The new AK-12 submachine guns, which entered service with the troops of the Eastern Military District, were tested by military intelligence units in the Khabarovsk Territory.

Russia has signed the first export contracts for the new AK-19 Kalashnikov assault rifle, created under the NATO cartridge. On the air of Sputnik radio, the dignity of weapons and their export capabilities were evaluated by military experts Alexey Leonkov and Viktor Litovkin.

The plant in Venezuela for the production of Kalashnikov assault rifles and cartridges for them is planned to be launched in 2022, the press secretary of the Federal Customs Service of Russia, Valeria Reshetnikova, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The intelligence units of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District (SE) received another batch of new small-sized radar stations "Sobolyatnik".

In the autumn of 2022, the ship will have to start performing complex mooring and factory sea trials at sea, the interlocutor of TASS noted

The second serial nuclear submarine missile carrier of Project 955A (code "Borey-A") "Generalissimo Suvorov", withdrawn from the boathouse on December 25 at Sevmash (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation), after completing the test program at sea, will be handed over to the Navy (Navy) of the Russian Federation in the first half of 2023. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

Andrei Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Defense Committee, believes that Russian ships with Zircon hypersonic missiles can be located in the port of Tartus in Syria to completely block the Mediterranean Sea.

Despite its relatively modest size, Russian diesel-electric submarines pose a real threat to the US Navy, writes 19fortyfive. The problem is their noiselessness - even compared to nuclear-powered ships. American sailors know this and do not like non-nuclear submarines produced in Russia.

Austal Limited has announced the transfer by its Austal USA division to the US Navy Command of the Independence-class coastal zone warship, LCS-30 Canberra.

Relations between Turkey and Russia began to cool rapidly.

Against this background, Ankara's satellites in Syria have intensified their operations, regularly staging armed provocations, the victims of which are not only the Syrian military, but also civilians. 

Henrique Mora, coordinator of the Joint Commission at the negotiations on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program in Vienna, told reporters that positive solutions are possible during the negotiations, but it will be extremely difficult to achieve them.

The Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov addressed the faculty and students of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on industrial policy and the development of the defense industry.

The amphibious assault unit of the Baltic Fleet Marine Corps unit conducted a training to destroy enemy saboteurs at the Khmelevka naval training ground in the Kaliningrad region.

The Ground Forces (SV) will take part in 10 international exercises next year, four of them will be held on the territory of Russia, SV Commander-in-chief Oleg Salyukov said on Monday.

10 joint international exercises with the armed forces of nine foreign states are planned for 2022

The Russian military is expanding the geography of joint exercises and conducting them not only within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), but also with military personnel from Southeast Asia and North Africa. This was stated in an interview with the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" by the commander-in-chief of the Ground Forces, Army General Oleg Salyukov.

Russia has recently supplied military equipment and weapons to Tajikistan to ensure the country's defense capability, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

As noted by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, the development of the military and social infrastructure of the Armed Forces is one of the priorities of the department's work

The Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of construction, architecture and urban planning on Monday.

The head of the Ministry of Defense stressed that the Day of the Rescuer is a special and expensive holiday for him

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu considers the Russian emergency prevention and response system to be the most effective and powerful in the world. This is stated in the congratulations on the Day of the Rescuer, which the Minister of Defense sent on Monday.

According to the head of the Ministry of Defense, sanctions make their creation impossible

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu believes that international rescue coordination centers could help in case of emergencies in different regions of the world, but sanctions make their creation impossible. He expressed this opinion in an interview with the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper published on Monday.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov called the track of the Russia-NATO negotiations on security guarantees very important.

The meeting of the Russia-NATO Council is unlikely to lead to significant progress in the field of security, Federation Council member Alexei Pushkov believes.