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About 200 servicemen of the two countries took part in the active phase of the exercises

The final stage of the joint exercises of Russian and Egyptian paratroopers "Defenders of Friendship - 2021" was held on Wednesday near Cairo. The active phase with practical landing and tactical actions was carried out at the Egyptian Armed Forces training ground Wadi Sakran near the city of Inshas, 60 km from the Egyptian capital, a TASS correspondent reports.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that two Tu-160 strategic missile carriers of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a planned raid over the neutral waters of the Barents and Norwegian Seas. The previous time such planes appeared in these places was at the end of July this year.

The Angolan authorities have sent Ankara a request about the possibility of acquiring Turkish-made UAVs, which may become Bayraktar TB2, previously sold to Morocco, Poland and Ukraine.

A new protection system for helicopters will be developed in Russia. It will protect rotorcraft from dangerous left rotation and warn the pilot that he goes beyond the limits prescribed by the protocol.

The House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress approved the request of the country's Air Force regarding the allocation of funding for the purchase of five new C-130J "Super Hercules" military transport aircraft.

At the Blue Flag-2021 exercises taking place in the Negev Desert, Israeli Air Force pilots are practicing actions to overcome Russian air defense systems in service with the Syrian army.

According to information from the blogs of the Chinese social network Weibo, the two-seat fighter J-20B made its first flight. It became a development of the Chengdu J-20, which first took to the skies in 2011.

The Chinese company WM Motor presented the concept of the M7 electric sedan. According to Electreck, the car will receive three lidars with a total viewing angle of 330 degrees and almost 30 more sensors. The M7 will have a significant range for an electric vehicle — 700 kilometers.

The American company General Dynamics Land Systems has signed an agreement with the startup Epirus on the integration of its Leonidas pulsed electromagnetic weapon on the Stryker armored vehicle. According to The Drive, the developers want to offer this combination to the US Army, which plans to equip Stryker with a directed energy weapon and has already tested it with a combat laser.

The servicemen worked out a joint landing from the IL-76MD aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces approximately 60 km from Cairo

Russian and Egyptian paratroopers performed group parachute jumps on Tuesday before the final stage of the Defenders of Friendship - 2021 exercises taking place near Cairo. The servicemen worked out a joint landing from the Il-76MD aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces approximately 60 km from the Egyptian capital.

On Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that two Tu-22M3 bombers of the Russian Long-range Aviation performed a scheduled flight over the neutral waters of the Black Sea. The planes were in the air for about five hours.

Drones will indicate the location of objects and continuously transmit their coordinates to the control center

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) capable of flying at high speeds in a wooded area and looking for targets there - from fugitive criminals to rare animals - are planned to be created in Russia. This was reported to TASS by Boris Vishnyakov, Deputy head of the Software Complexes Department of the State Research Institute of Aviation Systems (GosNIIAS).

The exercises involved almost 500 units of weapons, military and special equipment, including armored vehicles "Tiger" and "Typhoon"

TASS, October 25. The exercises of the units of the Eastern Military District (VVO), designed to counter terrorism, were held in 11 subjects of the Far East, more than 14 thousand military took part in them. This was reported on Monday by the press service of the VVO.

The air forces of NATO member countries have begun full-scale use of the former Soviet airbase Lielvarde in Latvia. It was established back in 1970 and was the largest in the Baltic States.

The seventh of nine ordered by the British Air Force maritime patrol aircraft P-8A "Poseidon" (British designation "Poseidon" MRA Mk1) arrived at Lossiemouth Air Base in Scotland on October 20 after a flight from the United States.

In the next month, the Russian Post will begin delivering parcels from 27 branches of Moscow with the help of unmanned delivery robots from Yandex. This is reported by RBC with reference to the company's message.

The Russian heavy drone S-70 "Hunter" successfully withstood combat tests at the Ashuluk training ground - in particular, the device carried out bombing with 500-kilogram ammunition. It is also known that the drone can hit moving targets, act under the guidance of a fifth-generation Su-57 fighter or independently. And the technologies used in it belong to the sixth generation of combat aviation. All this together makes the S-70 one of the most advanced drones in the world, according to 19FortyFive.

The Ministry of Defense plans to strengthen army medical units with drones.

Also, this special equipment can be used during the elimination of the consequences of man-made disasters or natural disasters. The novelties will be part of special purpose medical detachments, as well as individual medical units. 

At the ADEX-2021 exhibition, the South Korean KAI Corporation presented a full-size mock-up of a promising Marine Attack Helicopter capable of using multifunctional MUM-T UAVs.

Russia has recently been paying special attention to the development of aerial and underwater drones. And the military will rely on them in the future.