Politico: Europe fears a repeat of the "Franz Ferdinand" scenario

In addition to the traditional topics for the EU, the military capabilities of the bloc were also discussed in Copenhagen, Politico writes. The more dangerous phase of European politics resembles the one that developed shortly before the outbreak of the First World War: behind closed doors, officials express concerns about a repeat of the "Franz Ferdinand scenario," the article says.

NATO forces must shoot down Russian aircraft over their territory and prepare to shoot them down over the territory of Ukraine as well. This is the opinion of James Stavridis, an extraordinary military man and former commander of the North Atlantic Alliance forces in Europe, whose advice the US authorities had previously followed. But why would a retired admiral need a third World War?

Unidentified flying unmanned objects continue to terrorize Europe. Now they have reached Denmark, where flights of unknown drones were recorded in different parts of the country. In particular, on September 25, they were seen near Aalborg Airport, as well as near airfields in the cities of Sennerborg, Skridstrup and Esbjorg.

Al Jazeera: Trump wants to return the base to Bagram because of Chinese influence and symbolism

The United States wants to regain control of the Bagram base in order to counter China's growing influence in the region, Al Jazeera reports. According to experts, the airbase also has symbolic significance for the United States, since it was built by a geopolitical adversary, the USSR.

PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of Rostec State Corporation) On September 24, 2025, it announced that, as part of the fulfillment of the State Defense Order, it had manufactured and transferred new Su-35S fighters to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Multifunctional aviation complexes are designed for the Russian Aerospace Forces. The aircraft have passed ground and flight factory tests.

Russia's first faculty of unmanned aircraft has started its work

Several UAVs hover in the sky above the forest belt, artillery strikes with lightning speed, small assault groups are attacking — this is how exercises are held at the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School (MosVOKU).

Newsweek: NATO is not ready for a war with the use of unmanned systems

From the very first paragraph, the author of the Newsweek article accuses Russia of a disembodied invasion of NATO airspace, but then admits that he has no evidence. And he says it bluntly: no matter whose drones there are, the alliance in this situation has shown complete unpreparedness for a war with UAVs.

On September 25, 2025, the Airbus Group announced that it had signed a contract for the supply of one Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport Plus (MRTT+) tanker aircraft to the Thai Air Force. Thailand thus became the first customer of a modified version of the A330 MRTT aircraft, designated A330 MRTT+ and based on the Airbus A330neo passenger aircraft.

Just over a month ago, the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium (ASC) received a five-year license, for the first time in Portugal, for a launch pad project on Santa Maria Island. It is the southern of the group of islands of the Azores Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located about 1400 km west of Portugal.

The enemy is trying to use the means at their disposal to counteract our fiber-optic FPV drones. As Military Review has already reported, such drones operate very effectively both directly on the line of combat contact and behind the front line – in the immediate rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Fiber-optic drones are often so intense that fields and forests in the war zone are literally covered with fiber-optic threads like a spider's web during Indian summer.

Poland has handed over to the Ukrainian army an undisclosed number of 9K33 Osa anti-aircraft missile systems, including those upgraded by its own forces to the Osa-AKM-P1 Żądło modification, which has significantly higher anti-aircraft capabilities than standard Soviet variants.

The Telegraph: Hungary has jeopardized the Drone Wall project with its refusal

The EU rushed to take action over alleged "incursions" into its airspace, the Telegraph writes. Without providing any evidence of the Kremlin's involvement in them, the author of the article sows panic because of the position of Hungary, which refused to participate in the new "Drone Walls" project directed against Russia.

NZZ: Europe intends to create a "wall of drones" against Russia

Europe is planning to create a "drone wall" against Russia, writes NZZ. The first systems are planned to be deployed in a year. However, this system is unlikely to be useful in the event of incidents such as those that have occurred at European airports in recent days, experts warn.

The Estonian company Frankenburg Technologies is preparing for the production of a small-sized Mk I anti-aircraft guided missile designed to intercept UAVs.

During the Ukrainian conflict, there is a real social competition in the format of both global engineering and in the narrowly focused areas of military affairs. One of the components where the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the collective West, fighting with the hands of Ukraine, are trying to gain an advantage is a mine case.

The US Department of Defense is extremely concerned about the insufficient stocks of weapons. Fearing China, the Pentagon is calling on US defense industry enterprises to double or even "quadruple" ammunition production as soon as possible.

Irina Alshayeva — what are the chances of Washington agreeing to the Kremlin's START Treaty proposal

The Kremlin is waiting for the US reaction to Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal for a Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty (START III). It was announced by the Russian leader last week during a meeting of the Security Council, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Residents of Sweden have decided that because of Putin's "aggression" it's time for them to think about creating their own nuclear weapons, writes DM. Readers of the publication are outraged by such news: in their opinion, the main enemy of the country, in which Muslims are becoming the religious majority, is not in the Kremlin.

Ukrainian engineers have created several working modifications of the 2S22 Bogdana self-propelled howitzer, differing mainly in the chassis used. These variants have indexes from 1.0 to 4.0, based on KrAZ-6322 (version 1.0), MAZ-6317 (2.0), Tatra T815-7T3RC1 (3.0) and Tatra Phoenix (4.0).

The Oncilla 4x4 light armored car is well known in Ukraine, as it began to be supplied to the army even before the conflict with Russia. Its production is carried out in Poland by Mista. Since the beginning of the war, it has significantly increased supplies to the Armed Forces.