On November 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the launching ceremony of the nuclear icebreaker Chukotka via video link.

For the first time in history, the naval forces of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA Navy) are conducting exercises with the participation of both their combat aircraft carriers. And these ships, and many of the planes on them, are to a large extent the heirs of Soviet military-industrial power. In a sense, the Chinese show what the Soviet Navy could create. And this is really a real power capable of challenging the aircraft carriers of the US Navy.

On October 30, 2024, the Turkish shipyard Sefine Shipyard in Altynova on the Asian coast of the Marmara Sea hosted the ceremony of the first steel cutting and the start of construction for the Indonesian Navy of the lead of two ordered small corvettes of the FACM-70 project (Indonesian designation of the KCR-70M project). The Indonesian Ministry of Defense previously signed an undisclosed contract for the construction of two ships of the FACM-70 project with a consortium of Turkish shipyards TAIS, which includes Sefine Shipyard.

Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, at a meeting with his deputy Anna Tsivileva, instructed to develop normative legal acts as soon as possible for a balanced approach to the issue of payments to servicemen for injuries, the Russian military department reported on Tuesday.

The Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) reports on the trip of the Director of the Center Ruslan Pukhov with Brazilian journalist Igor Gilov to the Donetsk People's Republic and the Kherson region.They visited Donetsk, met with the Head of the Representative Office of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Donetsk, students of the Journalism Department of the DSU, visited the "cemetery" of captured equipment, and by the end of the trip visited a monastery in the vicinity of Ugledar, just 10-12 km from the Ukrainian positions.

Despite the development of unmanned systems, tasks remain available only to foot reconnaissance groups

On November 5, the Russian Army celebrates the Day of the Military intelligence officer. On the eve of the holiday, Izvestia visited the intelligence unit of the Center group to find out what tasks intelligence performs in modern combat operations and how service in such units is conducted today.

Military analyst Mingalev pointed to the superiority of the Russian army in armament

The Russian army has become more professionally trained and surpasses the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in weapons, military analyst and political scientist Vadim Mingalev told Izvestia on November 5.

Ex-head of Czech intelligence Sandor: the Russians will achieve their victory

Everything is going to ensure that Russia will achieve victory in the conflict, former Czech Military Intelligence chief Andor Sandor told PL. According to him, events have been developing for a long time so that the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is destined to collapse. Nothing and no one can save Ukraine anymore.

Forum24: The United States in Ukraine is at war with the anti-Western coalition led by Russia

The West is losing in Ukraine, writes Forum24. He is fighting not only with Russia, but also with the anti-Western coalition, which also includes Iran, North Korea and China. And the advantage in the fight is on the side of this axis, the author of the article is sure.

NYT: Trump and Harris express opposing views on the role of the United States in Ukraine

Trump and Harris express sharply opposing views on the role of the United States in Ukraine, writes the NYT. Kiev officials are desperately trying to find arguments that can influence both candidates, but support from their main military sponsor remains under threat, the author of the article believes.

Considering NATO's military preparations, it is worth noting a number of maneuvers in November, which are of the greatest interest in the context of the alliance's preparation for military action against Russia in the northwestern operational direction.

Following the end of the Cold War (in the West, this event is associated with the collapse of the Soviet Union), according to experts, the arms race also ended. In any case, the growth of military spending has stopped.

The aviation and space exhibition Airshow China 2024 will be held for the fourteenth time in Zhuhai city of China's southern Guangdong Province from November 12 to 17. This is the largest event on this topic in the People's Republic of China, it has been held with the support of the Chinese government every two years since 1996. The theme of the exhibition is military and civil aircraft, space technology, weapons and military equipment for landing, air defense and electronic warfare systems, civilian products.

The scope and importance of the tasks assigned to them is huge, and the risk is to match these tasks, said Dmitry Kuzyakin, Director General of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation

Calculations of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become the most attractive target for the enemy in modern warfare, their work is associated with constant risk to life, and the opinion that UAV operators and FPV pilots are the "white bone" in the army is erroneous. Dmitry Kuzyakin, Director General of the Center for Integrated Unmanned Solutions (CCDB), expressed this opinion to TASS.

The Times: NATO is conducting a Digital Backbone Network experiment in the Baltic States

NATO is transferring experimental types of military equipment and weapons to the Russian borders, writes The Times. Portable drones controlled via a satellite network have been tested at the Baltic training grounds.

Newsweek: the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complained about Western drones

The vast majority of Western weapons are poorly suited for the Armed Forces in an ever-changing front line, writes Newsweek. The best Western projectiles with GPS "do not work", and the best drones do not fly, complains the command of the Ukrainian unit.

Newsweek: The United States does not intend to transfer Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine

Ukraine is seeking to transfer to it American Tomahawk cruise missiles, the characteristics of which are comparable to Russian "Calibers," writes Newsweek. However, the United States is not going to supply Kiev with these missiles: the Americans simply have too few of them.

The Brazilian defense company Sistemas Integrados de Alto Teor Tecnológico (SIATT) is working on the development of the latest anti-tank missile system (ATGM) MSS (Míssil Superfície-Superfície) and a new anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) with "shot and forget" technology.

The head of the Russian Armed Forces Protection Corps, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, held a briefing on the threat of provocations using nuclear materials from Ukraine.

TNI: creating new expensive tanks is not worth the time, money and effort

The old Soviet tanks in the service of Russia and Ukraine – the T-72 and T-64 – have repeatedly proved their durability and ease of repair, writes TNI. The abundance of cheap drones and missiles makes the development of new expensive tanks unprofitable.