As reported by the Tatar-Inform news agency on February 20, 2021, the Ural Civil Aviation Plant, which has production in Kazan, signed a State Contract for the supply to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of an installation batch of heavy unmanned aerial vehicles of long flight duration "Altius-RU". This is reported in the materials of the meeting of the board of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan.

One of the Russian medium-altitude strike drones of long flight duration "Orion" made 38 sorties in Syria, including 17 with strikes on terrorist targets, according to the story of the program "Vesti Nedeli" of the TV channel "Russia 1", dedicated to unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian Federation.

The Russian heavy attack drone S-70 "Hunter" is capable of hitting targets on command from the Su-57 fighter, said test pilot Yevgeny Frolov, who controls the "Hunter"from the ground.

The UAE Defense and Security Development Fund Tawazun plans to order 200 light helicopters and drones of its development after joining the capital of the Russian design bureau BP-Technologies, the head of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, told reporters.

Kabul would welcome progress in negotiations with Moscow on the supply of weapons, Russian helicopters have proven their effectiveness in combat operations, said the Ambassador of Afghanistan to the Russian Federation, Saeed Tayeb Javad, in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Specialists of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) received images taken at the time of landing of the Perseverance rover ("Perseverance») to the Red Planet. They were demonstrated on Friday at a briefing broadcast on the NASA website.

The system for combating unmanned aerial vehicles, including electronic and anti-aircraft countermeasures, will be presented by Rosoboronexport at the IDEX-2021 defense exhibition, which opens on February 21 in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

The S-400 air defense systems division will take up combat duty on Sakhalin in the middle of next week, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Russia debuted in the international arms exhibition IDEX 2021 anti-aircraft missile and gun system (zrpk) "Pantsir-С1М", modified by the enterprises of the holding "Precision complexes" (included in "rostec") at the end of the combat use of the complex against terrorists in Syria, reported the press service of the Corporation. A number of countries are already interested in the new ZRPC.

Russia is developing a hypersonic guided missile codenamed "Gremlin", Izvestia reported. According to the publication, development work started in November 2018. Tests of the rocket are scheduled for 2023, soon the creators will start testing the engine of the complex.

Rosatom State Corporation is working on a standard ammunition for the T-14 Armata tank. - The projectile will be ready by the time the installation batch of tanks is delivered to the Russian Armed Forces at the end of 2021,-said Andrey Terlikov, general designer of the vehicle developer, the Ural Design Bureau of Transport Engineering, at the IDEX 2021 exhibition in Abu Dhabi. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

The leading Russian manufacturer of wheeled military equipment, LLC "Military-Industrial Company" (MIC), plans to create a civilian SUV – an analog of the Toyota Land Cruiser-on the basis of the promising light armored car "Strela".

Tests of the latest T-14 Armata tank with ammunition from Rosatom specialists began in Kubinka. And that's a good sign.

At the IDEX-2021 exhibition, the T-14 Armata tank is being presented for the first time outside of Russia. Attention to this presentation is hyped.

Test active protection system (KAZ) tanks "arena-e", is able to reflect all the tank hazardous munitions, including the U.S. Javelin anti-tank missiles will be completed soon, said on Sunday, RIA Novosti General Director - chief designer of the Ural design Bureau of transport machine-building (UKBTM, part of the concern "Uralvagonzavod") Andrey Terlikov.

Chief designer of the company Igor Zarakhovich said that Remdiesel is testing more than 10 modifications of the Typhoon-K armored car.]

JSC "Remdiesel" is testing more than 10 modifications of the armored car "Typhoon-K". This was stated in an interview with TASS on the eve of the international arms exhibition IDEX 2021, which will be held from February 21 to 25 in Abu Dhabi, said the chief designer of the enterprise Igor Zarakhovich.

Russia signed a contract for the first phase of creating a joint production of Kalashnikov assault rifles (AK) with Saudi Arabia, the document is interstate procedures for the approval, said the Minister of industry and trade of Russia Denis Manturov in an interview published Saturday in the newspaper "Kommersant".

The machine gun, in particular, received a more ergonomic butt, a new fire control handle with a trigger guard, and changed sighting devices

The Kalashnikov Group of Companies (part of the Rostec State Corporation) has carried out a deep modernization of the 5.45-mm AK-12 assault rifle. This was reported to TASS during the international arms exhibition IDEX-2021 in the press service of Kalashnikov.

The joint Russian-Indian enterprise can produce about 40 thousand AK-203 assault rifles this year if the corresponding contract is signed, said the general director of the Kalashnikov concern (part of Rostec") Dmitry Tarasov.

On February 19, JSC" Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky "held a solemn ceremony of laying the hull of the serial anti-sabotage boat project 21980" Grachonok "(developer of JSC "KB" Vimpel " (Nizhny Novgorod)).

The small anti-submarine ship "Brest" of the Northern Fleet during exercises at the training ground in the Barents Sea repelled a training air attack. This was reported in the press service of the Northern Fleet.