The situation in Afghanistan was discussed during a telephone conversation between the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev and the assistant to the US President for national Security Jacob Sullivan, the press service of the Security Council of the Russian Federation reported.

The Collective Security Treaty Organization is ready to attract additional forces to protect the Tajik-Afghan border, but there is no need for this yet, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said.

The American Navy will receive the twelfth ship of the San Antonio type. On August 22, the press service of the US Department of Defense reported that a solemn ceremony of christening the landing transport dock USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28) was held at the Ingalls Division shipyard of Huntington Ingalls Industries.

A detachment of ships of the Northern Fleet, performing the tasks of a long-distance campaign in the Mediterranean Sea, entered the port of Algiers (the capital of the state of the same name in North Africa), the press service of the Northern Fleet (SF) reports.

The newest logistics support vessel of the Navy "Vsevolod Bobrov", on which the St. Andrew's flag was raised on August 21, will begin an inter-fleet transition from Kronstadt to the Black Sea Fleet by the end of August. Currently, the vessel is being prepared for the transition.

It is planned to start testing the new ship in the near future The

small rocket ship "Cyclone" will become part of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) at the end of the year. This was reported on Monday by the press service of the fleet.

As part of the work on further modernization of the complex, it is planned to increase the capabilities of the mobile sonar mine detection station in terms of increasing the detection range

The newest mine defense ships of the project 12700 ("Alexandrite") continue to be equipped with integrated systems for searching and destroying mines "Alexandrite-ISPUM-E".

The unmanned boat with the CyberBoat-330 hybrid engine presented at the Army-2021 military forum received a rocket-machine gun module. The vessel was developed on an initiative basis in the design bureau of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

Rybinsk Shipyard (part of the Kalashnikov Group of companies of the Rostec State Corporation) has presented the first DS-RIB assault boat for special forces in Russia. It was presented at the Army-2021 forum, TASS reports.

On August 23, during the Army-2021 forum, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the construction of warships for the country's Navy, including in Severodvinsk at Sevmash, in St. Petersburg at Admiralty Shipyards and in Komsomolsk-on-Amur at the Amur Shipbuilding Plant.

The President noted that the navy plays an important role in ensuring the security of the state

A strong and sovereign Russia needs a powerful, balanced navy. This was stated on Monday by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the ceremony of laying new warships and submarines for the navy, which takes place in the video conference mode.

According to the head of the center, Vladimir Koshlakov, a complex of resource tests of the devices has already passed.

The M. V. Keldysh Research Center (part of Roscosmos) has created a line of plasma torches that can be used for incineration of solid household waste. This was announced by the general director of the enterprise Vladimir Koshlakov during the Army forum.

The Swedish company SSAB has supplied Volvo with the first batch of a new type of automotive steel – "green". The term is still unofficial, this material is also called "environmentally friendly steel", because when creating it, combustible fossils and the energy produced with their help are not used. There are also no emissions into the atmosphere during the production of eco-steel, which is very beneficial for both SSAB and Volvo. The first pledged to switch to carbon-free production by 2045, the second-by 2050.

A pilot project on digitalization of large-scale production has been launched in Penza. At one of the defense industry enterprises, which is part of the Rostec Group of Companies, they created their own production management information system, which was called "Platon".

The ministry noted that artificial intelligence technologies are used to improve the efficiency of solving the tasks of the Russian army

Russia has every opportunity to take one of the leading places in the world in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), it is necessary to ensure the security of the country, First Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Ruslan Tsalikov said on Monday.

For the first time, the STAD-100 mobile nitrogen mining station will be presented at the forum

The industry will present about a thousand developments made in the interests of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", which opens on August 22.

It will be available to everyone in a virtual fitting room at the Voentorg stand

The fur suit of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he rested in Tuva this year, can be tried on in the virtual fitting room at the Voentorg stand at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021". This was reported to TASS by the general Director of JSC "Voentorg" Vladimir Pavlov.

In particular, the Minister actively participated in the creation of toiletry bags, which are supplied to Russian servicemen

The head of the Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, takes an active part in the creation of new products of Voentorg JSC. This was announced to TASS at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" by the general director of the company Vladimir Pavlov.

The products of the Russian Voentorg are also actively interested in China, said Vladimir Pavlov, General Director of Voentorg JSC

JSC "Voentorg" plans to enter the Western market with the products of the "Army of Russia". This was announced to TASS at the International Military-technical Forum "Army-2021" by the General Director of JSC "Voentorg" Vladimir Pavlov.

Russia will soon begin work on the creation of a new generation of combat equipment, the military has already outlined the basic requirements, said Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the cluster of weapons, ammunition and special chemicals of the state corporation Rostec.