The Ukrainian army will soon receive a batch of equipment that has been repaired and modernized at the Lviv Armored Plant. According to the ArmyInform news agency, this year's latest batch consists of five T-64 main battle tanks and seven BMP-1s.

The US Marine Corps abandoned the use of AAV tracked amphibious vehicles after the 2020 incident in which nine people died.

On December 13, 2021, Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton and Australian Defense Industry Minister Melissa Price signed a contract with Hanwha Defense Australia (the Australian branch of the Hanwha Defense Defense division of the South Korean Hanwha Group) to supply the Australian Army with 30 self-propelled howitzers K9 Thunder 155-mm/52 caliber and 15 K10 AARV transport loaders on their base, with the assembly of all of them in Australia at a planned construction facility in Geelong (Victoria).

Finland will update its Leopard 2 tank fleet. On December 15, the portal armyrecognition.com He reported that the Finnish Ministry of Defense approved a deal with Krauss-Maffei Wegmann for the modernization of fire control systems for Leopard 2A4 and Leopard 2A6 tanks.

During the Iran-Iraq war, due to significant losses in tanks, the armed forces of the two countries began to massively acquire Chinese armored vehicles. Thus, Iran, which fell under Western sanctions, previously operated mainly American M47, M60 and British Chieftain, purchased more than 500 Type 59 and 250 Type 69.

Hyundai has introduced the MobED robot, a four—wheel platform with independent suspension that allows it to keep its balance even on inclined and uneven surfaces. The use of MobED can be very diverse. For example, in the video, he carries a champagne tower and a stroller with a baby, and also works with a tripod.

Sony has introduced a wheeled robot with an unusual design: it has two pairs of conventional wheels at the corners and two omnidirectional front and rear. This allows the robot to turn around on the spot and climb the ledges, almost without changing its angle of inclination. The company will test it as an observer on the construction of a building in Tokyo, according to a Sony press release.

During the operational and combat training of the command staff of the Central Military District, held in the Orenburg region, a new camouflage suit for the "Chimera" type scouts, made in 3D, was demonstrated for the first time. This is reported by the Press Service of the Central Military District.

Employees of the Udmurt Federal Research Center (UdmFIC) Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences has developed camouflage muffs to protect snipers' hands from frostbite, the press service of the center reported on Thursday.

In Ukraine, a local businessman Nazar Dibrov organized an "exhibition" of inflatable tanks, which were made by order of the Ministry of Defense of the country.

The troops of the Central Military District received a batch of 30 Lesochek radio interference equipment.

This was announced by the head of the electronic warfare service of the Central Military District, Colonel Nikolai Fedorov, at the operational combat training camp, which is taking place in the Orenburg region.

Shvabe Holding has created the first Russian thermal imaging sight based on a high-resolution matrix, Rostec State Corporation (GC) reported on Thursday.

A video was posted online showing the work of American mortar crews through the latest Enhanced Night Visions Goggle-Binoculars (ENVG-B) type night vision device. He is able to dramatically increase the combat capability of soldiers on the battlefield.

A detachment of ships of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) returned to the home base after the closure of the missile firing area with the newest anti-submarine complex "Response" for a training underwater target in the waters of the Sea of Japan. This was reported to "RG" by the head of the information support department of the press service of the Eastern Military District for the Pacific Fleet, Captain 3rd rank Ilya Kolesnikov.

The flight of the hypersonic missile corresponded to the specified parameters, the target was hit, the Ministry of Defense reported

The frigate of the Northern Fleet "Admiral Gorshkov" successfully hit a target from the White Sea with a hypersonic missile "Zircon" at the Chizha training ground in the Arkhangelsk region. This was reported to journalists on Thursday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Admiral Gorshkov frigate hit a target located at the Chizha training ground with a Zircon hypersonic missile. Serial deliveries of "Zircon" should begin next year.

The frigate Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov performed a test firing of a hypersonic Zircon missile at a coastal target. This was announced on Thursday, December 16, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Russian ships will be able to sink submarines with missiles. On December 15, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published a video from the tests of the missile anti-submarine complex "Response".

The firing range of the updated missile may be several tens of kilometers, the agency interlocutor clarified The

range of the guided cruise missile 91P1 of the newest anti-submarine complex "Answer" after its improvement will be at least doubled. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The submarine will be placed in the Museum of Naval Glory in Kronstadt

The first Soviet nuclear submarine K-3 "Leninsky Komsomol" will be delivered to the eternal parking place in the Museum of Naval Glory in Kronstadt by land, but for this its hull will be sawn into two parts. This was reported to TASS by two sources in the shipbuilding industry.