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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.

The Turkish Bayraktar TB2 attack and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an easy target for Russian anti-aircraft missile systems, Pavel Sozinov, general designer, deputy General Director of the Almaz-Antey concern, told RIA Novosti.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia will not interfere in the internal affairs of Afghanistan and draw its armed forces into the conflict in this country.

The Deputy Prime Minister said this on the sidelines of the second stage of the pre-election congress of United Russia

The construction of multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen project 885 will continue, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told reporters on the sidelines of the second stage of the pre-election congress of United Russia.

The problem of Afghan refugees is alarming

The Taliban (the Taliban group is banned in the Russian Federation) got a huge amount of weapons that no one controls, said Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, answering the question whether the Taliban movement poses a military threat to Russia.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a final press conference in Budapest that Moscow does not want to see American soldiers in Central Asia.

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, at the annual meeting of high representatives of the BRICS countries in charge of security issues, drew the attention of colleagues to attempts to impose alien ideals on the peoples of the five countries. According to him, they are trying to pass off these ideals as so-called universal democratic values.

The Far East is being made inaccessible to air attack means. Whether we are talking about foreign planes, drones or various types of missiles - all of them will be detected in time and guaranteed to be destroyed. To do this, a new generation of radar stations is being installed in the east of the country.

In the near future, the Pentagon will announce and demonstrate a secret space weapon, Breaking Defense reports, citing its own sources. Experts interviewed by the American publication said that in this way the United States will show Russia and China its new anti-satellite development.

Moscow and Washington at the current stage of relations are far from the lowest point of the Soviet-American confrontation during the "Caribbean crisis", when the world was on the verge of a nuclear war, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

The Russian military conducted exercises using helicopters in the mountains of Tajikistan, the application of conditional strikes on enemy positions was practiced. On Monday, August 23, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reports.

The events in Afghanistan may lead to an increase in demand for Russian weapons, he said

The events in Afghanistan may lead to an increase in demand for Russian weapons, said the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev.