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Europe is preparing a competitor to the" smart " Excalibur projectile. Yesterday, January 20, the press service of the French company Nexter Munitions announced the successful completion of the first fire tests of the KATANA 155 mm ammunition.

[b]According to Lieutenant General Yuri Stavitsky, Russian sappers find a lot of abandoned ammunition and unexploded shells when checking the areas of Karabakh.]

The M-85 cluster submunitions prohibited by international law were discovered by Russian sappers during the clearance of Stepanakert. This was announced on Wednesday in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta by the head of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Yuri Stavitsky.

The self-propelled guns "Lotus" and "Coalition-SV" have different calibers, but the same tasks

At the very end of last year, preliminary tests of the self-propelled artillery gun 2S42 "Lotus", intended for use in the Airborne Forces, began. Their program includes self-propelled aircraft landing, moving over rough terrain of a complex profile, overcoming obstacles, shooting, including on the move and afloat. After that, state acceptance tests will begin. And the adoption of the "Lotus" should be expected as early as next year.

Drones from terrorist hunters can turn into rocket hunters

American winged "predators" - first reconnaissance and strike drones MQ-1 " Predeytor "(Predator, translated from English – "Predator"), and now MQ-9 " Reaper "(Reaper; translated – "Reaper", that is, "collector of souls") – gradually capture all new habitats in Eastern Europe, in the immediate vicinity of the borders of Russia.

A 2020 report from the Pentagon's Office of Testing and Evaluation claims that the AGM-179A Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM), an air-to-ground missile likely used to assassinate Iranian General Qasem Suleimani, will be tested in the Arctic. This is reported by The Drive.

In the Bologovsky missile connection of the Strategic Missile Forces in the Tver region, a remote mine-clearing vehicle MDR "Listva"was received.

On January 11, the Swedish company Saab announced the signing of a framework agreement with the command of the Norwegian Armed Forces for the supply of 84-mm Karl-Gustav hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers of the M4 version.

[b]Russian shells of the Krasnopol complex were effectively used in Syria, including those created in the 40s of the last century with 152-mm D-20 howitzer guns.]

Video materials have appeared on the Web showing the process of preparing for the combat use of these laser - guided munitions.

MLRS BM-21 "Grad" is in service with the armies of more than 30 countries of the world and is the most massive combat system of this class. It is designed to destroy and suppress the enemy's manpower and military equipment in areas of concentration, artillery and mortar batteries, fortifications, strong points and nodes of enemy resistance.

Naval aviation is preparing to adopt hypersonic missiles

The Russian Navy is preparing to adopt the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system. In particular, it will be received by the naval aviation of the Northern Fleet. The new weapon is able to hit the target with high accuracy in a matter of minutes, and no country in the world has reliable protection against it. What advantages will the "Dagger" give to the Navy, the military historian Dmitry Boltenkov understood.

The UK Ministry of defence on 6 January 2021 announced the signing of a contract worth 550 million pounds from the British branch of the European missile Association MBDA to complete the development and batch production of new small-sized cruise missiles SPEAR3 for weapons of the fifth generation fighter Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II UK armed forces. The number of missiles ordered was not disclosed.

According to a number of Western observers, today there is a real sign of a new arms race between the United States and Russia. Russia is developing new artillery and air defense systems. They are becoming export hits, attracting even NATO countries. In turn, the United States has all the necessary operational and political grounds to oppose this with anything equivalent. This choice was the" strategic " artillery of the United States.

What weapons will the United States adopt in 2021?]

In 2021, the US military budget will amount to $740.5 billion, of which $705.4 billion will be allocated directly to the Ministry of Defense. "Newspaper.Ru " analyzed what types of weapons and military equipment will be purchased by Washington in 2021 and what will be given special attention.

During the year, the development of advanced means of protection against radiation, chemical and biological contamination will be completed, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

Specialists of the International Mine Action Center of the Russian Defense Ministry continue to work on demining the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry on Sunday, January 3.

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

Fly further, hit harder, ignore the opposition-the Americans tested a new modification of the Tomahawk cruise missile-Block V. In the Pacific Ocean, near the Hawaiian Islands, the destroyer Chafee fired at a target at a naval training ground. The US Navy succinctly reported: everything went well. About what is known about Block V and how Russian "Calibers" look against its background - in the material of RIA Novosti.

The military cleared more than 10 thousand hectares of terrain

Russian sappers during their work in Syria have defused more than 150 thousand explosive objects, clearing more than 10 thousand hectares of terrain, said the commander of the group of Russian troops in Syria Sergey Kuzovlev.

Development is conducted by the Corporation "Tactical missile weapons", said a source in the military-industrial complex

The first production su-57 fighter will be used at the state flight test center (glic) in Akhtubinsk for testing hypersonic aircraft weapons. This was reported on Friday by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The Russian military began to receive the engineering system of remote mining (isdm) "Agriculture", intended for installation by means of programmable ammunition of minefields, reports "rostec".