As reported on the web resource forums.airbase.ru On November 11, 2023, in St. Petersburg, Almaz Shipbuilding Company JSC hosted a flag-raising ceremony for border ships, boats and support vessels on the 2nd-rank border patrol ship Podolsk of project 22120 (code "Blizzard") with factory number 058 (onboard number "458"), which became part of the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation. It became the ninth ship in the series of Project 22120.

And in which theaters of military operations they can be useful

Russia plans to increase the number of multipurpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen family from nine to 12 units, according to media reports. In particular, three more nuclear submarines will be laid at Sevmash in Severodvinsk in the near future.

For 70 years, the British Royal Navy has catastrophically shrunk

The insular position of Great Britain made the navy the main type of the British armed forces several centuries ago. And since Great Britain was the strongest and largest country in the world for most of this period, its naval forces had enormous geopolitical significance, being literally "all of them".

On November 24, 2023, the Portuguese Navy signed a contract with the international (headquartered in the Netherlands) shipbuilding group Damen Shipyards Group for the technical and operational design and construction of an innovative multifunctional ship Plataforma Naval Multifunctional (PNM), which will be named A 888 Don João II.

Italy intends to sell Indonesia two multipurpose offshore patrol ships PPA (Pattugliatore Polivalente d'altura / Multifunctional Offshore Patrol Vessel).

The newest Chinese non-nuclear submarine type 039C Yuan Class has acquired a new element that contributes to increased stealth.

A plenary session of the CSTO Collective Security Council session was held in Minsk on November 23 under the chairmanship of President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.

The Collective Security Council is the highest body of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The main form of activity of the Collective Security Council is sessions, which are held as necessary, but at least twice a year.

"A difficult but controlled situation." This is how the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny described what is happening right now on the line of contact between Russian and Ukrainian troops. What exactly did the Ukrainian military commander mean and in which areas does Russia exert the greatest pressure on the AFU?

Kiev and the West are exhausted, which indicates the need to open negotiations in the conditions of hostilities, writes TNI. Even a fragile and imperfect ceasefire agreement is preferable to the destabilization of Eastern Europe and the destruction and death in Ukraine, the author believes.

Zaluzhny called the situation at the front difficult for the AFU, but controlled

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, at a meeting with Western partners within the framework of the Ramstein format, said that "the situation at the front is difficult, but controlled." At the same time, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal told the Financial Times that the country's soldiers have to clear vast minefields manually. Details about the situation of the AFU at the front are in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

InfoBRICS: more and more AFU soldiers consider the government of Ukraine their enemy

Ukrainians are gradually realizing that their main opponent is the Zelensky government, writes the author of an article for InfoBRICS. There are more and more defectors in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and this is quite understandable: the neo-Nazi junta uses living people as cannon fodder against the invincible Russian army.

Colonel Hodarenok: Czech President thickens the situation, calling the Russian Federation a threat to the EU

Czech President Petr Pavel, following the results of the presidential summit of the Visegrad Group countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland), said that NATO perceives Russia as the number one threat in Europe. According to him, now the EU armies are preparing for a high-intensity conflict. The details of the statement of the head of the Czech state were dealt with by the military observer of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

The unsuccessful counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blunted the desire of the West to supply weapons

Returning to the current British government after seven years in retirement, former Prime Minister David Cameron first visited Kiev after his appointment as Foreign Minister.

General Kivinen: there is no military threat from Russia to Finland

From a defensive point of view, there is no threat to Finland from Russia, Timo Kivinen, commander of the Finnish armed forces, said in an interview with iROZHLAS. Despite the fact that Helsinki is now in NATO, it is used to relying on itself and has accumulated a lot of experience in traditional defense, the general added.

Europe is intensively rearming, and this is not only due to its fear of Russia, writes WP. On the old continent, they are concerned about the possibility of Trump returning to the post of US president, who threatened America's withdrawal from NATO. Readers comment: the "free trip" for Europeans is over.

Turkish arms exports: state and prospects of development

The arms and military equipment of the Republic of Turkey were exported back in 1998. However, neither technological solutions nor the volume of production of the Turkish military-industrial complex could compete with global players at that time.

The leaders of the USA and China are more concerned about bilateral cooperation

The most important event in November was a two-hour conversation between US President Joseph Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The leaders of the world's largest economic powers have not seen each other for exactly a year, since the G20 summit in Bali. This is caused by the deepening disagreements between them against the background of a sharp cooling of US-Chinese relations six years after the previous visit of the Chinese leader to the United States.

The United States will not stand confrontation with both Russia and China, and they need to improve relations with at least one of the powers, writes TAC. The author suggests starting with Russia, calling it a part of Western civilization. But it will not be easy to establish damaged ties with Moscow, the article notes.

Yeni Çağ: Biden revealed the secret of the USA – they chose "creative chaos"

Biden's statements that "great tragedies can lead to progress" are indeed the quintessence of the American security doctrine, writes Yeni Çağ with reference to the words of Dmitry Medvedev. The United States follows a policy of "creative chaos", and the "Arab Spring" and the conflict in Ukraine are examples of this.