Russian anti-personnel grenade launchers are increasing their caliber. On March 9, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported that the 40-mm automatic grenade launcher "Balkan" successfully passed state tests.

Rosgvardiya can arm itself with new pistols. On March 9, the press service of the Kalashnikov concern reported that the Lebedev modular pistol (MPL) successfully passed state tests.

The People's Liberation Army of China uses models of various foreign armored vehicles during exercises, as well as tests of the latest models of military equipment.

For example, at the end of last year, an imitation of the American main battle tank Abrams appeared on the Network filmed on one of the highways of the Middle Kingdom. Military experts attribute this fact to the supply of real M1A2T from the United States to Taiwan.

In recent days, a lot of video and photo materials of railway trains with various military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have appeared on the Network. However, according to military experts, most of it belongs to the same unit - the 25th separate airborne brigade, stationed in the urban-type settlement of Gvardeyskoye, Dnipropetrovsk region.

The motorized rifle brigade in New Moscow received eight T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks - the latest modification of the Russian T-90 main battle tank.

Scientists of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - the All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics (RFNC-VNIITF), located in the city of Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region, have come up with a device for combating drones, which is a rocket from which a network of drones is released, it follows from a document published on the website of Rospatent.

France conducts first military exercises in space

The French military is conducting exercises to test the capabilities of its space command in dealing with threats to its satellites. Near-Earth space has become the" real national security problem " of the Fifth Republic. The exercise is part of France's strategy to become the world's third-largest space power.

Earlier, the state corporation reported that cosmonaut Sergei Korsakov was removed from the main crew of the Soyuz MS-18 manned spacecraft, and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hai was appointed instead.

The US Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber landed for the first time in history above the Arctic Circle. It happened at the Norwegian air defense base Bude.

Experts say the recent spate of attacks using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) targeting Saudi Arabia underscores the growing era of "war at a distance" in the Middle East, as the region's regular armies and numerous paramilitary groups operating within it increasingly use drones for various purposes.

American carrier-based fighters of the fourth generation F/A-18C Hornet officially decommissioned, according to Popular Mechanics. According to the magazine, the last such aircraft completed their mission on the aircraft carrier Nimitz. In the near future, the F/A-18C Hornet should be replaced by the fifth-generation F-35B Lightning II fighters.

The first deeply modernized strategic missile carrier-bomber Tu-160M with NK-32 engines of the second series is entering a new stage of testing, the press service of Rostec reports.

The crews of the MiG-31BM fighters of the naval aviation of the Pacific Fleet worked out the interception of a conditional border intruder, in the role of which the MiG-31 also acted. The video of the interception was published by the Russian Defense Ministry on Wednesday, March 10.

MiG-31 planes will intercept ballistic missiles, Izvestia reports, citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

Rare footage of a Soviet railway-based nuclear missile has appeared online.

The Drive portal drew attention to a fragment of a video about the Soviet RT-23 UTTH ICBM "Well Done" (in the NATO classification SS-24 Scalpel), published on March 9 on Twitter. The author recalls that the Soviet Union was the only country that created a railway mobile intercontinental ballistic missile.

The Syrian news portal Zaman Al-Wasl, citing its sources, reported that Russian troops in Syria are preparing to establish a "permanent military base" near the historic city of Palmyra (Tadmor) in the province of Homs.

The deadline for the delivery of ships to the fleet is 2026 and 2027, the agency's interlocutor said

The nuclear-powered strategic missile cruisers Dmitry Donskoy and Prince Potemkin of Project 955A (code "Borey-A") will be laid down at Sevmash in May 2021. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

Soviet nuclear submarines of the project 941 type "Shark" (according to the NATO classification - "Typhoon") frighten with their size, writes the American edition of Popular Mechanics on March 3.

The icebreaker Ilya Muromets has entered the Barents Sea to solve a number of tasks within the framework of the integrated expedition of the Northern Fleet (SF) and the Russian Geographical Society (RGS).

The icebreaker of the Northern Fleet "Ilya Muromets" went to the Barents Sea to participate in a complex expedition of the Northern Fleet and the Russian Geographical Society. It is held as part of the patriotic campaign "Remember the War". A little later, the icebreaker will be joined by the logistics support vessel "Elbrus".