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The closing ceremony was attended by the commanders of the Airborne Forces, Colonel-General Andrei Serdyukov and the paratroopers of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Divisional General Atif Ibrahim Mady

The fifth joint tactical exercises of the paratroopers of Russia and Egypt "Defenders of Friendship - 2021", which took place on October 17 with the participation of military transport aircraft of the two countries, ended near Cairo.

The first experience of combat use of Soviet combat vehicles in infantry in Afghanistan only confirmed what has long been known: our IFVs, like their foreign peers, have insufficient survivability on the battlefield.

Scouts of the Amur Combined Arms Association of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed on the territory of the Amur Region, the Jewish Autonomy and the Khabarovsk Territory, in Tiger and Typhoon-K cars, cleared an important object from conditional terrorists, the press service of the district reports.

The Agency for the Acquisition of Norwegian Defense Products (Forsvarsmateriell / Norwegian Defense Materiel Agency – NDMA) received the first three of the six ordered armored repair and evacuation / engineering vehicles "Visent-2" (Wisent 2).

Vietnam continues experiments on the creation of wheeled self-propelled guns. On October 28, the Vietnamese TV channel QPVN showed a story with video footage of tests of a promising self-propelled gun PTH-130-K255V.

Exercises were held on Sakhalin to protect the landing from a conditional enemy, drones and artillery were involved, and the experience of actions in Syria was also taken into account. This was reported on Thursday, October 28, by the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO).

The final inspection became a stage of preparation for the Vostok-2022 exercises, which will be held next year

T-80 tanks, drones and Hyacinth artillery installations were involved in exercises to defend the Sakhalin coast from the landing of a conditional enemy.

A PTH-130 wheeled self-propelled artillery unit is being tested in Vietnam. Externally, this combat vehicle is very similar to the self-propelled guns from the Jupiter series, which was produced in Cuba and was first demonstrated in the middle of the first decade of the XXI century.

The holding company "High-precision complexes" of Rostec State Corporation has transferred to the Ministry of Defense of Russia another complex of automated fire control of artillery units 1B198. The shipment took place as part of the implementation of the state defense order of 2021.

SITDEF 2021 will be held from 28 to 31 October on the territory of the chief of army staff in Lima

Rosoboronexport (part of state Corporation rostec) will present about 300 models of weapons and equipment on the International defense technology exhibition SITDEF 2021, which will be held from 28 to 31 October on the territory of the chief of army staff in Lima (Republic of Peru).

The MTU-4 quad installation for the use of Igla and Strela-2MA anti-aircraft missile systems was developed at the Military Technical Institute of the Serbian Ministry of Defense. This is reported by proelasi.com .

Turkish developers decided to install South Korean Doosan DV27K engines with a capacity of 1500 hp on their main Altay battle tanks.

The fact is that initially it was supposed to supply this heavy tracked vehicle with power units of its own design, created with foreign assistance, but this project completely failed.

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 Soviet T-55 medium tanks created in the 50s are considered obsolete and in many European armies they were decommissioned long ago, almost everywhere they managed to be sent to scrap metal.

Ukrainian armored vehicles will receive weapons manufactured by the Turkish company Aselsan. The manufacturer will supply combat modules for "Kazak-2M1" armored vehicles. This is reported by the Defense Blog.

The purchase by the United States for seven million dollars of the latest modification of the Ukrainian Oplota tank is explained by the interest in the developments of former Soviet tank-building enterprises, Viktor Murakhovsky, editor-in-chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, told RIA Novosti.

The most modern tank of the People's Liberation Army of China is currently the Type 99A, also known as the ZTZ-99A.

Currently, according to various sources, at least six hundred such tanks belonging to the third generation of tracked armored vehicles after the Second World War are in service with elite formations.

The commander of the Guard unit, Colonel Yevgeny Zhuravlev, held a briefing for representatives of the military delegation

A Sri Lankan military delegation visited the Kantemirov Tank Division of the 1st Guards Tank Army of the Western Military District in the Moscow region. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of the ZVO.

Designed to enhance the firepower of the amphibious assault and mountain battalions of the Russian Army, the 82-mm self-propelled mortar 2C41 "Drok" is made on the basis of the armored vehicle "Typhoon - airborne K-4386.

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.