The submarine forces remain the most important component of the Russian Navy, having an extremely high combat potential, mainly due to the presence of nuclear submarines equipped, in particular, with ballistic missiles, assessed the state of the Russian fleet in the Polish edition of Defence24.

The Russian frigate Admiral Essen, equipped with long-range cruise missiles "Caliber", on Sunday, after an 85-day stay in the Mediterranean, having passed the Bosphorus, returned to the Black Sea, Istanbul observers reported in social networks, publishing photos of its passage through the straits.

The crews of the large anti-submarine ships Admiral Panteleev and Admiral Tributs of the Pacific Fleet conducted air defense training at their base in Vladivostok, the press service of the fleet reported on Saturday.

The crew of the Ka-27 helicopter of naval aviation also practiced taking off and landing on the deck of the ship on the move during the exercises

The Pacific Fleet corvette "Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov" destroyed air and surface targets with artillery fire during exercises in Peter the Great Bay (Sea of Japan).

The crews of the Baltic Fleet ships carried out 430 combat exercises in 2021, including rocket, artillery and torpedo firing, mine laying, depth bombing, anti-mine exercises, the press service of the fleet reported.

The Sevmash Navigator program in podcast format is available to users of Yandex.Music, Spotify and Anchor websites and applications

The manufacturer of nuclear submarines "Borey" and "Ash" has launched a series of podcasts about nuclear shipbuilding "Navigator "Sevmash". This was reported on Friday in the press service of the company.

The Marine Instrumentation Corporation (KMP) will create a development center at Innopolis University to test systems for unmanned navigation and other tasks. This is reported by TASS.

On the eve of the climate summit in Glasgow, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said that Russia is ready to accept spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from other countries for storage.

Experts from the Zhongshan Institute of Science and Technology (Taiwan) have created an exoskeleton for the lower body, which will significantly increase the physical capabilities of military personnel on the battlefield.

Production of the GI-4 automatic carbine, a localized version of the American M4, has begun in Georgia. Production has been deployed at the Delta Military technical center at the facilities of the Georgian-Israeli enterprise Delta CAA Arms, the press service of the government of the country reported.

As reported in the group of companies, the region is of significant interest to Kalashnikov

Latin American countries are showing interest in the latest small arms manufactured by the Kalashnikov Group of Companies (GC). This was reported to TASS during the international arms exhibition SITDEF 2021 by the Kalashnikov press service.

The group of companies stressed that in the near future a factory for the production of Kalashnikov assault rifles of the hundredth series will open in Venezuela

The Kalashnikov Group of Companies (GC) is negotiating with a number of Latin American companies on the organization of joint production of small arms. This was reported to TASS during the international arms exhibition SITDEF 2021 by the press service of the Kalashnikov Group of Companies.

Mortars are becoming more dangerous and "smarter". Yesterday, October 30, the portal janes.com He reported that Saab Bofors Dynamics Switzerland (SBDS) has announced the completion of the development of the "smart" THOR artillery mine.

The Agency for the Acquisition of Norwegian Defense Products (Forsvarsmateriell / Norwegian Defense Materiel Agency – NDMA) received the first three of the six ordered armored repair and evacuation / engineering vehicles "Visent-2" (Wisent 2).

The first experience of combat use of Soviet combat vehicles in infantry in Afghanistan only confirmed what has long been known: our IFVs, like their foreign peers, have insufficient survivability on the battlefield.

Vietnam continues experiments on the creation of wheeled self-propelled guns. On October 28, the Vietnamese TV channel QPVN showed a story with video footage of tests of a promising self-propelled gun PTH-130-K255V.

US allies in Europe and the Pacific are trying to influence the White House and are calling on American leader Joe Biden not to change Washington's current nuclear policy, the Financial Times newspaper reports.

Allies fear that the United States will reconsider its nuclear policy and move to the principle of a "single goal— - it implies that Washington uses nuclear weapons solely for deterrence or as a retaliatory measure

The United States has made significant progress in increasing the power and accuracy of nuclear weapons, which have become significantly more reliable and effective than ever before, The Washington Post says, citing interviewed experts.

US allies hope that US President Joe Biden at the G20 summit will confirm the immutability of the principles of the use of nuclear weapons, The Financial Times newspaper reports.