The command of the Colombian Navy is taking measures to put into operation the Coast Guard fleet of three new high-speed multi-purpose interceptor boats developed by Safe Boats International.

Dmitry Litovkin-why the submarines of the project 971 are called the perfect naval weapon

Already in 2023, Russian sailors will be able to return to permanent combat duty in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the project 971 type "Pike", or, as they are also called in the West, "Shark", will take on the escort of ships, and will also monitor the coasts of the United States and Britain.

Repair of the diesel-electric submarine of the Black Sea Fleet "Alrosa" is planned to be completed by the end of 2021. The technical readiness of the ship is now 80 percent.

Acting Rector of Tomsk Polytechnic University Andrey Yakovlev and Head of the NTI Competence Center "New and Mobile Energy Sources" at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Chernogolovka) Yuri Dobrovolsky paid a working visit to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna last Friday.

In China, light floating tanks of the Type 63A (ZTZ-63A) are gradually being abandoned. Currently, they are operated only in the battalions of four formations and, according to various estimates, their number is unlikely to exceed a hundred pieces.

Adoption of the latest Bradley BMP in the United States is postponed for a year

The latest version of the M2A4 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle of the US Army will not enter service on time. During the tests, it turned out that toxic gases are formed in the BMP tower, which are dangerous for the health of the military. Experts are trying to eliminate the identified shortcomings, and the car itself will go to the troops in at least a year.

More than 20 units of modern weapons and special military equipment will be received in 2021 by the units of the Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District, stationed in the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions.

The special purpose brigade of the Central Military District, stationed in the Samara region, will receive a batch of upgraded Tiger-M armored vehicles in 2021 (in total, more than 15 units).

The US Missile Defense Agency has signed a contract with the US company Northrop Grumman to develop a prototype satellite capable of detecting hypersonic targets. According to C4ISRNET, the transaction amount was $ 155 million. Under the terms of the agreement, the company will have to assemble a prototype of the satellite and conduct its demonstration tests.

Roscosmos, according to various reports, either excluded, or he himself left the expert group to discuss the prospects for creating an international circumlunar station Gateway. The United States, Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency (ESA) remain in the project. What really happened and what are Russia's interests in terms of expansion to the moon?

The Venezuelan Air Force has become the strongest in Latin America due to the use of Russian Su-30MK2 multi-purpose fighters and S-300VM anti-aircraft missile systems, writes Military Watch magazine.

American companies Sikorsky and Boeing have proposed changes to the design of the promising high-speed helicopter SB>1 Defiant. The new version is called Defiant-X.

The company Spirit AeroSystems will build a prototype of an unmanned slave, which in the future can be adopted by the Royal Air Force. The first flight of the machine is expected to make by 2023.

The promising Japanese fifth-generation F-X fighter, which is being developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, will be connected to a high-speed data exchange network. According to Flightglobal, with reference to the Ministry of Defense of Japan, with the help of the new network, the combat aircraft will be able to exchange data with other fighters of this type, unmanned wingmen and American military equipment.

The Command of the United States and Canada discovered Russian Tu-142 aircraft

Two Russian long-range anti-submarine aircraft Tu-142 spotted in the air defense zone of Alaska, reported in the US-Canadian Air Defense Command. At the same time, Russian aircraft did not violate the airspace of the United States or Canada.

MiG-31BM interceptor fighters took the Northern Sea Route (NSR) under protection. The aircraft of the Northern Fleet aviation squadron will be on duty at the island and mainland airfields in the Arctic. The part was deployed back in 2019 in Monchegorsk. But since the end of 2020, the aircraft have a new task. Now, if necessary, they can be quickly relocated to any of the more than a dozen repaired airfields along the NSR.

Engineers of the MiG Corporation (part of PJSC UAC of the Rostec State Corporation) have received a patent for a non-linear correction device for automatic aircraft control systems.

Global defense spending increased by 1.9 percentage points in 2020 to reach $ 1.9 trillion, showing continuous growth for seven years.

Russian servicemen conducted a series of regular anti-terror training exercises at observation posts in Nagorno-Karabakh. This was reported in the Russian Defense Ministry. "When working out actions on the alarm, the servicemen from the peacekeeping contingent worked out the occupation of rifle positions in order to defend the post, as well as the closure of the highway in order to stop traffic," the military department said.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has shown the first footage showing the mass landing of units of the Ivanovo Airborne unit with BMD-4M combat vehicles.