Russia is ready to use the capabilities of the 201st military base in Tajikistan to protect its allies in connection with the situation in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference in Laos, RIA Novosti reports.

About 1,500 Afghan military personnel during armed clashes with the Taliban (the Taliban movement, a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) crossed into the territory of Tajikistan over the past two weeks, Permanent and Plenipotentiary representative of Tajikistan to the CSTO Hassan Sultonov said.

The head of the Crimean Parliament's committee on people's diplomacy and interethnic relations, Yuri Hempel, called British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab a provocateur of the highest rank after words about new ship passages off the coast of Crimea.

By 2022, Ukraine, with the help of the United States and Great Britain, will probably receive a fleet of small ships with combat capabilities. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the country Andrey Taran.

The patrol ship Rayo of the Spanish Navy has entered the Black Sea, the Russian fleet is watching it. This was reported on Wednesday, July 7, at the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation.

Danish television has published a video taken by the installer Mads Christensen from the bridge over the Great Belt Strait at the moment when the nuclear submarine of the Northern Fleet "Eagle" was passing under it.

Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov checked at the Sevmash plant (Severodvinsk) the course of modernization of the nuclear cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" and said that the military expects to receive the nuclear submarines planned for delivery this year.

According to the commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, three nuclear submarines of the Northern Fleet will arrive in Kronstadt from July 8 to 10.

The Russian Navy is introducing new tactical techniques for using mine defense ships of the 12700 project. The newest minesweepers have the most modern weapons, sailors consider them ships of the XXI century.

The crew of the minesweeper "Valentin Pikul" conducted exercises with the development of mine action in the Kerch Strait, the Black Sea Fleet reported.

The Russian Navy will receive a "mini-cruiser missile carrier". On July 6, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Ministry of Defense agreed on a plan to modernize the Admiral Chabanenko BOD under a project similar to the one under which the Marshal Shaposhnikov BOD was updated.

In the interests of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the UPVS-5 installation for obtaining water in the Arctic is being developed.

The US Department of Defense has rejected a contract for the provision of JEDI cloud computing services worth about $10 billion, which was claimed by the largest American corporations Microsoft and Amazon. This is stated in a statement published on Tuesday, July 6, on the department's website.

Scientists from the Laboratory of Materials Science and Engineering of the National University of Singapore have developed a foamed material that allows robots to sense objects and can independently recover from damage like human skin.

The American company Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced the conclusion of a contract for the supply of four autonomous underwater vehicles " REMUS-300 "(REMUS-Remote Environmental Measuring Units) New Zealand Navy.

The total volume of the global robotics market will reach $160-260 billion in 2030, according to a study by the consulting company The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

The Turkish army will arm itself with the first medium-class ground drones. July 6, portal c4isrnet.com he reported that the Turkish Defense Ministry is testing four models of tracked robotic vehicles.

Yandex has agreed to partner with the American food delivery service Grubhub. Yandex's six-wheeled robots will deliver food to college and university campuses in the United States, according to a press release received by N + 1.

Divisions of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are able to conduct reconnaissance of premises with zero illumination using a small-sized wireless inspection robot "Sphere".

The United States should ensure the supply of new weapons, including M1 Abrams tanks, to Poland. Thus, NATO countries will be able to restrain Russia, according to Dan Gure, a columnist for The National Interest.