The US and Israeli defense ministers discussed the incident with the Mercer Street tanker
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Israeli Defense Minister Beni Gantz discussed the incident with the Mercer Street tanker in the Ottoman Gulf, which killed two people, according to a statement issued by the Pentagon on Friday.
The Colombian Navy received two river boats
As part of the project to strengthen the mechanism for controlling rivers and protecting the population, the Command of the Colombian Navy has adopted two BRF-230 low-draft river boats built by COTECMAR.
The third Type-054A/P class frigate for the Pakistan Navy has been launched
According to the Pakistani media, the launch ceremony of the third of the four Type-054A/P class frigates ordered for the Pakistani Navy took place at the enterprise of the Chinese company Hudong Zhonghua in Shanghai.
The UK is preparing minesweepers for Ukraine
Minesweepers that have served for more than twenty years in the British Navy will be transferred to the Ukrainian Navy next year. On August 5, the press service of the Royal Navy announced the decommissioning of the ships HMS Ramsey and HMS Blyth.
Possible reasons for the loss of the course of the Russian nuclear submarine near Denmark are named
Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov in a conversation with " Lenta.ru "called the possible reasons for stopping the course of the Russian nuclear-powered submarine missile cruiser "Eagle". According to him, this may be due to the ingress of foreign objects into the water intake, navigation error, winding fishing nets on the screw, and so on.
The salvo with all the ammunition of the strategic submarine was shown on video
30 years ago, in the Barents Sea, the strategic nuclear submarine K-407 (now Novomoskovsk) released the entire ammunition set from the underwater position-16 R-29 Sineva ballistic missiles with an interval of 14 seconds. The operation was called "Behemoth-2" and made a great impression on potential opponents of the Soviet Union (the Americans were able to launch only four missiles from the Ohio submarine in one salvo).
The newest submarine "Krasnoyarsk" will be equipped with high-precision long-range weapons
On Friday, August 6, at a meeting with the staff of the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke well about the new multi-purpose boat bearing the name of the city of factory workers. The submarine was built in Severomorsk and launched a few days ago. After completion, it will go to sea for testing.
The Tu-142 was aimed at the target for hitting the ship's missiles
The ship's strike group of the Northern Fleet, operating in the areas of the North-Eastern Atlantic as part of the command and staff training on the management of forces and troops of the Northern Fleet, conducted a missile strike exercise for a ship's group of a conditional enemy.
The Black Sea Fleet, the Caspian Flotilla, more than 80 aircraft and helicopters will be involved in the exercises in the Southern Military District from August 9 to September 15
It will be held at 20 polygons
As part of the bilateral battalion tactical exercises of motorized rifle, tank and artillery units of the Southern Military District (SEO), specialists of all branches of the armed forces will perform combat training tasks, the press service of the SEO reported on Sunday.
The frigate of the Black Sea Fleet was sent to the Mediterranean
The ship will become part of the forces of the permanent connection of the Navy and will replace the crew of the frigate "Admiral Makarov"
The frigate of the Black Sea Fleet "Admiral Essen" passes the Black Sea Straits in the direction of the Mediterranean Sea. This is stated on Saturday in the press service of the Black Sea Fleet.
The shipbuilding plant "Severnaya Verf" handed over the vessel "Vsevolod Bobrov"to the Navy
General Director of the enterprise Igor Orlov said that after the ship's admission to the Navy and the ceremony of raising the St. Andrew's flag, Vsevolod Bobrov will begin preparations for the inter-fleet transition to the home port of Sevastopol.
The Russian Navy was recognized as "still Soviet"
A significant part of the ship's composition of the Russian Navy (Navy), especially the ocean zone, still remains Soviet, writes Konstantin Sivkov, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information Policy, Doctor of Military Sciences, in the Military-Industrial Courier, assessing the main parade of the Navy held in St. Petersburg in July.
IDC: AI spending will exceed $ 500 billion in 2024
The specialists of the analytical company studied the situation on the market of solutions in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and published a forecast.
Round table "Domestic ECB for AI technologies as a driver for increasing the degree of UAV autonomy"
On October 6, 2021, as part of the section of the Scientific Conference No. 10 " Neuromorphic computing. Artificial intelligence "of the Forum" Microelectronics 2021 " will host a round table "Domestic ECB for AI technologies as a driver for increasing the degree of UAV autonomy"
The British will say goodbye to the L85 rifles
In the coming years, the British will abandon their SA80 small arms complex and L85 submachine guns in particular. August 7, portal armyrecognition.com he said that the re-equipment could begin as early as 2025.
The Pentagon compares the new combat robots with Patton's "Army of Ghosts"
The Pentagon reported that by 2030, units of combat robots resembling the "Ghost Army" of the Second World War, commanded by General George Patton, will be formed in the American army. The "ghost Army" consisted of fake equipment and soldiers disguised as foreign troops and was intended to mislead the enemy.
RIPSAW M5: the first robot shooting with a gun
The American army is preparing to release robots on the battlefield. On August 5, the press service of the US Army reported that the first fire tests of a combat vehicle created under the RCV-M program were conducted at the training ground of the Fort Dix military base (New Jersey).
Taiwan will arm itself with American howitzers
The Americans continue to arm Taiwan against the background of China's threats to seize the island by force. August 6, portal thedefensepost.com He reported that the US State Department approved the sale of weapons in the amount of $ 750 million.
The 70-ton Abrams with a powerful 140-mm gun was the answer to the Molot tank
In the early 90s in the United States, having received information about the creation of a new generation of Soviet tanks (for example, about the promising "Hammer"), they began working on a radical modernization of their "Abrams".
In the US, they were afraid of the Russian "Robocatyusha"
The report that Russian engineers are engaged in automating the rocket artillery system has caused serious concern in the United States.