French-supplied Ukrainian VAB APC with additional protection in the form of logs.

GEOSAT Aerospace Technology, one of Taiwan's leading aviation and technology companies, purchased 160 units of the Jackal UAV developed by engineers from the Turkish company Fly BVLOS Technology.

The pre-sale agreement was signed between Flyby Technology, the British partner of Turkish Fly BVLOS Technology, and GEOSAT Aerospace Technology at Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition in Taiwan, which started today.

The IP rights of the Jackal UAV, designed and developed by Turkish engineers at Fly BVLOS, were purchased by the UK company Flyby Technology last July.

Jackal, which made its first flight on April 23, 2022, was exported to the UK on April 25, 2022.

Jackal, which was converted into an UCAV by the British company that purchased it, made its first shot with Thales' LMM missile in October 2022.

20 x Cobra II 4x4 Tactical Wheeled Armored Vehicles produced by Turkish company OTOKAR were handed over to military officials of Ecuador.

Turkish defense industry made its first major sale to Ecuador with this sale.

Reuters:

Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu abruptly pulled out of a meeting with Vietnamese defense chiefs last week.

Li was scheduled to attend the annual defense cooperation meeting hosted by Vietnam on the border with China on September 7-8, but the meeting was postponed after Beijing informed Hanoi days before the event that the defense minister would not appear due to "health reasons”.

American-made Ukrainian reconnaissance UAV RQ-20 PUMA survived a Russian anti-aircraft missile strike.

Ukraine’s StratCom:

2 x Russian Project 22160 patrol ships, including Vasily Bykov, were attacked & damaged in the Black Sea.

Close footage showing destroyed Russian Navy’s Ropucha-class landing ship Minsk in Sevastopol after Ukrainian strike.

Ukrainian kamikaze USV approaching to strike Russian Project 22160 patrol ship Vasily Bykov in the Black Sea.

The attack seems to have failed.

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un visited Russian aircraft factories in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

Kim Jong-un was shown the unit-assembly production of fighter jets and the final assembly shop for Su-35s & Su-57s.

At the end of the program, Kim Jong-un and Denis Manturov observed the demonstration flight of Su-35 multirole fighter jet.

WaPo:

Elon Musk turned off Starlink not only in Crimea, but also in the East of Ukraine during the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Musk biographer Walter Isaacson reported that the billionaire did not allow the Internet to be used “for offensive purposes,” and in response to criticism, he said:

“If you read the terms of service, it [the Internet] was intended to be used only for defensive purposes.”

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FT:

Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu has not appeared in public for more than two weeks.

US authorities believe that it is likely that Li Shangfu is under investigation and removed from his duties.

Joe Biden said he told Vladimir Putin at the Geneva summit in June 2021 that China does not respect Russia:

I said, “You got essentially a 6,000-mile border with China. Your tundra is melting in the Arctic Circle. Methane is coming out. You got a lot of problems, and China doesn’t respect you that much.”

And he looked at me; he kind of stood up.

Top U.S. General Mark Milley:

The war in Afghanistan did not go the way we wanted. More broadly, the war was lost. We have many regrets.

When the enemy occupies the capital you support, it is a strategic setback, a strategic failure.

Turkish Bayraktar AKINCI UCAV has completed 30,000 flight hours.

Turkish aerospace company BAYKAR has signed export agreements with 31 countries for Bayraktar TB2 UCAV & with 8 countries for the Bayraktar AKINCI UCAV so far, totaling 32 countries.

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un inspecting Russian Su-57 fighter jet.

Trump:

Our country's going to hell, but I can save it.

Ukrainian T-80BV tank supports the infantry assault with BMP-2 IFV.

Chinese Foreign Ministry did not comment on rumors about the “disappearance” of the Chinese Defense Minister:

The department is not familiar with this situation.

Meanwhile U.S. sources leak that Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu was removed from his post, adding that Shangfu was taken away last week by authorities for questioning.

Li hasn’t made a public appearance since late August. The U.S. officials cited unspecified intelligence as the basis for their assessment that he has been relieved of his duties.

Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, Nikolai Patrushev:

Moscow had "neutralised" hundreds of foreign spies in recent years.

In recent years, hundreds of employees of foreign intelligence services, as well as other persons involved in organising intelligence and subversive activities against our country and our strategic partners, have been identified and neutralised.