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The closing ceremony was held at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region

The closing ceremony of the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021" was held at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The United Engine Corporation has opened a service center on the territory of the training base of the Russian Aerospace Forces for the maintenance of AI-222-25 engines, which are installed on Yak-130 combat training aircraft.

Roscosmos plans to launch three rockets with OneWeb satellites from different cosmodromes by the end of 2021, the head of the press service of Roscosmos, Vladimir Ustimenko, said.

A military expert, retired Colonel Viktor Litovkin, on Wednesday, September 15, commented to Izvestia on the information that Ukraine can receive two tactical anti-missile defense systems (ABM) "Iron Dome"from the United States.

A mock-up of the Rosalind Franklin rover of the Russian-European ExoMars-2022 mission extracted soil from a depth of 1.7 meters during tests, Roscosmos reported, citing materials from the European Space Agency (ESA).

The White House did not confirm the reports of the American press that the United States could allegedly supply Ukraine with an Iron Dome missile defense system. This was stated on September 15 during a briefing by a representative of the US administration, Jennifer Psaki.

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.

There is no political tension around the plans to create a Russian military base in Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast, but there are some circumstances that delay the work, a senior source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

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.

Joint command and staff exercises "Unbreakable Stability" have begun in Odessa with NATO, the purpose of which is to "counter hybrid threats" to critical infrastructure in the Black Sea region.

Following the meeting with Vladimir Putin, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko spoke about 28 cooperation programs. Among them, Minsk has ordered weapons worth more than a billion dollars: planes, helicopters, Tor-M2 anti-aircraft systems, and other equipment.

On September 10, the US Defense Ministry announced the signing of an agreement for the supply of AGM-114 Hellfire ATGM and corresponding containers for the US military and foreign customers by the command for concluding contracts with Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control.

India is opening an "umbrella" against supersonic missiles. September 13, portal savunmasanayist.com He reported that the Indian Air Force has adopted the Barak-8 mobile anti-aircraft missile system (SAM), also known as MRSAM, developed jointly with Israel.

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.

Israeli anti-submarine warfare systems have found a customer in the East. Yesterday, on September 13, the press service of Elbit Systems announced the signing of a major contract "with the country's naval forces in the Asia-Pacific region".

The President also noted that the topic of increasing the average income level of people in the region is one of the problem points

Russian President Vladimir Putin called for diversifying the" well-represented "defense industry in the Tula region and developing industry as a whole to ensure the growth of real incomes of residents of the region.

The V. Malyshev Kharkiv Plant has recently been able to produce two BM Oplot tanks. Moreover, one of them will be used as an exhibition, and the other, apparently, will go to the United States under a long-concluded contract.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky believes that it is incorrect to compare Ukraine and Afghanistan from the point of view of American aid.

The Australian Ministry of Defense has signed an acceptance certificate for the second of two AOR (auxiliary oiler and replacement ship) supply class transports ordered for the country's Navy.