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New drones will be delivered to Ground Forces units.

From this year, mass delivery of drones-quadrocopters for the army will begin. Small and light vehicles will help troops in performing combat and everyday tasks.

In the 80s and 90s, due to the aggravation of the criminal situation in a number of countries, there was a demand for quite exotic weapons in the form of folding submachine guns of concealed carry. Their fate eventually turned out differently, and the Russian PP-90 and PP-90M for some time became the standard weapon of police operatives.

A military parade in honor of the end of the VIII Congress of the Workers ' Party of Korea was held on the evening of January 14, 2021 in Pyongyang with the participation of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. This was reported by the Korean Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA).

A 2020 report from the Pentagon's Office of Testing and Evaluation claims that the AGM-179A Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM), an air-to-ground missile likely used to assassinate Iranian General Qasem Suleimani, will be tested in the Arctic. This is reported by The Drive.

The patrol ship "Dmitry Rogachev" began passing the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits in the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) said on Friday.

The small anti-submarine ship (MPK) of the Kola flotilla of the heterogeneous forces of the Northern Fleet "Snezhnogorsk" left on January 15 in the Barents Sea to perform artillery firing, reports the portal EADaily.

According to the data provided, the third carrier of the Poseidon nuclear torpedo will be part of the Russian fleet until 2027. It will be the first submarine initially equipped with this complex.

OneWeb has raised $ 400 million from SoftBank and Hughes Network Systems: this will allow the company to continue deploying the satellite constellation.

In the next ten years, companies of growing military-industrial powers will increasingly compete with Russian and Western companies that previously contributed to their development, experts from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) write in an article for the American edition of Defense News.

The tanker of the Baltic Fleet "Cola "replenished fuel reserves on the frigate" Admiral Kasatonov "and the rescue tug" Nikolai Chiker", performing the tasks of a long-distance campaign in the Mediterranean.

Long-range fighter-interceptors MiG-31BM placed on the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya for combat duty in the Arctic, the press service of the Northern Fleet (SF) on Saturday.

The crew of the large landing ship (BDK) "Minsk" performed artillery firing exercises in the Baltic Sea, the press service of the Baltic Fleet (BF) reported on Saturday.

As reported on January 15, 2021, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, for the first time in the history of Russia, six AN-124-100 Ruslan military transport aircraft took to the sky at the same time. In the Bryansk region, the first joint training flights of the crews of the Seshchinsky [566th military transport] and Tver [196th Guards Military transport] aviation regiments were conducted this year with the participation of six strategic military transport aircraft AN-124-100 "Ruslan"at the same time.

The expert commented on the program report of the Chief of Staff of the US Air Force

The Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, General Charles Brown, published a report of a programmatic nature, the main content of which is reduced to how to prepare American aviation for the upcoming combat operations. Military observer " Newspaper.En " Mikhail Khodarenok analyzed the theses of the American military leader and tells us what kind of future the American aviation is striving for and what it is fraught with for Russia.

Two experimental design projects for the creation of marine gas turbine engines are additionally being considered by the United Engine Corporation (UEC, part of Rostec), the head of the UEC Alexander Artyukhov said.

Russia can become a major global producer and exporter of hydrogen – one of the most environmentally friendly sources of energy. Nobel laureate Rae Kwon Chung is sure of this. What is his forecast based on, what is happening in the hydrogen fuel market today, and under what conditions is Russia's hydrogen breakthrough really possible?

The coastal base for nuclear underwater robots "Poseidon" will be ready in the summer of 2022. By this time, the construction of the infrastructure for the maintenance and storage of this new strategic deterrent weapon will be completed. Tests of its first carrier are already nearing completion. Early creation of the base will allow to extend the service life of this equipment, experts say.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Victoria Abramchenko approved a "road map" to improve the system of forest protection from fires, which provides for the use of space and unmanned vehicles, the press service of Abramchenko reports.

The command of the British Navy on January 8 announced the acceptance of a new coastal patrol ship OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessels) P234 "Spey" of the River-2 class, which took place at the naval base in Portsmouth.

French shipbuilders are actively developing advanced technologies. On January 13, the press service of the company Naval Group announced the completion of testing of the first propeller made on a 3D printer.