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Due to the secrecy traditional for this country, North Korean tank construction is of great interest to foreign experts. However, how North Korea's heavy tracked vehicles are being improved can only be judged by reports from military parades held in Pyongyang and by rare photo reports directly from military units.

The Israeli company uVision showed the LAV-M armored vehicle of the American Marine Corps with a launcher for barrage ammunition. According to The Drive, the installation includes eight launch containers. It is suitable not only for armored vehicles of the LAV-25 series, but also for other platforms.

At the exhibition "Self-Defense-2021", North Korea demonstrated the innovations of its military-industrial complex. Among them is a tank visually similar to the Russian T-14 based on the ARMATA tracked platform. Another important novelty was the hWasong-8 hypersonic weapon system, tested in September.

Units of the Barnaul Division of the Strategic Missile Forces stationed in the Altai Territory brought mobile ground-based YARS missile systems to combat patrol routes.

The Azerbaijani army has adopted the Yugoslav triple-barreled 20-mm M55 Zastava cannons captured from the Armenian troops in Nagorno-Karabakh.

At the 10th International Exhibition of Armaments and Military Equipment "Partner-2021" held in Belgrade, the Serbian armored personnel carrier "Lazanski", created in yUgoimport-SDPR, was demonstrated for the first time.

The four-axle combat vehicle is named after the Serbian ambassador to Russia Miroslav Lazansky, who passed away in early August of this year.

In North Korea, they again showed a tank of their own production, which experts previously considered a kind of hybrid of the Russian T-14 Armata tank and the American M1 Abrams. A new picture of the combat vehicle, published by the Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA) of the DPRK, was shown by the South Korean Yonhap news agency.

General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) has officially announced that, together with Hanwha Defense Corporation (HDC), it has been selected as a contractor for the production of 110 self-propelled pontoon fleets based on the M3 amphibious vehicle for the Republic of Korea.

The updated self-propelled howitzers "Acacia" were delivered to the Belarusian army from Russia, after major repairs, modern communications equipment, as well as chemical reconnaissance and night vision devices were installed on them, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus.

The main tank of the US Armed Forces remains relevant 40 years after its adoption. The upgraded M1A2 Abrams could give the US military an advantage in a potential conflict. The features of the Abrams tank were named by the authors of the publication 19FortyFive.

The Lazar III armored vehicle received the Russian DUBM 32B01 with a 30 mm automatic cannon, as well as an uninhabited module with a 57 mm cannon

The Serbian defense company yUgoimport for the first time presented the newest armored personnel carrier (APC) Lazar III A1, equipped with Russian combat modules, at the international arms exhibition "Partner-2021", held in Belgrade (Serbia) from October 11 to 14, a TASS correspondent reports from the scene.

Russia is creating modern vehicles for military units in the Arctic. They will form a new structure of a promising park.

The updated self-propelled howitzers "Acacia" were delivered to the Belarusian army from Russia, after major repairs, modern communications equipment, as well as chemical reconnaissance and night vision devices were installed on them, the press service of the defense ministry reports.

Kazakhstan has completed a full test cycle of the Turkish ARMA 8×8 armored personnel carrier. The OTOKAR company indicates that they were successful. Whether purchases will follow this is still unknown.

The South Korean main tank K2NO Black Panther for testing in Norway received the Israeli active protection complex Trophy.

A combat vehicle in camouflage typical for the army of this Northern European country was recently photographed during transportation on a trawl. It is expected that it will be demonstrated at the 13th Seoul Aerospace and Defense Exhibition. The work of the international forum will begin on October 19.

In Ukraine, the artillery part of the 2S9 "NONA-S" self-propelled gun began to be installed on the BMP-2 chassis, reports mil.in.ua.

The work was carried out at the Shepetovsky repair plant. The upgraded machine received the designation 2C17-2.

In Algeria, the T-90SA will receive the TacNet tactical link control system from the German Rheinmetall concern. Blogger KAD-GHANI told about this on his Twitter page.

Currently, the army of this state has the second fleet of combat vehicles of this model after India, numbering, according to various reference publications, more than six hundred units.

The formations and military units of missile troops and artillery receive modern MLRS of medium caliber "Tornado-G", modernized self-propelled howitzers "MSTA-S", self-propelled ATGM "Chrysanthemum-S".

Israel has taken a decisive step in creating a combat vehicle of the future. On October 10, the press service of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced that the company has become the main contractor of the Carmel program.

This was announced by the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev on the eve of the international arms exhibition "Partner-2021"

Cooperation between Russia and Serbia in the military-technical sphere tends to grow. This was announced on the eve of the international arms exhibition "Partner-2021", which will be held from October 11 to 14, 2021 in Belgrade (Serbia), by the Director General of Rosoboronexport JSC (part of ROSTEC State Corporation) Alexander Mikheev.