The Russian Defense Ministry will continue to pay attention to the functioning of the seventh Russian military base in Abkhazia, the head of the Russian military department said

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with President of the Republic of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania discussed issues of alliance and security in Transcaucasia. This was reported on Wednesday in the Russian military department.

The Russian military is conducting exercises on its territory, unlike the US military, and the Russian Federation is not going to report on the deployment of the military on its territory, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

According to him, it began after the US withdrawal from the ABM treaty

The arms race between Russia and the United States began after the American side withdrew from the anti-missile defense treaty and is on the march, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Significant efforts by the Americans will be directed at weakening Moscow's existing ties with its Central Asian partners. This was stated by the Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Nikolai Patrushev at the XVII meeting of the heads of the special services of the CIS countries in Moscow.

Ukraine should not strive to become a member of the European Union, since the EU is an "artificial entity" doomed to collapse. According to Gordon, the European Union is doomed, and Ukraine does not need to join there today. At the same time, the journalist believes that Ukraine needs to prepare for joining NATO.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will visit Georgia, Romania, Ukraine, and will also pay a visit to allies in Brussels, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said at a briefing on Tuesday, October 12.

The creation of the AUKUS alliance poses a danger to the provisions on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, jeopardizes the security architecture in Asia, said the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev.

The creation of the AUKUS trilateral alliance aims to inflate the Cold War, at the same time also violates the provisions of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and creates the threat of a nuclear catastrophe in the region, said Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Le Yucheng.

The exercises of the Chinese armed forces in the Taiwan Strait area are aimed at protecting peace and stability in the area, Ma Xiaoguang, head of the Taiwan Affairs Office at the State Council of the People's Republic of China, told reporters.

The company announced that it already has a set of proposals

Branch of PJSC "sUkhoi Company" Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Yuri Gagarin" (part of PJSC UAC of Rostec State Corporation) plans to enter the state program of the military-industrial complex, which will be calculated until 2033, said the director of the branch Alexander Pekarsh.

Pilots of a separate naval fighter aviation regiment of the Northern Fleet, who arrived from the Kola Arctic in the Crimea, began training at the Saki airfield.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have begun regular use of Bayraktar TB2 attack drones purchased from Turkey, using them for various missions, including on the demarcation line in the Donbas. This can be judged by the incoming information from both sides of the conflict and independent sources.

The Chinese corporation Xian Aircraft Corporation (XAC) has completed the assembly of the second prototype of the KJ-600 AWACS carrier-based aircraft, which is being developed for use on aircraft carriers of the PLA Navy.

The pseudo-satellite Zephyr S of the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has set a flight altitude record for its class of drones. He climbed 23.2 thousand meters.

The demonstrator of the multi-purpose military helicopter Defiant broke its own previous speed record in direct horizontal flight, reaching a speed of 247 knots (457 kilometers per hour). Sikorsky has posted a corresponding video of a helicopter flight with a jet aircraft on Facebook.

ROSCOSMOS continues a series of trouble-free rocket launches for the third year in a row, which is an absolute record in Russian history. During this time, 67 successful launches of space rockets manufactured at the enterprises of the state corporation were carried out from the Baikonur, Vostochny, Guiana Space Center and Plesetsk military cosmodrome.

European partners are considering a proposal from ROSCOSMOS to create the necessary infrastructure for manned launches of the Russian sOyuz-2 rocket from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana, negotiations are underway, Sergey Savelyev, Deputy Director General of the ROSCOSMOS State Corporation for International Cooperation, told RIA Novosti.

As part of the NS-18 mission, Blue Origin conducted the second launch of the New Shepard spacecraft with people on board. The 90-year-old Canadian actor William Shatner takes part in the mission. The other three tourists are Audrey Powers, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries.

Deep Blue Aerospace has tested a prototype of its promising reusable Nebula-M1 rocket. The device reached a height of 100 meters and successfully returned back.

ROSTEC has started developing man-portable air defense missile systems (MANPADS) of extended range, Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the armament complex of the state corporation, told RIA Novosti.