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Without maintenance, the helicopter fleet will quickly become unusable

The fleet of more than a hundred Russian-made helicopters delivered to Afghanistan will quickly become unusable without service and repair, the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax.

On the eve of the August 31 deadline for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, the United States will pay full attention to the evacuation of the American military. However, if necessary, civilians will also continue to be taken out of the country. This was announced on Wednesday, August 25, by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.

The United States maintains contacts with the Afghan Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) on a number of issues, but there is no talk of trust or formal relations, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a briefing on Monday.

The author of the publication The National Interest questioned the protection of modern Russian tanks. In an article about the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile system (ATGM), Sebastien Roblin suggested that the characteristics of the T-72B3, T-80BVM, T-90M and T-14 tanks are insufficient to protect against an anti-tank complex from the United States.

Washington was in no hurry to evacuate from Afghanistan, so as not to provoke a "complete crisis of confidence", but this did not save the country's government. This was stated on August 23 by the US president's national security adviser Jake Sullivan during a briefing broadcast on Twitter.

Hypersonic missiles created in the West do not pose big problems for Russian anti-aircraft missile systems, Russia will be able to successfully shoot them down, Pavel Sozinov, general designer of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region, told RIA Novosti.

Hypersonic missiles, which are being created in the West, do not pose big problems for Russia's anti-aircraft missile systems, the country is able to successfully fight them. This was announced on August 24 by Pavel Sozinov, General Designer of the Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region.

Belarus and Russia are beginning to implement the procedures for the internal approval of a new Program of military-technical cooperation for the period up to 2025.

Due to the situation in Afghanistan, the Russian military base in Tajikistan was strengthened with anti-tank complexes "Kornet". This became known on August 24 from a message distributed by the press service of the Central Military District (CVO).

US Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday accused China of continuing the policy of" pressure "and" intimidation " of the countries of Southeast Asia (Southeast Asia) and in the South China Sea. She promised that Washington will strive for a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

In early August, India sent an operational naval group of ships to the South China Sea and the western Pacific Ocean

Ships of the Indian Navy conducted naval maneuvers with ships of the Philippine Navy in the South China Sea over the past day. As the official representative of the Indian Navy Vivek Madhwal told reporters, the exercises were held in the western part of the South China Sea, which Manila officially calls the West Philippine Sea.

The Ministry of Defense reported that they will be held at 11 training grounds and seven airfields of the Western Military District

More than 1.5 thousand military personnel and about 400 pieces of equipment are involved in special exercises on material and technical support (MTO) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which will be held at 11 training grounds and seven airfields of the Western Military District. This was reported to journalists on Tuesday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Developments in artificial intelligence can become a sphere of military-political confrontation, the policy of Western countries in this area is dangerous, said Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Oleg Khramov.

The Defense Minister confirmed the intention to continue active cooperation with Egypt in strengthening security and stability in the Middle East and North Africa

The delegations of the defense departments of Russia and Egypt discussed issues of further cooperation at the seventh meeting of the joint commission on military-technical cooperation (MTC) in Moscow on Tuesday.

Today, there are few skeptics about Russia's ability to develop ultra-modern weapons. "The last of the Mohicans" was found in Ukraine. Military expert Mikhail Zhirokhov compared drones of Russian and Turkish production. Although he himself admits that this is a thankless occupation, and little is known about the Russian "Pacer", but "Bayraktar" is better.

The international military-technical forum "Army-2021" became the place of the public premiere of the helicopter light multi-purpose guided missile (LMUR) "Product 305". The authors of the Defense Express publication believe that two projects can become the Ukrainian response to the new Russian missile, but they turned out to be unnecessary.

At the Army-2021 forum, a contract was signed for the supply of a mobile command missile system to the Russian Defense Ministry. The contract was signed with the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering (MIT).

The new military unit will be part of the 7th Airborne Assault Division

A new airborne assault regiment will be formed in the Crimea by December 1. This was announced to TASS on Tuesday by the commander of the Airborne Troops (Airborne forces), Colonel-General Andrey Serdyukov.

American fifth-generation fighters F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II can be detected by Russian radars, Pavel Sozinov, General designer, Deputy General Director of the Almaz-Antey concern, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Russia is the only country that has managed to eliminate terrorist formations, otherwise the current horrors in Afghanistan could have been in the Russian Federation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the second stage of the United Russia congress.