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Military personnel of the mountain motorized rifle unit of the Central Military District, during the practical stage of the Russian-Kazakh joint tactical exercise, destroyed a band of a conditional enemy with the help of artillery calculations of the self-propelled gun "Nona-SVK" at the Kara-Haak mountain range in the Republic of Tyva. This is reported by the press service of the Central Military District.

In the Military Harbor of Baltiysk, the marines of the Northern Fleet loaded military equipment onto landing ships for going to sea and landing at the Baltic Fleet training ground "Khmelevka".

After successful tests of the laser maneuverable short-range air defense system (Directed Energy-Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense Systems, DE M-SHORAD), the US Army plans to receive the first platoon of tactical lasers in the next fiscal year 2022.

Divisions of the motorized rifle and tank regiments of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division of the Southern Military District have begun conducting a bilateral tactical exercise at the Kadamovsky training ground in the Rostov region, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

In recent years, Ukraine has started producing its own planes and helicopters again, President Vladimir Zelensky said during his speech at Stanford University. The broadcast was conducted on the Facebook page of the office of the Ukrainian leader.

The Czech military plans to abandon the Soviet-designed infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs). The British company BAE Systems has confirmed its application for the supply of the CV90 BMP. The new vehicles will replace the BVP-2-a licensed copy of the Soviet BMP-2. This is reported by the Army Recognition portal.

According to the Polish resource "MILMAG", at the 29th military-industrial exhibition MSPO-2021, which opens on September 7, 2021 in the Polish city of Kielce, the Polish company Huta Stalowa Wola SA (HSW, part of the state association Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa SA, PGZ) will present for the first time a prototype of its MRAP class armored vehicle with a 4x4 wheel formula.

The family of equipment based on the armored car K-4386 "Typhoon-airborne" (4X4), created in JSC "Remdiesel", continues to increase.

In 2021, the country's delegation is present at the Games as an observer

ALABINO /Moscow region/, September 4. Indonesia may take part in the international ArMI Games for the first time in 2022, Deputy Defense Minister Major General Rodon Pedrason said.

What is necessary for the old Soviet tank of the early 60s T-62 to get a new life? In Algeria, they decided to massively remake these combat vehicles into a kind of BMPT.

Russia in 2021 handed over to Sri Lanka the projects of two new arms contracts, said the head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of the Russian Federation Dmitry Shugaev.

Units of the Marine Corps and the Army Corps of the Black Sea Fleet will conduct live firing exercises in the Crimea on September 7, using ships. This was reported on September 4 in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The combat vehicle is created according to the Optional-Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) program. The basis of its weapons is the 50-millimeter XM913 gun.

After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine inherited tank-building enterprises, but failed to fully use them. And now there is a very high probability that the country will turn to foreign tanks instead of the T-84 "Oplot", which at one time had certain hopes.

The family of equipment based on the armored car K-4386 "Typhoon-airborne" (4X4), created in JSC "Remdiesel", continues to increase. So, at the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", a version of the AMN-D, made in the form of a multi-purpose truck, was demonstrated for the first time.

The Algerian military is going to turn the T-62 into tank support combat vehicles. The material about this is posted on the portal menadefense.net. To implement this project, the turret with the 115-mm smoothbore 2A20 gun will be dismantled from the medium tank, and the Berezhok combat compartment will be installed instead.

Finnish Patria and Slovak engineering company CSM Industry have signed a memorandum of understanding on joint participation in a tender for the supply of 8x8 armored combat vehicles to the Slovak Armed Forces.

The Taliban celebrate the final withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan as a historic victory. In two weeks, they managed to establish control over all but one of the provinces. In honor of this, victory parades were held throughout the country, during which the Taliban demonstrated American-made weapons.

There is no foreign analogue of this heavy flamethrower system yet, said Omsktransmash CEO Igor Lobov

The Omsk Plant of Transport Engineering (Omsktransmash, part of the Uralvagonzavod concern of the Rostec State Corporation) is working on the inclusion of the TOS-1A "Solntsepek" heavy flamethrower system in the automated control circuit of troops. This was reported to TASS by the general director of the enterprise Igor Lobov.

The modernized German Leopard 2A7+ significantly gained weight and lost mobility.

One of these tanks was recently demonstrated at an exhibition in Hungary. A shield with fairly detailed technical characteristics was installed next to it. In particular, the specified weight is 67.5 tons. If we recall the 55-ton Leopard 2A4 released in the second half of the 80s, the weight gain was more than 12,000 kg.