Eleven new simulators of the Diamond DA-42T combat training aircraft will be delivered to the Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots until 2025.

During the exercises of front-line aviation near Voronezh, an episode was worked out with the relocation of Su-34 bombers to an operational airfield equipped directly on the federal highway E-38 Kursk-Saratov.

Russia can assist Turkey in creating a fifth-generation fighter, but not to the detriment of its national interests, Dmitry Shugaev, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), said on Wednesday.

Rosoboronexport is discussing with foreign customers the issue of creating a two-seat version of the Su-57 fighter, the head of the company Alexander Mikheev said.

On Wednesday, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu arrived at the Kubinka airfield near Moscow. Here he examined the aviation part of the exposition of the international military-technical forum "Army-2021".

Israel intends to work on creating a coalition of Arab countries that want to limit Iran's influence in the region. This was stated by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in an interview published on August 24 with The New York Times.

The International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" is being held near Moscow from August 22 to 28, and the exposition of Belarus is one of the brightest.

At the "Army-2021" you can see the best samples of Belarusian military equipment. Various means of communication, military telecommunications, radar equipment, unmanned aerial vehicles are widely represented. Specialists are interested in electronic warfare systems, including those designed to combat drones.

State tests of Lancet barrage ammunition, nicknamed "kamikaze drones", will begin at the end of 2021. This was announced at the Army-2021 forum by a representative of the Kalashnikov Group of companies.

Washington was in no hurry to evacuate from Afghanistan, so as not to provoke a "complete crisis of confidence", but this did not save the country's government. This was stated on August 23 by the US president's national security adviser Jake Sullivan during a briefing broadcast on Twitter.

The United States maintains contacts with the Afghan Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) on a number of issues, but there is no talk of trust or formal relations, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a briefing on Monday.

The problem of Afghan refugees is alarming

The Taliban (the Taliban group is banned in the Russian Federation) got a huge amount of weapons that no one controls, said Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, answering the question whether the Taliban movement poses a military threat to Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia will not interfere in the internal affairs of Afghanistan and draw its armed forces into the conflict in this country.

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, at the annual meeting of high representatives of the BRICS countries in charge of security issues, drew the attention of colleagues to attempts to impose alien ideals on the peoples of the five countries. According to him, they are trying to pass off these ideals as so-called universal democratic values.

Russia is the only country that has managed to eliminate terrorist formations, otherwise the current horrors in Afghanistan could have been in the Russian Federation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the second stage of the United Russia congress.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a final press conference in Budapest that Moscow does not want to see American soldiers in Central Asia.

In early August, India sent an operational naval group of ships to the South China Sea and the western Pacific Ocean

Ships of the Indian Navy conducted naval maneuvers with ships of the Philippine Navy in the South China Sea over the past day. As the official representative of the Indian Navy Vivek Madhwal told reporters, the exercises were held in the western part of the South China Sea, which Manila officially calls the West Philippine Sea.

On August 21, the christening ceremony of the Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) class "San Antonio" designed for the US Navy was held at the Ingalls Shipbuilding shipyard (part of Huntington Ingalls Industries).

On August 10, the installation of lighting equipment on the new Indian aircraft carrier Vikrant was completed. The installation was carried out under the leadership of the team of the Russian company "Aerosvet".

The nuclear submarine "Kuzbass" of the Pacific Fleet returned to its home base in the city of Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatka Territory, after a long performance of combat missions at sea. This was announced on Tuesday, August 24, the press service of the TOPF reported.

The laying of two strategic nuclear submarines of Project 955 — the ships "Dmitry Donskoy" and "Prince Potemkin" - took place at once. They will become the ninth and tenth submarines of the Borey program.