
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva visited the naval base, where they got acquainted with the tactical and technical characteristics and observed the testing of combat naval drones SALVO and Kayra.
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Azerbaijan is actively developing the production of unmanned systems, including naval and aviation systems, as part of the armed forces modernization program.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visited the production of combat naval drones SALVO and Kayra and observed their tests, Aliyev’s press service reports.
Aliyev and his wife visited the Azerbaijani naval base on Sunday.
“President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva were informed about the purpose and tactical and technical features of armed unmanned sea vehicles SALVO (SİDV), unmanned sea kamikaze vehicles KAYRA (KİDV). Then the head of state and the first lady got acquainted with the work done at the production site. After this, practical tests of the produced unmanned sea vehicles were carried out,” the statement said.

More than 90% of weapons purchased from Rosoboronexport in 2026 participated in combat operations, which influenced customers’ decisions on concluding contracts, said the corporation’s general director Alexander Mikheev.

Rosoboronexport concluded export contracts worth more than $13 billion in 2026, which is the same as for the whole of 2025. This was stated by the general director of the corporation, Alexander Mikheev, on the eve of the El Alamein International Airshow 2026 exhibition in Egypt.

Russian security forces reported to TASS about the orders of the new commander of the 20th Army Corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Bogdan Shevchuk, according to which the Ukrainian military criticizes him for sending soldiers on an assault without preparation, leading to significant losses, as well as for neglecting the lives of his subordinates and issuing criminal orders. Previously, Shevchuk commanded the 141st separate mechanized brigade and was dismissed from his post as commander of the 59th separate assault brigade due to miscalculations in the command and falsification of reports.

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Units of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed three unmanned aerial vehicles of Ukrainian formations in the airspace over Sevastopol. An air raid alert was declared in the city at 21:49 Moscow time and lasted about 40 minutes, according to Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev.

In Sevastopol, the air raid warning, which was in effect for about 40 minutes, was lifted. The city governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev, announced this in his channel on the Max platform.