Poland will strengthen the security of NATO's eastern borders with the help of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said. In May, the country's Minister of National Defense, Mariusz Blaszczak, already reported on Warsaw's plans to purchase 24 foreign drones.

Created under the Next-Generation Air Dominance program, the new-generation fighter may exist in two versions. One of them is intended for the actions of Europe, the second-for work in the Indo-Pacific region.

Soviet military aircraft are living out their last years in Ukraine. Another confirmation of this was the proposal to equip the Air Force of this country with F-16 fighters. What are the chances that Ukrainian pilots will fly in American cars, what price will Ukraine have to pay for this decision – and what threat will these cars pose to Russia?

The launch of the MS-21-400 project in development will depend on the demand after the start of operation in airlines of the MS-21-300/310 aircraft. This was reported to journalists by the General director of the Irkut Corporation Ravil Khakimov.

Since the beginning of the Cold War, unmanned US reconnaissance balloons have become a real headache for the Soviet air defense system. To solve the problem, the M-17 Stratosphere interceptor was developed under the guidance of designer Vladimir Myasishchev.

As part of the Baltops 2021 exercise, the US army "tested" a new Challenger 650 Artemis reconnaissance and target designation aircraft in Russia, Izvestia reports, citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

In the Kaliningrad region, the pilots of the Baltic Fleet worked out one of the most difficult types of flight training - refueling in the air.

Ten Su-34 bombers conducted an exercise in the Voronezh Region with practical rocket and bomb attacks, the press service of the Western Military District reported.

According to the assessment of the SF command, all the tasks assigned to the anti-submarine aviation LTU were completed successfully

The Northern Fleet (SF) held flight tactical exercises (LTU) of a separate mixed aviation regiment to provide long-range anti-submarine protection of the fleet forces. The crews of anti-submarine aircraft practiced bombing on conventional submarines at the naval training ground, the press service of the SF reported on Saturday.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on his Greek colleagues to abandon "provocative actions" in the Mediterranean. "Greece needs to abandon provocative actions," Cavusoglu said at a press conference on the occasion of the end of the Diplomatic Forum in Antalya.

Small European states are determined to remain useful to NATO. June 17, portal luxtimes.lu he said that Luxembourg and Belgium are going to form a joint army battalion.

NATO activity near the Russian borders does not decrease, the military-political situation remains tense

Modern dangers and threats require Russia to take new approaches to ensuring the country's national security and defense, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said on Friday at a graduation ceremony for graduates of the Military Academy of the General Staff.

The calculation of Western countries on technical superiority in terms of the implementation of the Open Skies Treaty (DON), from which the United States and later Russia withdrew, did not justify itself, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

The North Atlantic Council of NATO has expressed its "deep regret" over Russia's decision to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty (DON).

The Russian Black Sea Fleet has sent 1.5 thousand troops to help the population of Crimea, which was affected by flooding, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

Specialists of the Russian Ministry of Defense have started developing a new drug aimed at combating coronavirus infection. It is noteworthy that it will not be in the form of tablets or injections, but in the form of chewing gum.

The Russian Defense Ministry will speed up the renewal of the training and material base of combined arms and aviation ranges. This was announced on June 17 at the training camp of specialists for the maintenance of landfills, the head of the Department of Training and Material Base of the Main Directorate of Combat Training of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel Sergei Nikitushkin.

Military personnel of the special purpose unit of the Central Military District during a tactical flight exercise in the Novosibirsk region for the first time conducted a mass landing in the rear of a simulated enemy from 11 helicopters.

[b]An innovative scheme for providing troops during the transition from peacetime to wartime has been developed, said Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova.]

The new system of financing the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in wartime will be developed for the first time during the joint Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021", which will be held on the territory of the two countries in September. This was reported to journalists by the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Tatyana Shevtsova during a working trip to Belarus.

The leader of the military in power in Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaine, went to the Russian Federation, Chinese TV channel CGTN reported on Sunday, citing Burmese media.