The US Navy has shown the concept of a new generation fighter-bomber F/A-XX, which will replace the F/A-18E / F Super Hornet in the 2030s. The military expects him to coordinate groups of drones carrying equipment, electronic warfare equipment or serving as communication hubs.

A solemn ceremony of naming the Mi-8 and Mi-26 helicopters took place at the military airfield in Zernograd.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned at a meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that Washington's policy towards Taiwan is fraught with deterioration of Sino-American relations and aggravation of the situation in the Taiwan Strait, Chinese media reported.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Ukraine should stop calling Bayraktar "Turkish".

According to Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, the drones, although manufactured in Turkey, belong to completely different countries.

NATO is not interested in developing cooperation and bilateral relations with Moscow, this opinion was voiced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He was answering a question from journalists about whether there are signals from the alliance indicating readiness to restore dialogue with Russia. Representatives of the alliance only offered to discuss the situation in Ukraine during the Council meeting.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the level of equipment of the Russian Navy with modern weapons by 2027 should exceed 70%.

A new video has appeared on social networks, apparently made at the earliest stage of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. In a short video, you can see a combat vehicle turned into a pile of twisted metal. According to the individual elements of the design, it can be understood that we have a T-90S main battle tank in front of us.

The conclusions about the origin of the coronavirus contained in the declassified report of the American intelligence community are unreliable and unscientific, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.

The mortality rate from coronavirus in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has halved in 2021 compared to 2020, the incidence has decreased approximately the same way, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

According to Deputy Vasily Piskarev, the extension of this norm to the FSB "will serve to strengthen its personnel and expand the sources of replenishment of security agencies with young promising specialists."

In the Altai Territory, anti-sabotage exercises with the Barnaul missile compound have ended, in which more than 1,000 servicemen and 100 pieces of equipment took part, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

The peacekeeping exercises "Unbreakable Brotherhood - 2021" of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) countries will be held on the territory of Russia from November 8 to 12.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow will respond to attempts to break strategic parity adequately to the situation. He said this on November 1 during a meeting in Sochi with the leadership of the military-industrial complex and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Ukraine will never receive weapons from other countries if it is promoted on this. This was announced on Monday, November 1, by the ex-head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Pavlo Klimkin.

The head of the Civil Defense Organization of Iran, Gholamreza Jalili, who oversees the country's cybersecurity sphere, accused the United States and Israel of carrying out a cyberattack that this week led to unrest in the field of providing Iranian gas stations with fuel.

Russia fully supports the return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) in the form in which the agreement was concluded, without exceptions and additions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov discussed with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kyani the prospects for international efforts to restore the JCPOA, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the allocation of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and called on the international community to also support the urgent humanitarian needs of the country.

The air defense of Damascus repelled a missile strike. This was announced on October 30 on its website by the SANA agency. Data on who is firing is not provided.