Despite the fact that the first Chechen war ended more than a quarter of a century ago, there are a lot of myths and misconceptions around it. For example, information about the participation of T-90 tanks in those hostilities still pops up from time to time in various sources.

More than 50 modernized infantry fighting vehicles with the Berezhok combat module will enter service with formations and military units of the Central Military District in the Volga Region by the end of 2022, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, commander of the Central Military District, told reporters.

The T-72 tank from the late 70s began to en masse into service with the armies of the Warsaw Pact countries and states friendly to the Soviet Union.

In some of them, for example, in Poland, Czechoslovakia and India, licensed production was organized.

During the complete defeat of the pro-American South Vietnamese regime in the spring of 1975, a large number of various modern weapons and military equipment became the trophies of the DRV army soldiers.

For example, only 105-mm towed M101 howitzers were captured more than 1,000 pieces, as well as 250 155-mm M114 and a large amount of ammunition for them.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the training of African servicemen will be carried out at the facilities of the training and material base, equipped with the experience of performing tasks in Syria

For the first time, servicemen from the Republic of Djibouti will be trained to work with the Uran-6 robotic mine clearance complex at the International Mine Action Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, stationed in Nakhabino near Moscow. This was reported on Monday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Specialists of the marine engineering service of the Pacific Fleet received a large batch of modern means of mine clearance.

The Central Research Institute was engaged in the development of software, operating systems of the "Dawn" and "Dawn" family based on Linux, as well as robotics for the needs of the Ministry of Defense

The Central Research Institute of Economics, Informatics and Management Systems (CNII EISU) of Rostec in the process of bankruptcy will transfer its intellectual property to other enterprises of the state corporation. This was reported to TASS in Roselectronics, which is part of Rostec.

Specialists from the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" together with colleagues from the Institute of Synthetic Polymer Materials and the Institute of Organoelement Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a technology that improves the quality of rubber obtained from organosilicon rubber. It allowed not only to turn rubber into rubber, but also to significantly improve the mechanical properties of the resulting materials.

The Bering Strait and the coast of Chukotka will be covered by a new coastal defense division — its formation in the region has already begun.

The compound will take control of the territory from the western borders of Chukotka to Kamchatka, and, if necessary, to Sakhalin. It will include several regiments, including the previously created 50th Coastal Defense Regiment. 

Twenty ships and vessels of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Federation went to sea to perform combat training tasks, the fleet said on Monday.

The main objectives of the campaign are the participation of ships in naval exercises under the overall leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Admiral Nikolai Evmenov

A detachment of warships of the Baltic Fleet consisting of the corvettes "Stoyky" and "Savvy" left Baltiysk for a long hike. This was reported to journalists in the information support department of the Baltic Fleet.

On January 24, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov answered the question whether the Russian military exercises in the Baltic Sea are a reaction to the actions of NATO.

A contract has been signed for the construction of the second URO FFX-3 frigate for the Republic of Korea Navy. As planned, the ship will be delivered to the customer in 2026.

According to the information published by Euractiv.bg On January 21, the Bulgarian Navy Command began negotiations on the purchase of two diesel-electric submarines.

In 2021, the Armed Forces received more than 5,000 new and upgraded weapons, military and special equipment. Among them are the S-400, S-350 air defense systems, Bastion missile systems, more than 100 aircraft and helicopters. This was announced on Thursday at the Single Day of Acceptance of Military products by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

Their peculiarity is in the participation of the troops of the Eastern Military District

The Russian-Belarusian exercises are exclusively defensive in nature, their peculiarity is that the troops of the Eastern Military District will be involved from Russia, head of the Main Directorate of Combat Training of the Belarusian army Andrei Nekrasevich said on Friday.

To participate in the combat readiness check of the reaction forces of the Union State, an echelon with military personnel and military equipment from Russia arrived at the Polonka railway station in the Brest region on Sunday. Information about this was reported on January 23 by the official Telegram channel of the branch department of Belarus.

Within the framework of the visiting meeting of the State Duma Committee on Defense, deputies together with experts discussed the creation, functioning and development of Patriot military-patriotic parks of culture and recreation in all military districts and in the Northern Fleet. The meeting was held in the Moscow region on the site of the Congress and Exhibition Center. It was attended by the directors of all Patriot parks and representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, in congratulating DOSAAF on the anniversary, noted that the defense organization has brought up millions of real patriots, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan the situation in Karabakh and the progress of negotiations with the United States on security guarantees, the Kremlin's press service reported.