The shooting was conducted at targets simulating artillery guns and armored objects of a simulated enemy at various distances

Russian servicemen conducted firing from tanks and armored vehicles of the ground forces of the People's Liberation Army of China in preparation for joint exercises.

The Novosibirsk Instrument-Making Plant (REFINERY) has developed modifications of optical sights for working at small and medium distances, the press service of the Shvabe holding, which includes the enterprise, reports.

Researchers from Samara State University (SamSU) have developed a test to assess the psychological qualities of an applicant using a virtual reality helmet. Such an idea will help employers to assess a person's personality when recruiting staff, Izvestia writes.

A group of researchers from the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Columbia University has found a new way to perform complex quantum algorithms on a traditional computer.

[b]The United Shipbuilding

Corporation (USC) has almost completed the relocation of its main office from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the head of USC, Alexey Rakhmanov, told Interfax on Monday.

The Russian Navy will receive three nuclear submarines for service. They are planned to transfer them by the end of 2021.

The Russian Northern Fleet is expected to send a detachment of ships to the Arctic on Monday. "From the main base of the Severomorsk fleet, an exit to the Arctic campaign will take place as part of the implementation of a set of measures aimed at ensuring the protection of the interests of the Russian Federation in the Arctic," the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The ship grouping of the Northern Fleet carried out a complex of artillery firing at sea target positions in the area of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. She played an episode on the organization of the defense of the island territories of Russia. The command and staff training was led by the commander of the SF, Admiral Hero of Russia Alexander Moiseev.

The crew of the Black Sea Fleet minesweeper "Ivan Golubets", who began performing tasks as part of the permanent Naval grouping in the Mediterranean Sea, as part of planned combat training, worked out mine action before entering the ships ' home port – the port of Tartus.

Patrol ships "Dmitry Rogachev" and "Pavel Derzhavin" conducted training artillery firing in the Black Sea, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet reported on Monday.

The Russian Navy will receive three nuclear submarines at once this year, a source in the shipbuilding industry said. On the air of Sputnik radio, captain of the 1st rank Igor Kurdin stressed that the Russian navy is restoring the necessary and sufficient number of nuclear submarines.

The Varshavyanka submarines remained unnoticed by the British carrier strike group for 96 hours.

The Russian inconspicuous submarines of the Varshavyanka project have fully justified their combat capabilities.

Ukraine has forgotten how to build warships. Several countries will build a modest coastal fleet for Ukraine at once. Marine Sergeant Taras Chmut believes that corvettes will not save Ukraine from Russia, as long as there are no SAMs, anti-ship and sonar systems, as well as torpedo tubes in the Ukrainian fleet.

The first aircraft carrier built by India has successfully passed sea trials. August 8, portal indiatimes.com He reported that the Vikrant ship had returned from a five-day testing.

In 2019, China overtook the United States in the number of warships. Despite this, there are no competitors to the American fleet in terms of total tonnage and combat capabilities yet.

At the Fincantieri Marinette Marine company in Marinette (pc.Wisconsin) On August 7, the christening ceremony of the LCS-27 Nantucket coastal warship of the Freedom class, intended for the US Navy, took place.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes to create a special structure within the UN on the problems of combating maritime crime in different regions.

Deborah Lyons, Special Representative and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, appealed to the President of the Republic Ashraf Ghani to immediately stop the violence in the country.

The fighting will continue until the Taliban and the Afghan government start negotiations

The special representatives of the" extended troika " for Afghanistan (Russia, the United States, Pakistan, China) will discuss the ongoing offensive of the Taliban (members of the Taliban group banned in the Russian Federation - IF) at the upcoming meeting in Doha on August 11, Zamir Kabulov, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation, director of the second Asia department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Interfax on Monday.

The Defense Minister stressed that the main task assigned to the military-industrial complex is to increase the production of military and dual-use products

The import substitution program will allow to increase the share of Russian products in the domestic market of the defense industry by two and a half times by 2025, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting with the staff of Krasmash on Friday.