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The competent authorities of the CIS countries will work out issues of preventing terrorist attacks on the objects of marine infrastructure and the oil and gas industry, as well as their suppression during the exercises "Caspian-Antiterrorism 2021".

The ambitious project of creating a global mobile satellite communication system "Ether "has been excluded from the national program"Digital Economy". The project implementation costs were estimated at 299 billion rubles. At the same time, 30 billion rubles from extra-budgetary sources should have already been allocated for the design of this system.

The modernization of a section of the state highway that will connect a number of military bases between Texas and Georgia was included in the US infrastructure bill for $ 1 trillion. This legislative act was adopted by the country's Senate in early August and provides for the extension of the highway to connect 12 military bases located in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

US President Joe Biden, having failed to cope with the situation in Afghanistan, suffered one of the most brutal defeats in American history, former President Donald Trump said.

In accordance with the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021"will be held from August 22 to 28, 2021. However, its official opening will take place on August 23.

In the southern military district, a combat army reserve composition is being formed - BARS. This is a kind of second front from the reserves, who will first be called into service in an emergency situation. For example, if there is a threat of armed conflict or aggression against our country. In peacetime, reservists will be trained at military training camps, and all the conditions of their temporary service, including financial, will be written in a special contract.

The United States military will respond in a mirror manner to any manifestation of aggression by the militants of the radical group "Taliban" (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) against the American population. This was announced on Sunday, August 15, by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.

In total, 2.5 thousand military personnel were involved in the exercises of the three countries

The servicemen of the armed forces of Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, who were involved in joint exercises that ended on August 10 in Tajikistan at the Harb-Maydon training ground 20 km from Afghanistan, returned to their permanent deployment points. This is stated in a message distributed on Monday by the press service of the Central Military District (CVO).

The capture of Kabul by the Taliban (the group is banned in the Russian Federation) was a kind of surprise for Russia, said the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation, director of the Second Department of Asia of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabulov.

Private investors will be able to compensate up to 50 percent of the costs of creating an industrial park or an industrial technopark. The corresponding resolution was signed by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin.

In the Murmansk region, units of a separate Arctic motorized rifle brigade of the Northern Fleet broke through the defenses of a conditional enemy and inflicted artillery strikes. The exercises were held at the training ground near the village of Alakurtti. On the video, you can watch the actions of the fighters.

The Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan on Monday, August 16, confirmed the fact of the crash of an Afghan Air Force plane in the Surkhandarya region of the republic.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called shocking the footage distributed on the Network, in which, presumably, two Afghans fell from a plane leaving Kabul.

Foxconn has predicted that in four years every fifth car sold in the world will be electric. This is reported by the publication Digitimes.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday said that after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the British military had no real opportunity to stay there alone, without allies, Sky News reports.

The candidate for Chancellor of Germany from the Christian Democratic Union of the CDU, Armin Laschet, called the capture of Afghanistan by the Taliban (the terrorist organization "Taliban" is banned in the Russian Federation) a defeat for NATO.

The militants of the Palestinian group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, congratulated the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) on the rapid capture of Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported on Monday.

The Armed Forces of Kazakhstan have taken measures to strengthen vigilance against the background of the aggravation of the situation in Afghanistan: the task has been set to monitor the situation in the region, organize round-the-clock duty of forces and means, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the republic reported.

Two pilots are in a serious condition in the hospital

An Afghan Air Force plane that crashed in Uzbekistan was shot down while trying to illegally cross the border, two pilots are in a serious condition in hospital, the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan reported on Monday.

Skunk Works-the authors of many advanced American military developments-are switching to new technologies. August 15, portal thedrive.com He reported that the Lockheed Martin Corporation has opened a new plant for its secret division.