Russian troops in Tajikistan have been operating far from the most modern tanks for a long time. For example, the old versions of the "seventy-second" served there for a relatively long time without dynamic protection.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the training of T-34 tank crews. The maneuvers of Russian tankers were appreciated in Poland. The exercises allow us to consider T-34 tanks as standard military equipment, writes Defence24.

Russian heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1 "Pinocchio" and TOS-1A "Solntsepek" can hit targets that are in shelters. The advantages of Russian-made heavy flamethrower systems were called by 19FortyFive columnist Brent Eastwood.

The Armed Forces of Mali announced the adoption of several dozen new armored vehicles on December 3, designed, as noted, to continue the fight against Islamic terrorism in the country.

The Egyptian ground forces can currently be called the largest operator of Abrams main battle tanks after the United States. In total, according to various sources, there are more than 1,100 units of this equipment in the troops.

The robot from the Russian resident of Skolkovo successfully passed a probationary period in the Abu Dhabi police, after which it was decided to officially include it in the work. Also, similar robots will appear in other regions of the UAE in the near future, Oleg Kivokurtsev, Development Director of Promobot, told TASS.

Russia and India have signed a contract for the production of AK-203 submachine guns in the Indian city of Korva. What are the features of this weapon, military columnist Viktor Litovkin explained on Sputnik radio.

Many years of efforts in the development of Indian automata have gone to waste. On December 6, the TASS news agency reported that Russia and India signed a contract for the supply of more than 600,000 AK-203 assault rifles.

According to Alexander Mikheev, CEO of Rosoboronexport, the first part of the machines will be produced in the country with varying degrees of localization, and then a full-scale production will begin

Russia is ready to provide full-scale production of 7.62 mm AK-203 submachine guns in India in two to three years. This was announced to journalists on Tuesday by the General Director of Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec State Corporation) Alexander Mikheev.

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption Anatoly Vyborny on Tuesday, December 7, commented to Izvestia on the idea to study the issue of banning the free sale of traumatic weapons.

As noted by the head of the Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov, giving the president the authority to approve the Naval Ship Charter will return the document to its historical and centuries-old status

The State Duma Committee on Defense recommended that deputies vote for the adoption of a government bill providing for the empowerment of the President of the Russian Federation to approve the Ship Charter of the Russian Navy. This was reported by the press service of the committee on Tuesday.

10 ships of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Federation were involved in the exercises. The shooting area was declared dangerous for navigation and aviation flights

The Russian corvette Stoyky conducted an exercise in the Baltic Sea with a combat launch of an anti-ship cruise missile at a target simulating a simulated enemy ship, the Russian Baltic Fleet reported on Tuesday.

The exercises of the marines in the Crimea began with the loading of military equipment on the large landing ships of the Black Sea Fleet "Caesar Kunikov" and "Novocherkassk". This was reported today in the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet.

The large anti-submarine ship Admiral Panteleev of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) has begun the transition from Indonesia to Vladivostok after participating in the ARNEX-2021 exercise, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reports.

American boats of the Island type, which were transferred to Ukraine by the United States as part of the provision of logistical assistance, became part of the country's Navy, the Ukrainian defense Ministry reported.

The Ministry of Defense of India announced on December 5 at the GRSE (Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers) launch ceremony of the main large hydrographic vessel SVL (Survey Vessel Large), designed for the country's Navy.

The unfinished Talayieh reconnaissance ship of the Iranian Navy capsized in the dry dock of the Bandar Abbas port in the Persian Gulf. The ship partially disappeared under water, as the dock turned out to be dry only in class. As a result of the accident, a serviceman was killed, writes Dambiev.

The data of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on the decline in Russian arms sales are not true. On Monday, December 6, military expert Andrei Frolov told Izvestia.

The leadership of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) refuted the conclusions of experts from the SIPRI Institute about the decline in Russian arms exports.

According to Dmitry Shugaev, the Stockholm Institute for Peace Research uses only open data that is not complete

The methodology of the analysis of the global arms market used by the Stockholm Institute for Peace Research (SIPRI) does not reflect the real situation. Dmitry Shugaev, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), told reporters about this, commenting on the SIPRI report released on Monday, according to which sales volumes of Russian arms manufacturers are falling.