The United States intends to significantly increase its air defense capabilities. October 11, portal defensenews.com He announced that full-scale production of the promising IBCS air defense system could begin as early as 2023.

North Korea has demonstrated for the first time various samples of its latest missile weapons, including the recently tested hWasong-8 for the first time.

This modern means of destruction, as well as other samples of military equipment manufactured by the military-industrial complex of the DPRK, are currently being demonstrated at the exhibition of achievements in the development of state defense "Self-Defense - 2021", which opened in Pyongyang.

Russia has completed testing of the latest hypersonic missile

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the implementation of the second test launch of the hypersonic cruise missile "Zircon". It was produced by the crew of the nuclear submarine missile cruiser Severodvinsk from the Barents Sea. The shooting took place in normal mode and, it would seem, was no different from many other similar missile launches. But in fact, it changes a lot.

Russian hypersonic missiles "Zircon" will be tested with a volley launch from the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov", which will test the concept of a "swarm of bees", which allows distracting the fire of the enemy's anti-aircraft system (air defense), writes TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin.

Coastal missile launchers of the Pacific Fleet have been alerted as part of exercises in Kamchatka, the press service of the Air Force for the Pacific Fleet reports.

Units of the Barnaul Division of the Strategic Missile Forces stationed in the Altai Territory brought mobile ground-based YARS missile systems to combat patrol routes.

It is impossible to say that Russia's possible loss of the ammunition market in the form of the United States is critical for the Russian side, and there are also no grounds for mass state support. This was stated to Izvestia by lawyer, mediator Yuri Kapshtyk, commenting on the relevant media reports on Tuesday, October 12.

At the 10th International Exhibition of Armaments and Military Equipment "Partner-2021" held in Belgrade, the Serbian armored personnel carrier "Lazanski", created in yUgoimport-SDPR, was demonstrated for the first time.

The four-axle combat vehicle is named after the Serbian ambassador to Russia Miroslav Lazansky, who passed away in early August of this year.

The Lazar III armored vehicle received the Russian DUBM 32B01 with a 30 mm automatic cannon, as well as an uninhabited module with a 57 mm cannon

The Serbian defense company yUgoimport for the first time presented the newest armored personnel carrier (APC) Lazar III A1, equipped with Russian combat modules, at the international arms exhibition "Partner-2021", held in Belgrade (Serbia) from October 11 to 14, a TASS correspondent reports from the scene.

The updated self-propelled howitzers "Acacia" were delivered to the Belarusian army from Russia, after major repairs, modern communications equipment, as well as chemical reconnaissance and night vision devices were installed on them, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus.

The Azerbaijani army has adopted the Yugoslav triple-barreled 20-mm M55 Zastava cannons captured from the Armenian troops in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The main tank of the US Armed Forces remains relevant 40 years after its adoption. The upgraded M1A2 Abrams could give the US military an advantage in a potential conflict. The features of the Abrams tank were named by the authors of the publication 19FortyFive.

The Israeli company uVision showed the LAV-M armored vehicle of the American Marine Corps with a launcher for barrage ammunition. According to The Drive, the installation includes eight launch containers. It is suitable not only for armored vehicles of the LAV-25 series, but also for other platforms.

In North Korea, they again showed a tank of their own production, which experts previously considered a kind of hybrid of the Russian T-14 Armata tank and the American M1 Abrams. A new picture of the combat vehicle, published by the Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA) of the DPRK, was shown by the South Korean Yonhap news agency.

General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) has officially announced that, together with Hanwha Defense Corporation (HDC), it has been selected as a contractor for the production of 110 self-propelled pontoon fleets based on the M3 amphibious vehicle for the Republic of Korea.

Innovators of the branch of the Military Academy of Logistics (Penza) have developed a robotic diagnostic complex of technical intelligence.

Modern 7.62 and 5.45 mm Kalashnikov assault rifles continue to arrive in the units of the Ground Forces. Since the beginning of the year, new submachine guns have been delivered to combined arms formations and military units of the Eastern, Central, Southern and Western military districts.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, the scouts of the mountain unit of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District received an AK-74M assault rifle with a kit of modernization "Body kit".

Scouts of the mountain unit of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District in Karachay-Cherkessia received a batch of modernized Dragunov SVDM sniper rifles and army large-caliber sniper rifles ASVK-M "Cord-M" caliber 12.7 mm.

The American company Ghost Rorotics has presented a prototype of a four-legged combat robot SPUR, armed with a high-precision sniper rifle from Sword International. SPUR stands for "unmanned special purpose Rifle" (Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle) and is presented as "the best friend of the Special forces".