At the main stage of the exercises, the pilots will perform tasks to search for disguised bases of a conditional enemy, to launch rocket and bomb attacks on targets that simulate the accumulation of manpower and equipment.

On August 6, the crews of high-altitude MiG-31BM interceptor fighters of the Central Military District Aviation Division intercepted a conditional intruder of the airspace boundaries in the stratosphere during a tactical flight exercise in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

In the Soviet Union, until its collapse, they worked on aircraft that are unique even today. Among them, we can recall the M-67 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, which was created in the second half of the 80s.

The cost of the new Russian aircraft will be about $30 million

The newest Russian Checkmate fighter, first presented at the MAKS-2021 International Air Show, is in demand on the global arms market. This was announced on Monday by the general director of the Rostec State Corporation Sergey Chemezov.

Russia may start producing an upgraded version of the fifth-generation fighter in the middle of the decade. The car, among other things, will receive a completely updated cabin.

CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas notes the growing tension along the entire perimeter of the Organization's responsibility, in particular, around Belarus and on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

Since the beginning of 2021, specialists of the Military Construction Complex of the Ministry of Defense have been building 4 thousand objects of various purposes in different parts of the country. About 30 thousand specialists and more than 2.8 thousand pieces of equipment are involved in the construction sites of the Ministry of Defense every day. According to the ministry, it is planned to put into operation 3 thousand buildings and structures. Of these, 1,617 buildings have already been built and many have been commissioned on a turnkey basis.

Russian military builders will build more than fifty objects on the islands of the Kuril Ridge, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

In 2021, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation will actively participate in the VII International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" in order to form and sustainably operate a network of leading universities included in global rankings that implement breakthrough research and development work that can be successfully implemented at enterprises of the military-industrial complex.

"Typhoon-K", BTR-82 and Mi-35M were involved in the joint exercises "South-2021" of the military of Uzbekistan and Russia in the area of the border with Afghanistan.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the joint group has worked out a special operation to prevent the possible crossing of the state border by illegal armed groups.

More than 1 thousand servicemen of the missile forces and artillery of the combined arms association of the Central Military District will take part in the exercises that started at the training ground in the Kemerovo region, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Monday.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova held a meeting on the innovative system of financing the army in wartime, which will be tested at the Zapad-2021 exercises, during a working trip to St. Petersburg, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

Units of the Armed Forces of Laos have arrived in the Primorsky Territory to participate in the joint Russian-Lao exercise "Laros-2021", the Eastern Military District (VVO) announced on Monday.

During the joint strategic exercise "SIBU/INTERACTION-2021", servicemen of the Russian military contingent and the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) will use unmanned aerial vehicles.

Specialists of all branches of the Southern Military District with the involvement of aviation and ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) and the Caspian Flotilla (CFL) are starting a week of large-scale battalion tactical exercises in the South of Russia, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

It is too early for Belarus and Russia to create a union ministry of defense, since the parties are not ready for this, first they need to adopt the constitution of the Union State, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday.

The Military-Industrial Company (MIC) is gradually implementing a program to increase the motivation of key production workers, the holding's general director Alexander Krasovitsky told Interfax on Monday.

The Presidents of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan discussed the situation in Afghanistan at a consultative meeting, stressing that its early settlement is one of the most important factors for preserving and strengthening security and stability in Central Asia.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price warned that rocket attacks on Israeli territory carried out by Hezbollah militants from Lebanese territory threaten the sovereignty of Lebanon.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Saturday rejected the accusations of the recent attack on the Mercer Street tanker in the Gulf of Oman, made the day before by the Group of Seven.