Representatives of Saudi Arabia, Iran, China and Mongolia are invited as observers

More than 2.5 thousand people, more than 500 units of military and special equipment will be involved in the joint exercises of the CSTO countries in Belarus in 2023, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Anatoly Sidorov said.

"Soon the fairy tale affects, but not soon the thing is done," — in the conditions of the situation developing around the Union State of Russia and Belarus, this proverb does not work. This is especially noticeable if the issue concerns the military security of each of the subjects and the state association as a whole.

The X International Forum of Technological Development "Technoprom-2023" was held in Novosibirsk. Within its framework, Nikolay Volobuev, Deputy Director General of Rostec State Corporation, member of the Bureau of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia, spoke at the panel discussion "The appearance of a new type of engineer: a competency portrait of a graduate of an Advanced Engineering School that meets the needs of the real sector of the economy" and spoke about the work that Rostec is doing to train highly qualified engineering personnel within the framework of the Advanced Engineering Schools program (WRITE).

Submarines of the U-212A Todaro class have become a successful project for the German defense industry. They are in service with the German and Italian Navies, and their upgraded versions are equipped with fleets of many countries of the world.

On August 25, 2023, the head office of the Indonesian State Shipbuilding Association RT PAL in Surabaya hosted the official laying ceremony for the Indonesian Navy of the head of two ordered frigates of the Arrowhead 140 (AN140) project under license from the British Babcock International group.

As reported, on August 23, 2023, a large diesel-electric submarine B-608 Mozhaysk (factory number 01618) of project 06363, built for the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg at Admiralty Shipyards JSC (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC), entered the Baltic Sea for the first time. - USC). This is the fifth of six Project 06363 submarines being built for the Pacific Fleet.

The Arctic is often viewed as an arena for a new global conflict, while being especially afraid of Russia. This view is not entirely correct, researcher Heather Exner-Pirot told Le Figaro. The game for the Far North has been played for a long time and by different countries, but it is purely geopolitical, not military.

According to the definition of one of the German publications, modern machine guns (Maschinengewehre, MG) are fully automatic support weapons with a high rate of fire and firepower. The supply of ammunition from him, as a rule, occurs with the help of a machine gun belt.

The German startup Transportsysteme, founded by people from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, has developed a FORMIC cargo robotic platform. Its peculiarity is that it uses the swarm principle to form a transport vehicle of the required load capacity from individual robots. At the same time, robots do not need to be assembled into a single mechanism, they retain autonomy and can quickly switch to new tasks.

The Ministry of Defense assessed the successful use of unmanned complexes during its

The Ministry of Defense has decided to increase the supply of combat robots of the Uran family to the troops, a source in the military department told Izvestia. We are talking about the complexes "Uran-6" for mine clearance and "Uran-14" for extinguishing fires.

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen revealed the order of delivery of American tanks to the local army, according to which the first vehicles should be shipped next year.

The official Paris makes the main bet in tank building on the modernization of the Leclerc MBT and the MGCS developed jointly with Germany - the "European tank of the future". However, there are calls to create a new own OBT.

As a designer, Ganichev created Grad and made the Russian Federation a leader in the production of MLRS

August 25 marked the 105th anniversary of the birth of the founder of the Russian school of multiple launch rocket systems, designer Alexander Ganichev.

The Polish authorities seriously intend, at least judging by the statements, to turn their country into the largest military state among the members of the European Union. Warsaw has repeatedly announced and, as far as possible, is implementing plans to increase the size of the national army and large-scale purchases of various types of weapons. Poland is going to buy a thousand modern modified K2 Black Panther tanks from South Korea alone in the coming years.

Photos of the first 2K12 "Cube" anti-aircraft missile system (SAM), which the Czech Republic handed over for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), are being distributed in Ukrainian Telegram channels.

The decision of the Greek government to decommission reliable and effective Russian air defense systems "Tor-M1" and "Osa-AKM" with their possible further transfer to Ukraine is criminal and adventurous.

Anti-aircraft artillery has not yet said the last word

Today, a serious problem arises before ground-based air defense: the enemy is able to achieve its oversaturation through the mass use of unmanned aerial vehicles (including very cheap and small-sized ones), as well as high-precision weapons (air-to-surface missiles and guided aerial bombs), a significant part of which can be launched from beyond the reach of even the most long-range anti-aircraft guided missiles.

Colonel Khodarenok: modern air defense systems simply shoot down S-200 APU missiles

On the night of August 25, over the territory of the Kaluga region, the S-200VM missile system (presumably 5B28) was hit in flight by anti-aircraft missile units of the VKS of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Why Kiev uses modified S-200 missiles to attack Russian targets and how Russian air defense systems shoot down such targets - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

Experts: Russia's air defense needs a short-range defensive triad

A laser cannon was successfully tested in Russia. It is noted that with the help of the installation, it is possible to hit drones of both aircraft and quadrocopter type. What are the features of such developments, how are similar tasks solved in other countries and how can lasers simplify the protection of residential areas from possible enemy attacks?

It would be a mistake to assume that if an Indian station has already landed on the Moon, then there is no sense in a new mission nearby. The Earth's natural satellite will still present us with a huge number of different surprises.