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The Russian Defense Ministry is increasingly informing the public about the long-distance voyages of Russian ships, while modern Russian industry mainly produces small and auxiliary ships, the Defence24 portal notes in a publication devoted to the problems of building the country's Navy.

The Taiwan administration has announced plans to increase the defense budget for 2022 from 453.4 billion to 471.7 billion Taiwanese dollars (from $16.25 billion to $16.89 billion), Western media reported on Thursday.

Exercises to combat enemy underwater saboteurs were held at the Crimean Naval Base (KVMB), the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) said on Thursday.

The US sanctions imposed against Kalashnikov are aimed at giving the Americans an advantage in the small arms market, Vladimir Lepin, CEO of the concern, told Interfax.

Joint exercises with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region of Collective Security of the CSTO "Rubezh-2021" will be held in Kyrgyzstan from September 7 to 9, the press service of the CSTO Joint Staff reported.

Russian-made over-the-horizon radars, among other things, track the movement of inconspicuous NATO F-35 fighters and other aircraft built using stealth technologies.

Radar stations of the Russian Voronezh-type missile attack warning system are being upgraded to the level of the newest Yakhroma station. This radar station is being built in the Crimea.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has decided to deploy a system of over-the-horizon radar "Container", which are capable of detecting enemy aircraft at a range of 3 thousand km.

Testing of new and promising weapons in combat conditions helped to identify the shortcomings of this arsenal and make the necessary changes to the design. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said this on Thursday on the Zvezda TV channel.

The Russian military conducted special exercises to practice the actions of logistics support units (MTO) in the course of repelling conditional aggression in the western and Arctic theaters of military operations.

Military policemen from Russia, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Cyprus and Qatar take part in the competition

The holding of one of the stages of the 2021 Army International Games on the territory of Serbia is a confirmation of the fraternal relations between Moscow and Belgrade. This was stated on Thursday by Serbian Defense Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic at a briefing in honor of the start of the "Guards of Order" competition, TASS reported from the scene.

An Italian Air Force plane involved in the evacuation of citizens from Afghanistan came under fire at the Kabul airport. This was announced on Thursday, August 26, according to the Italian newspaper La Stampa.

The construction of the Temp airfield on the Novosibirsk Islands archipelago is being completed

The Russian military department is developing a military infrastructure in the Arctic that allows the troops stationed in this region to function effectively, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The planned re-equipment of military units and formations of the Strategic Missile Forces allowed to increase the share of modern missile weapons to 81 percent by January 1, 2021 and give the Strategic Missile Forces group new opportunities to perform nuclear deterrence tasks.

The American Navy is learning to sink enemy ships from a long distance. Yesterday, on August 25, the press service of the US Navy published a video with spectacular shots of the Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 21, during which the decommissioned frigate USS Ingraham of the Oliver Hazard Perry type was sunk.

"Belarus has declared war on us," the Polish government declares. The top leadership assures its citizens that " Poland was attacked from the expected side, although in an unusual way-Putin and Lukashenko sent a group of migrants to destabilize peaceful life in the country.

Washington has begun withdrawing the military contingent from Afghanistan, which is working on the evacuation of Americans from the country. This was reported on August 24 by the FoxNews TV channel.

Israel intends to work on creating a coalition of Arab countries that want to limit Iran's influence in the region. This was stated by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in an interview published on August 24 with The New York Times.

The official representative of the country's Foreign Ministry, Wang Wenbin, noted that Beijing, together with Moscow, promotes the non-proliferation of weapons in near-Earth space

The Chinese authorities are concerned about the US strategy for the militarization of outer space and, together with Russia, are promoting the non-proliferation of weapons in near-Earth space. This was announced on Wednesday by the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Wang Wenbin.

Without maintenance, the helicopter fleet will quickly become unusable

The fleet of more than a hundred Russian-made helicopters delivered to Afghanistan will quickly become unusable without service and repair, the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax.