In the 80s, China offered tanks to foreign buyers, which were the development of the Soviet T-54 tank created three decades ago. Even the newest Type 80 at that time largely repeated the design of its predecessors, differing from them only in the chassis. In order to compete confidently in the international arms markets, a new generation of equipment was needed.

The Russian government has approved the experimental launch of unmanned cargo transportation on the M-11 Neva highway - between Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Chinese electric cars are rapidly getting cheaper. They are already half the price of European models with similar characteristics.

Since the beginning of the year, over 300 units of military and special equipment have been delivered to the Engineering Troops as part of the state defense order. It was received by all military districts and the Northern Fleet. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The financing is designed for 2 years, it is planned to be implemented within the framework of the "Commercialization 2021" competition. The Fund will provide the company with 20 million rubles, subject to equal co-financing from the company.

The Arbitration Court of the Moscow District on Monday upheld the decision of the lower courts to recover 461.8 million rubles of debt from Sistemprom in favor of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation out of the required 761.8 million rubles.

The surface component of the Pacific Fleet will be replenished with 12 corvettes of projects 20385 and 20380 by 2027, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, Commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, said following a working meeting where issues of surface shipbuilding were considered.

A solemn naming ceremony and launching of the frigate Tushil took place at the Baltic shipyard "Yantar" in Kaliningrad. This is the first of two ships of Project 11356 being built at the plant by order of India.

The crew of the Askold small rocket ship, which is being built in Kerch at the B.E.Butoma shipyard, will undergo comprehensive training at the Joint Training Center of the Navy.

The crew of the corvette project 20385 "Agile", under construction at JSC Severnaya Verf (part of JSC USC), is undergoing the final training cycle at the Joint Training Center of the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg.

The crews of the Yeisk and Kasimov small anti-submarine ships were involved in the exercises as part of the ship's search strike group in cooperation with the crew of the Ka-27M anti-submarine helicopter

Crews of small anti-submarine ships and helicopter pilots of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) during the exercises searched for a submarine in the Black Sea and worked out its destruction, the press service of the fleet reported on Monday.

The frigate of the Northern Fleet "Admiral Gorshkov" made the transition to the White Sea as part of the program of testing modern naval weapons, the press service of the fleet reported on Monday.

Submarine crews are being trained at the Klen-85 coastal training Complex at the Submarine Crew Training Center in Sosnovy Bor.

Washington will transfer two Island-type coast Guard speedboats to Kiev, the American Embassy in Ukraine reported.

The flagship of the Sixth Fleet of the US Navy Mount Whitney and the accompanying destroyer Porter entered the port of Batumi. This was informed at the US Embassy in Georgia.

"Welcome, Mount Whitney and Porter! Five years later, the flagship of the Sixth Fleet of the US Navy, Mount Whitney, returned to Georgia," the diplomatic mission's Facebook page says. The embassy reminded that this is not the first time Mount Whitney has been in the port of Batumi, in recent years he has been here five times.

The Russian reconnaissance ship is monitoring the actions of the British aircraft carrier strike group led by the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, which is located near the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, according to the specialized naval website Hisutton.

Regular military exercises bypassing the Montreux Convention will help deprive Russia of a dominant position in the Black Sea, according to US Navy officer Brian Harrington. He shared this opinion in an article for The Hill.

The Montreux Convention on the Black Sea is not subject to revision, the strengthening of the US and NATO military presence in the Black Sea region is unacceptable, Mikhail Sheremet, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Crimean region, told RIA Novosti.

The Chinese are learning to sink American ships. On November 7, information appeared on the website of the Naval Institute of the US Navy that models of an American aircraft carrier and destroyers appeared in the Taklamakan Desert (Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region).

The US Navy Institute has published satellite images of full-size mockups of the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer built in the Taklamakan Desert in central China.