The control point of the space echelon of the missile attack warning system (SPRN) has been upgraded, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Deliveries to the Russian Armed Forces of the new S-500 Prometheus air defense system, capable of destroying targets in near space, are expected in 2021.

The Turkish company ASELSAN announced on December 31, 2020 that it received a contract for $ 38 million for the supply of its own Serdar combat modules with an anti-tank missile launcher and a Seda firearm detection system.

Armored vehicles of the new generation on the Armata heavy tracked platform are expected to start mass-producing in the Russian Armed Forces this year.

Modern anti-tank missile systems (ATGMs) "Chrysanthemum-S" will enter service with the Taman Division of the Western Military District in 2021, the press service of the ZVO reported.

The ground forces continue to be equipped with new and upgraded artillery systems. On Saturday, the press service of the Southern Military District reported that the 150th motorized rifle Division stationed in the Rostov region received 18 improved self-propelled howitzers "Msta-SM".

As reported on December 30, 2020 by the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research, the experimental robotic wheeled platform "Marker"in fully autonomous mode overcame a 30-kilometer stretch of road. The tests were conducted in the Chelyabinsk region.

Robots are becoming more and more like living organisms. The US Army Research laboratory announced experiments with robots equipped with"muscle tissue".

Warships of the Northern Fleet in 2021 will continue to perform tasks to ensure a naval presence in strategically important areas of the World Ocean.

More than 10 ships of the black sea fleet (BSF), including the carriers of cruise missiles "Caliber" frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" and small missile ship "Vishny Volochek" met new year in the Russian squadron in the Mediterranean sea, reported the press service of the BSF.

In Vladivostok, the tests of the modernized frigate "Marshal Shaposhnikov" are coming to an end. Built 35 years ago, the ship is now equipped with the latest weapons systems and has actually received a rebirth.

On the last day of the outgoing year, a new deadline was called for the transfer of the Kazan nuclear submarine to the fleet, which completed its assigned tests and was preparing to raise the Naval flag on December 30, 2020. Now they intend to do this in the first quarter of the coming year.

[b]All submarines were transferred to customers within the terms stipulated in the contracts, the Central Design Bureau of marine equipment "Rubin" reported.]

The Russian Navy and foreign customers received 71 diesel-electric submarines of projects 877 and 636 (code "Varshavyanka") for 40 years of production of these submarines. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the central Design Bureau of Marine Equipment "Rubin" (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation).

In 2020, the PLA Navy added 24 surface ships of various classes. This year, the military shipbuilding of the People's Republic of China set a kind of record for the corvettes of the project 056 - 15 units transferred to the fleet.

Who benefits from discrediting the Russian contingent in Karabakh

In recent days, a number of materials critical of Russian peacekeepers have appeared on many information resources. The most ridiculous is the report that the Russian Defense Ministry allegedly transferred Syrian citizens from the Khmeimim air base to Yerevan to participate in military operations against Azerbaijan. The source of the fake was the non-governmental organization "Syrians for Truth and Justice", created with the support of the US State Department, affiliated with the "White Helmets".

NATO does not have prohibited weapons, but has the ability to respond to their use, said the Secretary General of the organization Jens Stoltenberg.

In December 2020, IEMZ Kupol (part of the Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region) delivered the first large batch of industrial refrigeration equipment to a special customer and launched a new product line.

At the end of September 2020, the long – standing frozen conflict in Transcaucasia over the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, the internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan, whose majority population is Armenians, sharply escalated. One of the main features of the Karabakh war in 2020 was the massive use by the Azerbaijani side of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of various types of Israeli and Turkish development.

Scouts infantry units of the CVO, stationed in the Altai region, were armed with new unmanned aerial vehicles "Tachyon".

Mil Design Bureau could create the world's first rotary-wing transformer, but lost the palm to Bell

Periodically, at various exhibitions of weapons and military equipment, mock-ups, and even prototypes of convertiplanes preparing for the first flight, appear. Both foreign and Russian, created on an initiative basis. And this provokes discussions on the topic " Whether the Russian Army needs these specific aircraft and what they can be useful."