On Thursday, Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko checked how MiG-31 fighters are being improved to the MiG-31BM version at the Sokol aircraft factory in Nizhny Novgorod.

At the enterprise, the deputy minister reported that the modernization, which has been carried out since 2007, with the complete replacement of on-board electronic equipment with modern samples and provides for the use of modern aviation weapons, increases the combat effectiveness of the aircraft by about three times.

Ukraine sees no restrictions on the supply of weapons from Germany, the country will raise this issue in negotiations with the new German government. This was announced on Thursday, November 25, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba.

US Senators Republican Rob Portman and Democrat Gene Shaheen insist on increasing the supply of lethal weapons to Kiev amid reports of an alleged accumulation of Russian troops near the border with Ukraine.

Outdated artillery, which Ukraine relies on, will not help protect the country in the event of a hypothetical attack by Russia, this opinion was expressed by war correspondent David Ex in an article for Forbes magazine.

The United States and NATO are "pumping" Ukraine with weapons and continuing the "military development" of this country, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

Ambassador Mikko Kinnunen, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in Ukraine and the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) for the Settlement of the situation in Donbass, said that the security situation along the contact line is extremely unstable.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg discussed Russia's actions on the border with Ukraine and issues of the upcoming meeting of NATO foreign ministers during a telephone conversation, the US State Department reported on Thursday.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting offensive operations in the area of the settlements of Staromariivka and Granitnoye. This was stated on Thursday, November 25, by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova during a briefing, referring to the reports of the OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine.

The Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan at a plenary session on Thursday adopted the law "On ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic on the provision of gratuitous military-technical assistance," the correspondent of the Interfax-Kazakhstan agency reported.

The Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan at a plenary session on Thursday adopted the law "On ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan on the provision of gratuitous military-technical assistance," the correspondent of the Interfax-Kazakhstan agency reported.

Following the results of the joint international exercise "Interaction-2021", which took place last month at the Kharb-Maydon training ground, five units of the 201st military base of the Russian Federation in Tajikistan were awarded the honorary name "shock".

Rosoboronexport plans to bring heavy attack drones and kamikaze drones to foreign arms markets in the near future, this year it sold 50 Orlan-10E reconnaissance UAVs abroad, the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev said on Thursday on the eve of the EDEX 2021 international arms exhibition.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu will hold talks with their Indian counterparts in the "two plus two" format in New Delhi on December 6.

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace spoke about the interceptions of Russian aircraft. According to him, Russia used aviation to spy on the aircraft carrier strike Group (AUG) of the Royal Navy (Navy) of Great Britain, led by the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth. This is reported by the UK Defense Journal.

The Falklands War lasted a little more than two months and left the locals a legacy of about 24,000 mines, which the Argentine military began laying in the first days after the invasion. When the fighting ended, all the mined areas were fenced with barbed wire, and not a single person was injured by the explosion.

Australia has taken the first step towards creating a nuclear submarine fleet. On November 23, information appeared on the website of the Naval Institute of the US Navy that the United States and Great Britain will share their nuclear power plant technologies for submarines for the first time.

The United States cannibalized the aircraft carrier Kennedy under construction in order for another such ship, Gerald R. Ford, to go on a long voyage in 2022, Defense News reports, citing a statement by a representative of the United States Navy and Captain Clay Doss.

Two US Island class patrol boats arrived in Odessa. They were delivered by the transport vessel Ocean Grand, which anchored in the Ukrainian port.

The main universal nuclear icebreaker of the project 22220 "Arctic" built by the Baltic Plant (part of the USC) entered the waters of the Gulf of Finland to undergo acceptance tests.

The holding company "Roselectronics" (part of Rostec) presented at the international telecommunications summit in Moscow a new version of a secure laptop that allows you to safely store secret information, the company said.