The upgraded Tiger-M armored vehicles were used in the tactical and special training of the commandos of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District.

Moscow believes that Beijing and Washington have a separate channel for discussing arms control

The topic of China's involvement in the Russian-American consultations on strategic stability did not arise during contacts with Washington, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview with Interfax.

The Russian Federation proposed to consolidate the principle of the impossibility of unleashing a nuclear war in the draft treaty on security guarantees with the United States.

Russia and the United States undertake not to deploy nuclear weapons outside their territory and return those already located outside its borders, according to the draft treaty on security guarantees published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Hundreds of scientists have called on Joe Biden to officially declare that the United States has no plans to be the first to use nuclear weapons in the event of an armed conflict. The New York Post writes about this.

The strategic forces of India on Saturday conducted a successful test of a new medium-range ground-based ballistic missile Agni Prime (Agni-P) capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, representatives of the command said.

Russia may deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus, but only as a retaliatory measure, retired Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, the former head of the main Directorate for International Military Cooperation of the Russian Defense Ministry, told Interfax on Saturday.

Belarus is ready to host nuclear weapons under threat from NATO, Foreign Minister of the Republic Vladimir Makei said in an interview with RT Arabic.

The Strategic Missile Forces plan to begin the phased replacement of heavy ballistic missiles "Voevoda" with a new generation ICBM "Sarmat" in 2022. The first new weapon will receive the Uzhur rocket compound near Krasnoyarsk.

Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces Karakaev: the first regiment "Sarmatov" will be on duty by the end of 2022

The first regiment of the newest Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles "Sarmat" will take up combat duty at the end of 2022. The commander of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) told about this on the air of the Zvezda TV channel Sergey Karakaev, RIA Novosti reports.

Russia is developing new missile defense systems, including for a missile system with hypersonic warheads.

The commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakaev, spoke about the ratio of mobile and stationary strategic complexes in the Missile Forces.

According to him, the missile systems of stationary mine-based Avangard, Voevoda, Stiletto, Topol-M and Yars are now in service with the Strategic Missile Forces. And the mobile-based grouping includes mobile soil complexes "Topol", "Topol-M" and "Yars".

The commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakaev, told how the fleets of strategic missile launchers are being updated.

According to him, of the eight divisions equipped with mobile missile systems, six have already completed rearmament. In addition, the re-equipment of the stationary-based Yars complex in the Kozelsky compound continues.

The first regiment of the newest Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles "Sarmat" will take up combat duty at the end of 2022 in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) said Sergey Karakaev on the TV channel "Zvezda".

Oleg Glazunov, commander of the Vladimir Missile Army, said that from February next year, the Vologda Division of the Strategic Missile Forces stationed in the Tver Region will begin to be re-equipped with a mobile ground-based Yars missile system. All preparatory work for this has been carried out in the compound.

The Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) turned 62 on Friday, December 17. It was on December 17, 1959 that the General Staff of the Strategic Missile Forces was formed and the post of Commander-in-Chief of the missile forces was established.

Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov called the missile forces a reliable guarantor of national security and protection of the interests of the fatherland

Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov congratulated rocket scientists, their family members, designers and specialists of the military-industrial complex on the Day of Strategic Missile Forces, which is celebrated on December 17.

The War Zone: tests of the new AGM-183A hypersonic missile in the USA ended in failure

New tests of the American AGM-183A hypersonic missile under the ARRW (Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon) program ended in failure. This was reported by the specialized portal The War Zone with reference to a representative of the US Air Force.

The Syrian air defense destroyed seven of the eight rockets fired by Israeli fighter jets at the area of the international airport in Damascus. This was stated by the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, on Thursday, December 16.

The Russian Pantsir-S short-range air defense systems shot down more than 40 Turkish Bayraktar and Anka drones during the fighting in Syria and Libya, according to a report by the Rossiya-1 TV channel (VGTRK).