The servicemen of the air defense unit of the Amur Combined Arms Association of the Eastern Military District repelled the attack of a conditional enemy on strategically important military facilities.

The economic sanctions that the White House is going to impose on India because of the purchase of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft systems will bring double harm to America. Firstly, one of the largest states in the world will be alienated from the United States. Secondly, they will strengthen New Delhi's military cooperation with Moscow and make it much more difficult for Washington to contain Beijing.

China has tested a monolithic solid-fuel rocket engine with the largest thrust in the world. Product development is important for the creation of heavy-class missiles.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States decided to create a gamma-ray telescope Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI). They want to launch it in 2025.

The devices were delivered to the airport by the AN-124 aircraft

The AN-124 aircraft delivered two communication satellites to the airport of Krayniy (Kazakhstan) in preparation for the December launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Tuesday.

On October 18, Boeing Corporation announced the delivery to the Indian Navy of the 11th aircraft of the base patrol aircraft BPA P-8I "Neptune" (the Indian version of the American P-8A "Poseidon").

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.