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The Minister of Defense noted that the preparatory activities for the new academic year, which started in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on December 1, have been fully implemented

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has set a task for the command staff of the Armed Forces to ensure a high rate of combat training in the troops.

Russian servicemen will rest on December 29 and 30, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on a conference call.

Russia does not require special conditions for itself, stands for consideration of mutual interests in the dialogue with NATO

Russia will insist in dialogue with the United States and NATO on developing strong agreements that exclude the advance of the North Atlantic Alliance to the east, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Landfills in the Crimea, Volgograd and Rostov regions are involved

More than 10 thousand servicemen as part of battalion tactical groups of motorized rifle formations of the Southern Military District marched to the areas of combined-arms ranges, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

Military expert Viktor Murakhovsky on Wednesday, December 1, in an interview with Izvestia, assessed the beginning of the exercises in the Southern Military District, and also spoke about their characteristic features.

The army corps stationed in the Kaliningrad region is training motorized rifle and tank regiments with the withdrawal of more than 1 thousand servicemen to the training grounds, the press service of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Federation reported on Wednesday.

As Sergei Shoigu noted, Russia and Vietnam "have accumulated a unique experience of working together, which is based on long-term friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation"

Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu and his Vietnamese counterpart Army General Fan Van Zang signed an intergovernmental agreement on military-technical cooperation (MTC) between the two countries on Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

In addition, the pages of the publication reveal the life path of 22 cosmonauts who received military ranks of senior officers

The multi-volume scientific work "Senior Officers of a Great Country" was presented as part of the second round of the competition for the State Prize of the Russian Federation named after Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov. The work was presented on Wednesday by Sergey Botsvin, Deputy Head of the Main Personnel Department of the Russian Defense Ministry.

Specialists of the analytical company IDC have published their first forecast related to the global quantum computing market. According to this forecast, customer spending on quantum computing will grow from $412 million in 2020 to $8.6 billion in 2027. This means that the average annual growth rate in the period from 2021 to 2027 will be 50.9%. The forecast includes quantum computing as a service and related services.

For the first time, the US Navy and the American company Raytheon have dropped a Stormbreaker planning bomb from an F-35B fighter jet that is insensitive to weather conditions. The flight of the bomb was tracked by another fighter - F/A-18F - over a shared network.

The American company AeroVironment presented the configuration of the Jump 20 tactical drone with two Switchblade 300 barrage ammunition — it is called the "Little Predator". According to FlightGlobal, the developers tested the Jump 20 together with the inactive Switchblade 300 in August to confirm the operability of the concept.

On November 24, a meeting of the board of the Russian Ministry of Defense was held

The Board considered the issues of combat readiness of the Armed Forces, military education, the moral and psychological state of Russian servicemen, and a number of others. In particular, it was noted that the growing activity of NATO near the Russian borders requires maintaining the combat readiness of nuclear forces, increasing the potential of non-nuclear deterrence forces, including equipping troops with precision weapons and effective means of destruction.

One of the tasks of the revised global deployment of the US Armed Forces in the world in recent months is to more effectively deter Russia, the Pentagon said.

The US Department of Defense expects to strengthen Russia's deterrence capabilities in Europe. This was announced on Monday, November 29, during a briefing by Acting Assistant to the Deputy head of the Pentagon for Political Affairs Mara Karlin.

The British foreign intelligence service MI6 will need the help of the technology sector to counter threats emanating from China and Russia, which seek to gain an advantage by mastering artificial intelligence, The Guardian reports, citing a speech that the head of the agency Richard Moore will deliver at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Monday blocked the rapid adoption of the defense budget for the next fiscal year. According to American media, 45 senators supported the termination of the debate on the defense budget, while 51 opposed it.

Valery Gerasimov also noted that the meeting of the heads of the General Staffs of the two countries takes place in the year of the centenary of the formation of the Mongolian armed forces and the centenary of the establishment of Russian-Mongolian diplomatic relations

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov congratulated the Mongolian servicemen on the Independence Day of Mongolia.

The Minister of Defense of Mongolia Gursediin Saikhanbayar and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, discussed issues of military-technical cooperation between the two countries at a meeting in Ulaanbaatar.

The Main Directorate of Armament of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on November 28 celebrated 92 years since its formation. On this day in 1929, the post of Chief of Armaments of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was established and his apparatus, the Red Army Armament Service, was created.

The United States and the United Kingdom tried to shift responsibility to the European Union for maintaining the viability of Ukraine's economy, including in the face of rising energy prices and the obsolescence of its energy infrastructure, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said.