Specialists of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) received images taken at the time of landing of the Perseverance rover ("Perseverance») to the Red Planet. They were demonstrated on Friday at a briefing broadcast on the NASA website.

Kabul would welcome progress in negotiations with Moscow on the supply of weapons, Russian helicopters have proven their effectiveness in combat operations, said the Ambassador of Afghanistan to the Russian Federation, Saeed Tayeb Javad, in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The UAE Defense and Security Development Fund Tawazun plans to order 200 light helicopters and drones of its development after joining the capital of the Russian design bureau BP-Technologies, the head of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, told reporters.

The Russian heavy attack drone S-70 "Hunter" is capable of hitting targets on command from the Su-57 fighter, said test pilot Yevgeny Frolov, who controls the "Hunter"from the ground.

One of the Russian medium-altitude strike drones of long flight duration "Orion" made 38 sorties in Syria, including 17 with strikes on terrorist targets, according to the story of the program "Vesti Nedeli" of the TV channel "Russia 1", dedicated to unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian Federation.

As reported by the Tatar-Inform news agency on February 20, 2021, the Ural Civil Aviation Plant, which has production in Kazan, signed a State Contract for the supply to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of an installation batch of heavy unmanned aerial vehicles of long flight duration "Altius-RU". This is reported in the materials of the meeting of the board of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan.

In the Kaliningrad Region, pilots of the Baltic Fleet naval aviation performed bombing and rocket firing as part of a planned combat training.

The super-maneuverability of the Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighters attracted the attention of Internet users, who appreciated the video of flights at the Aviadarts competition in 2018.

Russia is ready to sell the latest Su-57E fighter to strategic partners, and consultations are already underway with individual countries, Rosoboronexport reported. On the air of Sputnik radio, military political analyst Andrey Koshkin expressed confidence that the car has a great export potential.

Russia and Turkey are discussing various areas of military-technical cooperation, Deputy head of the Russian Federal Customs Service Alexey Frolkin told reporters, answering a question about the progress of negotiations on a new batch of S-400.

Russia occupies 21 percent of the global arms market, with 47 countries among its customers. Over the past decades, a lot of advanced systems have been released, which are actively sold abroad. The National Interest named the five most outstanding.

The newspaper "Kommersant" under the headline "The tension has long grown so that you no longer notice additional shades": Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov on the export of weapons " published an interview with the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov.

China has set a kind of record in the construction of warships. Yesterday, February 18, the portal chinamil.com.cn He reported that the last two corvettes of the Type 056A project out of 72 ordered entered service with the PLA Navy.

The command of the Ukrainian Navy discussed with representatives of the headquarters of Operation ORBITAL (Great Britain) the provision of training assistance and the main areas of cooperation.

The hull of the ship has been formed, said the general director of the enterprise Ilya Samarin

The Baltic shipbuilding plant " Yantar "(part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) has submitted proposals to the Russian Defense Ministry on how to complete the project 11356 frigate"Admiral Kornilov". This was announced in an interview with TASS by the general director of the company Ilya Samarin.

In addition, the task is to complete the sea trials of the Voevoda emergency rescue vessel, said Ilya Samarin, General Director of the Yantar plant.]

The Neustrashimy patrol ship of the Baltic Fleet will return to the Russian Navy in 2021 after repairs and modernization at the Yantar Baltic Shipyard (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation). This was announced in an interview with TASS by the General director of "Yantar" Ilya Samarin.

For quite a long time, 3D-printed weapons were unreliable and often disposable crafts, which were enough for exactly one shot. But technology does not stand still, and today printed weapons are gaining more and more formidable capabilities.

As part of the International Defense Exhibition IDEX 2021 in Abu Dhabi, on February 23, Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec State Corporation) will hold a public presentation of "New Russian-made Small Arms" at its stand in Hall 12.

On February 18, the TASS news agency reported that Tsniitochmash has started manufacturing prototypes of a new semi-automatic sniper rifle being developed as part of the Ugolek development work.

The Babylon infantry fighting vehicle is being developed in Ukraine. "Ukrainian militarny portal" published some details about this "novelty".

It is reported that a hybrid power plant with a diesel engine with a capacity of 1000 hp is being created for the BMP. Several operating modes are provided, including only on an electric drive.