Russia may deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus, but only as a retaliatory measure, retired Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, the former head of the main Directorate for International Military Cooperation of the Russian Defense Ministry, told Interfax on Saturday.

The strategic forces of India on Saturday conducted a successful test of a new medium-range ground-based ballistic missile Agni Prime (Agni-P) capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, representatives of the command said.

Hundreds of scientists have called on Joe Biden to officially declare that the United States has no plans to be the first to use nuclear weapons in the event of an armed conflict. The New York Post writes about this.

Russia and the United States undertake not to deploy nuclear weapons outside their territory and return those already located outside its borders, according to the draft treaty on security guarantees published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The Russian Federation proposed to consolidate the principle of the impossibility of unleashing a nuclear war in the draft treaty on security guarantees with the United States.

Moscow believes that Beijing and Washington have a separate channel for discussing arms control

The topic of China's involvement in the Russian-American consultations on strategic stability did not arise during contacts with Washington, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview with Interfax.

The upgraded Tiger-M armored vehicles were used in the tactical and special training of the commandos of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District.

MIC: in Syria, the T-14 Armata tank revealed a number of problematic solutions

After testing the T-14 Armata tank in Syria, Uralvagonzavod specialists made about one and a half hundred technological changes to the design of Russian combat vehicles in service and being created. The results of the tests of the T-14 Armata tank in the Syrian Arab Republic are told by the Military-Industrial Courier (MIC), referring to sources in the military-industrial complex.

The BRM-3K "Lynx" combat reconnaissance vehicle, at the time of its adoption, was recognized by many military specialists and experts as one of the best in the world in its class. equipped with the most modern equipment.

The features of the Russian newest mobile reconnaissance point PRP-5 are revealed. According to the National Defense publication, this combat vehicle, created in Tula PJSC NPO Strela, is in no way inferior to the best foreign models.

The domestic BMP-2 is currently considered one of the most massive infantry fighting vehicles in the world. In addition to the ground forces of the Russian army, it is in service with more than three dozen states.

At the exercises of the units of the Western Military District, a lightly armored multi-purpose MT-LB tractor was seen towing a trailer with an unusual cargo - a UR-83P rocket launcher.

Previously, this younger brother of the UR-77 Meteor self-propelled complex, also known as the Serpent Gorynych, was moved with the help of cross-country vehicles. For example, recently KAMAZ-5350 all-terrain vehicles have been used for this purpose. Previously, ZiL-131 were used, in the bodies of which two sets were placed at once.

The K808 armored personnel carrier became the platform for the new air defense system. December 17, portal janes.com He reported that the South Korean army has begun deploying AAGW combat vehicles.

After half a century of service, AAV landing vehicles lost their main feature — the ability to move through the water. December 17, portal defensenews.com He reported that the US Marine Corps has imposed a ban on the use of these armored personnel carriers as a watercraft.

Japanese engineers have developed a snake robot with magnets in the wheels. They showed how magnets hold the robot even on vertical surfaces, and the design of several segments allows it to move over obstacles. A video of the tests was published on the YouTube channel of the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun newspaper.

Such a gas mask can protect military personnel from radiation, chemical and bacteriological contamination, as well as from blows and shrapnel. On the sides of the helmet there are special removable filters that provide respiratory protection.

Russian servers turned out to be unusable: Russian companies, after tests, called domestic processors unusable.

Roselectronics Holding of Rostec State Corporation set an absolute annual record for sales of reed switches on December 16, delivering 234 million 546 thousand devices to customers. More than 90% of the manufactured products are exported to 55 countries around the world. Reed switches are used as contact pairs of various relays, switches, buttons, sensors and indicators in household appliances, automotive, medical and telecommunications equipment, automation and security systems.

Neural networks of the future will be able to successfully hide malware from antiviruses. This is reported by The Next Web.

Tests of the GPA with the upgraded AL-31ST engine produced by UEC-UMPO have begun

On December 15, at the Polyana compressor station in the Blagoveshchensk district of the Republic of Bashkortostan, complex operational tests of a gas pumping unit with an upgraded AL-31ST engine manufactured by PJSC UEC-UMPO (part of the Rostec United Engine Corporation) began.