Among the announced items: a rail booster, drones that can be launched into the air with a grenade launcher, electromagnetic cannons and combat lasers.

In order for Estonia alone to withstand Russia's attack for a long time, it is necessary to increase defense spending to 6.5% of GDP.

This statement was made by the commander of the Estonian Defense Forces, Major General Martin Herem, on the radio station Vikerraadio.

Google decided to blackmail Australia. This country will disable the search engine if the Australian parliament passes a law that could deprive the IT corporation of a considerable share of revenue. Facebook also joined the ultimatum. This is a precedent in world history. From now on, no one knows which next sovereign country the IT giants will present an ultimatum tomorrow. Is Russia waiting for such a scenario and how can it respond?

The US Army is testing the new technology as part of the new Generation weapons project NGSW. Its task is to increase the combat capabilities of soldiers due to the "forced" stabilization of the rifle barrel when fired.

At the end of last year, Putin announced that he intended to introduce the Avangard missile into the scope of the START-3 treaty. Immediately after that, they started talking about the fact that Russia allegedly recognized itself as defeated. But is it true that Russia "bowed its head"? As it is not so. With her statements, she only fools America's head, the user of "Sina" is sure.

A nationalist military expert criticizes the decision to purchase ships for the Ukrainian Navy, which, in his opinion, will become "white elephants" and will spend time at the pier, and not at sea. Instead, he proposes to redirect budget funds for the modernization of the ground units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine... waging war in the Donbas.

The Royal Navy will search for sea mines with the help of robots. January 20, portal navyrecognition.com He reported that the UK Ministry of Defense has ordered three robotic SWEEP minesweepers from Atlas Elektronik.

The nuclear underwater drone "Poseidon" is being developed by Russia, because Moscow is not able to create a modern "real weapon", writes the American magazine Forbes, calling the" Doomsday " weapons unnecessary.

The command of the Navy has decided on the duty station of the newest corvette project 20380 "Aldar Tsydenzhapov". Initially, it was planned to send it to Kamchatka, but in the end, the ship's home port will be Vladivostok.

Ships will receive hypersonic missiles and previously unavailable capabilities

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu urged his subordinates and industry representatives not to lose the pace of re-equipping the army and navy, and to strengthen the potential of high-precision weapons at the last conference call.

As reported by the web resource Sudоstrоenie.info In December 2020, the first Russian-made gas turbine engines and gearboxes were loaded into the hold of the aft engine room of the Admiral Golovko frigate Project 22350 (factory number 923), which is under construction for the Russian Navy, at the Severnaya Verf Shipbuilding Plant PJSC (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC) in St. Petersburg. This is stated in a story published on January 19, 2021 on the channel of the Northern Shipyard shipbuilding enterprise on the Youtube video service.

NUST MISIS scientists in collaboration with Russian and foreign colleagues were able to improve the technology of obtaining medical alloys with shape memory. The new technique will improve the reliability of existing surgical devices and develop a number of new ones. The results of the study are published in the journal JOM.

We remind our readers that the main "standard" block of a quantum computer is a quantum bit, a qubit that can simultaneously store and process the quantum information contained in it.

At the training ground near Voronezh, the military tested the first sapper robot "Uran-6"on the western border of Russia. The armored tracked vehicle, whose task is to destroy mines and other explosive objects without risking the lives and health of people, came to the engineer regiment as recently as December 2020. At its first practical application, the correspondent of "RG" was present - he mastered the basics of controlling a six-ton robot, understood why only strong men can do this, and found out why there is a big red button on the armor of "Uranus".

In the Kaliningrad region, on the eve of the Day of the Engineering Troops, engineers of the Baltic Fleet conducted large-scale exercises. At the beginning of the maneuvers, a crossing was made using a pontoon-bridge park.

The British company Supacat has completed the development of a set of conversion of Jackal 1 diesel armored vehicles into hybrid ones without loss of driving characteristics. According to Jane's, the company also prepared the first such armored vehicle for the installation of the kit and testing. All work was completed in mid-December last year, but the company announced this only now.

It is known that armored vehicles pose a certain danger even in peacetime. It is not for nothing that warning signs are installed on military training grounds, where tanks, IFVs and other combat vehicles maneuver, calling for increased attention.

Europe is preparing a competitor to the" smart " Excalibur projectile. Yesterday, January 20, the press service of the French company Nexter Munitions announced the successful completion of the first fire tests of the KATANA 155 mm ammunition.

The crisis year 2020 for the whole country paradoxically turned out to be very successful for the production of domestic tractors and combines. Sales of agricultural machinery within the country and export of agricultural machinery have also increased sharply. What is the reason for such achievements of the whole industry and whether it will be possible to repeat this success in 2021?

According to the author, relations between Russia and the United States have reached a dangerous point after Moscow, following Washington, announced its withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty. What this step gives the two countries and why we should expect consequences for the whole world — in the article Al Araby Al Jadeed.