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Gone are the days when the electronic filling of an assault rifle or submachine gun was limited to a pair of sights (optical and night vision) that allow a soldier to make an accurate shot.

The Defense Advanced Development Agency (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense has launched the Space-BACN program to create cheap optical communication terminals that can adapt to most standards of optical communication lines between satellites. So the military wants to combine various groups of small satellites in low Earth orbit, which cannot yet exchange data, into a "space layer".

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Monday said at a hearing before the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs that the Afghan government forces would be unable to independently provide control, even if US forces remained in Afghanistan.

At the same time, the terrorists have suffered serious damage, the Syrian government controls 90% of the territory, Putin notes

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the main problem of Syria the preservation of a foreign military presence there without UN permission, noting that this prevents the Syrian authorities from consolidating the country.

There is no political tension around the plans to create a Russian military base in Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast, but there are some circumstances that delay the work, a senior source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

In recent years, Moscow has been creating important strategic military alliances throughout Africa-from Libya to Nigeria, from Ethiopia to Mali - and is gaining an increasingly favorable reputation in society, challenging the dominance of the United States and France on the continent.

Joint command and staff exercises "Unbreakable Stability" have begun in Odessa with NATO, the purpose of which is to "counter hybrid threats" to critical infrastructure in the Black Sea region.

The servicemen of the Arctic motorized rifle brigade of the Northern Fleet (SF) have worked out a set of tasks for the defense of the territory of Russia in the conditions of the Far North and the Arctic, the press service of the SF reported on Tuesday.

The income of the Russian military should grow taking into account the situation in the economy and the level of inflation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The construction of a field camp is being completed at the Tarskoye training ground in North Ossetia, where units of the country's combat army reserve (BARS) will come for training. The readiness of the camp was checked by the commander of the Southern Military District, Army General Alexander Dvornikov. This was reported in the press service of the military district.

The President also noted that the topic of increasing the average income level of people in the region is one of the problem points

Russian President Vladimir Putin called for diversifying the" well-represented "defense industry in the Tula region and developing industry as a whole to ensure the growth of real incomes of residents of the region.

About 800 units of weapons and equipment, as well as more than 40 aircraft and helicopters of army and tactical aviation will be involved in the exercises

The bilateral exercises will be held over the next week at several training grounds of the Southern Military District, the press service of the Southern Military District reported. More than 6 thousand military personnel will take part in the exercises.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky believes that it is incorrect to compare Ukraine and Afghanistan from the point of view of American aid.

The United States has reached an agreement with Uzbekistan, under which a group of Afghan Air Force pilots who arrived in this country, along with their families, will be transferred to an American military base this weekend, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources.

On September 16, the heads of the CSTO member states will discuss the impact of the situation in Afghanistan on the security of the organization's countries and adopt a joint statement, CSTO press Secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov said.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that during a meeting with his American counterpart Joe Biden in Washington, he said that Ukraine should be in NATO, but it depends not only on the US president. Zelensky said this during an interview with Farid Zakaria on CNN.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed to provide funds in the budget for the indexation of salaries of military and security forces above the inflation rate. The corresponding list of instructions following the results of the second stage of the XX Congress of the United Russia Party is published on the Kremlin's website.

The main stage of the joint exercises of the Armed Forces of Russia and Belarus "West-2021" started on September 13 at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

The topic of military-technical cooperation is constantly present in the course of Russian-Belarusian contacts at the highest level, the Kremlin representative noted

Russia and Belarus will continue to develop military-technical cooperation (MTC) and the practice of conducting joint military exercises, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, told reporters on Monday.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, reported on the progress of the strategic exercises "West-2021" to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Russian President Vladimir Putin.