The ship's strike group of the Northern Fleet, operating in the areas of the North-Eastern Atlantic as part of the command and staff training on the management of forces and troops of the Northern Fleet, conducted a missile strike exercise for a ship's group of a conditional enemy.

On Friday, August 6, at a meeting with the staff of the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke well about the new multi-purpose boat bearing the name of the city of factory workers. The submarine was built in Severomorsk and launched a few days ago. After completion, it will go to sea for testing.

30 years ago, in the Barents Sea, the strategic nuclear submarine K-407 (now Novomoskovsk) released the entire ammunition set from the underwater position-16 R-29 Sineva ballistic missiles with an interval of 14 seconds. The operation was called "Behemoth-2" and made a great impression on potential opponents of the Soviet Union (the Americans were able to launch only four missiles from the Ohio submarine in one salvo).

Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov in a conversation with " Lenta.ru "called the possible reasons for stopping the course of the Russian nuclear-powered submarine missile cruiser "Eagle". According to him, this may be due to the ingress of foreign objects into the water intake, navigation error, winding fishing nets on the screw, and so on.

Minesweepers that have served for more than twenty years in the British Navy will be transferred to the Ukrainian Navy next year. On August 5, the press service of the Royal Navy announced the decommissioning of the ships HMS Ramsey and HMS Blyth.

According to the Pakistani media, the launch ceremony of the third of the four Type-054A/P class frigates ordered for the Pakistani Navy took place at the enterprise of the Chinese company Hudong Zhonghua in Shanghai.

As part of the project to strengthen the mechanism for controlling rivers and protecting the population, the Command of the Colombian Navy has adopted two BRF-230 low-draft river boats built by COTECMAR.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Israeli Defense Minister Beni Gantz discussed the incident with the Mercer Street tanker in the Ottoman Gulf, which killed two people, according to a statement issued by the Pentagon on Friday.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Saturday rejected the accusations of the recent attack on the Mercer Street tanker in the Gulf of Oman, made the day before by the Group of Seven.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price warned that rocket attacks on Israeli territory carried out by Hezbollah militants from Lebanese territory threaten the sovereignty of Lebanon.

The Presidents of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan discussed the situation in Afghanistan at a consultative meeting, stressing that its early settlement is one of the most important factors for preserving and strengthening security and stability in Central Asia.

Russia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will develop common approaches and work out new ways of conducting combat operations at the exercises near the border with Afghanistan, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Thursday.

The United States will continue its efforts to strengthen the potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and modernize the military sphere of Georgia. The United States calls on its allies to step up support for Kiev and Tbilisi. This statement was made on Wednesday, August 4, by the Director for Southern and Central Europe of the Pentagon, Alton Buland.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin may this week request permission from US President Joe Biden to oblige all military personnel on active duty to be vaccinated against COVID-19, CNN reports.

"Forpost-R" is a "Russified" modification of the UAV "Forpost", a licensed copy of the Israeli UAV Searcher MkII, assembled at UZGA from kits of the Israeli company IAI since 2010. According to a source in the Ministry of Defense, in the new "Outpost" from the previous modification, only the external contours remained, and all the electronic component base, communication equipment, software and engines were replaced with Russian analogues.

The Russian Be-200 aircraft taking part in extinguishing fires in Greece landed today not because of engine damage, but in connection with the operation of the engine sensor, the press service of the Rostec state Corporation reported on Wednesday.

Ukraine is best suited to replace the aging Soviet MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters with the American F-15EX Eagle II, and not the American F-35 Lightning II, which is "seen" by Russian radar stations (radars), former president and former chief designer of the Antonov state enterprise Alexander Los said in an interview with Defense Express.

The Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant is waiting for the arrival of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Krasmash is listed in the list of production facilities that the minister is going to visit this week during a working trip to Siberia. The new Sarmat strategic missile system will be mass-produced at this enterprise. And the head of the Russian military department is personally monitoring all the stages of preparation for this important event not only for the army, but also for the whole country.

According to a TASS source, the Topol ICBM that has served its service life is being changed to the Yars ICBM with a splitting head

Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) In 2024, Russia will completely stop operating the RS-12M Topol solid-fuel monoblock intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The US Department of Defense announced that the US State Department approved the sale of 40 units of 155-mm M109A6 self-propelled howitzer artillery systems to Taiwan at a cost of $750 million.