FAR EAST-The joint Russian-Mongolian military exercise "Selenga-2021" will be held from September 20 to October 5 at one of the military training grounds in Mongolia, the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO) reported on Tuesday.

During the training, the servicemen will work out the transition to the collective rapid reaction forces, as well as the preparation and conduct of reconnaissance and search operations in isolation from the main forces.

The tasks of engineering support in the preparation of combat operations are worked out at a joint tactical exercise by units of the armed forces of Belarus and Russia. It began on Tuesday at the 230th combined arms training ground Obuz-Lesnovsky, seventeen kilometers from Baranovichi, the military department of the Republic of Belarus informs.

Underwater drones for searching and escorting enemy submarines have already been created and are being tested in Russia, a representative of the Central Design Bureau of Marine Equipment (CCB MT) "Rubin"told RIA Novosti.

After the failure of the United States in Afghanistan and the sudden withdrawal of troops from Kabul, the eyes of the whole world are focused on Mali, writes Le Figaro.

France has announced that its foreign operation in the Sahel zone is over. Experts and local authorities are worried about whether the same scenario will happen there as in Afghanistan, and how to avoid it.

On Monday, August 30, the American air defense systems intercepted at least five missiles that were fired at the Kabul airport. This was reported by the Reuters news agency with reference to a US official.

France will maintain its military presence in Iraq even if the United States completely leaves the country. This was announced on Sunday, August 29, by French President Emmanuel Macron in an interview with TF1 TV channel.

The Finnish shipbuilding company Meyer Turku Oy (a division of the German Meyer Werft) has signed a letter of intent providing for the construction of two multi-purpose ships for the Finnish Border Guard.

The third and last destroyer of the Zumwalt type went to sea for sea trials. The ship was built at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine and was named Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002). The ship is distinguished by a bizarre shape with a nose sloping into the sky, a pyramidal superstructure and flat sides. This is a tribute to inconspicuousness.

The third and last ship of the Zumwalt type — Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002) - has begun sea trials. In the future, such ships will become carriers of new hypersonic weapons.

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that on August 25, at the enterprise of the Newport News Shipbuilding division, the cutting ceremony of the first steel for the construction of the Doris Miller aircraft carrier (CVN-81) will be held.

The ANPA-M underwater drone was developed for the Russian Navy, which interested the fleet command and was presented to the Minister of Defense, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

Western countries are concerned about the activities of the Russian oceanographic vessel "Yantar", which performs its tasks exactly where transatlantic submarine cables pass on the bottom. There is a suspicion that the Russians are thus carrying out espionage missions or preparing for future sabotage operations, the Polish newspaper Defence24 reports.

The Army-2021 Forum has completed its work, but the analysis and understanding of what was shown in its framework will continue for a long time.

One of the soft, but very important presentations is the creation of a digital model of a gas turbine engine for Navy warships. It is notable for the fact that the university science took the most active part in this work.

The environmental division of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) of Kamchatka has started carrying out garbage collection in the Arctic, the press service of the Eastern Military District for the Pacific Fleet reported on Monday.

This was stated by Ivan Ozhgikhin, Senior Managing Director of RUSNANO Management Company, Chairman of the Management Board of the Medical Equipment Consortium, at the Innomed forum. Currently, up to 30% of the volume of medical products purchased at the expense of the budget is already produced in Russia.

Researchers from the Biorobotics Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Polytechnic University of Lausanne (Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, EPFL) have long been developing robots copied from various species of living creatures, with which they study the neurobiological principles that ensure the movement of these animals. And one of the latest creations of Swiss researchers is the AgnathaX robot, which can swim in the water, like a sea eel.

The first attempt of the Ethiopian army to use the T-72UA1 tank modernized in Ukraine in battles ended in failure. One of these combat vehicles in good condition was captured recently by the militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray.

JSC " Uraltransmash "(part of the concern "Uralvagonzavod" is part of Rostec) has completed the delivery of modernized self-propelled howitzers 2S3M "Acacia" to Belarus, the press service of the enterprise reported.

Omsk Plant of Transport Engineering (as part of JSC Concern Uralvagonzavod is part of the Rostec State Corporation) took part in the International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".