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The new SSP-200 ship-lifting pontoon has been transferred to the forces and means of the search and rescue service of the Navy. This was announced by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Joe Biden administration will be able to save "tens of millions of American lives" from enemy attacks only if it takes steps to strengthen national defense, writes former combat and staff officer of the US Army Devin Pine in the magazine The National Interest.

Tow trucks for Iskander complexes will be delivered to the tank army of the Western Military District by the end of 2021. This is reported by the press service of the ZVO.

We are talking about repair and evacuation vehicles REM-KS, created on the chassis of four-axle all-terrain vehicles of the Bryansk Automobile Plant.

The Russian Navy may receive 18 small rocket ships of the project 22800 "Karakurt". The capabilities of Russian ships were evaluated in the United States. "Karakurt" demonstrates the modernization of the Russian Navy, writes The National Interest.

The third batch of additional international military aid worth $60 million from the US government for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has arrived in Ukraine. It includes ammunition, anti-tank and precision weapons, medical equipment and others, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported on Friday.

The Iskander-E operational-tactical missile system showed unprecedented accuracy at the shooting of a foreign customer: it hit a missile from a distance of 180 kilometers exactly in the crosshair of a ground target, Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the Rostec State Corporation armament complex, told RIA Novosti.

The Iskander-E complex has shown unprecedented accuracy in shooting at a foreign customer. This was announced by the industrial director of the arms complex of the Rostec State Corporation Bekhan Ozdoev on Saturday, October 23.

The United States is inevitably vulnerable to Chinese intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), according to James Acton, co-director of nuclear security programs at the Carnegie Endowment. He discussed this with a Forbes magazine columnist.

Turkey has started the procedure for purchasing F-16 aircraft from the United States. This was announced on Saturday, October 23, by the Minister of National Defense of the country Hulusi Akar.

Polish portable anti-aircraft missile system (MANPADS) Piorun surpasses the Russian "Willow", says Defence24.pl . The publication notes that "the maximum range of the Piorun is not disclosed, but it is known that it exceeds 6.4 kilometers," and the maximum flight altitude is 4 kilometers.

The Defence24 portal published an article by journalist Maximilian Dura, which talks about the alleged superiority of Polish weapons over Russian. At the same time, the author acknowledged that Warsaw uses Moscow's best practices in the development of portable anti-aircraft missile systems (MANPADS).

The US Army for the first time used ground robots as conditional opponents. According to The Drive, robots blocked the way to helicopter pads, blocked roads and performed other tasks. They were armed with M240 machine guns and Javelin anti-tank missiles.

Three dozen upgraded T-72B3M tanks will be received by the end of this year by units of the Russian 201st military base in Tajikistan. This was announced on Sunday by the chief of staff of the compound Yevgeny Okhrimenko.

As the TASS news agency reported on October 19, 2021, a new missile of the Bal coastal missile complex developed and manufactured by Tactical Missile Armament Corporation (KTRV) JSC will allow hitting targets at a range of over 500 km. The new capabilities of the complex have made it comparable in range and ground firing capability to the Bastion missile defense system using the Onyx supersonic missile, a source in the defense industry complex said.

The President of the United States Joe Biden was concerned about the testing of hypersonic weapons by the People's Republic of China (PRC). This became known on Wednesday, October 20.

North Korea has said its recent test launch of a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) was not aimed at the US.

The modern Russian 120-mm self-propelled gun 2S34 "Hosta" was first talked about 15 years ago. Some of the military experts then began to consider it a further modernization of the famous Soviet 2S1 self-propelled gun, which used the technical solutions of the modern 2S31 "Vienna".

As part of the state tests, a successful launch of the Bulava ballistic missile from the Knyaz Oleg nuclear submarine from the White Sea was carried out. This was announced on October 21 by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The small island of Shemya in Alaska may become a primary target in the conflict between the United States and an equally powerful enemy - such as China and Russia. The other day, the American special operations forces conducted a training to protect the island. Although in the event of the beginning of the Third World, special forces are unlikely to help.

The Chinese military conducted two tests of hypersonic weapons in the summer of 2021, the Financial Times newspaper writes, citing informed sources.