The British celebrate the return of the flagship of the Royal Navy from its first combat deployment. In six months, the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and its strike group have covered 49,000 nautical miles, making a trip across three oceans and five seas.

Paris and Athens have signed a contract providing for the construction of three frigates for the Greek Navy in France, the Figaro newspaper reported on Saturday.

The US Navy received $98 million to continue research and development work on the creation of a new generation nuclear submarine with the conditional name SSN(X), follows from the report of the Congressional Research Service.

On December 9, at the enterprise of the Pakistani company KSEW in Karachi, a cutting ceremony of the first steel was held for the construction of the fifth Hangor-class DPL ("Type-039B"), which looks little different from the previously developed "Type-039A".

Several thousand employees of the Russian private military company (PMCs) Wagner are in Libya, the Anadolu agency quoted the chairman of the country's Supreme State Council, Khaled al-Mishri, as saying on Sunday.

He noted the activation of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of American troops

The head of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces, General Frank Mackenzie, said that for the foreseeable future, the US will keep the number of its military in Iraq at the current level of 2.5 thousand people.

The Americans have officially completed combat operations against the terrorist organization "Islamic State". December 11, portal military.com He reported that the US Department of Defense announced the curtailment of the military mission in Iraq.

U.S. Defense Ministers Lloyd Austin and Israel's Beni Ganz discussed the Iranian problem at a meeting in Washington, Austin assured that the United States would continue efforts aimed at preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the Pentagon said.

The aggravation of security problems in the world is a key factor that affects the development of the Russian Armed Forces (AF), said the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov.

Nigeria offers Russia to create a working group whose task will be to work out issues on possible arms supplies, this issue is being discussed.

More than 1.5 thousand Russian enterprises have already been invited to participate in its work, said Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

The International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2022" will be held in August, more than 1.5 thousand Russian enterprises have already been invited to participate in its work, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said.

The maneuvers will be held in September 2022

It is planned to invite foreign military contingents to the strategic command and staff exercise "Vostok-2022", which will be held in September 2022, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said.

The main event of the training of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2022 will be the strategic command and staff exercise "Vostok-2022", which will be held in September, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said.

Military investigators detained Alexander Lopatin, a leading adviser to the Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for ensuring the state defense order, on suspicion of receiving a large bribe in Moscow. This was reported on December 9 by a source in law enforcement agencies.

Among the main tasks, according to the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, mine clearance of terrain and facilities, the return of prisoners of war and detained persons, the search for the bodies of the dead, ensuring the safety of the delivery of humanitarian supplies and the implementation of infrastructure projects.

Deputy Commander of the district troops Rustam Muradov said that the Russian peacekeepers will bring this matter to an end

All servicemen of the Azerbaijani side captured during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh have been returned with the assistance of Russian peacekeepers, work on the return of captured Armenian soldiers is currently continuing. This was reported to TASS by the deputy commander of the troops of the Southern Military District, Rustam Muradov.

The Organization remains a reliable guarantor of stability in Central Asia, according to the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Attempts to infiltrate terrorists from Afghanistan into Central Asia will be stopped by the forces of the countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said on Thursday at a briefing before the military attaches of foreign states.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation noted that the recently signed bilateral roadmap for the development of cooperation in the military field opens up new opportunities on this track

Cooperation between Moscow and Beijing is an important link in ensuring stability in the Asia-Pacific region (APR), the recently signed bilateral roadmap for the development of cooperation in the military field opens up new opportunities on this track, said Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The "new security equation" proposed by Russia can become an effective arms control mechanism to ensure strategic stability, said Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

NATO has increased military activity in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders in recent years, the US strategic aviation is training cruise missile launches at facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation, said Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, noting that the Russian Defense Ministry confirms its readiness to discuss security issues to de-escalate tensions and increase mutual trust.