The Weapons Department of the Thai Navy announced the order of five complexes of support launchers "Dzhigit" produced by JSC "Scientific and Production Corporation" Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering "(JSC "NPK "KBM").

Short-range anti-aircraft missile system (SAM MD) "Tor-M2" in the near future will become interspecific, it will have a ship analog, said the general director of the Izhevsk Electromechanical plant "Kupol "(part of the concern of East Kazakhstan region "Almaz-Antey") Fanil Ziyatdinov.

A brigade armed with the latest Buk-M3 and Buk-M2 anti-aircraft missile systems will appear in the Southern Military District. It is expected that the unit will become part of one of the combined arms armies. The Buk-M3 air defense system has already received the name "anti-aircraft submachine guns"in the troops. They are able to detect and shoot down targets at a range of up to 70 km and repel massive attacks by cruise missiles. According to experts, the brigade will become a mobile reserve. The connection will protect not only the sky of the south of Russia — if necessary, it can be quickly transferred to the Crimea or to the western direction.

The combat machine gunners-gunners MANPADS "Typhoon defense" is at the final stage, in the third quarter of this year will end development work, said the General Director of the Izhevsk Electromechanical plant "Kupol" (part of the concern VKO "Almaz-Antey") Fanil Ziyatdinov.

The extended start-up agreement will apply to Russian Avangard systems. This, as reported by "RIA Novosti", said the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov.

Well-known military expert Viktor Murakhovsky in the article " Mogem? We can't, but we can! " in its telegram channel reports that in May 2018, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation approved a document "On the procedure for introducing thermal imaging cameras of domestic production in the sighting complexes of T-72BZM, T-80BVM...". The same problem was solved for other thermal imaging devices used in domestic military equipment.

On January 22, 2021, the 82nd Infantry Regiment "Torino" (82° Reggimento Fanteria "Torino") of the mechanized brigade" Pinerolo "(Brigata meccanizzata" Pinerolo") of the Italian Army, stationed in Barletta, demonstrated for the first time the first light armored vehicles of the Italian army, the LMV 2.

The Aspid sports pistol will be handed over to the Russian law enforcement agencies for testing, Rostec reported. Alexander Kudryashov, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Kalibr", an expert on weapons, spoke on Sputnik radio about some of the features of the new pistol.

At Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU), with the support of the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs (FIOP), the RUSNANO Group has completed the development of a professional development program for specialists engaged in the design and production of the element base of radiophotonics with nanoscale components. In February 2021, the training of a pilot group of employees of JSC OKB-Planeta (Veliky Novgorod), which acted as the customer and industrial partner of the educational project, will begin. The new program became the seventh joint project RUN and the University.

JSC "UEC-Gas Turbines" completes the order for the supply of four gas pumping units GTN-16R to Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg, LLC, the press service of the United Engine Corporation, which includes the company, reports.

In the Russian Arctic and the Far East, thermal power plants will be built that run on waste from the woodworking industry.

Reports of a fire on board the Russian aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" do not correspond to reality. This was announced on Wednesday, January 27, by the head of the press service of the ship repair center "Zvezdochka" Yevgeny Gladyshev.

As part of the 24th "animal" division of the submarine forces of the Northern Fleet of Russia, there are nuclear submarines (submarines) "Panther", "Boar" and "Cheetah" of the project 971, capable of discreetly monitoring the actions of the US Navy (Navy), says TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has shown the first footage showing the mass landing of units of the Ivanovo Airborne unit with BMD-4M combat vehicles.

Russian servicemen conducted a series of regular anti-terror training exercises at observation posts in Nagorno-Karabakh. This was reported in the Russian Defense Ministry. "When working out actions on the alarm, the servicemen from the peacekeeping contingent worked out the occupation of rifle positions in order to defend the post, as well as the closure of the highway in order to stop traffic," the military department said.

Global defense spending increased by 1.9 percentage points in 2020 to reach $ 1.9 trillion, showing continuous growth for seven years.

Engineers of the MiG Corporation (part of PJSC UAC of the Rostec State Corporation) have received a patent for a non-linear correction device for automatic aircraft control systems.

MiG-31BM interceptor fighters took the Northern Sea Route (NSR) under protection. The aircraft of the Northern Fleet aviation squadron will be on duty at the island and mainland airfields in the Arctic. The part was deployed back in 2019 in Monchegorsk. But since the end of 2020, the aircraft have a new task. Now, if necessary, they can be quickly relocated to any of the more than a dozen repaired airfields along the NSR.

The Command of the United States and Canada discovered Russian Tu-142 aircraft

Two Russian long-range anti-submarine aircraft Tu-142 spotted in the air defense zone of Alaska, reported in the US-Canadian Air Defense Command. At the same time, Russian aircraft did not violate the airspace of the United States or Canada.

The promising Japanese fifth-generation F-X fighter, which is being developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, will be connected to a high-speed data exchange network. According to Flightglobal, with reference to the Ministry of Defense of Japan, with the help of the new network, the combat aircraft will be able to exchange data with other fighters of this type, unmanned wingmen and American military equipment.