The Russian Aircraft Corporation (RSK) MiG has begun developing a carrier-based fighter of the 5th generation, which will be made using stealth technology, and plans to create a prototype of the aircraft in the next few years, a source in the defense industry complex told RIA Novosti.

Annual Multinational Military exercises Agile Spirit 2021 ("Agile Spirit 2021") with the participation of military personnel of 12 NATO members and three alliance partners, started in Georgia on Monday.

In case of a threat to national security, Belarusian rescuers will perform the same tasks as the internal affairs bodies. This was announced on July 25 by the Minister of Emergency Situations of the republic Vadim Sinyavsky.

A peace treaty could put an end to the dispute between Russia and Japan over the ownership of the Southern Kurils, said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.

The former head of the food department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Andrey Berezhnoy, created a criminal group to receive bribes. This was announced by the military Prosecutor's office on July 26.

Sevmash will launch Krasnoyarsk, the second serial nuclear submarine of the Yasen — M project, on July 30. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, this will happen at a solemn ceremony in Severodvinsk.

The Afghan Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) issued a statement in which it sharply condemned the US airstrikes carried out on July 22 in the provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, noting that such attacks are a clear violation of the Doha Peace Agreement and will have consequences.

The national television of Afghanistan (RTA) showed footage of the Pakistani military, violating the state border, moving through the territory of Afghanistan in the territories controlled by the Taliban movement (banned in Russia) in the province of Kandahar.

The Russian authorities do not yet plan to exclude the Taliban movement from the list of banned organizations, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov

The government of Afghanistan should not think about staying in power, but about the future of the country, and start negotiations with the Taliban as soon as possible (the Taliban movement is banned in the Russian Federation), Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

The heads of the defense departments of Kazakhstan, Nurlan Yermekbayev and Tajikistan, Sherali Mirzo, discussed in a telephone conversation the issues of Kazakhstan's assistance to Tajikistan to counter the existing risks and challenges on the Tajik-Afghan border.

At four o'clock in the morning, by order of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Leader of the Nation, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Tajikistan, Army General Emomali Rahmon, for the first time in the history of the independent state of Tajikistan, a check of the combat readiness of the Armed Forces, law enforcement agencies and personnel of mobilization reserves called "Marz-2021" (Border-2021) began throughout the republic.

The Syrian military, using Russian-made air defense systems, destroyed Israeli missiles fired at the territory of the republic, said Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria, on July 22.

As reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, it will be held as part of the working trip of the Russian delegation to the country

A joint meeting of the interdepartmental coordination headquarters of Russia and Syria on the return of refugees and the restoration of peaceful life will be held in Damascus on July 26. This was reported to journalists on Saturday in the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Russian Defense Ministry has delivered 250 thousand doses of the Russian Sputnik Light vaccine and 1 million tests for laboratory diagnostics of the coronavirus to Syria, the Russian military department told reporters.

On July 20, the Ministry of Defense of India announced that it had sent a request for proposals within the framework of the acquisition program for the country's Navy of six equipped VNEU based on fuel cells of the "Project-75(I)" (P-75(I)).

On July 22, 2021, the German Federal Defense Procurement Agency BAAINBw (Bundesamt für Ausrüstung, Informationstechnik und Nutzung der Bundeswehr) announced the issuance of a contract to the German shipbuilding company Fassmer GmbH Co. KG for the construction of two large experimental vessels of a new project for the 71st experimental test center (71 Wehrtechnische Dienststelle-WTD 71) of the German Navy in Eckernferd. The vessels should be commissioned in 2023.

The US Navy has received an unusual vessel that resembles a brick in its shape, writes Popular Mechanics.

The Pentagon will massively write off defective ships of the US Navy (Navy). RIA writes about this, the document has not yet been finalized, but the approximate list of" faulty " vessels is already known.News.

The situation in the Black Sea is "artificially inflated" by non-regional players, Moscow will closely monitor the implementation of the Montreux Convention, the Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti.