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According to the current legislation, the age limit for military service for them is 65 years

The State Duma Committee on Defense approved for the first reading a bill allowing to increase by the decision of the President of the Russian Federation the age limit for military service for a marshal, army general and fleet admiral. The document was submitted to the Chamber by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) has officially announced that, together with Hanwha Defense Corporation (HDC), it has been selected as a contractor for the production of 110 self-propelled pontoon fleets based on the M3 amphibious vehicle for the Republic of Korea.

In addition to the agreement with France on the acquisition of three frigates (with an option to purchase a fourth), six additional Rafale fighters (as a result, their total number will increase to 24 units), Greece intends to spend significant sums on the purchase of missiles and ammunition, the rental of UAVs and the modernization of aircraft.

French President Emmanuel Macron called the development and use of micro- and mini-satellites another important task in the space sphere

French President Emmanuel Macron has set the country the task of creating reusable mini-carriers in the space sector by 2026. He said this on Tuesday, speaking at the Elysee Palace with the presentation of the new investment program "France-2030".

The Sri Lankan government has proposed a defense budget of $373 billion. Rupees ($1.86 billion) for 2022 ff., which is 14% more than in 2021 ff. As reported by Janes Defense Weekly, the appropriations bill for 2022 ff. was submitted to Parliament on October 7.

On the instructions of the President of Russia, the budget of the state corporation Roscosmos for the next three years will be reduced by 16% or 150 billion rubles, which, in particular, is due to its failure to fulfill 30 of the 83 programs scheduled for 2020.

Information about emergency situations and environmentally hazardous processes will be prohibited from being classified as official secrets in the field of defense, follows from the draft decree of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Taiwan plans to allocate an additional $9 billion as a special allowance to finance defense projects over the next five years.

The Ministry of Finance of the Netherlands has presented the country's state budget for 2022, according to which 12.4 billion rubles have been allocated for defense. euro ($14.26 billion). According to Jane's Defense Weekly, this represents a nominal increase of 6.56% and a real increase of 5.4% compared to last year's draft budget.

The creation of new GLONASS-K2 satellites costs ROSCOSMOS twice as much as the GLONASS-K spacecraft of the previous generation, Nikolay Testoyedov, CEO of Information Satellite Systems (ISS), told RIA Novosti, calling it an absolutely natural process.

The Government of the Russian Federation plans to transfer state-owned shipbuilding assets to the authorized capital of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) in October 2022. The corresponding decree of the President of the Russian Federation is posted on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The launch system of heavy-duty drones was tested in the Tomsk region before the introduction of an experimental zone for drones in the region, within which it is planned to cancel a number of norms of the Air Code, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Foundation for Advanced Research (FPI).

The Australian company Austal Limited announced that its Austal USA division has signed the first contract for the construction of two NAVAJO-class rescue and towing vessels (T-ATS-11 and T-ATS-12) for the US Navy.

On October 1, the US Department of Defense announced the signing by the US Navy Shipbuilding and Armament Command with United States Marine, Inc (USMI) of a contract with an indefinite delivery period for an indefinite number of ID/IQ products (indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity).

The US authorities forced Google to provide users' search queries for certain keywords. This is reported by The New York Post. According to the publication, the US government ordered the company to provide information, including account names, IP addresses and CookieID, about everyone who entered certain search queries.

A single technical standard will be developed for shelters, bunkers, bomb shelters and protective premises, according to which they will have to be built. It will be adopted for the first time in the country. This was reported by the authors - experts from the GOCHS Research Institute, the leading scientific institution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

In recent years, the Black Sea Fleet has received six submarines, three frigates, minesweepers and missile ships. Sevmorzavod's facilities will be used for their maintenance

The leading shipbuilding and ship repair enterprise of Sevastopol "Sevmorzavod" will be re-equipped to ensure the repair of ships and vessels of the Russian Navy. This was announced on Wednesday by the head of the Marine Instrumentation Corporation Leonid Strugov.

Boeing will continue to ensure the combat readiness of the BTA C-17A "Globemaster-3" aircraft for ten years within the framework of the contract signed on September 27 with the US Department of Defense with a total value of up to $ 23.8 billion (including options and incentives).

In the report of the Inspector General of the US Department of Defense, losses from corrosion of F/A-18 deck aircraft were disclosed. In the period from fiscal year 2017 to 2020, the US Navy spent more than $ 2 billion on corrosion control. This is reported by the Navy Times.

The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, MIPT, the V. P. Ivannikov Institute of System Programming, Innopolis University, ITMO, and HSE have won a competition to select research centers that will receive grant support under the federal Artificial Intelligence project, the government announced on Monday.