The second pair of large amphibious assault ships (BDK) of Project 11711 will be transferred to the Russian Navy in 2023-2024, the ships will have 40% more displacement and, accordingly, landing capacity, Ilya Samarin, General Director of the Yantar Shipbuilding Plant (Kaliningrad), told RIA Novosti.

The construction of four yet-to-be-launched multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M (885M) project is not behind schedule, and the submarines are currently on the slipways, Mikhail Budnichenko, General Director of the Severodvinsk Sevmash plant, told RIA Novosti.

As reported by the American web resource "The Drive" in the material by Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway "The Navy Wants To Get Rid Of Its Nearly Brand New Patrol Boats", the US Navy plans to withdraw all 12 of its high-speed patrol boats of the Mk VI type from combat service by the end of the 2021 fiscal year (that is, by September 30, 2021), despite the fact that they were commissioned only in 2014-2018.

As part of the official visit of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to the United Arab Emirates, agreements on expanding military-technical cooperation were signed.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic visited the Vrh Koplja 2021 exercise on February 7, after which he said that the Serbian authorities intend to allocate additional funds for the development of the country's Armed Forces.

Russian Su-27 naval aviation fighters of the Baltic Fleet (BF) will conduct exercises in the Kaliningrad region to destroy strategic bombers of a simulated enemy, RIA Novosti reports, adding that in February it is planned to transfer American B-1B Lancer to Norway.

The Baltic Fleet has launched a competition in which the military personnel of the unmanned aviation units show their skills.

The Bulgarian Air Force received all 8 Su-25 attack aircraft that underwent major repairs at the 558th Aviation Repair Plant (Baranovichi, Republic of Belarus).

The United States has successfully tested a prototype of a deeply modernized F-15EX fighter. The event for the American defense industry is significant — the last "fifteenth" entered the army almost 20 years ago. The Pentagon is very much counting on the updated machine and assure that this program will not affect the purchase of fifth-generation aircraft. What is known about the F-15EX-in the material of RIA Novosti.

The US Navy has released rare footage of an F/A-18E Super Hornet carrier-based fighter chasing a Tomahawk cruise missile launched from a Ticonderoga-class cruiser. The time and location of the shooting, as well as the name of the shooting ship, are not reported.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced on February 10, 2021, that the Japanese defense procurement agency Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) has awarded Kawasaki Heavy Industries Corporation (KHI) an initial contract worth 15 billion yen ($143.1 million) to begin implementing a program to create a new electronic warfare aircraft for the Japan Self-Defense Air Force based on the new Japanese medium military transport aircraft Kawasaki C-2.

The Progress MS-16 spacecraft successfully entered orbit. According to the plan, the flight to the ISS will take two days, according to the Izvestia TV channel. The ship will deliver almost 2.7 tons of cargo to the station, including drinking water, equipment, fuel and clothing. The crew will receive instruments for a detailed study of the air leak. At the end of the mission, Progress will detach along with the Pirs module, which was used for spacewalks. In the summer, the compartment will be replaced by the latest module "Science".

The active life of the devices will be 8 years

The company "Barl" has started the production of ground infrastructure for the space group "Arctic-KN". This was announced by the general designer of JSC "NPK "Barl" Valery Labutin.

There was an order of the Russian government, in which Roscosmos was instructed to sign a memorandum with the People's Republic of China on the creation of a lunar station. Earlier it became known that Russia was excluded from the expert group discussing the creation of the Gateway station.

Private space company Nanoracks has signed an agreement with investors from the UAE to build orbital greenhouses for growing edible plants. According to Nanoracks director Jeffrey Manber, plants that can survive in space will solve the problem of food shortage here on Earth. A considerable number of experiments in this area speak in favor of this hypothesis.

They solve the problems of obtaining and issuing data on missile launches and missile trajectories for warning about a strike at points of state and military control

All existing radar stations (radars) of the "Dnepr", "Daryal" and "Volga" types will be replaced with new radars of the "Voronezh"type. This was announced by the head of the Main Center for Warning about a Rocket Attack of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces, Colonel Andrey Revenok.

According to Sergey Saprykin, the missile attack warning system is able to track missile launches from anywhere in the world, including from areas of combat patrol of nuclear submarines.

After the US Marine Corps command completely abandoned the tanks last year, the search for an adequate replacement began. The main task is to make the Marines more dangerous to the enemy than before. As we wrote earlier, the United States is preparing for the possible seizure of Chinese military bases on artificial islands in the South China Sea, where the use of tanks is ineffective.

The Ministry of Defense has launched a test program for a trial batch of tank support vehicles (BMPT) "Terminator-2". The tests will take about a year, and the final decision on the purchase of these products will be made based on their results. Until the successful verification in Syria, the fate of this new type of armored vehicles remained uncertain. Now their first unit is undergoing intensive military tests. The military has yet to fully study these machines, both tactically and technically.

Chinese television showed an improved version of the latest Type 15 light tank, also known as the ZTQ-15.

Apparently, the experience gained in operating the machines of the first releases allowed us to make some changes.