The Presidents of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan discussed the situation in Afghanistan at a consultative meeting, stressing that its early settlement is one of the most important factors for preserving and strengthening security and stability in Central Asia.

Russia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will develop common approaches and work out new ways of conducting combat operations at the exercises near the border with Afghanistan, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Thursday.

The United States will continue its efforts to strengthen the potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and modernize the military sphere of Georgia. The United States calls on its allies to step up support for Kiev and Tbilisi. This statement was made on Wednesday, August 4, by the Director for Southern and Central Europe of the Pentagon, Alton Buland.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin may this week request permission from US President Joe Biden to oblige all military personnel on active duty to be vaccinated against COVID-19, CNN reports.

"Forpost-R" is a "Russified" modification of the UAV "Forpost", a licensed copy of the Israeli UAV Searcher MkII, assembled at UZGA from kits of the Israeli company IAI since 2010. According to a source in the Ministry of Defense, in the new "Outpost" from the previous modification, only the external contours remained, and all the electronic component base, communication equipment, software and engines were replaced with Russian analogues.

The Russian Be-200 aircraft taking part in extinguishing fires in Greece landed today not because of engine damage, but in connection with the operation of the engine sensor, the press service of the Rostec state Corporation reported on Wednesday.

Ukraine is best suited to replace the aging Soviet MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters with the American F-15EX Eagle II, and not the American F-35 Lightning II, which is "seen" by Russian radar stations (radars), former president and former chief designer of the Antonov state enterprise Alexander Los said in an interview with Defense Express.

The Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant is waiting for the arrival of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Krasmash is listed in the list of production facilities that the minister is going to visit this week during a working trip to Siberia. The new Sarmat strategic missile system will be mass-produced at this enterprise. And the head of the Russian military department is personally monitoring all the stages of preparation for this important event not only for the army, but also for the whole country.

According to a TASS source, the Topol ICBM that has served its service life is being changed to the Yars ICBM with a splitting head

Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) In 2024, Russia will completely stop operating the RS-12M Topol solid-fuel monoblock intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The US Department of Defense announced that the US State Department approved the sale of 40 units of 155-mm M109A6 self-propelled howitzer artillery systems to Taiwan at a cost of $750 million.

The ship's strike group (KUG) from the formation of ships protecting the water area of the troops and forces in the North-east of Russia returned to its home base after performing combat service tasks in the Pacific Ocean, the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO) reported on Thursday.

The UK will transfer two decommissioned ships of the Ukrainian Navy to Ukraine. This is stated on the website of the Royal Navy.

Israeli fighter jets attacked targets in southern Lebanon early on Thursday morning, The Jerusalem Post reports.

A lockdown in Russia in the spring of 2020 due to the coronavirus epidemic threatened to disrupt the supply of weapons and military equipment under the state defense order and for export in the amount of several trillion rubles, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said.

The opening ceremony of the international exercise "Indra-2021" was held at the Prudoboy training ground in the Volgograd region, the head of the press service of the Southern Military District Vadim Astafyev told reporters.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation from the first days of the creation of the Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus infection took part in its development, said the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu, in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.

Data on the loss of another T-90S tank of the Azerbaijani ground forces appeared on social networks. Judging by the comments, a moving column was hit by an artillery raid carried out by Armenian troops in the Jabrayil area. As a result, the T-90S tank and the tanker on the MAZ chassis were destroyed.

According to the results of working out several scenarios of war games in order to check the combat readiness of the US army units by the Pentagon in October last year, the latter suffered a crushing defeat.

The Russian Su-35S fighter jet crashed under very "curious" circumstances, the bmpd channel writes in Telegram, citing unofficial network sources.

The US Air Force has released the reasons for the mysterious fall of the F-22 fighter.

A year after the crash of an F-22 near Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, a possible cause of the disaster has been named. It crashed due to "a maintenance error made after washing the aircraft," the Airforce times quotes a representative of the US Air Force.