The signing of an agreement on military cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia, which took place in August during the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", indicates the readiness of Riyadh to diversify its relations in the defense sphere and go beyond the long-standing focus on Washington, the American edition of Breaking Defense writes.

In the Military Harbor of Baltiysk, the marines of the Northern Fleet loaded military equipment onto landing ships for going to sea and landing at the Baltic Fleet training ground "Khmelevka".

The gunners of the Russian military base in Tajikistan, against the background of the situation in Afghanistan, conducted a live-firing exercise at the Sambuli mountain range (Tajikistan), the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Monday.

The ships of the Baltic Fleet and the marines of the Northern Fleet will conduct maneuvers in the Baltic Sea in preparation for the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercise "West-2021", the Baltic Fleet said on Monday.

Military personnel of the mountain motorized rifle unit of the Central Military District, during the practical stage of the Russian-Kazakh joint tactical exercise, destroyed a band of a conditional enemy with the help of artillery calculations of the self-propelled gun "Nona-SVK" at the Kara-Haak mountain range in the Republic of Tyva. This is reported by the press service of the Central Military District.

More than four thousand military motorized rifle and tank regiments of the South of Russia have started exercises in the Rostov region.

Units manned by reservists have been transferred to the Kaliningrad Region, where the Zapad-2021 exercises will soon take place, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The Russian Defense Ministry has decided to increase the number of reservists in the army. This was reported on Monday, September 6, by the press service of the defense ministry.

Divisions of the motorized rifle and tank regiments of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division of the Southern Military District have begun conducting a bilateral tactical exercise at the Kadamovsky training ground in the Rostov region, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

The sites for the construction of new cities in Siberia should be correlated with the resource capabilities of the region and the programs for the development of transport networks.

Tests of the first Russian armored car K-4386 ZA-SpN for special forces will begin in 2022, Igor Zarakhovich, chief designer of the Remdiesel development company, said on September 6.

The Saudi news agency SPA, citing the country's Defense Ministry, reported that last Saturday, the Saudi air defense forces prevented a missile attack from Yemen on three settlements of the kingdom.

In the future, the US military will most likely use mainly US Navy aircraft to launch strikes against the militants of the Islamic State terrorist group (banned in the Russian Federation) in Afghanistan.

When asked about the possibility of supporting the opponents of the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) in the civil strife of Afghanistan, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby replied that the US military mission in this country has been completed.

The fact that the United States left weapons in Afghanistan could have been provided for by an agreement with the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in Russia), admits TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin.

The Syrian air defense forces destroyed 21 missiles out of 24 missiles fired last night by Israeli fighter jets at targets in Syria, said Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria.

The US Department of Defense has denied reports about the reduction of the American contingent in Syria. "It's not like that. The parameters of our mission in Syria remain the same. We called this morning to make sure of this, " RIA Novosti quoted a Pentagon spokesman as saying.

In the image from space of Maxar Technologies, demonstrating the oceanographic research vessel "Akademik Alexandrov" of the 20183 project in Severodvinsk (Arkhangelsk region), you can see a product that resembles a Russian torpedo of the apocalypse - a nuclear underwater drone "Poseidon" 2M39, writes the American edition of USNI News.

The newest American stealth destroyer of the Zumwalt type has returned to its native shipyard after a five-day voyage. On September 3, the press service of the Bath Iron Works shipyard, part of the General Dynamics Corporation, announced that the USS Lyndon B. Johnson passed factory sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean.

On September 1, the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announced the conclusion of a contract worth about $ 80 million, providing for the supply of sets of weapons systems for high-speed patrol boats of the Shaldag Mk. 5 class, which are being built by Israel Shipyards for a customer from Southeast Asia.