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On January 22, 2021, the 82nd Infantry Regiment "Torino" (82° Reggimento Fanteria "Torino") of the mechanized brigade" Pinerolo "(Brigata meccanizzata" Pinerolo") of the Italian Army, stationed in Barletta, demonstrated for the first time the first light armored vehicles of the Italian army, the LMV 2.

Short-range anti-aircraft missile system (SAM MD) "Tor-M2" in the near future will become interspecific, it will have a ship analog, said the general director of the Izhevsk Electromechanical plant "Kupol "(part of the concern of East Kazakhstan region "Almaz-Antey") Fanil Ziyatdinov.

Well-known military expert Viktor Murakhovsky in the article " Mogem? We can't, but we can! " in its telegram channel reports that in May 2018, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation approved a document "On the procedure for introducing thermal imaging cameras of domestic production in the sighting complexes of T-72BZM, T-80BVM...". The same problem was solved for other thermal imaging devices used in domestic military equipment.

The MiG-31 is already considered the world's fastest combat aircraft, but this is not enough for Russia, writes the user "Sina". Recently, the country announced the development of a new-generation fighter-interceptor. It is expected to replace the MiG-31 and MiG-31BM. Russia, because of its "unique geographical conditions", such fighters will definitely come in handy, the author is sure.

On the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy, a joint exercise of Naval aviation forces with a coastal missile system with an anti-ship missile (BPKRK) "Bal" was conducted to destroy a simulated enemy ship.

Reports of a fire on board the Russian aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" do not correspond to reality. This was announced on Wednesday, January 27, by the head of the press service of the ship repair center "Zvezdochka" Yevgeny Gladyshev.

A modified version of the Boeing 737 MAX passenger liner was allowed to operate in Europe. This was reported on the website of the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on Wednesday, January 27.

As part of the 24th "animal" division of the submarine forces of the Northern Fleet of Russia, there are nuclear submarines (submarines) "Panther", "Boar" and "Cheetah" of the project 971, capable of discreetly monitoring the actions of the US Navy (Navy), says TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin.

JSC "UEC-Gas Turbines" completes the order for the supply of four gas pumping units GTN-16R to Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg, LLC, the press service of the United Engine Corporation, which includes the company, reports.

The company will launch about 60 microsatellites

SpaceX plans to launch the 18th constellation of Starlink microsatellites, designed to provide Internet access, into orbit on January 30. This was reported on Wednesday by the profile Internet portal Space.com.

By September 1, 13 schools and 46 preschool institutions are planned to be built in Makhachkala, Kaspiysk, Kizlyar, Derbent, Izberbash, Buinaksk, as well as in 23 districts of the republic

The Russian military department in Dagestan plans to build 59 social facilities by the first of September this year. This was announced by the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Timur Ivanov at a working meeting with the participation of the acting head of Dagestan Sergey Melikov in the Republican Government House.

In the Russian Arctic and the Far East, thermal power plants will be built that run on waste from the woodworking industry.

During a spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS), American astronauts Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover encountered problems when launching the Bartolomeo science platform on the Columbus module of the European Space Agency (ESA). The broadcast on Wednesday, January 27, is conducted by NASA on its website.

MiG-31BM interceptor fighters took the Northern Sea Route (NSR) under protection. The aircraft of the Northern Fleet aviation squadron will be on duty at the island and mainland airfields in the Arctic. The part was deployed back in 2019 in Monchegorsk. But since the end of 2020, the aircraft have a new task. Now, if necessary, they can be quickly relocated to any of the more than a dozen repaired airfields along the NSR.

More than 20 units of modern weapons and special military equipment will be received in 2021 by the units of the Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District, stationed in the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions.

Repair of the diesel-electric submarine of the Black Sea Fleet "Alrosa" is planned to be completed by the end of 2021. The technical readiness of the ship is now 80 percent.

The special purpose brigade of the Central Military District, stationed in the Samara region, will receive a batch of upgraded Tiger-M armored vehicles in 2021 (in total, more than 15 units).

The Command of the United States and Canada discovered Russian Tu-142 aircraft

Two Russian long-range anti-submarine aircraft Tu-142 spotted in the air defense zone of Alaska, reported in the US-Canadian Air Defense Command. At the same time, Russian aircraft did not violate the airspace of the United States or Canada.

In China, light floating tanks of the Type 63A (ZTZ-63A) are gradually being abandoned. Currently, they are operated only in the battalions of four formations and, according to various estimates, their number is unlikely to exceed a hundred pieces.

The Venezuelan Air Force has become the strongest in Latin America due to the use of Russian Su-30MK2 multi-purpose fighters and S-300VM anti-aircraft missile systems, writes Military Watch magazine.