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The exercises will be held from September 11 to 25

More than 4 thousand military personnel of the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be involved in the joint anti-terrorist command and staff exercises "Peace Mission - 2021", which will be held in Orenburg in September. This is stated in a message distributed on Friday by the press service of the Central Military District (CVO).

There were no violations in the operability of the software and technical infrastructure of the department's website. The website of the Russian Defense Ministry was subjected to a DDoS attack from abroad, the ministry said on Friday.

The Ukrainian Navy received the first Bayraktar TB2 unmanned strike system from Turkey. On July 15, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported this.

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not know that his article about Ukraine has become mandatory for studying in the army. This was stated at a briefing on July 16 by the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov.

Up to 10 aircraft and ships of the NATO Navies were constantly present in the area of the exercises

Submariners of the Northern Fleet have completed a two-week exercise on weapons testing in the deep-water areas of the Barents and Norwegian Seas, the press service of the fleet reported.

The Russian military has completed tests of weapons of submarines in the deep-water areas of the Barents and Norwegian Seas, they were monitored daily by NATO ships. This was announced on July 16 by the press service of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation.

The US missile destroyer USS Ross left the Black Sea on Friday after a 20-day stay, the US 6th Operational Fleet said.

The gamer posted a secret document on the network with the characteristics of the British Challenger 2 tank. This is written by the UK Defense Journal.

The international advisory group, which includes the European Union, NATO and the United States, called on Kiev to adopt the reform of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) without delay. This is reported in the Twitter account of the EU Embassy in Ukraine.

The United States is unlikely to narrow the gap in the field of hypersonic weapons with Russia and China in the coming years, which may lead to potential risks for the former in the future, writes the American magazine The National Interest, citing a report prepared by the Congressional Research Service.

A warship with the outlines of the British destroyer Defender is shown as the first "target" of the new Russian fighter. The presentation of a promising aircraft with a single engine will take place at the MAKS-2021 international Air Show.

In the Murmansk region, during the operational and strategic exercise of the Rosgvardiya "Zaslon 2021", military personnel and employees of the department worked out the neutralization of participants of an illegal armed formation who seized a strategic object.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) "summoned" Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to "hand over a written suspicion" and "conduct procedural actions", the corresponding document was published by the Ukrainian publication "Glavkom".

Moscow and Beijing intend to extend the agreement on notification of launches of ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles until 2030.

During the military operation in Syria, several hundred types of various weapons were tested in combat conditions. This was announced on Wednesday, July 14, by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

"We have checked more than 320 types of various weapons, including, by the way, your helicopters," he said at a meeting with the staff of the Rostvertol company.

The Tamir missile of the Iron Dome anti-aircraft missile System (SAM) launched by Israel in response to the Gaza Strip accidentally hit an F-15l fighter flying over the sector. This is reported by The Times Of Israel with reference to local television.

Two pairs of MiG-31 and Su-35 fighters escorted three US Air Force B-52N strategic bombers that approached the Russian border over the Bering Sea, the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation reports.

Russia promptly responded to the approach of a US reconnaissance aircraft to the Russian borders by sending a fighter jet to meet the uninvited guest. According to British readers, there is no news in this message, but some are joking. "What were the American pilots worried about, whether they turned to the Russians with the same pronoun," writes one of them.

Turkey has delivered the first Bayraktar TB2 unmanned complex to the Ukrainian Navy. This was announced on Thursday, July 16, by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

The Russian military on Thursday raised a MiG-31 fighter jet to escort a US Navy P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Kamchatka, the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation reported.