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The air defense of the southern borders of Russia - primarily the Crimean peninsula - will be strengthened by the new S-350 Vityaz anti-aircraft systems.

The training of servicemen of the Central Military District (CVO) is conducted taking into account the experience gained in Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh, including in the fight against drones (UAVs), Commander of the CVO troops Alexander Lapin told reporters.

The US Navy Institute has published satellite images of full-size mockups of the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer built in the Taklamakan Desert in central China.

The exercise of the special forces units of the Central Military District (CVO) "Cobalt-2021" will be held in the second half of November in Tajikistan, the commander of the troops of the Central Military District Alexander Lapin told reporters.

Russian specialists have already trained more than 6,000 Tajik military personnel, Alexander Lapin, commander of the Central Military District (CVO), told reporters.

The troops of the Southern Military District are at the forefront of the combat training system of the Russian Army. Here it has long been put at the forefront, the commander of the troops of the Southern Military District, Hero of Russia, Army General Alexander Dvornikov, told the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda.

The flagship of the Sixth Fleet of the US Navy Mount Whitney and the accompanying destroyer Porter entered the port of Batumi. This was informed at the US Embassy in Georgia.

"Welcome, Mount Whitney and Porter! Five years later, the flagship of the Sixth Fleet of the US Navy, Mount Whitney, returned to Georgia," the diplomatic mission's Facebook page says. The embassy reminded that this is not the first time Mount Whitney has been in the port of Batumi, in recent years he has been here five times.

The composition of the country's fundamentally new anti-missile screen, which is being worked on in Russia, will include not only radars that report the beginning of an attack.

The presence of the Russian military in Transnistria is illegal, therefore all the armed forces of the Russian Federation must be withdrawn from the region.

On October 29, 2021, the fourth annual Ogarkov Readings Conference was held in Moscow, organized by the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (TSAST). Partners of the event are Rostec Group, JSC United Engine Corporation, JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation and PJSC Promsvyazbank.

The Chinese are learning to sink American ships. On November 7, information appeared on the website of the Naval Institute of the US Navy that models of an American aircraft carrier and destroyers appeared in the Taklamakan Desert (Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region).

US CIA Director Robert Burns, during his visit to Moscow, confirmed the need to comply with the Minsk agreements, including granting a special status to Donbass, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Exercises with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces have been launched in Tatarstan today. The opening ceremony was held at the training ground of the Kazan Higher Tank Command School.

The military contingents of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan, military police units, operational groups of the Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat, formations of internal affairs bodies, national guards, as well as authorized bodies in the field of prevention and elimination of consequences of emergency situations take part in the exercise under the overall leadership of the commander of the Central Military District, Colonel General Alexander Lapin. A total of 1800 people and 300 pieces of equipment are involved.

Calculations of the S-300 of the Russian military base in Tajikistan repelled a simulated missile strike during the exercise, the Central Military District (CVO) reports.

Russia and Belarus signed a protocol on extending the operation of the military communications center of the missile attack warning system (SPRN) in Baranovichi for 25 years, the corresponding document was posted on the legal information portal on Monday.

The British Navy risks being left without relatively cheap anti-ship missiles. November 7, portal ukdefencejournal.org.uk He reported that the British Navy had abandoned the previously announced plan to purchase "temporary" missiles.

The Israeli Air Force launched the Sky Dew early warning balloon — one of the largest in the world. According to The Drive, it will notify about threats flying at low altitude. For example, about cruise missiles or armed drones.

The Montreux Convention on the Black Sea is not subject to revision, the strengthening of the US and NATO military presence in the Black Sea region is unacceptable, Mikhail Sheremet, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Crimean region, told RIA Novosti.

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. 

On October 29, 2021, the fourth annual Ogarkov Readings Conference was held in Moscow, organized by the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (TSAST). Partners of the event are Rostec Group of Companies, JSC United Engine Corporation, JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation and PJSC Promsvyazbank. We present to your attention a report by the American military historian David Glantz on the topic "The Soviet origins of Operation Desert Storm."