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The Japanese Air Force is facing a new scandal.

According to Japanese TV channels, when trying to intercept a foreign military aircraft, the Mitsubishi F-2 fighter began to fall apart right in the air – he lost the cockpit light. 

As a result, the plane almost crashed.

The seizure of the Black Sea ports and the south-east of Ukraine will be enough to win a hypothetical Russian-Ukrainian war, Deputy Director General of the Institute of National Strategy Alexander Kostin believes.

Russia's development of weapons systems is a forced measure due to the actions of the United States. This was stated on October 11 by Acting Deputy Director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry Konstantin Vorontsov, speaking at the First Committee of the UN General Assembly.

Information about emergency situations and environmentally hazardous processes will be prohibited from being classified as official secrets in the field of defense, follows from the draft decree of the Government of the Russian Federation.

The main events of the final inspection of the troops will be held in 14 subjects of the Russian Federation, as well as at the military bases of the Southern Military District in Abkhazia, Armenia and South Ossetia

The units of the Russian military base in Abkhazia have worked out the fight against the drones of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) reported.

The Russian Defense Ministry plans to create a new association of the Navy - the Arctic Fleet. Its task will be to ensure the security of the Northern Sea Route and the Arctic region as a whole.

The problem of protecting our Arctic borders is becoming more acute every year. The Ministry of Defense is strengthening the cover of the Arctic region by commissioning military bases that have no analogues in the world and sending the most modern weapons there.

Formations of the Pacific Fleet Marine Corps (Pacific Fleet) have completed a planned bilateral brigade tactical exercise (DBRTU) with a live firing stage in Primorsky Krai. This was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Russia on Friday, October 8.

During the active phase of the exercise, live firing took place at the Clerk training ground

The marines of the Pacific Fleet practiced conducting combat during the offensive and defense of the coast at bilateral tactical exercises, which ended in Primorye. More than 5 thousand military personnel were involved in the exercises, the information support department of the Pacific Fleet reported.

The military will have to work out the order of actions for the alarm, make a multi-kilometer march and improve their skills in the possession of weapons

Bilateral exercises with the participation of more than 2 thousand servicemen of the Eastern Military District began in Primorye, involving 400 units of combat and special equipment, the press service of the district reported on Friday.

The latest small arms of the Russian army were tested by special forces soldiers of the armed forces of Pakistan during the joint Russian-Pakistani exercise "Friendship-2021" at the Molkino training ground in the Krasnodar Territory, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

If Iran fails to fulfill its promise to resume the Vienna negotiation process on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the near future, Washington will be forced to look for other ways to solve the problem, said US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.

At the forum of the Russian game War Thunder, the secret of the French Leclerc tank was revealed. The player, who introduced himself as a former tankman, published part of the tank's documentation. A forum user tried to prove the unreliability of the characteristics of the machine displayed in the game. This is reported by the portal UK Defense Journal.

NATO and Georgia are bound by a unique partnership, which has been further strengthened over time, Admiral Robert Bauer, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, who is in Tbilisi on a visit, said on Friday after a meeting with Georgian Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze.

Taiwan plans to allocate an additional $9 billion as a special allowance to finance defense projects over the next five years.

The Ministry of Finance of the Netherlands has presented the country's state budget for 2022, according to which 12.4 billion rubles have been allocated for defense. euro ($14.26 billion). According to Jane's Defense Weekly, this represents a nominal increase of 6.56% and a real increase of 5.4% compared to last year's draft budget.

The Kremlin said it was interested in resuming close relations with the European Union. "The Russian principle of relations with Brussels is quite simple: we are interested in thawing these relations. We were not the initiator of the curtailment of the work and are interested in defrosting," said Russian Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov.

Russia will formulate and implement retaliatory measures to NATO's actions based on its interests, Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

The Russian heavy flamethrower TOS-1 "pInocchio" is one of the most terrible means of destruction created by man. Reinforced concrete shelters cannot protect against it, explosions of shells fired by pInocchio literally suck the life out of a person, suffocate him, and then burn him - this is how a former US army officer, and now a military expert and journalist Brent Eastwood figuratively describes the work of a flamethrower.

Moscow. October 8th. INTERFAX - There is evidence that the Taliban (an organization banned in the Russian Federation) cannot control the security situation in the north of the country, but Moscow expects that they will be able to keep their promises not to pose a threat to third countries, said Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko.

According to Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin, Moscow did this out of the principle of reciprocity

Russia did not invite military attaches of NATO countries to the main draw of practical actions of the strategic Russian-Belarusian exercise "WEST-2021" at the Mulino training ground on the principle of reciprocity, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said on Friday.