Turkey tried to use its Bayraktar TB2 attack and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle to launch attacks on the positions of the Syrian military, however, the drone was successfully shot down.

The military personnel of the Eastern Military District at the Sergeyevsky training ground in the Primorsky Territory successfully destroyed a conditional enemy as part of a combat readiness check, the press service of the VVO reports.

On Wednesday, July 28, at a special exercise in the Vladimir region, the engineering troops conducted a unique operation, the place of which is in the Guinness Book of Records.

For the first time in world practice, pontoon units equipped a double-width floating bridge. This crossing with a lifting capacity of 120 tons ensured the transfer of a large number of people and large-sized equipment across the Oka. Moreover, the traffic intensity on the temporary bridge was twice as high as the standard one.

Servicemen of motorized rifle units of the Central Military District (CVO) in the Sverdlovsk region are mastering the experimental training program "Steel Hunter".

The National Guard of the Republic of Cyprus currently operates more than 80 T-80U and T-80UK. These main battle tanks are in service with the 20th Armored Brigade and have proven themselves well during long-term operation.

152-mm 2S3 "Acacia" are the most powerful self-propelled artillery units of the Syrian government forces. Recently, several such self-propelled guns were seen during their transfer to the province of Daraa, where terrorists have become more active.

As reported in the material of the publishing group "Jane's", the Israeli company Elbit Systems has developed a new fully automated 155-mm / 52 self-propelled howitzer SIGMA, made on a wheeled automobile chassis of the American company Oshkosh with the formula 10x10 (apparently, the M1075 type). The new self-propelled gun was developed in the interests of the Israel Defense Forces and is intended to replace the American 155-mm/39 tracked self-propelled howitzers of the M109 series in the Israeli ground forces from 2023, it is assumed that the new self-propelled gun will receive the official military name Roem.

The Slovak military has received a long-awaited update of its artillery fleet. Yesterday, on July 28, the press service of DMD GROUP reported that the company handed over the first Zuzana 2 self-propelled guns to the army.

Marine units of the naval forces of the Vietnamese People's Army regularly conduct exercises on landing on the coast. Thanks to the video frames from such classes that have appeared on the Network, you can see which samples are currently in service with them.

The domestic video conferencing system (VCS) TrueConf Server is fully adapted for use in the environment of operating systems of the Astra Linux family, the press service of the Astra Linux Group of Companies (GC) reports.

On July 28, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin visited the Amur Shipbuilding Plant (ASZ, part of the USC) and inspected the corvette ships of project 20380 and small rocket ships of project 22800 "Karakurt"under construction.

The British aircraft carrier strike group (AUG), led by the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, could be defeated in the Mediterranean by the Russian ship strike group (KUG), supported by the missile cruiser "Moscow", predicts in the "Military-Industrial Courier" Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information policy, Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov.

The fourth of five Avante-2200 corvettes ordered for the Saudi Arabian Navy was launched at the Spanish company Navantia in San Fernando.

The maneuvers will be held from September 10 to 16 on the territory of the Russian Federation and Belarus

The member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are invited to the Russian-Belarusian maneuvers "West - 2021". This is stated in the communique following the meeting of defense ministers of the SCO member states, which was held on Wednesday in Dushanbe.

The head of the Russian Defense Ministry accepted an invitation to participate in maneuvers on the territory of the People's Republic of China

Russia and China have found new forms of interaction in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The military of Russia and China are gradually returning to the previous rhythm of interaction in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said in Dushanbe at a meeting with Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe.

In the Volgograd region, at the Prudboy training ground, Russian motorized skirmishers and scouts participating in the upcoming Indra-2021 Russian-Indian exercises conducted night shooting. The fire was conducted from various types of weapons at targets at distances from 200 to 2000 meters.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu named the key tasks that need to be solved within the SCO to ensure common security.

The next meeting of the heads of military departments of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization countries will be held in Uzbekistan in 2022, according to a communique following the meeting of defense ministers of the SCO member states held in Dushanbe on Wednesday.

The surge in terrorist activity in Afghanistan against the background of the hasty withdrawal of foreign troops from this country and the rapid degradation of the situation require appropriate measures to be taken.