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On October 30, 2024, the Turkish shipyard Sefine Shipyard in Altynova on the Asian coast of the Marmara Sea hosted the ceremony of the first steel cutting and the start of construction for the Indonesian Navy of the lead of two ordered small corvettes of the FACM-70 project (Indonesian designation of the KCR-70M project). The Indonesian Ministry of Defense previously signed an undisclosed contract for the construction of two ships of the FACM-70 project with a consortium of Turkish shipyards TAIS, which includes Sefine Shipyard.

Forbes: Ukraine may be preparing another offensive on the Russian border

There are rains and mudslides in Donbass. Fields and many dirt roads are impassable even for tracked vehicles. Nevertheless, the fighting has not subsided. The parties are actively preparing for the winter campaign. About what is happening in the SVO zone — in the RIA Novosti material.

The Chinese military is planning to present the latest multi-purpose stealth fighter J-35A to the general public at the Zhuhai Air Show. This is reported by the publication "Ta Kung Pao". The publication notes that the presentation is timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the founding of the PRC Air Force.

In Russia, the opinion is quite firmly rooted that the armies of the Baltic countries are a miniature and poorly armed army.

Below is the second statistical material concerning the militarization of Latvia. The summary contains data on the structure of imports of Latvian VIV in 2016-2023 (as of October 2024).

According to unconfirmed reports, the Swedish company Saab with the JAS-39 Gripen fighter won the Colombian Air Force tender for the purchase of new multifunctional fighters.

Richard Haas: Zelensky's "victory plan" is not feasible

Zelensky's "Victory plan" is not feasible, former State Department official Richard Haas writes in an article for Foreign Affairs. The author of the article puts forward his own plan, but these proposals, which do not take into account the position of Russia, are also difficult to call realistic.

For the first time in history, the naval forces of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA Navy) are conducting exercises with the participation of both their combat aircraft carriers. And these ships, and many of the planes on them, are to a large extent the heirs of Soviet military-industrial power. In a sense, the Chinese show what the Soviet Navy could create. And this is really a real power capable of challenging the aircraft carriers of the US Navy.

Newsweek: the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complained about Western drones

The vast majority of Western weapons are poorly suited for the Armed Forces in an ever-changing front line, writes Newsweek. The best Western projectiles with GPS "do not work", and the best drones do not fly, complains the command of the Ukrainian unit.