🇷🇸 🇷🇺 ⚡️🇽🇰The Serbian Minister of Defense and the head of the General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces, together with the Russian Ambassador and the Russian military attaché, visited the units stationed in the Raska region on the administrative border with Kosovo
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🇹🇼 Taiwan has set production timelines for domestically produced missiles and ships to strengthen the country's defense.

Missile production

1⃣ Wan Chien air-launched cruise missile with a declared range of 200 km. Production time: 2022-2024
2⃣ Hsiung Sheng cruise missile. Production time: 2022-2025
3⃣ Chien Hsiang loitering ammunition, entered into mass production. Production time: 2022-2025
4⃣ Hsiung Feng III supersonic anti-ship and ground missile with a declared firing range of 400 km. Production time: 2023-2026

5⃣ Hsiung Feng I and Hsiung Feng II missiles and mobile launchers for them. Production time: 2022-2026
6⃣ Hsiung Feng III Rocket. Production time: 2023-2026

Ship building

☑️ Two stages of production of Tuo Jiang-class corvettes are planned. Stage 1 will start in 2022, and stage 2 in 2023. Both stages will end in 2026.

☑️ Anping-class Coast Guard patrol ships will be equipped with missiles and command and control facilities between 2023 and 2026.

☑️ It is planned to purchase a variant of the Tien Chien II missile for anti-aircraft missile systems and the Tien Kung III missile defense system. Production time: 2022-2026

The USA promotes the idea of ​​a permanent military presence in the Baltics

After America's withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Pentagon intends to change the plans for the US military presence abroad, and in this regard, the idea of ​​making a permanent American military presence in the Baltic countries began to be actively promoted. In particular, such an appeal was made by John R. Denny, professor at the Institute for Strategic Studies at the US Army War College and an expert on the influential Atlantic Council. His article fell into the category of "main materials" Defense News.

Maintaining only intermittent US ground forces in the Baltics, especially when a more permanent US presence in neighboring Poland is being formed, sends the wrong message at the wrong time to NATO's most vulnerable allies and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The hasty, chaotic withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan has led some American allies in Europe to question Washington's commitment to NATO, and now only a permanent US military presence in each of the Baltic states can best convince allies that Washington is supporting them.
This is especially true today in Lithuania, which is literally and figuratively at the forefront of Western efforts against Russian and Chinese authoritarianism. Sandwiched between the Baltic Sea, neighboring Belarus, and Russian territory of Kaliningrad - the most militarized piece of land in Europe - this relatively small ally faces formidable threats.
Over the past few years, Russia has significantly increased the number of offensive conventional and nuclear weapons in its Kaliningrad exclave, which borders Lithuania for about 185 miles [300 km]. The recently concluded Zapad military exercise involved up to 200,000 Russian and Belarusian soldiers, sailors and pilots, as well as hundreds of tanks and artillery pieces that first defended themselves in an imaginary invasion and then imitated a counterattack on Lithuanian (and Polish) territory. It is alarming that the exercise could lead to a permanent Russian military presence in Belarus.
China imposed a trade embargo against Lithuania and recalled its ambassador from Vilnius. These moves were in response to Lithuania's seemingly harmless decision to allow Taiwan to open a diplomatic mission in Vilnius.
In addition, Lithuania has been subject to extensive cyberattacks attributed to both Russia and China.

A small but permanent US presence in Lithuania will strengthen the security of the US and its allies in northeastern Europe in three ways. First, it will clearly indicate to allies and adversaries that Lithuania's sovereignty and territorial integrity are vital American interests. Secondly, it can be used to fill gaps in Lithuania's defense capabilities today, especially with regard to anti-tank, artillery, UAV and electronic warfare. Finally, it will give Vilnius the confidence to invest more in advanced offensive electronic warfare and information operations, which will enable it to better respond to the most likely attacks from Russia and China.

The main objections to a long-term US presence are that it could somehow violate the terms of the 1997 NATO-Russia agreement, or it could intimidate Putin, which would generate mounting backlash. Based on a carefully calibrated presence that fits into NATO's already sustained commitment to the region, these fears are exaggerated when compared to the broad security benefits.
For example, as part of NATO's Forward Presence Initiative, Germany has since 2017 led a multinational combat group of about 1,100 troops in Lithuania.

🇷🇸🇽🇰 Serbian President Vucic said that the army would react if the Serbian people were persecuted by Albania. If NATO does not respond within 24 hours. "Serbia will use force"
He also added that Rosu (KLA) scared the people with safari vehicles in Jarinje.

•"In the event of a pogrom, we wait 24 hours for NATO to react, otherwise Serbia will react on its own" - Vucic

•Speaking on TV tonight, the Serbian leader explained that Belgrade is not sending troops into Kosovo because it is contrary to the Kumanov Accords and is simply trying to keep the peace. Until the pogrom began, the president stated, and Belgrade not only closely monitors the situation, but also supplies the Serbian people in Kosovo.

•Vucic noted that the visit of the Ambassador of the Russian Federation Alexander Botan-Kharchenko at the Yarinje checkpoint shows Russia's support for the territorial integrity of Serbia.

•The Serbian leader drew special attention to the hypocrisy of the West, which turned a blind eye to sending special forces with armored vehicles to administrative border crossings - but was outraged when Serbia redeployed troops on its territory or took the plane into the air.

•“Seven days in the West were not excited, but they were excited when Serbia showed that it would not allow a pogrom against its population. They thought I was joking, ”said Vucic.

🇷🇸⚡🇽🇰 Video of flights of military equipment which included SOKO J-22 Orao fighter bombers, Mi-17 helicopters, Eurocopter EC145 and Mi-35M of the Serbian Air Force on the administrative border with Kosovo.

Raider-X super high-speed reconnaissance helicopter for the US Army

Raider-X will be a larger and more advanced version of the current Sikorsky S-97 Raider.

The new rotorcraft will retain the basic technical solutions of the earlier modification. Representatives of the developer's company assure that their helicopter will be able to reach speeds of up to 205 knots, using the same General Electric T901 engine as the Bell 360.
The evolutionary descendant of the S-97 will have a main rotor diameter of 11.9 meters, and the Raider X will weigh approximately 6,350 kg. The new helicopter has a coaxial main rotor made of heavy-duty materials and one push rotor at the rear.

The Raider-X's streamlined composite fuselage is wide enough to accommodate crew members side-by-side, and just behind the cockpit is a large weapons compartment that can accommodate ample people and weapons.

In the Saratov region, on the basis of the heavy bomber aviation regiment, scheduled flights of the crews of the Tu-95ms strategic missile carriers took place.

The main task of the flight shift was to maintain the training of the flight crew, as well as the practical training of flights on aircraft in formation at short distances. A feature of the flight mission was the practical training of firing from the aft aircraft cannons.

Video of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

🇨🇳⚡️China's 35th launch in 2021

At 06:15 UTC on 27 September, the high-resolution remote sensing satellite Jilin1 - 02D was successfully launched by a rocket KZ1A at Jiuquan Launch Center, Inner Mongolia. The Kuaizhou missile series (TRA / FastShip) is owned by CASIC.
#China

Defense News: US Air Force intends to use solar energy produced in space
This project was named Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR).

The American edition of Defense News writes that the US military intends to collect solar energy in space and transfer it to its military bases. Journalists note that the interest in using the energy of the sun has arisen due to the excessive consumption of electricity to provide American military bases.

“The US Army cannot build a solar array every time it opens a base in remote locations, and fossil fuels can be costly and difficult to transport. What the army needs is a source of energy that it can use from anywhere on Earth with limited infrastructure, ”
- Russian journalists are quoting their American colleagues from Defense News.
To achieve a solution to the problem, the US Air Force intends to accumulate all the energy that the solar cells of American satellites collect, and then send it to Earth.

This project was named Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR). Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Northrop Grumman will be involved in this development. It is reported that in order to transmit solar energy to Earth, it will need to be exported into radio frequency radiation. Experts say that the main difficulty in the implementation of this plan is a significant reduction in the size and weight of the equipment that must be sent into space.

"To make this possible, AFRL wants to use foldable solar panels that can be condensed into a relatively small payload for launch and then deployed on site in orbit."
- said in the publication of Defense News.
The plans of the developers include the production of such a solar panel by 2024. The launch of the equipment into orbit is planned for early 2025.

The US Air Force has selected the North American branch of the British company Rolls-Royce to supply F130 turbofan engines to modernize its fleet of strategic bombers Boeing B-52Н Stratofortress ("Stratospheric Fortress"), writes the American edition of Air Force Magazine.

The program, which has dragged on for decades, is an important step in the upgrade of the US Air Force bombers. Now the B-52H will be in service until 2050, that is, until the time when they are finally replaced by the ultra-modern "invisible" Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider.

Rolls-Royce's new contract with the US Air Force is estimated at about $ 500.9 million and is expected to last for the next six years, but if all options are exercised, then its value could exceed $ 2.6 billion. According to the Pentagon, the contract provides for the supply of 608 engines as well as spare powertrains, ancillary equipment and commercial engineering data, in particular maintenance, to be used by the B-52H bomber fleet.

Rolls-Royce is confident that the F130 engines will not need to be completely replaced until the end of the B-52H bomber's service, but chances are the Air Force will want to purchase parts over time. Recall that the F130 engine from Rolls-Royce bypassed the CF34-10 power units from General Electric (USA) and PW800 from Pratt and Whitney (Canada) in the competition.

An American Boeing RC-135U reconnaissance aircraft is doing something off the coast of Libya

🇷🇸 ⚡️🇽🇰Serbian soldiers with armored vehicles are stationed at the Yarinje checkpoint

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