More than 2 thousand special forces troops will be relocated to the Crimea for exercises

As part of the command and staff exercise, in which about 8 thousand servicemen take part, formations and military units of the Southern Military District (SE) have been alerted to work out elements of bringing them to the highest levels of readiness, the press service of the district reported on Thursday.

Some technical characteristics of the Russian mobile reconnaissance point PRP-5, made on the basis of the serial domestic armored personnel carrier BTR-82A, have become known.

This car was demonstrated at the beginning of October this year at an exhibition dedicated to the Day of the Ground Forces held in the Patriot Park near Moscow.

On October 14, Jeffrey Eberhardt, the Special Representative of the US President for Nuclear Nonproliferation, demanded that Russia remove the missiles that are allegedly stationed there from Europe, as this goes against the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF).

The President of the Russian Federation does not exclude attempts of direct expansion of terrorists from the territory of Afghanistan to the CIS countries

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that issues related to the terrorist threat from Afghanistan will be discussed at the CIS summit next Friday.

The special services of the CIS countries exchange information on the situation in Afghanistan on a daily basis, the existing threats in this country have intensified, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin said.

The Pentagon disagreed on Tuesday with the assumption of the PRC that the American side is allegedly hiding information about the incident with the nuclear submarine USS Connecticut.

The topography of the bottom of the South China Sea, in the depths of which the American Seawolf-type nuclear submarine Connecticut recently collided with an unknown object, is subject to frequent changes due to tectonic activity, Aaron Amik, a veteran submariner of the US Navy, told The Drive.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced in the Greek Parliament on October 7 that the corvette supply program for the Greek navy will follow the already agreed frigate construction program.

The navy conducted exercises in the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of the African continent, where they freed a ship "captured by pirates". The crews of the large anti-submarine ship "Vice Admiral Kulakov", the medium sea tanker "Academician Pashin" and the rescue tugboat "Altai" took part in the exercise. They are currently on a long hike.

There are also plans to build three universal vessels. They will deliver goods to garrisons in the Far North

The program for the development of the auxiliary fleet of Russia until 2033 provides for the construction of five icebreakers and three universal vessels for the delivery of military cargo to garrisons in the Far North. This was announced on Wednesday at a round table in the Federation Council by Deputy Chief of Staff of Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Andrey Yefimov.

Terrorists are already creating their own cyber units, this can, for example, lead to acute interstate conflicts up to armed clashes, said Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev at a meeting of special services in Moscow.

The United States did not invite Russia to the first multilateral meeting dedicated to developing a strategy to combat ransomware viruses, but does not exclude its participation in such events in the future, said a senior representative of the American administration.

The National Guard of Ukraine will abandon Soviet rifles and submachine guns. The UAR-15 semi-automatic rifle will replace Kalashnikov assault rifles. This is reported by the Defense Blog.

The multiplicity of the sight is variable and ranges from 5 to 20

The sniper sight of large multiplicity with a wide range of corrections was developed in Russia at the Krasnogorsk Plant named after S. A. Zverev (KMZ, part of the Shvabe holding of Rostec State Corporation). This was reported to TASS by the General director of KMZ Alexander Novikov.

The ballistics input system, taking into account the distance or angle of the target location, allows the fighter to quickly and accurately change the firing settings, said Alexander Novikov, General Director of KMZ

The newest 3-12x50 sight for installation on large-caliber machine guns was developed in Russia at the Krasnogorsk Plant named after S. A. Zverev (KMZ, part of the sHvabe holding of Rostec State Corporation). This was told to TASS by the General director of KMZ Alexander Novikov.

The Sarac 99 large-caliber rifle was presented at the Partner-2021 International defense Exhibition in Belgrade (Serbia). 20 mm ammunition is used for weapons. This is reported by Army Recognition.

The American companies Ghost Robotics and S.W.O.R.D. Defense showed a combat robot based on the four-legged robot Vision-60. It is equipped with a rifle with a range of 1.2 kilometers and a thermal imager.

Tests of the armored wheeled vehicle "BARYS 8x8" have been completed in Kazakhstan. According to the State Defense Order Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a total of 25,000 km was covered within six months, including through mountainous, steppe and desert areas.

Within the framework of the Partner-2021 international defense exhibition taking place in Belgrade (Serbia), the Serbian company Yugoimport SDPR presented a new BBM with an 8x8 wheel formula, called LAZANSKI.

The Institute noted that the key advantages of these artillery modules are an uninhabited combat compartment, control from automated calculation sites in the chassis and high-precision shooting.