By the end of this year, Estonia, as promised earlier, will receive a batch of sea mines.

This is reported by the portal err.ee. Representatives of the Estonian Defense Investment Center signed a corresponding agreement with a Finnish manufacturing company on Wednesday in the city of Hanko. The Commander of the Estonian Naval Forces, Commodore Yuri Saska, assured that these mines do not threaten civilian shipping.

MBDA Group announced the signing of several contracts for the modernization of air defense systems/ABOUT six destroyers of the Type-45 class of the British Navy.

The Israeli company Israel Shipyards announced the signing of a contract for the supply of four Shaldag-class patrol boats Mk.5 in a configuration adapted to the requirements of the Israeli Navy command.

On July 7, 2021, in Kiel (Germany), at the German shipbuilding enterprise Kieler Werft of the thyssenkrupp Marine Systems association (TKMS, the former Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH / HDW shipyard, part of the thyssenkrupp concern), a ceremony was held for the transfer of the fourth diesel-electric submarine S 44 of project 209/1400Mod built for them to the Egyptian Navy.

Tajikistan keeps its border "on a fairly good lock"

There is no need to increase the number of contingents on the Tajik-Afghan border at the expense of personnel from the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, so far Tajikistan only needs material and technical assistance, said Colonel - General Anatoly Sidorov, head of the CSTO Joint Staff.

An operational group headed by the chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, is working out measures to reduce tension on the Tajik-Afghan border, one of the sections of this border has been flown.

The delegation of the Taliban movement * met with the special representative of the President of Russia for Afghanistan, director of the second Department of Asia of the Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabulov, according to a statement by the political secretary of the movement, which was made available to RIA Novosti.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar discussed issues related to ensuring the security of the Kabul airport after the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, the Pentagon said.

US President Joe Biden, explaining the withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan, said that he does not intend to send more and more soldiers there without good reasons.

To counter hacker attacks in the Russian Federation, it is necessary to control the information space and track the actions of attackers, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Oleg Khramov told reporters.

The number of particularly dangerous computer attacks, including on critical infrastructure facilities in Russia, has increased 3.5 times over the past year, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Oleg Khramov told reporters on Wednesday.

Computer attack on Russia had been conducted with the U.S., Germany and the Netherlands. This was stated by Nikolay Murashov, deputy director of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NCCC), speaking at the Infoforum in Sochi.

The active phase has begun in the coastal component of the Sea Breeze exercise, which will end with the development of joint actions to eliminate "illegal armed groups". The trainings are planned so that the conditions are as close as possible to the combat ones.

During the land phase of the Sea Breeze 2021 exercise, the multinational tactical group worked out actions in conditions when the routes of movement of troops are blocked by the local population.

The Russian military, conducting exercises on Tuesday, did not interfere with the Sea Breeze exercise, which involves ships of NATO countries and their partners, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday.

Two Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers accompanied by Su-30M2 fighters flew over the Black Sea against the background of the Sea Breeze exercises conducted by NATO countries and their allies.

Two Su-30 fighters escorted a Boeing P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea. This was reported on Wednesday, July 7, in the Russian Defense Ministry.

About 40 quadrocopters have been put into service with reconnaissance units and special-purpose formations of the Southern Military District.

The MC-21-310 prototype aircraft arrived in Zhukovsky to continue testing. The airliner arrived from Ulyanovsk after being painted on Spektr-Avia, the Izvestia TV channel reports. Equipped with a new PD-14 engine, the aircraft showed itself well in the sky.

LCH attack helicopters of the Indian aircraft manufacturer HAL will go to Africa. It will be reported that an agreement has been signed on the supply of these rotorcraft to the Nigerian Air Force, whose pilots are already undergoing initial training in the operation of new equipment.