The VN-1 armoured personnel carriers purchased by Gabon last year in China have demonstrated low technical reliability during operation.

It became known that these samples of equipment serving in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, constantly experience problems with the engines.

the Personnel of the re-equipped motorized rifle divisions of the division are being retrained to work on new equipment, said Colonel-General Alexander Lapin

The first batch of eight tank support vehicles (BMPT) "Terminator" entered the tests in the tank division of the Central military district (CVO), stationed in the Chelyabinsk region. This was reported to journalists by the commander of the district's troops, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin.

the Russian foreign Ministry demanded that NATO stop the practice of nuclear exchanges

Moscow reminded Washington of the provisions of the Treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, which, according to Russia, are violated by the American side by placing its nuclear weapons on the territories of US allies. Today, the issue of control over nuclear weapons is acute, given that the future of the start-3 Treaty is still unknown.

The Russian military has deployed the S-300V4 air defense system on the Kuril Islands, the Eastern military district (VVO) said on Tuesday.

The President of Russia highly appreciated the increased noise immunity of the SNF control points

Contradictions among a number of countries related to the development of the Arctic region and the limited reserves of hydrocarbons on the planet encourage us to consider the Arctic direction as a potential theater of military operations (theater of operations).

Over the past 12 months, means of the over-the-horizon detection radar (zgo) "Container", located in Mordovia, were detected" flights of inconspicuous fighters of NATO countries", reports"RTI". The latter include the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II.

The first over-the-horizon radar station "container", which took up combat duty in Mordovia a year ago, confirmed its ability to detect thousands of kilometers from the border of the Russian Federation NATO fighters created using technologies for reducing radar visibility ("stealth"), the press service of RTI JSC told RIA Novosti.

The Chinese Chang'e-5 probe landed gently on the surface of the moon

The Chinese Chang'e-5 spacecraft made a soft landing on the surface of the moon. In the near future, it will start drilling the ground to deliver samples to Earth. If everything goes smoothly, China will become the third country to deliver a piece of the moon to Earth.

The revolutionary project that is currently being developed in Russia has clearly got in the way of US space ambitions. At the very least, it is difficult to interpret the new anti-Russian sanctions that are being planned by the trump administration today in any other way. Why is the Russian "nuclear tug" so bothering America – and what antidote could be devised in response?

the group's Activities will exclude misuse of funds and acceptance of low-quality construction works

Roscosmos created a control and audit group to exclude misuse of funds and acceptance of low-quality work during the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome. This was reported to TASS in the state Corporation.

The French air and space command announced the arrival on November 26 at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport of the first of three ordered a-330-200 Phoenix aircraft, painted in the colors of the French air force.

United engine Corporation Rostec has applied new materials and modern technologies to increase the engine life of the Yak-130 combat training aircraft.

The Pentagon wants to buy A mi-24 helicopter and an-2 aircraft for training US instructors

The United States may purchase Russian helicopters or "cornhuskers" for familiarization in the flight stage of courses on tactics and weapons, according to media reports, citing the Pentagon. We are talking about the Mi-24 or Mi-17, as well as the An-2. In October, the US military also expressed interest in buying Russian weapons.

As the Department of information and mass communications of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation reported on November 30, 2020, a pair of the latest su-35S multi-purpose fighters arrived at the State center for training aviation personnel and military tests of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation from the manufacturer.

since 2017, Elbit, IAI and Rafael have been developing advanced combat vehicles in Israel, and their samples have been tested.

In the future, the Israeli army should be re-equipped with combat vehicles built on a single universal Carmel platform.

Russia's military doctrine needs to be supplemented

Today, geopolitical competition between centers of power is increasingly played out in the gray zone (NW), which covers a space that goes beyond diplomacy and is not associated with conventional war.

the threat of increasing military and political influence of NATO on the southern borders of Russia is Growing

Against the background of the open participation of Turkey and Pro-Turkish mercenaries from among radical Islamist groups in the Karabakh war of 2020, Israel's indirect involvement in this armed conflict remained in the shadows.

Troops of Azerbaijan was included in the Lachin region of Karabakh

The main provisions of the trilateral agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh have been fully implemented with the transfer of the Lachin region to Baku's control, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said. A peacekeeping contingent from Russia has been deployed in the region and the ceasefire is being observed.

Next year, the Baltic fleet will continue to form another motorized rifle unit with a location in the Kaliningrad region.

Russian peacekeeping units will appear in each district in 2021. By the end of 2020, a new organizational and staff structure and its number will be approved, sources in the defense Ministry told Izvestia. The General parameters have already been defined, and technical details are being worked out. It is assumed that more units of the Russian army will receive special training for humanitarian missions. Experts note that they can be deployed in conflict zones much faster than UN contingents, which was demonstrated in Nagorno-Karabakh.