To prepare for participation in the joint strategic exercise of the Armed Forces of Russia and Belarus "West-2021" on Wednesday, July 21, the first military echelons with Russian servicemen and equipment arrive in the Republic of Belarus. This became known from the information of the military department in Minsk.

Russian tankers in Tajikistan as part of the exercises marched to the Kharb-Maydon training ground bordering Afghanistan, the Central Military District (CVO) reports.

Fighters of a separate special-purpose detachment "Peresvet" and employees of the SOBR "Bulat"of the Main Directorate of the Rosgvardiya in the Moscow region held a practical lesson at a training center in the Moscow region Electrostal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin asked Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to assess in which regions it is necessary to increase the grouping of the Defense Ministry to fight forest fires.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, commenting on reports about the surveillance of the phone of French leader Emmanuel Macron, said that the Russian government uses a special communication system that is reliably protected and does not need additional protection.

The FSB proposes to add a number of defense and military information that is not related to state secrets, but which may harm the interests of Russia, to the list of information prohibited for transmission to foreign states. The corresponding draft order of the FSB Director has been published on the Federal Portal of Draft Regulatory Legal Acts.

According to him, the documents "found" by the BBC confirm that the provocation was planned

Attempts to test Russia's strength, such as the incident with the British destroyer Defender in the Black Sea, will continue, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted exercises to repel air strikes on the border with Crimea, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported on Facebook. "As part of the tactical training of air defense units <...>, combat crews of Buk anti-aircraft missile systems were trained to repel an airstrike by a conditional enemy," the release says.

NATO condemned "malicious cyber activity", in particular against Microsoft, and called for a" peaceful and secure " cyberspace.

The MiG company demonstrated models of new aircraft at the MAKS Air show. One of them is a promising multifunctional ship-based fighter.

The official representative of the Sukhoi company, Anastasia Kravchenko, said that the aircraft is already ready for testing

The Sukhoi company can create a two-seat modification of the Checkmate single-engine fighter. This was announced on Wednesday by Anastasia Kravchenko, director of the Information Policy and Public Communications Department of the company, on the air of the Rossiya-24 TV channel as part of the MAKS-2021 air show.

The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) "Rostec" will create an unmanned version of the Checkmate light tactical fighter ("Checkmate"), equipped with one engine. Rostec said this at a presentation during the International Aviation and Space Salon of 2021 (MAKS-2021), TASS reports.

Mikhail Strelets, First Deputy Managing Director - Director of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, noted that we are talking about both manned versions of the fighter and its unmanned modifications

The new Checkmate light single-engine fighter can operate in a network-centric combat system and work as part of a group of manned and unmanned aircraft.

The new Russian light tactical aircraft (LTS), called Checkmate ("Checkmate") or Su-75, is capable of simultaneously escorting two land and sea targets, the chief designer of this fifth-generation single-engine fighter, Mikhail Strelets, told TASS.

The head of the company, Yuri Slyusar, noted that "the time factor is one of the main competitive advantages in this project, as well as the price factor"

Tests of the Russian single-engine fighter Checkmate ("Checkmate" in English) should be completed in 2027. This was stated on Wednesday by the head of the UAC Yuri Slyusar in an interview with the TV channel "Russia-24" as part of the MAKS-2021 air show.

The cost of a flight hour of the new Russian fifth-generation fighter Checkmate will be seven times less than that of the American F-35, said the head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Yuri Slyusar.

The Russian light tactical aircraft (LTS), known as Checkmate ("Checkmate") or Su-75, belongs to the same class of fighters as the American single-engine aircraft of the fifth generation F-35 Lightning II, writes Air Force Magazine.

The expert from the USA is alarmed: Russia has a very promising and dangerous new stealth fighter. According to its combat characteristics, it significantly surpasses its American "colleagues". Today, the aircraft was demonstrated, and American experts hurried to examine the enemy in detail.

The first Russian single-engine tactical fighter of the fifth generation, the model of which Sukhoi presented at the International Aviation and Space Salon of 2021 (MAKS-2021), is a copy of the unsuccessful competitor of the American Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, Defense Express claims.

The Ukrainian media said that the Russian fifth-generation fighter, the prototype of which was presented at MAKS-2021, "was written off from dvoechnik." On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Dmitry Litovkin appreciated the publication.