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Boeing and the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have successfully presented a new interceptor missile for the ground-based medium defense System (GMD), designed to destroy ICBMs in space at the initial stage of flight.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the latest Russian weapons systems fully comply with global trends

Russia plans to maintain its leadership in the field of hypersonic and innovative weapons systems. This was stated on Wednesday to journalists at the Tyumen Oil and Gas Forum (TNF 2021) by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov.

They want to integrate the latest air — to-surface aviation missile of the LMUR class not only into the armament of attack helicopters, but also manned aircraft and UAVs. The carrier will be able to act, in particular, the Su-25 attack aircraft.

During the Zapad-2021 exercise, a battalion was parachuted for the first time using the latest BMD-4M amphibious assault vehicles, the Defense Ministry reported. Military expert Viktor Litovkin on the air of Sputnik radio spoke about the unique qualities of this machine.

Within the framework of the joint strategic exercise "West-2021" in the Baltic Sea, the crews of the corvettes "Steregushchy", "Stoyky" and the patrol ship "Yaroslav the Wise" successfully fulfilled the tasks of repelling attacks by means of an air attack of a conditional enemy and inflicted an artillery strike on sea and coastal targets, the press service of the Western Military District reports.

A video of the combat use of the Russian reconnaissance and strike drone "Outpost-R"appeared on the Network. The device performed bombing on a ground target.

The Ministry of Defense noted that the crews of the VKS were approaching the area of responsibility of the air defense units of the ZVO from different directions, at different altitudes and speeds

More than 50 aircraft and helicopters of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) checked the work of the air defense forces on duty in the Western Military District (ZVO) at the joint exercises of the Russian Federation and Belarus "West-2021". This was reported on Tuesday in the Russian Defense Ministry.

On September 12, French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly confirmed on her Twitter page that an agreement had been reached with Greece on the additional supply of six Rafale multi-purpose fighters.

In 2021-22, Ukraine plans to purchase four more complexes of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones (24 unmanned aerial vehicles), the commander-in-Chief of the country's Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Valery Zaluzhny, said in an interview with the Eastern European bureau of Report.

For the first time, Russia has used the Pacer and Outpost reconnaissance and strike drones, which are part of the Lastochka complex. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were used to support the advancing troops during the Zapad-2021 exercises, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Russian Defense Ministry.

During the flight (more than 12 hours), the ZALA 421-16E5G hybrid UAV covered a distance of more than 1,130 kilometers.

The first hybrid UAV ZALA flew on the route Izhevsk-Yoshkar-Ola-Izhevsk.

The developers managed to implement a system of simultaneous use of an unmanned aircraft by two flight detachments.

Comac Corporation has almost assembled the first C919 airliner that will be used for commercial flights. Soon it will be delivered to the customer-China Eastern Airlines.

The Terminator tank support combat vehicles were used during combat training operations at the Zapad-2021 strategic exercises of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the BMPT operated as part of mobile tactical groups during the transition to offensive actions of the motorized rifle division and the tank brigade of the coalition group.

A video is being distributed demonstrating the use of the tactical unmanned aerial vehicle "Outpost-R "in the strike version during the joint strategic exercises of the Russian Armed Forces" West-2021 " on September 11, 2021.

The Philippine Air Force Command has completed the repair of six previously unused helicopters, which allowed expanding the capabilities for transporting troops and cargo.

Supersonic fighter-interceptors MiG-31BM performed combat launches of air-to-air missiles at the Telemb training ground in Buryatia.

The Tu-95MS strategic bomber worked out a breakthrough of the enemy's air defense zone during the Zapad-2021 exercise, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The United States called the main problems of Russian carrier-based aircraft. The insufficient combat load of the Su-33 and the low flight range of the MiG-29K prevent them from becoming the main tools for projecting force. This is the conclusion reached by the authors of the 19FortyFive portal.

At the Fresno Yosemite International Airport in the United States, unusual aircraft were noticed. A pair of decommissioned F-117 stealth aircraft arrived at the base of the 144th Fighter Wing of the US Air Force (Air Force). The planes will take part in the exercises as "aggressor planes", The Drive reports.

The Russian Northern Fleet conducted maneuvers in the Kola Arctic, near the borders with Norway and Finland, with the participation of more than 3 thousand servicemen and about 500 units of military equipment.