Russia looks forward to strengthening military cooperation with Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said.

Syrian air defenses managed to shoot down most of the rockets fired by the Israeli army at the Western part of the province of Hama.

The military cleared more than 10 thousand hectares of terrain

Russian sappers during their work in Syria have defused more than 150 thousand explosive objects, clearing more than 10 thousand hectares of terrain, said the commander of the group of Russian troops in Syria Sergey Kuzovlev.

In the "Independent military review" published an interview with the General Director of JSC "Central design Bureau of marine technology "Rubin" (part of JSC "United shipbuilding Corporation") Igor Vilnit.

Until 2027, 14 nuclear submarines (NPS) of the Borey-A and Yasen-M projects will be built for the Russian Navy (Navy), Deputy defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko said in A statement.

On December 25, 2020, the Department of information and mass communications of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation reported that, as the commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, announced, "in Severodvinsk, the Zvezdochka ship repair Center has completed the slipway stage of repair and modernization of the Project 971 leopard nuclear submarine. I received a report on the successful operation to remove the leopard submarine from the boathouse."

The black sea fleet of Russia held an exercise on the organization of emergency preparation of ships for battle and campaign, the press service of the fleet reported on Saturday.

KORABEL web resource.RU published an interesting interview with the acting General Director of PJSC "Amur shipbuilding plant" (ASZ, part of JSC " United shipbuilding Corporation") Mikhail Borovsky.

As reported by the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation, on December 26, 2020, a ceremony was held in Vladivostok to introduce the Yakov Balyaev base minesweeper (factory number 525) of project 12700 (code "Alexandrite") into the Navy of the Russian Federation.

The device for laser polypectomy is being created by the Stelmakh Polyus Research Institute, the press service of the shvabe holding, which includes the research Institute, said on Friday.

the Stations are capable of detecting air, land and sea targets

Concern " VEGA "of the holding "Roselektronika" (part of rostec) began export deliveries of modernized ground stations of radio-technical intelligence "POST-ZM", capable of detecting air, land and sea targets. This was reported to TASS by the General Director of the concern Vyacheslav Mikheev.

American soldiers will be able to get water from the air. Yesterday, December 23, the portal defenseworld.net reported that the Agency for advanced defense projects (DARPA) of the US Department of defense announced the signing of a contract with five participants in the Atmospheric Water Extraction (AWE) program.

The Pentagon decided to replace the outdated M109 Palladin tracked howitzers with wheeled ones, but it turned out that there was nothing. The us military announced a competition for a promising self-propelled gun, however, which happens infrequently, they will have to buy weapons abroad. About how one of the strongest defenses in the world signed in their own helplessness - in the material RIA Novosti.

State tests of the new anti-aircraft artillery complex "Derivation-air defense", capable of destroying drones and cruise missiles, are planned for 2022, said the head of the military air defense (air defense) of the Armed forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Alexander Leonov.

In the outgoing year 2020, Russian infantry fighting vehicles have increased their firepower. During the rehearsals of the Victory day parade, the kurganets-25 advanced BMP with the latest uninhabited Epoch module was demonstrated for the first time. As weapons, it uses a 57-mm gun, a 7.62-mm machine gun and two types of guided missiles.

The Russian military began to receive the engineering system of remote mining (isdm) "Agriculture", intended for installation by means of programmable ammunition of minefields, reports "rostec".

Tests of the hypersonic missile "Zircon", which this year was conducted by the Northern fleet, confirmed the characteristics of this new weapon, the press service of the fleet said on Friday.

The US army during the tests held on December 19 at the Yuma test site in Arizona, on the third attempt, destroyed the target-the Soviet-made KUB anti-aircraft missile system (SAM). The corresponding video is published by DVIDS.

In the Rostov region, combat crews of anti-aircraft missile systems "tor-M2" of the 150th motorized rifle division conducted tactical and special exercises. The targets were simulators of cruise missiles.

There were no violations of Russian airspace

Russian radar stations (RLS) over the past week took on the support of 32 aircraft of foreign countries at the borders of the Russian Federation. Such data of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation leads on Friday the newspaper "Red star".