The Royal Navy of Great Britain has put up for sale an auxiliary vessel Argus - the only one of its kind.

Until 1981, the ship built in Italy was a peaceful container ship MV Contender Bezant. On the eve of the Falklands War, it was mobilized and converted into a floating hospital. Then Bezant was returned to the owners, but due to the decline in shipping, the container ship turned out to be not the lot and in 1984 the British Admiralty finally acquired the 190-meter ship.

Russia is considering the possibility of resuming the work of the Consulate General in Mazar-I-Sharif in Afghanistan, the special representative of the President for Afghanistan, Director of the second Asia Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabulov said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel.

The government in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic managed to ensure the smooth operation of defense industry organizations and prevent the disruption of the state defense order, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said during the "government hour" in the Federation Council.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the number of complaints has significantly decreased

The quality of products supplied to the Russian military has improved significantly over the past three years. This was reported to journalists in the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov following his speech at the government hour in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.

Military threats, political and economic pressure from Western countries have forced Russia and Belarus to take retaliatory measures, one of them is the new Military Doctrine of the Union State, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

Among the reasons, the head of the Defense Ministry called military threats, political and economic pressure from Western countries

Military threats, political and economic pressure from Western countries have forced Russia and Belarus to take retaliatory measures, one of them is the new Military Doctrine of the Union State, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The plan of Russian-Belarusian military cooperation for the next year contains 139 measures aimed at strengthening the security of the Union State, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The head of the Ministry of Defense clarified that we are talking about the node of the missile attack warning system in the city of Baranovichi and the Navy radio station in the city of Vileika

The heads of the military departments of Russia and Belarus, Sergei Shoigu and Viktor Khrenin, signed documents on Wednesday extending the validity of agreements on the deployment of two Russian military facilities on the territory of the republic.

Iran and Russia will soon hold a meeting of the Commission on military-technical cooperation (MTC).

This will be given a new incentive, said the chief of the Iranian General Staff Mohammad Bagheri. "A meeting of the joint military-technical commission will be held in Tehran soon. I think that our cooperation in this area will develop," he said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel (VGTRK).

The situation in the region is pushing Iran to purchase weapons. A meeting of the joint commission on military-technical cooperation with Russia will be held in Tehran soon

Iran and Russia will soon hold a meeting of the commission on military-technical cooperation (MTC), which will be given a new incentive, said the chief of the Iranian General Staff Mohammad Bagheri.

Iran is not yet ready to create a military bloc with Russia, but they do not rule out such a possibility in the future, Iranian Chief of the General Staff Mohammad Bagheri said.

The meeting will discuss joint exercises and training of Korean officers in Russia

Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces Oleg Salyukov will discuss military cooperation between the two countries with his South Korean counterpart Nam Yong Sin and the country's Defense minister So Uk, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

According to the head of the Ministry of Defense, in order to develop cooperation in the field of flight safety, the state Aviation Administration will prepare proposals to improve the procedure for exchanging information about dangerous factors and aviation events with aircraft.

The military of Russia and Egypt practiced landing without parachutes from a mock-up of the Mi-8 helicopter, they descended on cables, firing blank cartridges on the move. This was told in the Ministry of Defense of Russia on Wednesday, October 20.

Specialists of the communications troops of the Southern Military District (SE) conducted a large-scale radio training on data exchange, ensuring stable continuous communication between the field control points of formations and military units, air Force and air defense units, as well as military bases in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Armenia.

The Russian military base in Tajikistan will be completely re-equipped with modern means of communication by the end of the year.

The most powerful weapon of Russia is named in the publication 19FortyFive. The author noted Russian missiles, air defense systems, a helicopter and a promising underwater vehicle.

These days, two exhibitions of military technologies are held simultaneously. AUSA 2021 has opened in the United States, where defense industry enterprises present their latest developments to the military. In Russia, the Interpoltech exhibition brought together professionals in the field of digital security.

Russia is temporarily closing its diplomatic mission to NATO. According to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, this is Russia's reaction to the recent expulsion of eight Russian diplomats from the Russian mission to NATO.

The number of NATO priority engagement forces at the borders of the Union State has increased to 40 thousand troops

The North Atlantic Alliance is strengthening its military infrastructure in the immediate vicinity of the borders of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, the military and political situation is difficult, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.