The Russian infantry fighting vehicle is also planning to install a new commander's thermal panoramic sight, the state corporation's weapons complex reported.

The Russian BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicle will receive an improved UTD-32T engine, and it is also planned to install a new commander's thermal panoramic sight. This was reported to TASS in the arms complex of the state corporation "Rostec".

As reported by the Ministry of Defense of Serbia, Deputy Prime Minister-Minister of Defense Nebojsa Stefanovic on March 20 took part in the signing of the military department with the company Yugoimport-SDPR contract for the purchase of a new batch of BBM "Lazar-3" with a wheel formula of 8x8.

The organization "Signal", part of the concern "Automation" of the state corporation "Rostec", robotized welding processes at the enterprise. This was reported on April 2 by the correspondent of "RIA Novosti".

The special purpose regiment of the Southern Military District in the Stavropol Territory was one of the first to receive a batch of 300 new Kalashnikov AK-12 assault rifles, said the head of the press service of the Southern Military District, Colonel Vadim Astafyev. The AK-12 differs from the AK-74 submachine guns currently in service by its increased accuracy of fire and barrel survivability. Improved ergonomics of the weapon increased the ease of use.

The German army will completely switch to the new infantry machine guns. April 1, portal armyrecognition.com He reported that the German Defense Ministry approved new purchases of the MG5 machine gun.

American soldiers will be able to see additional information, as in the interfaces of computer games. On March 31, Microsoft announced the transition of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program from prototyping to mass production, the portal armytimes.com provided details of the contract with the US Department of Defense.

Rosgvardiya special forces stormed a ship captured by criminals during an exercise in the Arctic, the press service of the ministry told reporters on Friday.

According to the newspaper" Kommersant "in the material of Anastasia Vedeneeva and Alexander Dremlyugin, Rostec will part with the" Sea". The Crimean shipyard will be transferred to USC , and the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will include another shipyard - the Feodosiya Sea, which now belongs to Rostec. The timing and mechanism of the transfer are still unknown.

The crews of two submarines off the coast of the Kaliningrad region attacked and counterattacked each other with the mutual use of weapons and sonar equipment.

Russian warships conducted live-fire exercises in the Sea of Japan, the Pacific Fleet said on Saturday.

The logistics support vessel Vsevolod Bobrov of Project 23120, built at the Severnaya Verf (part of JSC USC), completed the first stage of factory sea trials in the designated area of the Gulf of Finland and returned to Kronstadt for resupply.

The Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy has begun a control check of the forces stationed in the Crimea and in the Krasnodar Territory during the winter training period. This was reported by the press service of the Black Sea Fleet.

In April, the crew of the new diesel submarine "Magadan", which is built for the Pacific Fleet (TOF) of Russia, will arrive in St. Petersburg, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

As reported by the TASS news agency on March 31, 2021, specialists of the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) in Severodvinsk completed an operation to unload the core of a nuclear reactor from the AS-31 underwater habitable vehicle (unofficial name "Losharik"). This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.

The American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower ("Dwight Eisenhower"), having passed the Suez Canal, entered the Red Sea, which is part of the area of responsibility of the US Central Command, the Egyptian information site Cairo24 reported.

US President Joe Biden has instructed the Pentagon to begin withdrawing some of the US forces and weapons from the Persian Gulf zone, and plans are underway to reduce Washington's military presence in the Middle East. This was reported on April 1 by The Wall Street Journal.

Russia's strengthening of the land defense of the Kaliningrad region puts NATO in a "deadly dilemma", says columnist Sebastien Roblin in the pages of the American magazine The National Interest, justifying, in particular, the potential need for a" physical occupation " of the Russian region.

Russia has the right to move troops within the territory of the country at its discretion, this does not pose a threat to other states, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

The competition for the Russian Su-35 generation 4++ fighter in the international arms market from foreign combat aircraft today can only be made up of fifth – generation fighters produced by the United States-the F-22 and F-35, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of the Russian Federation told RIA Novosti, commenting on media publications about the superiority of the Russian aircraft over the F-22.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, the pilots of the bomber aviation unit of the Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Eastern Military District made training flights on Su-34 fighter-bombers to the maximum altitude.