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On Sunday, the press service of the Central Military District reported that military contingents of six states of the Organization arrived in Tatarstan for the joint exercise "Indestructible Brotherhood -2021" of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO.

The United States is concerned about the data on the difficult humanitarian situation in North Korea and is ready to participate in solving this problem, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Thursday.

The "Indestructible Brotherhood – 2021" exercise will be held in two stages, and the active phase is scheduled for November 11-12.

"The servicemen will take part in the joint exercise "Indestructible Brotherhood - 2021", which will be held at the training ground of the Kazan Tank Red Banner School," the Ministry of Defense clarified.

In the second half of the 90s, projects of a new generation of tanks were being worked out in Poland, one of the versions, which received the preliminary designation PT-97, had some similarities with the T-14 Armata.

The US State Department has approved the possible sale of $650 million worth of missiles to Saudi Arabia. This was announced by the Pentagon, RIA Novosti reports.

European astronauts can start flying into space again on Russian ships after the conclusion of an agreement on cross-flights between Roscosmos and NASA, the official representative of the European Space Agency Rene Pichel told Interfax.

On Friday, the press service of the Central Military District reported that next year the instructors of the 201st Russian military base will train 1,000 junior specialists for the armed forces of Tajikistan.

ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" anti-aircraft self-propelled guns during the maneuvers of the ground forces of the Jordanian army covered the units involved in training battles armed with Al-Hussein tanks and Marder 1A3 infantry fighting vehicles.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discussed with Australian Foreign Minister Maris Payne efforts to ensure a peaceful Indo-Pacific region and trilateral cooperation with AUKUS, State Department spokesman Ned Price said.

As reported by the Nigerian Navy, in Abuja on November 3, 2021, by the Chief of Staff (Commander) The Nigerian Navy Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo signed a contract with the Turkish shipbuilding company Dearsan Shipyard Limited for the construction of two patrol ships for the Nigerian Navy. The ships must be delivered within 37 months from the date of signing the contract (that is, by December 2024).

The United States considers Singapore a strong and reliable partner in solving global security problems and hopes to strengthen cooperation with it in the military sphere, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said.

Google is going to compete with Microsoft and Amazon for working with the Pentagon to create a cloud infrastructure project for the department. Three years ago, the company refused such an offer from the US Defense Ministry after the protests of its employees, but now the IT giant intends to return to cooperation with the military, as sources told The New York Times on November 3.

Google Corporation intends to resume work with the Pentagon on its military program.

The company will provide the US Department of Defense with its technologies, the New York Times writes, citing its sources.

A contingent of Belarusian servicemen left for training maneuvers in Tatarstan on Thursday, the Belarusian Defense Ministry reports. The exercises "Unbreakable Brotherhood-2021" of the collective peacekeeping forces of the CSTO will be held at the training ground of the Kazan Tank School from November 8 to 12.

The cost per flight hour of the promising Russian fifth–generation fighter Checkmate will be seven times lower than that of its main competitor, the American F-35, Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov said in an interview with the French edition of Le Figaro.

Russia is ready to send a Belarusian cosmonaut to the ISS in the near future, it is only necessary to agree on all the details, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Participation in the scientific work of the SIRIUS-21 experiment will allow the European Space Agency (ESA) to prepare its astronaut for a flight to the Moon, head of the ESA representative office in Russia Rene Pichel told Interfax.

The updated military doctrine and the Concept of the migration Policy of the Union State were approved at a meeting of the Supreme State Council of Russia and Belarus.

US President Joe Biden announced his intention to clarify at future talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping that Washington is engaged in rivalry with Beijing, and does not want to ignite a conflict.

The AUKUS trilateral defense alliance formed by Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States may lead to a "semi-permanent marriage" in the Indo-Pacific region between "brilliant Russia" and "astute China," Lyle Goldstein, director of Asia relations at the Defense Priorities analytical center, writes in the American edition of Defense News.