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The next meeting of the heads of military departments of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization countries will be held in Uzbekistan in 2022, according to a communique following the meeting of defense ministers of the SCO member states held in Dushanbe on Wednesday.

The maneuvers will be held from September 10 to 16 on the territory of the Russian Federation and Belarus

The member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are invited to the Russian-Belarusian maneuvers "West - 2021". This is stated in the communique following the meeting of defense ministers of the SCO member states, which was held on Wednesday in Dushanbe.

Hybrid production systems allow you to simultaneously increase the shape using laser spraying, and remove excess by the traditional milling process. As a result, in one process, you can first create a rough blank, characteristic of additive manufacturing,and then bring it to perfection by processing parts on a CNC machine.

The two-legged robot Cassie managed to walk five kilometers on a single battery charge, said American engineers from the University of Oregon and the company Agility Robotics. When walking around the stadium, he spent a little less than 44 minutes and never fell, and when driving around the university campus, he overcame this distance in 53 minutes, in the process he fell twice, because of which the engineers had to return him to normal mode.

The American company General Atomics has shown how the MQ-9A Reaper attack drone will pick up a small Sparrowhawk jet in flight. This will help him with a cable with an orange sphere at the end, which Sparrowhawk will cling to with flaps.

The Spektr-RG Space Observatory helped astronomers see the early stages of the event of the tidal destruction of a star by a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. The light from the source went to the Earth for 2.5 billion years, further observations of it will help determine the mass of a supermassive black hole and the rate of accretion of matter to it, according to the website of the Institute for Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The EU countries will lose about 10.9 billion euros annually due to their own new law on the regulation of artificial intelligence, CNBC writes.

The Rostov Regional court sentenced Russian Denis Lobov to nine years and six months in a penal colony and Armenian citizen Ararat Khachatryan to 10 years and five months in prison.

In July 2021, the Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant "Kupol" shipped civil products for partners from Bangladesh. We are talking about three recycling plants from Atomstroyexport, which will be used in the construction of the Ruppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh.

The role of the US contingent in Iraq is changing, the US military will devote more time to training personnel and consultations, White House press Secretary Jennifer Psaki said on Monday.

The withdrawal of the US military contingent from Iraq will not affect the number of the Russian group in Syria, said Deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Yuri Shvytkin.

US President Joe Biden on Monday at a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadimi said that the American combat mission on Iraqi territory will be completed by the end of 2021, reports CBS News Radio.

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak announced Warsaw's plans to deploy American tanks on the borders of Russia and Belarus and did not even hide why they are needed there.

The French Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Iran, by not returning to negotiations on a nuclear deal, threatens the conclusion of an agreement on the revival of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Western media reported.

More than 12 thousand units of weapons and equipment will be presented at its sites

The international military-technical forum "Army-2021" will be held at 26 sites in 15 subjects of the Southern Federal District and the North Caucasus Federal District, the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) reported. The forum will also be held at Russian military bases in Abkhazia, Armenia and South Ossetia.

Servicemen of the Russian peacekeeping unit of the Central Military District in preparation for joint exercises with colleagues from Uzbekistan, which are to be held in August at the Termez training ground, overcame water obstacles on an armored personnel carrier BTR-82A.

The negotiations between Ankara and Kiev on the supply of weapons to Ukraine should not affect Turkey's relations with Russia. This was stated on July 27 by professor of the Turkish University of Maltepe Hassan Unal.

The issue of the return of Russian border guards to the Tajik-Afghan border is not on the agenda, Tajik Foreign Minister Sirodjiddin Mukhriddin said at a press conference in Dushanbe on Tuesday.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon discussed the situation in Afghanistan with Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe in Dushanbe on Tuesday, the press service of the Tajik leader reported.

Forecasts about how the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq will affect the situation in the region are still premature, but the Kremlin would not like this country to join the list of unstable territories, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.