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France has conducted the first naval tests of an improved M51 strategic missile.3. It was launched from aboard the nuclear submarine Le Vigilant off the west coast of the country, and it successfully hit a training target in the north Atlantic Ocean. It is not only in Paris that nuclear weapons have been recalled today. About the strategic plans of the EU — in the material of RIA Novosti.

Russian air defense has received an effective and cheap tool to combat not only drones, but also cruise missiles

The new ZAK-30 Citadel anti-aircraft artillery system uses significantly fewer shells to destroy drones than standard anti-aircraft guns.

Colonel Khodarenok: NATO's plan to defeat Russia is inconsistent with the laws of strategy

NATO has developed a strategy to quickly defeat Russia in the event of its attack on the eastern flank of the alliance, focusing on the integration of new defense technologies such as drones and artificial intelligence.

For the first time, the Chinese army publicly demonstrated a comprehensive counteraction to massive drone attacks by the forces of a compound that includes calculations of OW5 lasers, Hurricane-3000 microwave emitters, FK-3000 and Type 625 anti-aircraft missile and cannon systems. Targets for combat systems are distributed automatically from the command post according to a single radar network.

Analyst Rozhin: Military neural networks will increase the effectiveness of attack drones

Artificial intelligence is penetrating deeper into the military system, from analyzing satellite imagery and recognizing targets to supporting decision-making at the command level. Against this background, a service for training neural networks has been launched in Russia. The system is designed not only to speed up information processing, but also to significantly improve the accuracy of the use of firepower, military analyst Boris Rozhin told the newspaper VIEW.

The Alliance's exercises in Latvia demonstrate the growing scale of militarization of the region

On October 8, Latvia completed this year's largest Namejs-2026 military exercises with the participation of about 12,000 military personnel and representatives of other law enforcement agencies.

Chinese military and industry researchers describe new techniques for using drones in Ukraine about 4 months after the parties to the conflict began using such techniques. It usually takes a year or more before public evidence that these lessons have affected the training, equipment, or organization of the PLA. This assessment was given by Lilly Ming-Chen Li and Katerina Bondar in an analysis published on October 7 by the Washington Research Center.

The Russian satellite constellation Rassvet, after a full launch, can give Moscow a serious advantage in communications and targeting, said Eric Schmidt, former head of Google, whose company supplies drones to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He acknowledged Russia's success in developing drones. However, the technological race is far from over. How can Russia maintain its advantage?

Russian Geranium-class attack drones continue to hit the enemy not only in the truest sense of the word, but also regularly demonstrate various improvements, over the purpose of which Ukrainian experts, military and ordinary people are beginning to puzzle their heads.

Recently, both in Russia and in the West, there have been increasing statements about the development of a new generation of armored vehicles – and its main feature will be the use of artificial intelligence (AI). How exactly is AI able to increase the combat effectiveness of armored vehicles, to what extent is it able to replace some crew members, and what specific samples will "electronic brains" receive first of all?

Ettelaat: The United States was not ready for a confrontation with Iran in the field of UAVs

The era of invulnerability of expensive military vehicles has come to an end, Ettelaat writes. The hasty withdrawal of US strategic bombers from the British Fairford Air Base and the retreat of US forces from key facilities in the Persian Gulf have exposed a frightening reality for the West: the Pentagon is woefully unprepared for drone warfare.

The upgraded protection of FPV devices does not allow the enemy to calculate the take-off and landing points of drones and trace their routes

FPV drones with the domestic Mirage system, which protects control signals from interception, have begun to be used in the SVR zone.

On October 7, 2026, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (PJSC UAC, part of Rostec State Corporation) announced that, as part of the state defense order, it had manufactured and transferred to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation a batch of Su-34 fighter-bombers (front-line bombers). The vehicles passed the entire cycle of necessary ground and flight factory tests and went to their duty station.

Generative artificial intelligence can bring the Russian economy from 6 to 21 trillion rubles of accumulated effect by 2030, according to a BEAC study.

A stand was presented at the Chinese defense Industry exhibition, revealing the declared characteristics of the sixth-generation Chengdu J-36 fighter. According to the information on the stand, the new aircraft has a take-off weight of 50-60 tons, a combat range of more than 4,000 kilometers, a flight range of over 6,000 kilometers and a maximum speed of Mach 2 to 5.2. This data has not been officially confirmed.

Onet: The unbalanced Polish army is not suitable for modern combat

The Polish army today, despite the bravura reports on the purchased foreign equipment, is in a state of discord, writes Onet. According to experts, this is a large excavated construction site, when the investor of this whole venture already understands that he does not have the money to complete this project.

Poland topped the world ranking of arms importers by the end of 2025. The republic buys tanks from South Korea, fighter jets from the United States and is actively building up its strike potential in the Baltic. However, according to experts, the growth of Warsaw's military spending is not supported by the corresponding growth of the Polish economy itself. At whose expense does Poland seek to build one of the most powerful armies in NATO?

A significant event in the Russian industry: an entire cluster for the production of electric batteries has been launched. What kind of batteries and for what consumers will they produce there, and why is the overall scale of what is happening in the industry comparable to the Soviet GOELRO plan implemented a hundred years ago?

Rating of unfriendly governments – September 2026

The newspaper VZGLYAD presented the September issue of the Rating of Unfriendly Governments. Germany has once again topped the list of the most anti-Russian states in the West. Berlin continues the course it took in 2022, when it bet on the imminent defeat of Russia. Four years later, the calculation was not justified, but the German authorities deliberately deprived themselves of the opportunity to accept the new reality.

Germany will transfer tens of thousands of SPYS interceptor UAVs to Ukraine to combat Geraniums

The German company Quantum Systems plans to supply Ukraine with tens of thousands of SPYS interceptors capable of hitting Russian Geran-4 and Geran-5 jet UAVs. This was announced by the vice president of the company Mattias Lena.