The first mass-produced Taiwanese advanced flight training jet T-5 took to the skies for the first time at Chin Chuan Kang Air Base. According to the island's Central News Agency, he was accompanied by a prototype during the flight. By 2026, Taiwan's military is going to receive 66 such aircraft.

Norway will write off all its F-16s by the end of this year. On combat duty, they will be replaced by F-35 fighters, of which there are already 31 units in the Norwegian Air Force. Thus, Norway will become the first country in the world whose Air Force will completely switch to a new generation of fighters.

Turkey has started the procedure for purchasing F-16 aircraft from the United States. This was announced on Saturday, October 23, by the Minister of National Defense of the country Hulusi Akar.

As the Kyrgyz media reported on October 21, 2021, the Chairman of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan Kamchybek Tashiyev said that a contract for the purchase of Bayraktar unmanned aerial vehicles by Kyrgyzstan in Turkey (as can be understood, Bayraktar TB2 is meant)) is already under implementation, and that Russian light unmanned systems Orlan-10E will also be purchased.

Kyrgyzstan has acquired unmanned aerial vehicles in Russia and Turkey, as well as about 40 armored vehicles in the United Arab Emirates.

It will allow the creators of drones to reduce the development time of serial samples of equipment by 24 months

A platform for creating auxiliary power plants for drones may appear in Russia by 2024, the press service of the Aeronet National Technology Initiative told TASS. The corresponding development is already underway, and by 2026 the technical solution will bring revenue of 50 million rubles. The platform is being developed by the "Turbomachine Problem Laboratory".

The Russian heavy attack drone "Hunter", which is the wingman of the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter, poses a "big problem" for NATO and, in particular, the United States. This is told by the American publication 19FortyFive.

The Russian unmanned aerial vehicle S-70 "Hunter" will become one of the most advanced aerial combat vehicles after commissioning. Ex-US Army officer Brent Eastwood writes about this in an article for 19fortyfive.

The planes were flying in international airspace, the US Department of Defense said. The report does not detail how close the Russian planes flew to the United States, the author writes, nor does it specify either the model of these aircraft or the American ones that were alerted.

As specified in the Ministry of Defense, fighter escort was provided by the crews of Su-35S aircraft of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Eastern Military District

Two Tu-95MS missile carriers accompanied by Su-35S fighters performed a scheduled flight over the Chukchi, Bering and Okhotsk Seas. This was reported to journalists on Friday in the Russian Defense Ministry.

Military aviation will not remain aloof from the unprecedented pace of technology development. According to experts, in the current century, armed struggle will be radically different from the ways and methods of warfare of the past. Artificial intelligence technologies will be introduced into manned and unmanned aerial vehicles.

The Russian fifth-generation fighter Su-57 was compared with American aircraft. Expert Alexey Leonkov noted that the Su-57 is ahead of competitors in terms of weapons systems and rates of robotization. Also, the radar station and electronic warfare systems of the Russian machine are better than the solutions used in the F-22 and F-35.

The Middle East (the Middle East region took the first place in the ranking for the second time in a row in terms of actual imports of VIVT), the Asia-Pacific region and Western Europe are among the three largest world leaders in the import of VIVT in 2013-2020. Regionally, the CAMTO rating includes the Middle East (the Middle East region took the first place in the ranking for the second time in a row).

China has called on all parties on the Korean peninsula to be restrained in their actions. This statement was made by the Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the United Nations (UN) Zhang Jun on Thursday, October 21.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan instructed the country's Foreign Ministry to send ambassadors of 10 countries.

Of these, 7 NATO member states called for the release of human rights defender Osman Kavala from prison. 

The Joe Biden administration will be able to save "tens of millions of American lives" from enemy attacks only if it takes steps to strengthen national defense, writes former combat and staff officer of the US Army Devin Pine in the magazine The National Interest.

The American Heritage Foundation Research Institute has published an analysis of the US military potential. The assessment turned out to be the worst in recent years.

According to analysts of the institute, the power of the military potential is only 2/3 of what should be in reality. The problem is also a rather outdated technique that does not meet the challenges of the time.

The UK can use against Russia, China and Iran a special unit of the Ministry of Defense from former employees of the City of London and specialists in the field of finance. This became known on Friday, October 22.

Brimstone surface–to-surface missiles, which the UK plans to supply to Ukraine, will allow "destroying" Russian warships. This was stated by Lieutenant General, ex-Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Igor Romanenko in an interview with the Observer portal published on October 21.

Arms supplies to Ukraine may lead to increased violence and suffering of civilians in the country. This was announced on October 21 by the Russian Embassy in London. According to the embassy, London prefers not to notice that Kiev does not fulfill its obligations under the Minsk agreements.