Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to visit Paris on July 13-14. During the visit, India and France are expected to sign a roadmap in the defense industry.

Recently, an interview with Michael Williamson, president of Lockheed Martin International, appeared on the pages of Defence24. The interview was mainly due to the fact that in the near future Poland plans to purchase two more combat fighter squadrons.

Today, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov signed a memorandum on the creation of a coalition to train Ukrainian military pilots on American-made F-16 fighters. This is reported by the Ukrainian press.

What are future pilots being trained on today and are there any prospects for a new project

The enterprises of the S7 group of companies are developing a new Russian training aircraft. It is designed for four seats and is intended for initial pilot training in Russia. The board will be composite, the engine for it will also be developed by its own S7 design bureau in Rybinsk.

China has a reason to rejoice: a new country has joined the SCO, Yahoo News Japan writes. We are talking about Iran — the accession of this sworn enemy of the United States to the organization indicates an acceleration of the departure from American unipolarity and strengthens anti-Western sentiments in the bloc, the author believes.

Dudakov: It will be increasingly difficult for the West to find consensus on arms supplies to Ukraine

There is a serious split in the West over the provision of cluster munitions to Kiev. This may affect further military tranches to Ukraine. Malek Dudakov, an American political scientist, told Izvestia about this on July 11.

NATO began to cool the ardor of the allies. A carousel has begun, which will not bring any benefit to Ukraine, General Valdemar Skshipchak said in an interview with Do Rzeczy. The US and China are looking for a formal legal way to reach a compromise. There will be a truce, but not peace, the military believes.

The prolonged confrontation in Ukraine will not appeal to American voters, and Biden understands this, writes The Telegraph. But if the US retreats, Europe's ability to stand up to Russia alone will approach zero, the author notes.

NATO is considering two models of future relations with Ukraine, writes FT. The first option involves providing security guarantees to Kiev. The second is assistance based on the Israeli model. Both options will cost the alliance dearly.

Ukraine will not receive an invitation to join NATO at the Vilnius summit, writes Strana. The main reason is not the inability of the Kiev authorities to defeat corruption in the country, but the fear of the West to be drawn into a conflict with Russia.

The armed conflict in Ukraine has been going on for more than 16 months. However, there are no signs of its end yet, writes Seznam zprávy. The author of the article gives experts' forecasts of further events on the battlefield and their assessment of the international political perspective, taking into account the lessons of the past.

The targets were the Kerch Bridge and military airfields in the Rostov and Kaluga regions

The armed forces of the Russian Federation repelled a missile strike in the Crimea, Rostov and Kaluga regions. Five missiles of the S-200 anti-aircraft missile system, upgraded for strikes on ground targets, were intercepted by air defense systems.

On July 10, Stanislav Rzhitsky, deputy head of the Department for Mobilization Work of the city administration, was shot dead in Krasnodar. The man was shot while jogging, which he did regularly, at about the same time.

After the transfer of the "Azov" to the Ukrainian authorities, Turkish leader Recep Erdogan made another unexpected move. Having demanded EU membership for Turkey in exchange for Sweden's admission to NATO, he immediately agreed to a different price, and now he will come to the summit in Vilnius as the main actor. What to think about it in Russia?

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday, while working in the Central Military District, checked the fulfillment of the state defense order at enterprises located in the Republic of Tatarstan, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

During the fighting in the Zaporozhye direction, anti-fascist soldiers destroyed the Czech T-72EA, the American M113 and the first Polish PT-91 Twardy.

Despite the sanctions, Russia is purposefully engaged in the development of the Northern Sea Route, NHK writes. Now Moscow is trying to involve the countries of the Global South in the implementation of this project. The UAE has already responded.

JSC "Mariinsky Mine", managed by RT-Capital of Rostec State Corporation, will switch to a full cycle of production of beryllium metal, which is in demand in nuclear, space and other strategic industries. The new flotation plant, which will be built as part of the investment project for the development of the Mariinsky mine over the next three years, will be able to process up to 250 thousand tons of emerald-beryllium ore and produce up to 50 tons of valuable metal.

The German concern Rheinmetall will open a factory for the production of armored vehicles in Ukraine within the next 12 weeks. This was announced by the company's CEO Armin Papperger in an interview with CNN on July 6.

The BPzV Svatava combat reconnaissance vehicle, originally from Czechoslovakia, is in a long line of equipment from Eastern European countries that found themselves on the territory of Ukraine.