Foreign intelligence services can use terrorists for their own purposes, and special attention should be paid to identifying these contacts. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the FSB board.

The volume of military contracts concluded in 2020 between Russia and African countries amounted to more than $ 1.5 billion. Rosoboronexport's share of the local arms market has grown to a staggering 49 percent. Over the past two decades, Moscow has significantly pushed the main competitors in Africa for arms imports: Washington and Paris, writes The National Interest.

Russia is facing an aggressive policy aimed at curbing the country's development and placing it under external control, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

France has announced the start of work on a promising strategic nuclear submarine. It is assumed that each such ship will be able to carry 16 ballistic missiles.

Iran, according to its representatives, for the first time in its history began to build "large warships". Is this ambitious country preparing a full-fledged navy to confront the United States? Is she able to do it on her own? Maybe Russia should help Iran in this?

About ten foreign countries are showing interest in the Russian small missile ships of the project 22800 "Karakurt-E", said RIA Novosti on Tuesday, Deputy General Director of the shipbuilding corporation" Ak Bars " for external cooperation Alexander Emelyushin.

The ceremony of laying the hull of the thirteenth serial special purpose boat of the project 21980 was held at the Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (part of the Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation), the press service of the corporation reported.

GlobalFoundries has signed a contract with the Pentagon to supply several batches of chips for the US Army. Their purpose is unknown, and the first shipment is scheduled for 2023. All chips will be 45-nanometer, although by 2023 the main chip suppliers are going to master the 3-nanometer process.

The Kalashnikov Concern expects to start mass production of the new RPL-20 belt machine gun after its adoption and testing in the military, said the general director of the concern Dmitry Tarasov.

The European Defense Agency (EDA) has launched a project to develop a swarm of autonomous all-terrain vehicles ARTUS (Autonomous Rough-terrain Transport UGV Swarm) launch event. Ground-based unmanned military vehicles are supposed to be combined with the help of artificial intelligence

The Czechoslovak development of the ShKh vz. 77 Dana continues to transform into new versions of the ACS. On February 22, the Excalibur Army company introduced a new modification of the self-propelled artillery system called Dita.

This will significantly reduce the time of fire control and eliminate operator errors

An automated guidance fire control system (ASU) for barrel artillery and multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) is being developed in Russia. This was reported to TASS at the international arms exhibition IDEX-2021 by the press service of the holding company " High-precision Complexes "(part of the state Corporation"Rostec").

The Uralvagonzavod Concern (UVZ, Rostec) has started serial deliveries of new T-90M Proryv tanks to the Russian Defense Ministry, the UVZ press service told Interfax.

The Russian T-14 Armata tank "will not be mass-produced in an unmanned version and is rather used for testing the relevant technologies." The corresponding future of the combat vehicle was revealed to Izvestia by the industrial director of the Rostec weapons complex, Bekhan Ozdoev.

A batch of new T-90M "Proryv"tanks is expected to arrive

The Russian army this year will be reinforced with more than 800 units of new and modernized armored vehicles - tanks, infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and armored personnel carriers (APCs), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

State tests of 30-millimeter ammunition with remote detonation for combat vehicles supporting Terminator tanks will start in April 2021, the general director of the company developing these shells, NPO Pribor (part of the Techmash concern), told RIA Novosti.") Yuri Nabokov.

Buyers are already making demands about the ability to resist them

The hypersonic revolution has begun in the world. According to Izvestia sources familiar with the situation on the arms market, foreign buyers are already demanding that many Russian systems be able to resist hypersonic weapons (GZO).

Rosoboronexport (ROE) and the Jordanian company Jadara have agreed to open a licensed production of anti-tank guided missiles from the Kornet-E complex in Jordan. The official representative of the Russian organization told reporters about this during the defense exhibition IDEX-2021.

The hypersonic aircraft missile, code-named "Gremlin", will take off in two years: tests are scheduled for 2023. In some documents, the product is called GZUR-hypersonic guided missile. In terms of its dimensions, the Gremlin will be smaller than the previously adopted X-47M2 Dagger.

The 36 Tomahawk cruise missiles that did not reach the Al-Shayrat base in Homs (Syria) on April 7, 2017, could have been " destroyed "by Russian electronic warfare (EW) means, writes the Military-Industrial Courier.