Chinese military blogs reported on successful ground tests of electromagnetic catapults created for the third aircraft carrier of the People's Republic of China.

The third US Navy ship headed for the Black Sea.

The US Navy posted on Twitter a photo of the tanker tanker John Lenthall going to the Black Sea to join a joint operation with NATO allies. This is the third American ship following this course. Earlier, the command ship of the Sixth Fleet of the US Navy Mount Whitne and the destroyer Porter entered the Black Sea.

The visits of US Navy ships to the Black Sea are becoming a demonstration of NATO's strength, flag and ability for a military conflict with Moscow. Igor Korotchenko, the editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, told REN TV about this on November 3, commenting on the data that the third US warship is heading to the Black Sea.

During the exercises, the crews of the Rostov-on-Don and Veliky Novgorod submarines practiced striking with Kalibr-PL missiles at a detachment of ships of a conditional enemy.

The crews of the Rostov-on-Don and Veliky Novgorod submarines practiced striking with Kalibr-PL missiles during the exercise

The crews of submarines of the Black Sea Fleet during the exercises worked out a missile strike on a detachment of ships of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Wednesday.

It is very difficult to detect a diesel-electric submarine like the Russian project 636 submarine of the Varshavyanka type because of the nature of its acoustic signature or even the absence of such a signature, Kevin Noonan, a veteran of the US Navy (Navy), writes in the American edition of The Drive.

Three submarines of the Northern Fleet conducted practical torpedo firing in the Barents Sea, including an underwater duel, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported.

They will be part of the Pacific Fleet

The largest Russian shipyard Sevmash will transfer two nuclear submarines to the Russian Navy in 2022 - the strategic Generalissimo Suvorov of project 955A (code "Borey-A") and the strike Krasnoyarsk of project 885M (code "Yasen-M"). This was reported to TASS by a source close to the Russian military department.

Next year, Sevmash will transfer two nuclear submarines, a strategic and a strike, to the Russian Navy. Both will serve in the Pacific Fleet.

Engaged in the implementation of large-scale projects in the field of nuclear technology, General Atomics (San Diego, California) has created a giant magnet for the largest thermonuclear reactor in history – ITER, which will begin operation in 2023 in the south of France.

A team of researchers at the University of Southampton (UK) is developing a technology for a five-dimensional (5D) optical storage device, the capabilities of which were first demonstrated eight years ago.

Artificial intelligence should provide a qualitative breakthrough in improving the combat characteristics of weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The reconnaissance units of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District stationed in Buryatia have received the latest AK-12 Kalashnikov assault rifles. This was announced on Wednesday by the press service of the VVO.

Currently, in the interests of the Ground Forces, the development of promising heavy and medium-class robotic complexes is underway.

Transportation by rail of new 155-mm towed AH4 howitzers was filmed in one of the provinces of China.

In total, eighteen pieces of equipment can be seen on the platforms. At the same time, it is reported that this is only part of what is in the echelon transferring the artillery unit to the exercise area.

The German Leopard 2A7 tank has passed the first stage of testing of the active protection complex (KAZ) Trophy. The development of the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems provided effective protection of the tank. The Israeli Defense Ministry has published a corresponding message on its Twitter account. This is reported by Army Recognition.

The Israeli defense showed a high result on the German tank. November 2, portal janes.com He reported that the companies Rafael and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) conducted a joint test of the Leopard 2 tank and the Trophy active protection system.

The old Soviet BTR-152 continues to be improved in Vietnam. Currently, a thoroughly modified version has been created for peacekeeping units operating as part of the UN troops.

The tank received a 1,130 hp engine.

A batch of T-72B3M tanks with improved characteristics entered service with the army corps of the Baltic Fleet in the Kaliningrad region. This was reported on Tuesday by the press service of the fleet.

Fighters of one of the units of the People's Militia of Donbass modified the captured Ukrainian T-64BV. According to the project of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta "Russian Weapons", the main battle tank was equipped with two special searchlights, nicknamed "red eyes".