A group of armed men in Laghman province in eastern Afghanistan announced the beginning of the fight against the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in Russia).

A representative of the Eastern Military District of China, Shi Yi, said that the country's Air Force carried out combat patrols in the Taiwan Strait zone to demonstrate the country's high degree of combat readiness.

In a couple of years, the Chinese Navy may have a third aircraft carrier. On November 9, the CNN news agency reported that according to an analysis of satellite images taken by the Washington analytical center, the ship, known as Type 003, could be launched as early as early next year.

From a geopolitical point of view, the Black Sea coast is the "soft underbelly" of Russia, approaching which the enemy can strike at the largest cities and defense centers of our country, military historian Dmitry Boltenkov writes in Izvestia.

Russian ships are tracking the actions of the US Navy in the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "Russian ships performing scheduled tasks in the southeastern part of the Black Sea since October 30: The missile cruiser Moskva and the frigate Admiral Essen are monitoring the actions of the US Navy in the Black Sea, which arrived to conduct an unscheduled multinational exercise,"the report says.

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced Georgia's readiness to assist NATO in ensuring security in the Black Sea.

A Russian ship, presumably the Kildin, was spotted while shadowing the British Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth off the coast of Oman, and this caused concern among the British. The ship passed through the Bosphorus before entering the Mediterranean Sea en route to the Persian Gulf.

As part of the control entry into the sea, the large landing ships of the Baltic Fleet demonstrated their capabilities.

A ship group consisting of the Korolev and Minsk BDK was involved in the exercises in one of the sea ranges, the information support department of the press service of the Western Military District for the BF told the Military-Industrial Courier.

Russian military personnel will hold the strategic exercise "Vostok-2022" next year. According to the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Sergei Avakyants, the Pacific Fleet has already begun to prepare for it.

In the military harbor of Baltiysk, a detachment of warships returning from a trip to the Baltic Sea was solemnly greeted with an orchestra and a traditional roast pig.

Novikombank, the main bank of the Rostec State Corporation, has provided financial support for the construction of the research vessel "Evgeny Goriglejan", which is scheduled to begin testing in December.

The Pacific Fleet will soon receive a number of new ships and submarines, said the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Sergey Avakyants.

The crew of the naval minesweeper "Pyotr Ilyichev", built for the Pacific Fleet, settled on the ship after completing training at the Joint Training Center of the Navy in St. Petersburg.

The Russian government will quadruple financial support for domestic software projects in industry. This was announced on Monday by the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Mikhail Mishustin at a meeting with deputy prime ministers via videoconference, reports TASS.

On Wednesday, engineering assault groups were used for the first time at the training ground of the Kazan Tank School, where the "Indestructible Brotherhood-2021" exercise of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO is taking place.

It's too early to write off the old American M60 tanks. November 9, portal armyrecognition.com He announced that the Taiwan National Institute of Science and Technology of Zhong Shan (NCSIST) will begin partial modernization of the M60A3 MBT from next year.

By the time the punitive operation in the Donbas began, the Ukrainian army had 25 T-80UD, nicknamed "the last serial tanks of the USSR." Moreover, most of the once formidable combat vehicles were in a non-combatant state.

The first deliveries of the Tosochka heavy flamethrower system TOS-2 will take place this year, Alexander Smirnov, CEO of NPO Splav, told Interfax.

In the Russian tank support combat vehicles (BMPT), the Terminator was seen as a threat. The Ukrainian information and consulting agency Defense Express commented on reports about the introduction of a company of BMPT into the staff of one of the regiments of the 90th tank Division.

The Uraltransmash enterprise of the Uralvagonzavod concern, as part of the fulfillment of the state defense order, manufactured and supplied the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation with new 2S19M2 Msta-S self-propelled howitzers.