The strengthening of NATO's military presence near the western borders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) creates conditions for military provocations and incidents, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday.

North Korea has tested a railway missile system. In the frames, you can see in detail the tests of the new weapons system.

American intelligence agencies have suggested that the Al-Qaeda group (recognized as a terrorist group and banned in the Russian Federation) will be able to restore its potential for terrorist attacks on the territory of the United States in 1-2 years. This was stated on Tuesday, September 14, by the head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Scott Berrier.

There are no Russian military personnel on the territory of Mali, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. When asked whether the Minister of Defense of Mali raised the issue of providing military assistance during his visit to Russia, Peskov replied that Russia maintains contacts, including through the military, with many countries, including the African continent.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has threatened that Paris will withdraw the military from Mali if mercenaries from the private military company Wagner start working in this African country.

The German promising diesel-electric submarines of the Type-212CD class will differ significantly from the submarines of the Type-212A class currently in service. The details of the project were shared in the developer company ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.

As US Vice President Kamala Harris stated during a recent visit to Hanoi, the Biden administration approved the request of the Vietnamese Coast Guard for the transfer of the third Hamilton-class patrol boat.

A Russian diesel-electric submarine has made a deep-sea dive.

As part of the shipboard exercises, the crew of the Dmitrov worked out tasks at various depths, Captain Roman Martov, head of the information support department of the press service of the Western Military District for the Baltic Fleet, told the Military-Industrial Courier.

On Wednesday, the Russian Northern Fleet began returning troops from maneuvers in the Arctic zone, which involved about 8 thousand military personnel, about 50 ships, 120 aircraft and helicopters.

The cruisers of the Northern Fleet "Peter the Great" and "Marshal Ustinov" fired cruise missiles at a target position in the Barents Sea, depicting a detachment of landing ships of a conditional enemy. The press service of the fleet published a video of the launch of the Vulkan missile defense system from the Marshal Ustinov.

The heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser (TARKR) "Peter the Great" and the missile cruiser (RKR) "Marshal Ustinov" worked out the destruction of an amphibious detachment of a conditional enemy during exercises in the Barents Sea, the press service of the Northern Fleet (SF) reported on Wednesday.

Gone are the days when the electronic filling of an assault rifle or submachine gun was limited to a pair of sights (optical and night vision) that allow a soldier to make an accurate shot.

Specialists of the 12th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense have created fundamentally new explosive schemes for creating an external pulse effect on various structures.

On September 13, the Czech government approved the purchase of 52 units of 155-mm CAESAR self-propelled howitzers from the French company Nexter Systems, placed on the Tatra chassis.

The Czech army will be armed with new self-propelled guns. September 14, portal defbrief.com It was reported that the Czech government officially approved the purchase of Caesar self-propelled howitzers from the French company Nexter.

Milrem Robotics and Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace will create a robotic machine that can meet many requirements. Earlier, it became known about the test of a demonstrator of a tracked drone.

The American company AM General has introduced a new version of the Humvee army SUV. The upgraded Humvee NXT 360 tactical vehicle was presented at the DSEI-2021 defense exhibition in London. This is reported by the Army Recognition portal.

The latest samples of Russian military equipment were tested for the first time at the joint strategic exercise "West-2021". For example, the conditional enemy was smashed by infantry fighting vehicles B-19-modernized BMP-3 with an uninhabited rocket-gun module "Epoch". Previously, they were not officially demonstrated.

During the exercise" West-2021 " in Russia, a new B-19 combat vehicle was noticed. The design is a combat module "Epoch" on the chassis of an infantry fighting vehicle BMP-3. The car received the main gun of 57 mm caliber. This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

The Belarusian V2 Volat armored personnel carrier created in Minsk can become a platform for creating a variety of combat and auxiliary equipment. Including self-propelled artillery installations or fire support vehicles, or as they are also called "wheeled tanks".