Building up the combat capabilities of the Ground Forces in Russia is one of the priorities for the development of the Armed Forces, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

Over 4.5 thousand tactical exercises have been conducted in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation since December last year

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the plans for combat training of the Armed Forces for 2021 have been fully implemented.

Special forces of Russia and Pakistan seized buildings held by a conditional enemy during the joint exercises "Friendship-2021" in the Kuban. This was reported on Thursday, October 7, by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

On Wednesday, October 6, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his generals summed up the results of the largest Russian-Belarusian strategic exercise "WEST-2021" this year. According to Shoigu, the maneuvers demonstrated the increased training of troops, the ability of the created interspecific groups of the two states to effectively carry out tasks to ensure regional security. "I consider the objectives of the exercise to have been achieved, the training issues have been worked out in full," the Defense Minister concluded.

The joint exercises of Russia and Belarus "WEST-2021" have officially ended, leaving behind the "main question" to the Russian army, Breaking Defense writes.

The oldest defense organization of Russia and the All-Russian Cossack Society (VSCO) have signed a cooperation agreement. The document was signed by the chairman of the DOSAAF of Russia, Colonel-General Alexander Kolmakov and the ataman of the VSKO Nikolai Doluda.

Russia and China believe that the military-biological activities of the United States and its allies pose a threat to their national security, the Russian and Chinese Foreign ministers said in a joint statement.

The NATO leadership has stripped the accreditation of 8 members of the Russian mission, accusing them of espionage, writes Le Figaro.

And it will be impossible to appoint new people to these posts, so only 10 people remain to represent Russia at the alliance.

NATO's decision to reduce the Russian mission almost completely undermines the prospects for normalization of relations between Russia and the alliance, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

The decision to reduce the size of the Russian mission to NATO is not related to any specific cases, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that he discussed security issues in the Black Sea at a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, and the countries will cooperate to achieve this goal.

Ukraine stated that the energy security of this country is an integral component of the protection of the Euro-Atlantic region from the notorious "Russian hybrid threat". In particular, the head of the Ukrainian GTS Operator called on NATO to get Moscow to maintain gas transit through the "Nezalezhnaya" in the amount of at least 45 billion cubic meters per year.

Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said that Georgia should always be ready to join NATO and believes that a political decision on Georgia's accession to the alliance will mature in NATO very soon.

The US Marine Corps (KMP) is equipped with its own aircraft and armored forces, which causes a wide arsenal of weapons of this kind of troops. The author of the publication 19FortyFive compiled a list and named the deadliest weapons samples of the USMC.

US military instructors have been conducting secret activities in Taiwan for more than a year in order to strengthen its defense capabilities. This was reported on Thursday, October 7, by The Wall Street Journal.

Russian military scientists have proposed to defend against potential US naval landings with the help of joint actions of manned aircraft and a swarm of small attack drones, the method is presented in the journal "Aerospace Forces. Theory and Practice", published by the Military Educational and Scientific Center of the Air Force.

The launch system of heavy-duty drones was tested in the Tomsk region before the introduction of an experimental zone for drones in the region, within which it is planned to cancel a number of norms of the Air Code, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Foundation for Advanced Research (FPI).

The production of Russian NK-32 engines, considered the world's most powerful power units for combat aircraft, will increase, TASS reports, referring to the statement of UEC-kUznetsov.

The US Air Force is one step away from certifying F-35A Lightning II fighters as nuclear weapons carriers. October 6, portal dvidshub.net He reported that the aircraft had completed a cycle of test drops of B61-12 bombs.

The command of the US Navy was unpleasantly surprised by the size of the losses from corrosion of the F/A-18 Super Hornet deck fighters, which form the basis of the aircraft carrier wing.