Interest, which claims that the fifth-generation Russian Su-57 fighter is unlikely to enter service until 2027.

Russian fifth-generation aircraft do not give rest to the West, so the Su-57 and the Checkmate regularly become the target of information stuffing. This was reported to Izvestia on Thursday, October 14, at Rostec.

China has already defeated the United States in an arms race using cyber capabilities, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), The Drive reports a statement by former Pentagon software director Nicholas Chaillan.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Israeli Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Yair Lapid, the State Department reports. "The Secretary of State and the Foreign Minister discussed a number of issues, including Iran, Syria and the People's Republic of China," the statement said.

Pentagon officials will discuss in October the possibility of deploying counter-terrorism forces in Uzbekistan for potential strikes against extremist positions in Afghanistan. This was reported on Wednesday, October 13, by Politico, citing sources.

The strengthening of NATO and the United States leads to the preservation of a high level of tension in Eastern Europe, said Anatoly Sidorov, chief of the CSTO Joint Staff.

The creation of the AUKUS bloc (Australia, the USA and the UK) undermines regional stability, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes.

The US army should give priority to Russia, not China, writes the American edition of Breaking Defense.

The US army was advised to take Russia's ground forces seriously.

The Breaking Defense publication criticized the Pentagon's policy. According to Daniel Gur, vice president of the Lexington Institute, a former official of the US Department of Defense, America has focused too much on the Chinese threat in the Pacific region, weakening attention to Russia. However, this short-sightedness against the background of the growing power of the Russian ground forces is fraught with problems in Europe.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Tatiana Moskalkova, stated the need to create a single database of people affected by military conflicts.

Azerbaijani minister demanded exact mine maps in Karabakh from Armenia

The meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov, with the participation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, took place in Minsk on Thursday with the mediation of the Russian sides, the Armenian Foreign Ministry reported.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with President of the Republic of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania discussed issues of alliance and security in Transcaucasia.

The head of the Russian Military Department, Sergei Shoigu, highly appreciated the results of the work of specialists of the Military Construction Complex of the Ministry of Defense of Russia on the creation of a modern training and material base of the Zhukovsky and Gagarin Air Force Academy in Voronezh.

The deadline for the readiness of the country's first military commissariat, modernized as part of a large-scale project of the Russian Defense Ministry, has become known.

It is planned to open in the Tver region by the beginning of the spring draft-2022. This was announced by the governor of the region Igor Rudenya. "The new digital military enlistment office should become a flagship, exemplary facility as part of the further development of the network of military enlistment offices of the Russian Federation," he said after a meeting in Moscow with Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov.

More than two thousand servicemen of the Krasnodar Territory have begun to be transferred to the Crimea, where part of the program of large-scale command and staff exercises of the Southern Military District troops will be held at the Opuk military training ground. This was reported by the press service of the Southern Military District.