The Czechoslovak development of the ShKh vz. 77 Dana continues to transform into new versions of the ACS. On February 22, the Excalibur Army company introduced a new modification of the self-propelled artillery system called Dita.

The European Defense Agency (EDA) has launched a project to develop a swarm of autonomous all-terrain vehicles ARTUS (Autonomous Rough-terrain Transport UGV Swarm) launch event. Ground-based unmanned military vehicles are supposed to be combined with the help of artificial intelligence

The Kalashnikov Concern expects to start mass production of the new RPL-20 belt machine gun after its adoption and testing in the military, said the general director of the concern Dmitry Tarasov.

GlobalFoundries has signed a contract with the Pentagon to supply several batches of chips for the US Army. Their purpose is unknown, and the first shipment is scheduled for 2023. All chips will be 45-nanometer, although by 2023 the main chip suppliers are going to master the 3-nanometer process.

The ceremony of laying the hull of the thirteenth serial special purpose boat of the project 21980 was held at the Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (part of the Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation), the press service of the corporation reported.

About ten foreign countries are showing interest in the Russian small missile ships of the project 22800 "Karakurt-E", said RIA Novosti on Tuesday, Deputy General Director of the shipbuilding corporation" Ak Bars " for external cooperation Alexander Emelyushin.

Iran, according to its representatives, for the first time in its history began to build "large warships". Is this ambitious country preparing a full-fledged navy to confront the United States? Is she able to do it on her own? Maybe Russia should help Iran in this?

France has announced the start of work on a promising strategic nuclear submarine. It is assumed that each such ship will be able to carry 16 ballistic missiles.

The newspaper "Kommersant" under the headline "The tension has long grown so that you no longer notice additional shades": Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov on the export of weapons " published an interview with the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov.

Russia occupies 21 percent of the global arms market, with 47 countries among its customers. Over the past decades, a lot of advanced systems have been released, which are actively sold abroad. The National Interest named the five most outstanding.

Russia and Turkey are discussing various areas of military-technical cooperation, Deputy head of the Russian Federal Customs Service Alexey Frolkin told reporters, answering a question about the progress of negotiations on a new batch of S-400.

Russia is ready to sell the latest Su-57E fighter to strategic partners, and consultations are already underway with individual countries, Rosoboronexport reported. On the air of Sputnik radio, military political analyst Andrey Koshkin expressed confidence that the car has a great export potential.

The super-maneuverability of the Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighters attracted the attention of Internet users, who appreciated the video of flights at the Aviadarts competition in 2018.

In the Kaliningrad Region, pilots of the Baltic Fleet naval aviation performed bombing and rocket firing as part of a planned combat training.

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.