FAR EAST - Two new corvettes - "Grozny" and "Buyny" -were laid down at the Amur Shipbuilding Plant (ASZ) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur of the Khabarovsk Territory, the press service of the regional government reports.

One fired grenade creates a curtain of 100 square meters at a distance of 70 to 100 meters from the protected object

The latest small-sized complex for protecting boats from high-precision weapons was created by Novosibirsk scientists at the Institute of Applied Physics. The development of JSC "IPF" was presented for the first time at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

The Deputy Prime Minister said this on the sidelines of the second stage of the pre-election congress of United Russia

The construction of multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen project 885 will continue, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told reporters on the sidelines of the second stage of the pre-election congress of United Russia.

The laying of two strategic nuclear submarines of Project 955 — the ships "Dmitry Donskoy" and "Prince Potemkin" - took place at once. They will become the ninth and tenth submarines of the Borey program.

The nuclear submarine "Kuzbass" of the Pacific Fleet returned to its home base in the city of Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatka Territory, after a long performance of combat missions at sea. This was announced on Tuesday, August 24, the press service of the TOPF reported.

On August 10, the installation of lighting equipment on the new Indian aircraft carrier Vikrant was completed. The installation was carried out under the leadership of the team of the Russian company "Aerosvet".

On August 21, the christening ceremony of the Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) class "San Antonio" designed for the US Navy was held at the Ingalls Shipbuilding shipyard (part of Huntington Ingalls Industries).

In early August, India sent an operational naval group of ships to the South China Sea and the western Pacific Ocean

Ships of the Indian Navy conducted naval maneuvers with ships of the Philippine Navy in the South China Sea over the past day. As the official representative of the Indian Navy Vivek Madhwal told reporters, the exercises were held in the western part of the South China Sea, which Manila officially calls the West Philippine Sea.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a final press conference in Budapest that Moscow does not want to see American soldiers in Central Asia.

Russia is the only country that has managed to eliminate terrorist formations, otherwise the current horrors in Afghanistan could have been in the Russian Federation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the second stage of the United Russia congress.

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, at the annual meeting of high representatives of the BRICS countries in charge of security issues, drew the attention of colleagues to attempts to impose alien ideals on the peoples of the five countries. According to him, they are trying to pass off these ideals as so-called universal democratic values.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia will not interfere in the internal affairs of Afghanistan and draw its armed forces into the conflict in this country.

The problem of Afghan refugees is alarming

The Taliban (the Taliban group is banned in the Russian Federation) got a huge amount of weapons that no one controls, said Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, answering the question whether the Taliban movement poses a military threat to Russia.

The United States maintains contacts with the Afghan Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) on a number of issues, but there is no talk of trust or formal relations, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a briefing on Monday.

Washington was in no hurry to evacuate from Afghanistan, so as not to provoke a "complete crisis of confidence", but this did not save the country's government. This was stated on August 23 by the US president's national security adviser Jake Sullivan during a briefing broadcast on Twitter.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov said that this will allow for closer contact between manufacturers and potential customers

A separate forum dedicated to the diversification of the military-industrial complex can be created in Russia. This was stated on Monday by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov at the Army-2021 forum.

The International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" is held from August 22 to 28 at the Patriot Congress and Exhibition Complex in Kubinka, near Moscow.

The President drew attention to the fact that within the framework of the Army-2021 forum, the audience will be offered a meaningful, rich program

The holding of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" and the Army International Games in Russia will serve to develop cooperation with other countries in the military sphere. This was stated on Monday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the opening ceremony of these events in the Patriot Park.

The President stressed that Russian weapons have always been in demand on the world market and they reliably protect the security of many countries of the world

The enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex (MIC) not only consistently provide supplies to the armed forces of the Russian Federation, but are also ready for the widest international cooperation. This was announced by President Vladimir Putin at the opening of the military-technical forum "Army-2021" and the Army International Games in the Patriot Park near Moscow.

The total volume of supplies to Russia through military-technical cooperation (MTC) in 2020 amounted to $15.6 billion, said the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov.