On November 11, the German company ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) announced the naming and launching ceremony of the fourth and last of the four Type-209/1400mod-class submarines ordered by the Egyptian Navy on September 29 at the Kiel plant.

On November 19, the launch ceremony of the second frigate (destroyer) of the project 30DX was held at the enterprise of the Japanese shipbuilding company Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding in Tamano.

According to us military publications from December 2019, the Iranian Navy is ready to deploy to the Atlantic ocean. Such a bold statement refers to the report presented in the same year by the us Department of defense Intelligence Agency "Iran's Military power". As noted by the authors of the document, missions assigned to Iranian ships are increasingly taking place outside their usual areas of responsibility.

Dmitry Litovkin-what is currently known about a powerful underwater drone

Recently, assistant Secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation Christopher Ford suddenly recalled the Russian Poseidon torpedo equipped with a"multi-megaton nuclear warhead".

What tasks will the Russian military base in Africa solve

By analogy with the definitions of "North sea" and "black sea" in the Navy, the term "red sea" may appear. Obviously, this will be the name of military seamen serving in the logistics center (pmto), which the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation intends to create in the Red sea.

On November 21, 2020, a solemn ceremony of raising the Naval flag was held in Baltiysk on the small rocket ship Odintsovo (factory number 253) - the third ship in the series of the project 22800 (code "Karakurt"). The ceremony was attended by the commander of the Baltic fleet, Admiral Alexander Nosatov. By order of the commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Odintsovo is included in the combat structure of the Baltic fleet and will serve in the 36th brigade of missile ships and boats of the Baltic naval base.

As reported by the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation, on November 20, 2020, PJSC "Almaz Shipbuilding company" in St. Petersburg, the hull of the icebreaker "evpatiy Kolovrat" (factory number 800) of the project 21180M was removed from the boathouse. It is planned that the icebreaker will be commissioned by the Navy in 2022.

In the latest edition of the program "Military acceptance" on the TV channel "Zvezda", the capabilities of combat boats manufactured by the Kalashnikov concern-BK-10 and BK-16 were demonstrated. the Numbers in this case indicate the length of the vessel in meters.

The fact that the Arctic is a potential region of confrontation has long been clear. But Russia's position there is well-established, and this is what NATO countries are most concerned about. However, they can't do anything about the" frost resistance " of the Russians yet.

The reconnaissance units of the Eastern military district (VVO) tank formation stationed in the Republic of Buryatia received a large batch of new intelligence, control and communications complexes (KRUS) "strelet".

Shvabe - Technological laboratory specialists are developing new methods for rapid assessment of fuel quality, the press service of the shvabe holding, which includes the company, reports

in 2020, parachuting and paratroopers did a lot for the first time

Our airborne forces were the first in world history to perform a group high-altitude jump from 10 thousand meters from the Il-76 military transport aircraft at a flight speed of up to 350 km/h. The jump was made in the area of the Franz Josef Land archipelago on drifting ice. Another evidence of our country's active consolidation in the Arctic.

Over the years (since 1908), the US FBI has accumulated a huge archive of documents. Since the beginning of this year, the secret service archive has been located in the small town of Winchester, Virginia and covers an area of 22,500 square meters. meters, where 360,000 boxes store almost 2 billion rubles. office management pages.

Rheinmetall continues to improve its combat robots. On November 20, the company published on its official YouTube channel new videos of the use of the mission Master ground-based Autonomous vehicle system in combat conditions.

California transportation authorities have allowed companies to transport passengers in fully driverless cars without a driver in the cabin and charge money for it. At the same time, even companies that have already been allowed to test drones on California roads will have to get separate permits to create an unmanned taxi service.

WZ-523 armored personnel Carriers were created in the first half of the 80s with an export orientation.

In the course of development, components and assemblies of mass-produced automotive equipment were widely used, for example, a 165-horsepower gasoline engine.

Turkey is negotiating with South Korea on the Altai tank program

Ankara plans to solve the problem with engines, transmission and armor for its national tank program "Altai" through cooperation with South Korean companies. Earlier, Turkey wanted to cooperate with Germany and France, but the damaged relations between the allies put the purchase of necessary parts in question.

Mountain landing-assault division of Russian airborne troops, which is stationed in the southern military district, November 25, will receive six dozen combat vehicles BMD-4M and BTR-MDM "Rakushka", according to the Ministry of defense.

Prospects for the development of artillery

Almost all classes of military equipment used in the current armed forces were born in the twentieth century. Only artillery appeared in the middle Ages. Now it is even difficult to determine exactly when and where it happened. At the same time, the importance of artillery does not decrease, only the concepts of its use change.

Kazakhstan does not intend to become a party to the intergovernmental agreement with Russia on the procedure for interaction during missile launches from the Dombarovsky position area in the Orenburg region of the Russian Federation, which provides for the use of a land plot on the territory of the Republic as a drop area for separating parts of missiles.