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In the near future, a modification of the T-90M tank with a retractable optoelectronic module will be tested at military exercises. It is an observation device with a thermal imager, a TV channel and a laser rangefinder on a three-meter telescopic mast, the module allows the tank crew to monitor the situation and find targets without detecting themselves - for example, from behind a one-story house or from a trench.

More than 500 Russian servicemen, tanks and artillery are involved in the exercise, which began on the Kuril Islands, the Eastern Military District (VVO) said on Wednesday.

Military personnel of units in the Novosibirsk and Samara regions have begun to master new equipment

The troops of the Central Military District (CVO), stationed in the Novosibirsk and Samara regions, received eight Typhoonenok armored vehicles for the first time. This is stated in a message distributed on Wednesday by the press service of the district.

A modernized Soviet infantry fighting vehicle BMP was presented at the international defense exhibition MSPO-2021 in Poland. The company WZM S. A. demonstrated a new version of the machine with an upgraded body and tower, according to the Defense 24 portal.

The holding company "High-precision complexes" of the Rostec Corporation is considering the possibility of creating a light wheeled floating tank with a 125-mm cannon, the deputy chief designer of the Volgograd Tractor Plant (as part of KMZ, it is part of "High-Precision complexes")told RIA Novosti Vladimir Budaev.

Within five days, the foreign military will be familiarized with the training sites, will conduct a sighting of weapons and military equipment

Military contingents from seven countries arrived in the Nizhny Novgorod region to participate in the strategic exercises "West-2021". This was reported to journalists in the press service of the Western Military District.

Forbes magazine writes about a new Russian robot. The device made an autonomous hundred-kilometer march. And "Marker" is also a platform on which technologies and systems are tested. Then the Russian military will install them on existing drones. The author admires the speed with which Russian developments are turning into real weapons.

Poland continues to develop its self-propelled artillery. September 6, portal milmag.pl He reported that the Huta Stalowa Wola company brought a new version of the Rak self-propelled mortar to the defense industry exhibition in Kielce (MSPO).

The British Ministry of Defense has confirmed the suspension of the use of new Ajax infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs). Tests and training of the crew are suspended until the problems with vibration and noise of the BMP are eliminated. This is reported by the UK Defense Journal.

Deliveries of the promising NMESIS anti-ship missile system to the US troops will begin at the end of 2023, according to Naval News. The complex is an unmanned version of the JLTV armored vehicle, armed with NSM anti-ship missiles.

Tests of the first Russian armored car K-4386 ZA-SpN for special forces will begin in 2022, Igor Zarakhovich, chief designer of the Remdiesel development company, said on September 6.

After successful tests of the laser maneuverable short-range air defense system (Directed Energy-Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense Systems, DE M-SHORAD), the US Army plans to receive the first platoon of tactical lasers in the next fiscal year 2022.

Divisions of the motorized rifle and tank regiments of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division of the Southern Military District have begun conducting a bilateral tactical exercise at the Kadamovsky training ground in the Rostov region, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

The gunners of the Russian military base in Tajikistan, against the background of the situation in Afghanistan, conducted a live-firing exercise at the Sambuli mountain range (Tajikistan), the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Monday.

More than four thousand military motorized rifle and tank regiments of the South of Russia have started exercises in the Rostov region.

The ships of the Baltic Fleet and the marines of the Northern Fleet will conduct maneuvers in the Baltic Sea in preparation for the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercise "West-2021", the Baltic Fleet said on Monday.

According to the Czech Ministry of Defense, all three bidders for the supply of 210 tracked armored combat vehicles to the country's Armed Forces submitted proposals by the deadline set by the Ministry of Defense.

Military personnel of the mountain motorized rifle unit of the Central Military District, during the practical stage of the Russian-Kazakh joint tactical exercise, destroyed a band of a conditional enemy with the help of artillery calculations of the self-propelled gun "Nona-SVK" at the Kara-Haak mountain range in the Republic of Tyva. This is reported by the press service of the Central Military District.

In the Military Harbor of Baltiysk, the marines of the Northern Fleet loaded military equipment onto landing ships for going to sea and landing at the Baltic Fleet training ground "Khmelevka".

Chinese VT-4 tanks, which are in service with Pakistan, may become a threat to the Russian T-90 of the Indian armed forces. The ammunition of Chinese vehicles will be able to fight with Russian tanks. A similar opinion was expressed by the authors of the portal The Military Watch.