The Arctic patrol ship of the project 23550 "Ermak", under construction at the Vyborg Shipyard in the Leningrad region, will be equipped with a control system with the navigation complex" Bering", which will make it partially unmanned, the company"Kronstadt Technologies" reported on Tuesday.

The crew of the new patrol ship (PC) "Pavel Derzhavin" for the first time conducted an exercise on setting minefields in the Black Sea, the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) said on Tuesday.

Business Insider: "Zircon" is a threat to US aircraft carriers]

American aircraft carriers still rule the seas, but Russia and China plan to change that. The development of hypersonic weapons technologies makes aircraft carriers vulnerable, but, according to the expert, it is still too early to write them off.

Scientists, engineers and other specialists from several leading Chinese scientific institutions, led by scientists from the Chinese University of Science and Technology in Hefei, have completed the deployment of the world's first and largest integrated quantum communication network, which now combines about 700 fiber-based channels and several satellite channels.

The concept of high-entropy alloys provides a platform for the discovery of new superconductors. eurekalert.org.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Sunday approved the plan of legislative activity of the government for 2021 – one of the six blocks of the plan is focused on digitalization and scientific and technical development, it includes three documents.

Cybersecurity issues of highly automated transport systems are among the most relevant and poorly developed at the moment. Experiments show that any drone can be "hacked" today, reported at last year's X Director of the Department of Radio-Electronic Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Vasily Shpak.

The Chinese ground forces, which are on the line of confrontation in the Ladakh Valley, have prepared a very unpleasant surprise for the Indian T-72M1 and T-90S. We are talking about the AFT-10 long-range anti-tank complex (export designation HJ-10).

Pre-trial investigation established that officials of GP "Design Bureau "Artillery armament" appropriated funds of the State enterprise "Plant them. V. A. Malysheva" in especially large sizes while supply last tank guns of 125 mm Soviet production under the guise of new barrels production enterprise "KB "AO" (model KBA-3).

Heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A "Solntsepek" were overhauled and modernized, received new modern equipment, including navigation and communication equipment. The state defense order was fulfilled by the Omsk Transport Engineering Plant, part of the Uralvagonzavod concern, the press service of Rostec State Corporation reported.

According to the source of TASS, it will work in automatic mode, without the constant presence of people on the site

The newest radar station "Yakhroma", which will be included in the missile attack warning system (SPRN), will be built by 2030 in the Chukchi Sea area. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

EW units of formations and military units of the Central Military District will be armed in 2021 with 10 sets of the system of covering objects from high-precision weapons "Field-21".

At the end of December, the RD-191 liquid-propellant rocket engine for the Angara launch vehicle was also successfully tested

NPO Energomash (part of Roscosmos) has successfully tested the RD-180 and RD-191 rocket engines designed for the American Atlas launch vehicles and the Russian Angara rockets, respectively. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of Roscosmos.

The promising Chinese strike unmanned aerial vehicle WJ-700, equipped with a turbojet engine, made its first flight. According to Flightglobal, the first flight of the device, first presented in 2018, was successful.

The US State Department has approved the potential delivery to Egypt under the Foreign Military Sales program of advanced Sniper-ATP aerial target designation containers and related equipment.

Production of components for the American fifth-generation F-35 fighter-bomber in Turkey will continue to be curtailed during 2021 and 2022. This was stated on Monday, January 11, by Pentagon spokesman Thomas Campbell.

As reported on January 11, 2021, the web resource Piter.TV JSC " National Air Ambulance Service "("NSSA", St. Petersburg) will lease 132 helicopters. The company, which is the contractor of aviation works for the provision of medical care in the territory of the Russian Federation, has placed four relevant purchases.

Why does the Pacific Fleet strengthen the Arctic grouping?]

Increasing the role of combat aviation in the Arctic, the United States has strengthened the 3rd air wing in Alaska with multi-purpose fighters of the fifth generation F-22 "Raptor"("Predator"). In response to this, Russian MiG-31BM interceptors (according to the NATO classification – Foxhound, "Foxhound") of the naval aviation of the Pacific Fleet before the New 2021 year took up combat duty for air defense at the Anadyr airfield. As they say, closer to the borders of the United States. How can the events develop further?

The Russian "flying gunboat" will receive guided bombs and missiles. The Ministry of Defense has adjusted the requirements for a special purpose strike vehicle being developed on the basis of a military transport aircraft. This air transport is used for direct support of troops on the battlefield. With artillery fire and ammunition strikes, it will destroy enemy infantry, fortifications and armored vehicles day and night in all weather conditions.

In the coming 2021, the flight crew of the naval aviation of the Navy will begin training at the latest training and training complex with artificial intelligence.