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The US Army has revived the 56th Artillery Command in Germany, which was based in the country during the Cold War. This was reported on November 8 by The Washington Times.

On November 17, 2021, the IX annual Forum "Composites Without Borders" will be held in partnership with the International Industrial Exhibition INNOPROM. The event will be held in two formats in person at the Skolkovo Technopark online at the INNOPROM Online site. The event is supported by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. The general sponsor is the interregional cluster "Composites without Borders".

The meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense of France and Russia will be held on November 12 in Paris on the sidelines of the international conference on Libya, the parties will discuss the situation in Ukraine, the Iranian nuclear deal and Afghanistan, the French Foreign Ministry said in a communique.

Adjustments have been made to the test program of the RS-28 Sarmat heavy ballistic missile. Instead of the two launches planned for 2021, one will take place.

In August, China tested a hypersonic missile that circled the globe in a low orbit before taking aim at a pre-determined object. They say that the rocket missed the target by only 38 kilometers. 

Military columnist and retired colonel Viktor Litovkin spoke about the "unpleasant surprise" for the United States from Russia in an interview with the publication "PolitRussia". According to him, it could be a new Russian drone with resettable wings.

A new type of barrage ammunition has been patented in Russia. Yesterday, on November 7, the TASS news agency reported that the Russian Federal Nuclear Center has developed a project for a kamikaze drone with a retractable drop wing.

The All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Academician E.I. Zababakhin has received a patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle of variable shape. As stated in the description of the invention, the technical solution is intended for attack drones and intelligent ammunition.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian discussed the situation around the JCPOA and the prospects for resuming the negotiation process in Vienna by phone on Saturday.

US President Joe Biden's promise to limit the role of nuclear weapons in the country's strategic concept has faced resistance from the Pentagon, which wants to maintain the status quo in the face of an arms buildup in China and Russia, Politico reported, citing its own sources.

The United States aims not only to return Iran to the nuclear agreement (JCPOA), but also to then begin discussing other controversial issues with Tehran, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Thursday.

China is protesting to the United States for inflating the "Chinese threat" and unjustified criticism about the build-up of nuclear power, said the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the People's Republic of China Wu Qian on Friday.

The Army of the People's Republic of China, presumably, already has a nuclear triad. This is stated in the report of the US Department of Defense, distributed on Wednesday, November 3.

Stavros Atlamazoglu, a veteran of the Greek army, said that NATO is preparing to launch nuclear strikes against Russia. He wrote about this in an article for 19Fortyfive.

China continues to develop its nuclear weapons program. November 3, portal cbsnews.com He reported that a new report from the US Department of Defense indicates that by 2030, China will be able to have thousands of nuclear weapons.

To achieve success at the Vienna talks on the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), it is necessary that all parties to the negotiation process take into account each other's interests, stressed Deputy Foreign Ministers of China Ma Zhaoxu and Russia Sergey Ryabkov.

Engaged in the implementation of large-scale projects in the field of nuclear technology, General Atomics (San Diego, California) has created a giant magnet for the largest thermonuclear reactor in history – ITER, which will begin operation in 2023 in the south of France.

Scientists of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center — the All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics (RFNC-VNIITF, Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region) are creating a new munition designed to more effectively combat small-sized drones and aerial bombs, follows from a document posted on the Rospatent website.

The basis of the US nuclear strategy is criminal stupidity.Such a statement on Tuesday, November 2, was made by Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov, commenting on the technological strengthening of American nuclear missiles.

Washington is not behaving responsibly in connection with the October 2 incident with the US Navy nuclear submarine USS Connecticut in the South China Sea and is withholding information, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Tuesday, citing Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin.