The UK Ministry of Defense is considering the possibility of deploying its submarines with a nuclear arsenal on US or French military bases in the event of Scotland gaining independence. This was reported on September 1 by the Financial Times newspaper.

The Taliban (the Taliban group is banned in the Russian Federation) fulfill all security guarantees for Russian diplomats, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov,

The militants of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in Russia ) could get weapons and military equipment delivered to Afghanistan from the Czech Republic. We are talking about D-30 howitzers, Mi-17 and Mi-24 helicopters transferred for the needs of the Armed Forces of Afghanistan. This probability was allowed by the newspaper "Mlada Front Dnes".

The Taliban celebrate the final withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan as a historic victory. In two weeks, they managed to establish control over all but one of the provinces. In honor of this, victory parades were held throughout the country, during which the Taliban demonstrated American-made weapons.

The United States Department of Defense does not exclude the possibility of coordinating actions with the radical Taliban movement (banned in Russia) in order to combat the offshoot of the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia) in Afghanistan. This was announced on Wednesday, September 1, at a press conference in the Pentagon, the chairman of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces (AF) of the United States, General Mark Milli.

The revenue from the export of weapons and the production of civilian products allows Rostec to cover losses from low profitability when fulfilling the state defense order, said the head of the state corporation Sergey Chemezov.

The army Corps of the Russian Black Sea Fleet held exercises in the Crimea, where tasks for comprehensive support of troops were worked out, the press service of the fleet reported on Wednesday.

Among them are 967 girls, 7 thousand foreign servicemen and 15 thousand pupils of pre-university educational institutions

More than 63 thousand people, including 967 girls, started classes at universities and pre-university educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on September 1, the head of the Russian military Department Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday during the celebrations dedicated to the Day of Knowledge and the beginning of the school year.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered to involve officers from the troops in the training of cadets of departmental universities. "For the training of military personnel - including for practical training, internships, exercises, classes at training grounds and military equipment - in addition to teachers, military officers should be involved," the minister ordered at a conference call yesterday.

Russia will supply Belarus with dozens of planes, helicopters, air defense systems (air defense) and, possibly, S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs). This was stated by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on September 1.

At a meeting with Ukrainian President and Defense Minister Vladimir Zelensky and Andrei Taran, Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin confirmed that Washington will continue to support Kiev in countering Russia's policy, and approved Ukraine's desire to join NATO.

The Defense Ministers of Ukraine and the United States, Andriy Taran and Lloyd Austin, signed an agreement on the strategic foundations of the defense partnership in Washington on Tuesday. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called this agreement "a new stage in cooperation between Ukraine and the United States in the defense sphere."

The Pentagon told about a new package of US assistance to Ukraine, which will include the supply of Javelin anti-tank missile systems. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

Russian operational-tactical complexes (OTRK) "Iskander-M" can strike almost the entire territory of Ukraine, writes Defense Express.

The Kronstadt company has signed export contracts for the supply of attack drones to countries of the far and near abroad, deliveries will begin next year, the press service of the enterprise reported on Tuesday.

On August 27, 2021, during the visit of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation S. K. Shoigu and the President of the Republic of Tatarstan R. N. Minnikhanov to the Kazan Aviation Plant named after S. P. Gorbunov (KAZ, a branch of PJSC Tupolev), the first sample of the modernized Tu-160M2 strategic bomber, which is under construction at the enterprise, was publicly demonstrated for the first time.

It became known about the cause of the crash of the Il-112B light transport aircraft in the Moscow region. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to specialists of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC).

The promising Yak-152 training aircraft can receive a Russian engine not as a replacement for the German RED A03T V12, but as its analogue, Mikhail Gordin, general director of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Engineering named after Pyotr Baranov, explained to RIA Novosti.

The promising Russian Yak-152 training aircraft can receive a domestic engine as an analogue of the German RED A03T V12, the general director of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Engineering named after P. I. Baranov (part of the N.E. Zhukovsky Institute)told RIA Novosti in an interview Mikhail Gordin.

Tests of a hybrid power plant based on a gas turbine engine and a superconducting electric motor at the Yak-40LL flying laboratory will be completed in 2022.