The Northern Fleet fired a Zircon missile at a sea target, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Viktor Litovkin spoke about the unique qualities of the Zircon.

Russia has conducted new tests of the Zircon hypersonic missile. During them, a missile fired from the frigate Admiral Gorshkov hit the target with a direct hit.

In Russia, a mobile multipurpose robotic complex of the MRK-RKHBZ defense forces is being developed as part of two ground-based robotic vehicles and two UAVs based on Orlan-10 with sets of replaceable attachments.

The development of military buggies was considered at a meeting of the Military Technical Committee under the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS member states. This is reported by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations have completed tests of the MRK-15 robotic complex, which were carried out for two months. They were conducted on the basis of the Center for Special Risk Rescue operations "Leader".

During the exercises of the CSTO special forces, which are taking place in Tajikistan, the scouts of the Russian 201st military base for the first time used modern AK-12 submachine guns to solve tactical tasks.

The Vistula Motorized Rifle Division of the Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District in the Voronezh and Belgorod Regions adopted the ESUTZ tactical link control system.

Top500.org published on Monday a list of the 500 most productive supercomputers in the world; in the ranking of countries with supercomputers, Russia ranked 10th in terms of a combination of factors that take into account the number and power of machines.

The Command of the Australian Navy has adopted the second AOR (auxiliary oiler and replacement ship) of the Supply class, (A304) "Stalworth", built by Navantia.

The Spanish company Navantia offers Turkey to exercise an option for the construction of the second Anadolu-class UDC, developed on the basis of the project of the universal landing ship L-61 "Juan Carlos I" of the Spanish Navy.

The command of the US Navy announced the baptism ceremony of the next-generation tanker (T-AO-206) Harvey Milk of the John Lewis class in San Diego (California).

France on Thursday begins large-scale naval exercises POLARIS 21, which will be held in the western Mediterranean Sea and off the Atlantic coast of the country, its Navy said.

France is launching large-scale naval exercises POLARIS 21, which will be held in the western part of the Mediterranean Sea and off the Atlantic coast of the country, the press service of its Navy reported.

Taiwan will soon have the first submarine of its own design. November 17, portal navalpost.com He reported that a closed ceremony of laying the keel of a new submarine was held at the CSBC Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard in Kaohsiung.

The Saudi-led Arab coalition launched massive strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen after intercepting and destroying a drone that was trying to attack the Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi news agency SPA reported on Thursday.

Russia does not accept attempts to divide the Syrian Arab Republic and create quasi-states on its territory, Russian President's special representative for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev said during a round table held in Damascus as part of the visit of the Russian interdepartmental delegation.

The first batch of Russian humanitarian aid arrived at Kabul airport on Thursday, the Aamaj News news agency reported.

Three Il-76 military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which arrived in Afghanistan to evacuate 380 citizens of the Russian Federation, delivered 108 tons of humanitarian cargo to the country. This was reported to journalists on Thursday, November 18, by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The head of the Kabul Emergency Management Department, Mirwais Watanmal, thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as the Russian Defense Ministry and its head, Army General Sergei Shoigu, for the humanitarian aid delivered, also telling reporters how it would be distributed.

The Russian Defense Ministry, on behalf of President Vladimir Putin, is evacuating citizens of Russia and other countries from Afghanistan who need to leave given the extremely turbulent situation there, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian leader, told reporters on Thursday.