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The heavy flamethrower system of the new generation TOS-2 ("Tosochka") is expected to enter service with the Russian army this year, said the head of the radiation, biological and chemical (RCB) protection troops of the Russian Armed Forces Igor Kirillov.

A new escalation in the Donbas, if it does end with the Ukrainian offensive, will lead to heavy losses of the parties in light armored vehicles.

According to correspondents of Chinese specialized military-technical publications, the command of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JDF) at the end of 2016 adopted the latest wheeled tank under the designation "Type-16". The model is intended for staffing in the period from 2016 to 2025 six divisions and four brigades of the ground forces, which are planned to be reformed on the model of the Brigade tactical team" Stryker " (Brigade combat team Stryker) of the US Army.

Developed as part of the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) project, the helicopter for the US Army will receive a 20-millimeter cannon capable of" killing "lightly armored systems, in particular, the Russian-made Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and gun system (ZRPK), writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

Calculations of the coastal missile complex "Bal" of the Caspian flotilla conducted exercises, the final of which was electronic launches on the ships of the imaginary enemy.

The maneuvers of the rocket men took place at the Turali training ground in Dagestan. According to the press service of the Southern Military District, the servicemen marched to the training ground, where they worked out the standards for the deployment of coastal complexes.

The British company Reaction Engines has tested the cooler and gas generator of the promising hypersonic hybrid rocket engine SABRE. This, as reported by Defense News, said the president of the company Adam Diesel. According to him, full-size prototypes of these systems were tested, and their tests were carried out separately and were recognized as successful.

Lockheed Martin announced a recently signed contract to supply the US Army with a basic set of Modular Active Protection System MAPS (Modular Active Protection System) to equip the BBM.

The attempt to evacuate the Turkish armored car ended with its fall from the platform and overturning. It is reported that the military vehicle was found to have a malfunction, so they decided to take it out with the help of a four-axle car.

The crews of the Terminator BMPT and T-72B3M tanks for the first time worked out joint use at the training ground near Chelyabinsk.

Russian promising drone "Thunder" will get guided drones. Yesterday, March 11, the TASS news agency reported that the strike unmanned aerial vehicle "Thunder" will be able to control a swarm of ten strike drones "Lightning".

Sakhalin has completed the formation of a new air defense system. It was based on the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as the Pantsir-S missile and cannon systems. The group covers not only the island itself, but also the cities of Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Khabarovsk. In fact, the entire territory in the east of the country has turned into a missile bastion.

The Russian army is developing a new type of military equipment. On March 10, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on its official YouTube channel published a video of the first regular firing of combat vehicles supporting the Terminator tanks.

In recent days, a lot of video and photo materials of railway trains with various military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have appeared on the Network. However, according to military experts, most of it belongs to the same unit - the 25th separate airborne brigade, stationed in the urban-type settlement of Gvardeyskoye, Dnipropetrovsk region.

The People's Liberation Army of China uses models of various foreign armored vehicles during exercises, as well as tests of the latest models of military equipment.

For example, at the end of last year, an imitation of the American main battle tank Abrams appeared on the Network filmed on one of the highways of the Middle Kingdom. Military experts attribute this fact to the supply of real M1A2T from the United States to Taiwan.

New army glasses for the US Army-Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) will help soldiers get important visual information without leaving the APCs and other combat vehicles. The command plans to purchase tens of thousands of such points.

The motorized rifle brigade in New Moscow received eight T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks - the latest modification of the Russian T-90 main battle tank.

The US Army will receive the most powerful laser weapons in the world

The United States is developing a new pulsed laser weapon. According to the expectations of the US military, it should become more powerful than all currently existing models, and at once by three orders of magnitude.

In the future, the T-14 Armata tank will be a more formidable weapon than the T-90M Proryv, since the new tank will use more advanced technologies to protect the combat vehicle, Alexander Mikhailov, director of the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis, told Izvestia on March 3.

Romania received the American M142 HIMARS complexes. March 2, portal defence-blog.com He reported that the first batch of rocket launchers had already arrived in the country and was being sent to the 81st Tactical Operational Missile Battalion stationed in Fokshany.

The Chinese military industry has created several types of portable anti-tank missile systems of the third generation, which are analogs of the American FGM-148 Javelin.

The most famous of them is the Red Arrow-12 ("Red Arrow-12"), which has been in mass production for 6 years. Last year, it was reported about the beginning of export deliveries - Algeria purchased the first batch.