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The Spanish company Navantia has started testing the combat system for the lead submarine of the S-80 project "Isaac Peral". It will monitor the submarine's armament, track targets and provide information necessary for missions. According to Naval News, while it was tested on land, but on August 31 it will be installed on the first Spanish submarine.

Since the beginning of 2021, specialists of the Military Construction Complex of the Ministry of Defense have been building 4 thousand objects of various purposes in different parts of the country. About 30 thousand specialists and more than 2.8 thousand pieces of equipment are involved in the construction sites of the Ministry of Defense every day. According to the ministry, it is planned to put into operation 3 thousand buildings and structures. Of these, 1,617 buildings have already been built and many have been commissioned on a turnkey basis.

Specialists of all branches of the Southern Military District with the involvement of aviation and ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) and the Caspian Flotilla (CFL) are starting a week of large-scale battalion tactical exercises in the South of Russia, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

During the joint strategic exercise "SIBU/INTERACTION-2021", servicemen of the Russian military contingent and the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) will use unmanned aerial vehicles.

Russian military builders will build more than fifty objects on the islands of the Kuril Ridge, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

Units of the Armed Forces of Laos have arrived in the Primorsky Territory to participate in the joint Russian-Lao exercise "Laros-2021", the Eastern Military District (VVO) announced on Monday.

The fighting will continue until the Taliban and the Afghan government start negotiations

The special representatives of the" extended troika " for Afghanistan (Russia, the United States, Pakistan, China) will discuss the ongoing offensive of the Taliban (members of the Taliban group banned in the Russian Federation - IF) at the upcoming meeting in Doha on August 11, Zamir Kabulov, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation, director of the second Asia department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Interfax on Monday.

More than 1 thousand servicemen of the missile forces and artillery of the combined arms association of the Central Military District will take part in the exercises that started at the training ground in the Kemerovo region, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Monday.

It is too early for Belarus and Russia to create a union ministry of defense, since the parties are not ready for this, first they need to adopt the constitution of the Union State, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday.

"Typhoon-K", BTR-82 and Mi-35M were involved in the joint exercises "South-2021" of the military of Uzbekistan and Russia in the area of the border with Afghanistan.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the joint group has worked out a special operation to prevent the possible crossing of the state border by illegal armed groups.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes to create a special structure within the UN on the problems of combating maritime crime in different regions.

CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas notes the growing tension along the entire perimeter of the Organization's responsibility, in particular, around Belarus and on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

In 2021, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation will actively participate in the VII International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" in order to form and sustainably operate a network of leading universities included in global rankings that implement breakthrough research and development work that can be successfully implemented at enterprises of the military-industrial complex.

A group of researchers from the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Columbia University has found a new way to perform complex quantum algorithms on a traditional computer.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova held a meeting on the innovative system of financing the army in wartime, which will be tested at the Zapad-2021 exercises, during a working trip to St. Petersburg, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

Deborah Lyons, Special Representative and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, appealed to the President of the Republic Ashraf Ghani to immediately stop the violence in the country.

The decision of Russia and the United States to extend the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (STCW) is a welcome step, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes.

Russian servicemen in Syria conducted joint exercises with flamethrowers from the Syrian-Arab Armed Forces (SAR).

The Defense Minister stressed that the main task assigned to the military-industrial complex is to increase the production of military and dual-use products

The import substitution program will allow to increase the share of Russian products in the domestic market of the defense industry by two and a half times by 2025, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting with the staff of Krasmash on Friday.

Russians are also trained in such organizations, the minister stressed

Propaganda centers, which train Russians, among others, to conduct subversive information work in Russia, have been established in Riga, Tallinn and Warsaw. This was announced on Friday by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with the staff of the Krasmash enterprise.