The first improved nuclear warhead W88 for Trident II D5 ballistic missiles, designed to be launched from nuclear submarines, has rolled off the assembly line.

The Pantex plant in Texas has released the first batch of upgraded W88 thermonuclear warheads-they are equipped with Trident II ballistic missiles on submarines. The updates affected the charge initiation system, conventional explosives, and a lightning rod connector was also added to the warhead.

NPO "Splav" named after Ganichev (part of the Rostec Techmash concern) is developing a guided missile in a 122 mm caliber on an initiative basis, the general director of the enterprise Alexander Smirnov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

New photos of a Chinese underwater unmanned scout made in the form of a shark have appeared on the Network. The bionic wireless drone is equipped with high-resolution cameras with automatic adjustment, it is able to dive 150 meters, independently bypass obstacles and return to the base.

The staff officers of the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, stationed in Samara, were re-equipped with 9-mm Yarygin pistols (PJ) "Grach", which replaced the Makarov pistols (PM), adopted in 1951.

A batch of the latest night sights "Malysh" has entered service in the motorized rifle unit of the Amur Combined Arms Association of the Eastern Military District (VVO).

Military signalmen of the combined arms association of the Central Military District stationed in Siberia, as part of the combat readiness check, with the help of the latest communication systems, provided covert control of troops at a distance of more than 500 km between the formations located in the Novosibirsk region and the Altai Territory.

The Infauna complex of electronic warfare (EW) of the combined-arms army of the Eastern Military District (VVO) in Primorye, which has no analogues in the world, will be presented by EW specialists to residents and guests of the city of Ussuriysk. The event will be held at the main demonstration site "Baranovsky" as part of the military-technical forum "Army-2021".

Published on Monday by the decree of the government Research Institute "Voskhod" from the reserve fund allocated 216,445,9 thousand rubles of subsidies for the transfer of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University "for the use of domestic and (or) freely distributed software".

Rostec intends to develop the first Russian processor of a new generation on the open RISC-V architecture for computers and servers.

The neural network will be able to recognize garbage when cleaning reservoirs

Center for Technological Projects of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University named after Peter the Great, together with the Nakhimov Naval School, developed an educational project, according to the results of which the students of the school will be able to use unmanned boats. This was reported to TASS by the director of the center Alexey Maistro.

For the first time in recent decades, several missile carriers of different projects are being tested at once, the company said

Several nuclear submarines (submarines) of different projects are simultaneously being tested at sea, according to a statement by JSC PO Sevmash (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, USC), distributed on Wednesday.

The nationality of the offending warships will not be taken into account

Russia will not allow provocations off the coast of Crimea, like the one committed by the British destroyer Defender, a tough reaction will follow, said Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Mikhail Popov.

Overcoming Russian protective zones in the Black Sea and Baltic regions was practiced at the recent NATO exercises Defender Europe-2021, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Mikhail Popov said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Two more large surface robots will join the Pentagon's "Master of the Ghost Fleet" program next year. According to USNI News, now unmanned vessels are being built. Their tests should begin in 2022.

The countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization condemn the ongoing violence in Afghanistan and are ready to assist the country in combating security challenges in the region, according to a joint statement by the foreign ministers of the SCO member states adopted following the meeting in the format of the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group.

The UK will work with representatives of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) if they enter the government of Afghanistan, British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said in an interview with The Telegraph newspaper.

While the United States is being accused of fleeing Afghanistan, the columnist of an opposition Turkish newspaper does not believe that Washington's mission has failed, because somehow it does not seem like the Americans. He puts forward a version to a friend that, in his opinion, fits more accurately into the idea of a superpower. But what role is assigned to Turkey? Very unenviable, the journalist believes.

Former US President George W. Bush criticized the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, calling the White House's decision a mistake. On Wednesday, July 14, he told the German TV and radio company DW.

The ninth Moscow Conference on International Security, which was held from June 22 to 24 in the capital of Russia, became the first high-level platform this year, where specialized specialists personally discussed topical issues of security in the world, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.