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Bangladesh's ground forces are likely to receive the first batch of the latest Chinese-made VT-5 light tanks in the near future. A photo of these combat vehicles, produced by one of the enterprises of the industrial corporation NORINCO, appeared on the Network.

In the Tyumen Higher Military Engineering Command School named after Marshal of Engineering Troops A.I.Proshlyakov, dynamic and virtual training complexes are used in the educational process.

Rosoboronexport plans to bring heavy attack drones and kamikaze drones to foreign arms markets in the near future, this year it sold 50 Orlan-10E reconnaissance UAVs abroad, the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev said on Thursday on the eve of the EDEX 2021 international arms exhibition.

Amid growing US concerns about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian tanks may be upgraded to protect against barrage ammunition and other unmanned aerial vehicles at Kiev's disposal, the American edition of The Drive says.

The Government of Bhutan has accepted 15 new light multipurpose armored vehicles "First Win" (First Win) with a 4x4 wheel formula purchased in Thailand, which will be used by the contingent of the country's Armed Forces in UN peacekeeping operations in Africa.

Australians are learning to fight robots. On November 24, the press service of BAE Systems Australia announced the delivery of twenty M113 AS4 robotic infantry fighting vehicles to the Australian Ministry of Defense.

Stationed at the U.S. Army National Training Center (Fort Irwin, Mojave Desert, California), the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment is an unusual part of the American armed forces. He is entrusted to act for a conditional enemy during maneuvers regularly taking place at the local training ground.

The Drive appreciated the armored dome of the Russian T-80 tank

A video of a Russian T-80 in Crimea with an improvised protection of the tower in a visor or dome over the tower appeared on social networks. The Drive portal reacted to the tank with "fancy armor".

State tests of an armored personnel carrier and an infantry fighting vehicle based on the Boomerang platform are scheduled to begin in the spring of 2022, the head of the 154th military representation, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Chikin, told reporters at the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant.

On Thursday, Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko checked how MiG-31 fighters are being improved to the MiG-31BM version at the Sokol aircraft factory in Nizhny Novgorod.

At the enterprise, the deputy minister reported that the modernization, which has been carried out since 2007, with the complete replacement of on-board electronic equipment with modern samples and provides for the use of modern aviation weapons, increases the combat effectiveness of the aircraft by about three times.

In Russia, work is being completed on the creation of a two-link tracked lightly armored snowmobile armored personnel carrier DT-BTR. This is reported in the material of Yuri Avdeev, published in the newspaper of the Ministry of Defense of Russia "Red Star".

The Estonian Defense Investment Center (ECDI – Estonian Centre for Defense Investment) has signed a contract with the Israeli company Elbit Systems for the supply of 120 mm mortars to the Estonian Armed Forces.

The marines of the Baltic Fleet have received new AK-12 Kalashnikov assault rifles, the press service of the Baltic Fleet reported on Wednesday.

The Bangladesh Army has become the first export customer of the latest VT5 light tanks of the Chinese corporation NORINCO (China North Industries Corporation), which will replace the existing fleet of obsolete Type-62.

The Marine Corps of the Indonesian Navy simultaneously operates PT-76 light tanks and modern BMP-3F. There is no such thing in any other armed forces of the world.

According to the available reference data, the first 55 units remained, the second - more than fifty. According to the photos published on the Web, you can understand how much the "troika" is more than the "seventy-sixth".

The operation of several thousand T-55 and T-62 tanks continues in the world. Somewhere they are planned to be replaced with more modern combat vehicles, somewhere they are being upgraded and left in service, and somewhere they are being converted into equipment of a completely different purpose.

The Biden administration intends to send Javelin anti-tank systems, mortars, portable Stinger air defense systems and Mi-17 helicopters purchased from Russia to Ukraine, CNN found out. American military advisers can also go to Ukraine.

In Russia, new images of a two-link armored personnel carrier DT-BTR for the Arctic were shown. His images were published in the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda.

During the exercises of the Serbian army held last week, the country's President Aleksandar Vucic was shown the latest military equipment and weapons.

According to the country's defense ministry, we are talking about more than sixty samples that are planned to equip parts of the ground forces.

Russian wheeled vehicles on the unified combat platform "Boomerang" will receive parts printed on a 3D printer. The production of complex parts for promising armored personnel carriers has already been mastered. This was reported on Instagram by the Military-Industrial Company.