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On September 29-30, a conference of the Polish defense sector was held in Warsaw, during which the country's leadership officially and publicly presented plans for the "transformation of the Polish Army." Among other things, the programs for further equipping the Ground Forces with new types of weapons have been published.

The armed forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey will hold joint military exercises "Unbreakable Brotherhood" in Nakhichevan on October 5-8, Turkish media reported with reference to the representative of the Turkish Ministry of National Defense for Press Relations Pynar Karu.

Military engineers of the Southern Military District also conducted classes on the electrical method of exploding structures

The military of the Russian Federation and Pakistan, during the joint exercise "Friendship-2021" at the Krasnodar Territory training ground, used the latest robotic complex "URAN-6" to mine objects. This was reported in the press service of the Southern Military District (SE).

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said that channels for communication between the two Koreas will be restored in early October, Yonhap reports, citing North Korean state media.

The United States does not pursue a hostile policy towards the DPRK and is ready to meet without preconditions, a State Department official told the South Korean Yonhap news agency.

Iran continues to transfer heavy long-range artillery to the border with Azerbaijan. So, the other day a new column was spotted, consisting of 155-mm self-propelled artillery units M109A1B of American production and 155-mm towed Austrian guns-howitzers GHN-45.

The United States is negotiating with countries bordering Afghanistan on the use of their military facilities, including Russian military bases, for counterterrorism operations, Politico reports, citing U.S. senators.

US Assistant Secretary of Defense for China Affairs Michael Chase and Deputy Head of the Office for International Military Cooperation of the Central Military Council of the People's Republic of China Huang Xueping held another round of talks on defense policy in a videoconference format on September 28-29, the Pentagon said.

The basic scenario of Russia's offensive on Poland and Lithuania involves the early introduction of Russian troops into Belarus, which was worked out by Moscow and Minsk during the rear part of the joint exercises "WEST-2021", says the Polish edition of Defence24.

The US army lost the war in Afghanistan due to a number of wrong decisions, although it managed to fulfill some of the tasks it faced. The corresponding statement at the Senate hearing was made by the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, Mark Milli, writes the Washington Post on September 30.

Russian and Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the continuation of cooperation between the two countries in the field of military-technical cooperation, including the possibility of expanding cooperation on the S-400 and other areas, the press secretary of the head of the Russian state Dmitry Peskov said.

In the autumn of 2021, more than 127 thousand people will be called up for military service, said the head of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Yevgeny Burdinsky.

The All-Russian public-state organization "Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Army, Aviation and Navy" and the All-Russian Public Organization "Russian Geographical Society" have signed a cooperation agreement.

France continues to increase defense spending, which will reach $40.9 billion in 2022. euro (about $48 billion), which is 1.7 billion. euro more than in 2021 f.g.

The American company Raytheon has tested a program that allows a manned combat aircraft to coordinate several unmanned wingmen. According to FlightGlobal, during the tests, the operator simultaneously controlled three drones in the air.

The American company Lynk said that it was the first in the world to establish two-way communication between a conventional mobile phone and a satellite. In the future, the company wants to deploy a global network of satellites that provides communication in remote locations without ground-based communication towers without the need for a satellite phone.

Russia's position on the unacceptability of the possible US use of Russian military bases in Central Asia has not changed, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.

The Russian side has referred a number of questions to Washington in connection with the creation of a new AUKUS security partnership, and plans to address questions also to colleagues from Australia and the UK, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday.

The overwhelming majority of Russians (86%) are confident that an armed conflict with the use of nuclear weapons should not be expected in the near future, according to a VTsIOM survey released on Wednesday.

The Arctic grouping of the Northern Fleet (SF) has worked out the landing of a marine landing on the unequipped coast of Yakutia, the press service of the SF reported on Wednesday.