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Joint Bulgarian-Israeli Flight Training Collector's Item 17 will be held from 7 to 13 September in the airspace of the Republic of Bulgaria, reported BGNES.

Military analyst Aleksandar Radic says there are indications that the MiG-29 jets from Russia will arrive in October.

"Moscow says they will arrive - it means they will arrive. All the bureaucratic obstacles have been overcome, and I believe they will arrive in October," he told Novi Magazin, and added:

Russia is hopeful that the new weapons it tested for the first time in Syria will lead to a spike in arms sales abroad, officials have said.

South Korea said its air force conducted an exercise with two U.S. nuclear-capable bombers above the Korean peninsula on Thursday, two days after a North Korean missile fired over Japan sharply raised tensions, Reuters reported.

The United States has refused to send F-16 warplane trainers to Turkey after Ankara requested them in order to fill the gap in the number of Turkish jet pilots.

By Yiannis Papadopoulos

Russian intervention in Ukraine has provided increased impetus toward military modernization efforts in Eastern Europe.

The Greek air-force released footage of a Super Puma helicopter lifting an injured member of a tanker sailing south of the island of Rhodes on Saturday. The video of the rescue operation shows the helicopter hovering over the deck of the ship and lowering a stretcher with a winch.

Buying the Russian S-300 missile systems is not a decision that is made overnight - but equipping the army remains a priority, says Aleksandar Vulin.

Russia plans to finalize the delivery of MiG-29 fighter jets to Serbia by the end of 2017.

Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Director Dmitry Shugaev said this on Thursday.

"The deliveries have not yet started. Work is being done to that end in line with the plan, agreed on with our partners," he told Sputnik during the Army 2017 Forum.