Against the background of the just concluded agreement on the extension of the START-3 treaty, experts in the field of arms control, as well as the creators of strategic systems themselves, react very painfully to the stuffing of information and the publication of dubious, anonymous sources, information about what programs are being built in Russia, prepared for adoption or already put into combat.

As reported by the American web resource "The Drive" in the material by Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway "The Navy Wants To Get Rid Of Its Nearly Brand New Patrol Boats", the US Navy plans to withdraw all 12 of its high-speed patrol boats of the Mk VI type from combat service by the end of the 2021 fiscal year (that is, by September 30, 2021), despite the fact that they were commissioned only in 2014-2018.

The construction of four yet-to-be-launched multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M (885M) project is not behind schedule, and the submarines are currently on the slipways, Mikhail Budnichenko, General Director of the Severodvinsk Sevmash plant, told RIA Novosti.

The second pair of large amphibious assault ships (BDK) of Project 11711 will be transferred to the Russian Navy in 2023-2024, the ships will have 40% more displacement and, accordingly, landing capacity, Ilya Samarin, General Director of the Yantar Shipbuilding Plant (Kaliningrad), told RIA Novosti.

For the first time, the Central Military District demonstrated autonomous equipment of special units with electric heating.

The head of the direction of the Kalashnikov group of companies for military-technical cooperation, Vladimir Onokoy, said that this pistol is lighter and more compact than foreign analogues, but at the same time it is not inferior to them in terms of combat qualities.

The weapons will be shown at the international arms exhibition IDEX 2021, which will be held in the UAE from 21 to 25 February

The Kalashnikov Group of Companies (part of the Rostec State Corporation) will present the MP-155 Ultima smart rifle at the IDEX 2021 International Arms Exhibition, which will be held in the UAE from February 21 to 25. This was reported on Wednesday in the press service of the group of companies.

The Indian army received the Arjun Mk 1A tank, which is a development of the not - so-successful Arjun Mk 1. The weight of the combat vehicle is 68 tons, which makes it one of the heaviest tanks in the world.

The machine "is designed for engineering support of combat operations of troops in the conditions of the enemy's fire impact and the use of weapons of mass destruction"

The Uralvagonzavod Concern (part of the Rostec State Corporation) will present the latest UBIM universal engineering vehicle at the IDEX 2021 International Arms Exhibition. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the UVZ.

The development of military equipment in India, as a rule, is carried out for several decades, and very often the result is not so successful.

The example of the Arjun tank is illustrative. It began to be created in the 70s, it was planned that it would become the main combat vehicle of the ground forces. The volume of expected deliveries was estimated at more than 2000 pieces. However, in reality, the army has purchased only about 250 units and now expects a completely new generation of tracked vehicles from the industry.

The Russian Armed Forces received tankers with a special bulletproof coating. They joined the logistics brigades of the operational-strategic commands and individual battalions of tank and motorized rifle divisions.

The Russian defense industry is traditionally a leader in many areas. For example, we have no equal in air defense technology. Our fighters, tanks, helicopters, small arms are good.

The American company ABL Space Systems has signed a contract for the first launch of the RS1 launch vehicle. It may be held in the spring of this year.

The Atlas V launch vehicle with the rover launched in July 2020 from the Cape Canaveral space center

Specialists of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) believe that all the systems of the Perseverance spacecraft approaching Mars ("Perseverance") are working normally, the rover is ready for the landing scheduled for February 18. This was stated on Tuesday by Deputy project manager Jennifer Trosper at a press conference, which is broadcast on the agency's website.

The State Rocket Center named after him. Makeeva, the developer of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile and the Sineva submarine - launched ballistic missile, has registered with Rospatent the appearance of a line of super-heavy carriers for launches to the Moon and Mars.

Extreme landing of the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft of the Air Force (Air Force) The USA was shown on the video. The corresponding video was posted on Instagram by former pilot-instructor Ross Francemont. The video drew the attention of The Drive.

The crews of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and the Air Defense of the Western Military District used air weapons during tactical exercises. The launch of unguided aircraft missiles S-13 and S-8 can be watched on video.

The National Defense Management Center stressed that no violations of the state border were allowed

Two Russian Su-27 fighter jets escorted a group of French Air Force aircraft, consisting of a KS-135 tanker aircraft and two Mirage 2000 tactical aircraft, over the Black Sea. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the National Center for Defense Management of the Russian Federation.

A Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jet has completed test flights with functional mock-ups of a new hypersonic missile, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

The author recommends that President Biden provide military support to Georgia in its confrontation with Russia. The long-time unofficial ruler of Georgia, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, no longer arouses suspicion in the author, although it was previously fashionable to recall that Ivanishvili made his capital in Russia.