Defence24 sources accused the French side of delaying the delivery of the Ukrainian Oplot tank to the United States for a year. According to the publication, the Ukrainian tank uses French-made components, in particular, thermal imagers from Thales, which did not want to consent to their re-export to the United States.

In the Russian armed forces, much attention is paid to the improvement of weapons for the ground forces, this is the topic of the publication in the November issue of the magazine of the Ministry of Defense "Army Collection" by V. Litvinenko, A. Klyukoit "Modernization and development of new artillery models".

Before the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed a prototype of the "supertank", which surpassed all modern NATO tanks in combat capabilities. We are talking about the T-95 or "Object 195", the project largely became the basis for the newest T-14 Armata.

On the basis of the newest Russian armored car "MIC-Ural", designers have created a new modification - a pickup truck. As reported, the first batch of such equipment is ready and will be sent to the client in the near future.

Engineers of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District in the Kuban received a set of heavy mechanized bridges TMM-3M2 at the KamAZ automobile base.

Any potential partner is always waiting for information about the operation of these machines, said Alexander Krasovitsky, General Director of the MIC

The countries of the Latin American region are interested in the latest Russian armored vehicles "Athlete-E" and "Strela" developed by the "Military Industrial Company" (MIC). This was reported to TASS by the Director General of the military-industrial complex Alexander Krasovitsky.

A new automatic sonometric complex AZK-7 has been delivered to the compound of rocket troops and artillery of the combined-arms army of the Air Defense Forces, stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

After the end of the pandemic, it is important to reconsider the principles of international cooperation in the field of bio-research

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said it was necessary to take under international control the activities of laboratories conducting the study of deadly viruses.

The growing intensity of NATO aviation flights near the borders of Russia requires improving the aerospace defense system. The deployment of US missiles in Europe poses a threat, Vladimir Putin said, opening a series of defense meetings in Sochi.

In recent years, the US Navy and Air Force have been writing off more and more outdated equipment, and cruise missile carriers are no exception. Just recently, 17 B-1B bombers were "retired", 22 Ticonderoga-type missile cruisers, 28 Arleigh Burke-type Block 1 and Block 2 destroyers are planned to be decommissioned soon. These losses will only be partially compensated by the construction of new ships.

Control test firing of S-300PS anti-aircraft missile systems, which have undergone major repairs and modernization, has been completed at the Saryshagan training ground in the Karaganda region.

In recent years, the Russian Armed Forces have received 25 S-400 air defense systems and more than 70 new fighters, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The Russian army will soon receive the latest S-500 missile system, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the leadership of the Defense Ministry and representatives of the defense industry.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the modernization of the aerospace defense system (EKO). This is reported by Interfax.

A group of Russian specialists has developed a small-sized radar station "Volna" to search for drones (UAVs). The new device will allow detecting inconspicuous and stationary targets. This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

The threat of turning outer space into an arena of armed confrontation with catastrophic consequences has been increasing recently, said Andrei Belousov, deputy head of the Russian delegation to the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN office and other international organizations in Geneva.

Jeffrey Eberhardt claims that these countries are deploying technology in space and intend to transfer future conflicts to outer space

Jeffrey Eberhardt, the US President's Special Envoy for nuclear nonproliferation, claims that Russia and China are deploying technologies in space and intend to transfer future conflicts to outer space.

Russia will vote against this document, Andrei Belousov assured

The draft British resolution on outer space at the UN suffers from serious shortcomings and does not take into account the fundamental Russian approaches. This was stated on Monday by the Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Office in Geneva, Andrei Belousov, speaking at the First Committee of the General Assembly of the World Organization.

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have proposed a concept following which bacteria delivered to Mars will be able to produce rocket fuel and liquid oxygen from the CO2 available there. The resulting fuel will be useful for refueling the spacecraft to return to Earth. Techcult has studied in detail the scientists' article in the journal Nature.

In the USA, the approach of one of the Russian spacecraft (number 40258 in the catalog of the North American Aerospace Defense Command) of the Luch series to the Intelsat 36 commercial satellite was shown on a computer model. The corresponding video was published by the American company COMSPOC on Vimeo.