The President spoke about the "antidote" at the annual press conference

At the final press conference on December 17, Vladimir Putin said that Russia is "actively working" on an "antidote" to the future hypersonic weapons (GZO) of other countries. The President did not specify which systems are in question, but information about some of them has previously appeared in open sources. Experts note that protection against such weapons is an extremely difficult, but feasible task. how it is going to be solved in our country-izvestia understood.

The Ministry of Defense of Israel, together with the Directorate for Defense Research and Development, completed a series of tests of the David's Sling anti-missile system as part of the layered missile defense system. According to the Israeli Air Force, during the tests, the complex successfully intercepted a target simulating a missile.

In 2021, a new Space Systems Command will start working in the United States

In the United States, preparations for the formation of the Space Systems Command have been completed. In general, the tasks that will face the new structure have already been defined, and the command is expected to begin its work in early 2021. "Newspaper.Ru " - about the next step of the United States to militarize space.

the truth and myths about the light scalpel

In February 2020, near the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, an American anti-submarine aircraft P-8A Poseidon was illuminated and blinded by a laser from a Chinese destroyer. This incident, some believe, marked the beginning of the open use of laser weapons as an independent system. From that moment on, they started talking about the rapid spread of laser weapon combat systems (LO).

Military Watch was impressed by the idea of creating a hypersonic strike squadron from MiG-31K.]

The publication Military Watch reacted to media reports about the decision to arm a squadron of MiG-31 fighters with hypersonic "Daggers", which is based in the north of the Kola Peninsula near the border with Finland.

According to Alexander Krasovitsky, General Director of the Military-Industrial Company, the vehicles have successfully passed preliminary tests.]

State tests of the latest armored personnel carrier (BTR) K-16 and wheeled infantry fighting vehicle (BMP) K-17 on the promising platform "Boomerang" will begin in 2021. This was announced to TASS on Friday by the General director of the "Military-Industrial Company" (LLC "MIC") Alexander Krasovitsky.

Development from China helped designers from North Korea to create their own tracked armored personnel carrier, which received a large number of modifications.

It is known that in the 70-80 years, many samples of weapons that entered the army of the People's Republic of China were copies of foreign, mainly Soviet military equipment.

A cyber police will appear in the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. On Friday, Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov told about the adoption of the relevant decision by Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

Determine the type of target, its parameters, find out the course and nationality — the Ministry of Defense is testing the latest system of automatic illumination of the surface situation "Strategy"in the Black Sea. This development of the Research Institute of Long-range Radio Communications (NIIDAR) will allow Russia to significantly secure the southern borders and prevent violations of the state border. "Strategy" closes all the means of tracking available to the Black Sea Fleet. About the system and its capabilities - in the material RIA Novosti.

As reported by the online business of Tatarstan "BUSINESS Online", held on 18 December 2020 in Zelenodolsk celebrations on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Zelenodolsk plant named after A. M. Gorky, the Director-General established on the basis of plant shipbuilding Corporation "AK bars" Renat Mistakhov said that the Russian defense Ministry intends to order at the Zelenodolsk enterprise 12 large support vessels, which is a variant of small sea tanker of the project 03182.

on december 18, 2020, in rybinsk (yaroslavl region), jsc " vimpel shipbuilding plant "(part of the kalashnikov group of companies) laid the foundation stone of the border patrol ship of the 4th rank of project 03050 (code " guys") with the factory number 1414. this is the sixth boat in the series of this project, which is being built at jsc " gcc "vympel" in the interests of the border service of the fsb of russia.

The corvette "Gremyashchy" will be transferred to the Navy before the end of the year

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko during a working trip to St. Petersburg checked the progress of the state defense order at the Severnaya Verf shipyard.

on december 16, 2020, the fifth universal nuclear icebreaker of project 22220 (lk-60ya), named "chukotka" (construction number 05712), was laid in st. petersburg at jsc "baltic plant" (part of jsc "united shipbuilding corporation" - usc).

On December 18, 2020, an ice-resistant self - propelled platform (LSP) was launched at Admiralty Shipyards JSC (part of United Shipbuilding Corporation-USC) in St. Petersburg) "North Pole" project 00903 (factory number 02404), under construction for the Federal Service of Russia for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet).

The crew of a diesel-electric submarine (DAPL) during the exercise carried out the setting of a mine barrage of torpedo tubes in a submerged position, said on Saturday the Baltic Fleet (BF).

The Northern Fleet clarified that the lead ship of the Yasen-M project entered the next stage of state tests at the end of last week with a full-time crew and a acceptance team on board.]

The newest nuclear submarine "Kazan" of the project "Yasen-M" within the framework of the state testing program fired an anti-ship cruise missile at a sea target in the White Sea. This was reported on Saturday by the press service of the Northern Fleet.

A huge speed, a titanium hull and a world record that has not been broken so far — on December 18, 1970, the experimental nuclear submarine of Project 661 "Anchar" accelerated under water to almost 45 knots (83 kilometers per hour). However, despite the successful tests, this nuclear-powered ship did not go into production and remained the only one of its kind. Why high-speed submarines were not useful to the fleet - in the material of RIA Novosti.

Four missiles struck the US Air Force base "Bagram" near the Afghan settlement of the same name in Parwan province. This was reported on December 19 by TOLOnews TV channel with reference to local authorities.

[b]the president answered questions from journalists about arms control, relations with foreign leaders, and shared his views on other international processes.]

Russian President Vladimir Putin held another big press conference. we have selected the most significant statements from the speech of the russian leader concerning international relations.

he expressed the hope that there will be no more cases of violation of the ceasefire

Russia can increase the number of peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh if all parties to the conflict consider it necessary, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.