Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Thursday, October 21, pointed to the Russophobic tone of the statements of Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin during his visit to Kiev.

Ukraine's accession to NATO would be an extremely dangerous step, it would force Moscow to react, the alliance is warned of possible consequences, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

With the visit of Lloyd Austin, the United States demonstrated the scope of its interests in Europe, but further prospects depend on the leadership of Ukraine. Most likely, the Defense Minister was interested in personally getting acquainted with the geopolitical location and the role of Ukraine in the likely theater of military operations, the "expert" suggests.

The British Ministry of Defense, in response to RIA Novosti's request to comment on the Times newspaper reports that the government is negotiating the sale of Brimstone missiles to Ukraine, said that it was a deal that was made public in June of this year, but the names of the missiles were not indicated in the June message.

Arms supplies to Ukraine from the West will not contribute to the settlement, but they may encourage Kiev to carry out new provocations in the Donbass. This was announced on October 21 by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko.

The United States will continue to hinder Russia's attempts to gain a dominant position in the Black Sea region, the head of the US defense department, Lloyd Austin, said at a press conference in Romania on Wednesday.

As indicated in the report of the Ministry of Energy, Mining and Industry of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), approved by the Government in Sarajevo on October 7, the revenue of manufacturers of defense products in 2020 amounted to 258.7 million convertible marks ($152.76 million).

The Minister of the Armed Forces of France, Florence Parly, presented a new military doctrine of the fight against information influence (document L2I).

Excerpts of the speech, which took place in the main building of the military department in the south of Paris, are posted on the Minister's page. 

On October 21, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu went to a new military town, which was built in less than a year in one of the Moscow districts. There are two departmental centers located there - the 27th Scientific and the Aviation Safety Center of the Armed Forces.

"The co-pilot" and the spherical radar station leave the American competitor far behind, said military expert Alexey Leonkov

The newest domestic fifth-generation fighter Su-57 is ahead of its competitors from the United States in weapons systems, robotics, radar surveillance systems and electronic warfare (electronic warfare).

The Russian Su-57, which a number of experts do not consider fully fifth-generation fighters, are currently under development and testing, as a result of which the appearance of such serial aircraft and the start of their full-scale production should be expected in at least a few years, the Polish edition of Defence24 notes.

The Air Force of the People's Liberation Army of China has begun a massive conversion of outdated Shenyang J-6 fighters into unmanned aerial vehicles. This is reported by Defense News.

These aircraft have long been the basis of the PRC Air Force. They are, in fact, a clone of the Soviet MiG-19 aircraft. The production of the "sixth" was organized in the early 60s at the aviation plant in Shenyang and lasted for almost a quarter of a century. During this time, according to various sources, about 4,000 pieces were released.

As reported by the US Embassy in the Philippines, at Clark Air Base in Mabalacat City (prov. Pampanga) the official ceremony of the transfer of four Scanigl UAVs to the Philippine Air Force took place.

The Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the South Korean Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) signed a memorandum of understanding on October 20 within the framework of the program for the development and production of barrage ammunition.

Dmitry Baranov, General Director of the Progress Rocket and Space Center, noted that the first Soyuz-2 rockets.1a" and "Soyuz-2.1b" were launched immediately with spacecraft

The payload that will be launched on the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle has not yet been determined. This was announced to journalists on Thursday by Dmitry Baranov, General Director of the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC).

At the 1st Plesetsk state test cosmodrome, they began the "dry" removal of the Angara rocket in the process of preparing the rocket for testing. This is reported by TASS.

The Progress MS-17 spacecraft undocked from the small research module "Search" of the International Space Station (ISS). This became known on Thursday, October 21.

16 Soyuz rockets have already been launched at various cosmodromes in 2021

The Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC) plans to launch more than 20 Soyuz rockets in 2021. This was announced to journalists on Thursday by the general director of the company Dmitry Baranov.

The first start of the new year was scheduled for January 6

Three launches of Soyuz-ST launch vehicles are expected in 2022 from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana. This was announced in an interview with TASS by Ruslan Mukhamedzhanov, Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI, part of Roscosmos).

According to the CEO of CENKI, work is underway on new contracts

Contracts for two launches of the Soyuz-ST launch vehicle have been concluded for 2023. This was announced in an interview with TASS by Ruslan Mukhamedzhanov, Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI, part of Roscosmos).