Australia chooses a new BMP — the South Korean Redback ("Black Widow") and the German Lynx ("Lynx") in the KF-41 modification compete in the final of the competition. A new video published by Hanwha Defense shows the highlights of the Black Widow tests, and also indicates that this BMP has successfully passed tests within the framework of the LAND 400 Phase 3 tender. The Australian Defense Ministry will announce the winner soon.

The Israel Defense Forces are currently armed with modern Merkava Mk tanks.4, equipped, among other things, with active protection complexes.

Machines of earlier versions are no longer in use. According to reference publications, more than six hundred Merkava Mk.3 are in storage, the rest can be seen only in museums, at sites of decommissioned equipment and at landfills where various training tasks are being worked out on them.

The Russian robotic complex "Marker" has been successfully tested as a near-hand air defense system, which will be able to effectively destroy small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including kamikaze drones, Yevgeny Dudorov, executive director of the Marker developer enterprise - NGO Android Technology, told RIA Novosti.

This is not a sample of computer modeling, but a real video recording, and made during the installation of a 25-year record! The British laboratory Joint European Torus (JET) was able to achieve energy generation of 59 megajoules on its experimental thermonuclear reactor. The process lasted 5 seconds, which the camera captured.

Specialists of the Obukhov plant have developed a foundry alloy, which was named "Nevsky" and has already been successfully used in production, the press service of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region, which includes the enterprise, reports.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a kind of heavy-duty plastic. A new type of polymer material was named 2DPA-1. According to experts, it is about twice as strong as steel and resembles Kevlar in structure, does not conduct electricity and does not come into contact with gases.

Expert Litovkin admitted that the ship "Guardian" will receive hypersonic missiles "Zircon"

The Russian submerging patrol ship "Sentinel", being developed by the Central Design Bureau of Marine Technology (CCB MT) "Rubin", can receive hypersonic missiles "Zircon", the editor-in-chief of the "Independent Military Review" Dmitry Litovkin told TASS.

A detachment of warships of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) in the framework of exercises in the Sea of Okhotsk fired artillery at the ships of the "enemy", reports the Pacific Fleet.

Russia and the United States will take part in India's largest naval exercises at the end of February. "Sources in the Ministry of Defense reported that both Russia and the United States confirmed their participation in the Milan 2022 exercises, which will be held from February 26 to March 4," the material says.

Two weeks ago, reporting on the wires of the nuclear submarine "Prince Oleg" from Sevmash, where it was built, to a temporary base on the Kola Peninsula, we wrote: went north to go east.

The Rostov-on-Don submarine, which is the carrier of Kalibr cruise missiles, passed through the Bosphorus from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea on Sunday, follows from the data of the Anadolu agency and Istanbul information sites publishing photos of its passage through the strait.

On Saturday, February 12, at 10.40 Moscow time, a US Navy submarine of the Virginia type was discovered in the area of a planned exercise of the Pacific Fleet forces in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation near the island of Urup in the Kuril Ridge. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

In the incident with the US Navy nuclear submarine off the Kuril island of Urup, the frigate of the Pacific Fleet Marshal Shaposhnikov performed the role of a sentry: he informed the violator that he had been detected, and when he pretended not to hear, the Russian sailors presented convincing evidence.

According to the interlocutor of the agency, the coordinates of the submarine were transferred to a detachment of warships led by the frigate of the Pacific Fleet "Marshal Shaposhnikov"

A nuclear submarine of the US Navy of the Virginia type was discovered in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation in the Kuril area by Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft and one of the submarines of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) during planned exercises to search for a submarine of a conditional enemy. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the naval sphere.

According to Dmitry Litovkin, editor-in-chief of the Independent Military Review, the Americans were well aware that anti-submarine weapons could be used against them in Russian territorial waters, including the most modern anti-submarine complex "Answer".

The Russian frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov worked in the incident with the American submarine off the Kuril Islands like a sentry, military expert, captain of the third rank of the reserve Dmitry Litovkin said in an interview with the Zvezda TV channel.

The Ministry of Defense handed a note to the US military attache due to the violation of the state borders of the Russian Federation by an American submarine. This was reported on Saturday, February 12, in the Russian department.

On February 12, in the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in connection with the violation of the state border of the Russian Federation by a US Navy submarine, a representative of the office of the military attache for Defense Issues at the Embassy of the United States of America in Moscow was handed a note. This was reported on Saturday evening in our military department.

This is not the first incident at sea between the military of the Russian Federation and NATO

The appearance of an American nuclear submarine in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation in the Kuril region, which was discovered by a Russian warship, is a serious military incident, retired Admiral Viktor Kravchenko, former chief of the General Staff of the Russian Navy, told Interfax on Saturday.

American submarines have not conducted operations in Russian territorial waters, said Kyle Raines, a representative of the US Indo-Pacific Command.