Russia and China have launched projects to jointly create weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "We are even developing separate high-tech types of weapons together today," the president said at a press conference on Thursday.

China is preparing to set a new national record for the number of launches in 2021

China on Thursday successfully launched two experimental Shiyan-12 satellites into orbit for space exploration. This was announced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

Zelensky fell under the influence of radical elements instead of thinking about the world

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia wants to build good-neighborly relations with Ukraine at any cost, but Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has fallen under the influence of radical elements.

MT Rubin Central Design Bureau: the increase in the cost of submarines leads to a reduction in their number

The need to avoid the rise in the cost of the life cycle of submarines can be considered the main global trend of the last decades in the relevant industry, Igor Vilnit, General Director of the Central Design Bureau of Marine Technology (CCB MT) "Rubin", told Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Americans will build robotic stingrays of two types. On December 21, the press service of the Agency for Advanced Defense Projects (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense announced the signing of a contract with Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation and Martin Defense Group to develop prototypes of underwater drones.

MT Rubin Central Design Bureau: the TK-208 Dmitry Donskoy submarine is in good condition

Igor Vilnit, General Director of the Central Design Bureau of Marine Technology (CCB MT) Rubin, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, revealed the condition of the heavy nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine TK-208 Dmitry Donskoy of Project 941 Shark.

The Novosibirsk combat missile carrier, developed at the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise (Sevmash, Severodvinsk), belongs to the class of new multipurpose submarines of the Yasen project.

In seven years, the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been transformed. If in 2014 its capabilities could not be called outstanding, now it is a formidable force. And it's not even about new ships and coastal batteries. The main factor of the strength of the Black Sea Fleet lies in another, writes Forbes.

The new dock is one of the largest in the world, its dimensions (480 by 114 meters, depth - 14 meters) allow you to build vessels of any size and complexity.

In the Rostov region, training camps for snipers of the Southern Military District were held at the Kadamovsky training ground. The servicemen practiced new tactical techniques based on the experience of modern local conflicts.

Russian RPG-30 "Hook" rocket-propelled anti-tank grenade launchers were shown at an exhibition demonstrating the combat arsenal of the Vietnamese People's Army. On one of the stands, among other ammunition, there was a 105-mm shot and a small-sized rocket-a target simulator.

The Chinese company Unitree Robotics has equipped its four-legged robot with a robotic arm. It can lift up to five kilograms of cargo and helps the robot interact with the environment, for example, open doors.

JSC "GOZ" (St. Petersburg) has registered in Rospatent an industrial model of an electric vehicle of the SUV class, as well as seven more industrial samples of the nodal elements of the interior and exterior of the electric vehicle, the press service of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region, which includes the enterprise, reports.

During the exercises of the units and formations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Payambar-e Azam-17 ("The Great Prophet-17"), a tank was first seen, very similar to the Karrar first introduced back in 2016.

However, it is reported that this is not a completely new model, but one of the deeply modernized T-72M used in the troops.

The Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense announced on December 17 that in November 2021, the Defense Materiel Agency (DMA) under the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense signed a contract for the purchase of 356 vehicles from the Dutch Armed Forces.

Next year it will be 60 years since the start of serial production in Nizhny Tagil of the medium T-62. These tanks were produced in a "circulation" of 20,000 units.

Many of the spectators of the November parades that took place in the 70s and 80s paid attention to tracked vehicles without weapons, but with mandatory red stars on the frontal armor and guards signs on the sides.

Russian main battle tanks with powerful gas turbine engines have traditionally been admired for their high-speed and maneuverable characteristics. The combat vehicles demonstrated their unique capabilities not only at the company's training ground, special screenings of international exhibitions, various tests, but also during real combat operations.

Military personnel of the VVO tank unit stationed in the Republic of Buryatia are mastering new two-link tracked floating snowmobiles of high cross-country GAZ-3344-20 "Aleut".

The Pakistani military has launched a version of its Babur cruise missile with an extended range. According to the Associated Press, a munition called Babur 1B can hit targets at a distance of more than 900 kilometers. Its early version had a range of only 450 kilometers.