US Assistant Secretary of Defense for China Affairs Michael Chase and Deputy Head of the Office for International Military Cooperation of the Central Military Council of the People's Republic of China Huang Xueping held another round of talks on defense policy in a videoconference format on September 28-29, the Pentagon said.

France continues to increase defense spending, which will reach $40.9 billion in 2022. euro (about $48 billion), which is 1.7 billion. euro more than in 2021 f.g.

The basic scenario of Russia's offensive on Poland and Lithuania involves the early introduction of Russian troops into Belarus, which was worked out by Moscow and Minsk during the rear part of the joint exercises "WEST-2021", says the Polish edition of Defence24.

In the presence of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a memorandum of cooperation was signed in Kiev on September 29 between the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Turkish company Bayraktar Savunma.

Russia's position on the unacceptability of the possible US use of Russian military bases in Central Asia has not changed, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.

Iran continues to transfer heavy long-range artillery to the border with Azerbaijan. So, the other day a new column was spotted, consisting of 155-mm self-propelled artillery units M109A1B of American production and 155-mm towed Austrian guns-howitzers GHN-45.

The All-Russian public-state organization "Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Army, Aviation and Navy" and the All-Russian Public Organization "Russian Geographical Society" have signed a cooperation agreement.

In the autumn of 2021, more than 127 thousand people will be called up for military service, said the head of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Yevgeny Burdinsky.

Military engineers of the Southern Military District also conducted classes on the electrical method of exploding structures

The military of the Russian Federation and Pakistan, during the joint exercise "Friendship-2021" at the Krasnodar Territory training ground, used the latest robotic complex "URAN-6" to mine objects. This was reported in the press service of the Southern Military District (SE).

Russian and Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the continuation of cooperation between the two countries in the field of military-technical cooperation, including the possibility of expanding cooperation on the S-400 and other areas, the press secretary of the head of the Russian state Dmitry Peskov said.

Work is underway with foreign partners on this issue, the state corporation's report notes

ROSCOSMOS State Corporation is coordinating a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the field of peaceful space with Pakistan. This is stated in the Roscosmos annual report for 2020.

The Belarusian army on Thursday received the first batch of Russian-made BTR-82A.

According to the military news agency "vAyar", the equipment arrived at the Ozerishche railway station, where it was unloaded.

The Afghan radical Islamic movement "Taliban" (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) accused the United States of violating the airspace of Afghanistan.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin pointed out the senselessness of extending the stay of American troops in Afghanistan and keeping the base in Bagram in the hands of the country.

On Wednesday, September 29, a meeting of the Russian-Pakistani military advisory committee on defense and security issues was held in Islamabad. Our military department was represented there by Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin.

The Arctic grouping of the Northern Fleet (SF) has worked out the landing of a marine landing on the unequipped coast of Yakutia, the press service of the SF reported on Wednesday.

The Omsk submarine and the vAryag cruiser launched cruise missiles at a target at a distance of over 450 km during an exercise off the coast of Kamchatka. This is reported by the press service of the Pacific Fleet.

The Ministry of Defense has published a video of missile firing in the Pacific Ocean. During the planned exercise, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, the cruiser vAryag and the nuclear submarine OMSK, shot the target ship with cruise missiles.

The crew of the Project 20385 Nimble corvette, which is being built at the sEvernaya Verf shipbuilding enterprise, arrived in St. Petersburg to study at the Joint Training Center of the Russian Navy.

On Wednesday, the Amur Shipbuilding Plant (part of the USC) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur will host the ceremonial laying of a new multi-purpose corvette "Brave" project 20380.