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The Tor-M2 anti-aircraft systems entered service with the 20th Motorized Rifle Division in Volgograd.

"Tor-M2" is the most modern air defense system in its class. It effectively fights against any aerial targets - from airplanes and helicopters to high-precision projectiles. This is a defensive weapon, experts say.

The heads of educational organizations of the Ministry of Defense were instructed to ensure strict control of medical examinations with rapid testing and isolation of cadets, trainees and pupils returning from vacations and vacations.

The Australian company GaardTech continues to expand the range of manufactured models of military equipment. So, at the end of last year, samples similar in appearance to the T-90, T-72 and BMP-3 were presented.

However, it is not necessary to talk about complete similarity with real tanks and Russian-made infantry fighting vehicles. For example, in the "nineties" they forgot to depict the hatches of the gunner-operator and the driver-mechanic. There is no imitation of an ejector on the "barrel of the gun" - a device that serves to remove powder gases after firing from the gun.

During the year, Russia intends to conduct five launches of the Sarmat heavy ICBM and one launch of the Avangard missile defense System.

Sources report that by the end of this year, the Russian military plans to conduct at least five launches of the heavy intercontinental ballistic missile "Sarmat", as well as at least one test launch of the domestic hypersonic missile complex "Avangard".

The Western Military District (ZVO) has sent about 3,000 military personnel to firing exercises in four regions of central and southwestern Russia.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered to temporarily reduce official business trips and vacations outside the country in the army and navy. In addition, he demanded to ensure the planned rates of re-vaccination of personnel in accordance with the approved schedules.

Russian and Belarusian pilots conducted joint patrols of the borders of the Union State on SU-30SM fighters. This was announced on January 11 by the Ministry of Defense of Belarus.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov called a difficult but businesslike meeting held on Sunday in Geneva, which precedes the negotiations with the United States on security guarantees scheduled for January 10.

During the storming of Grozny on December 31, 1995, the Russian command sent a wide variety of military equipment to the Chechen capital. Including one that was not intended for such combat operations at all.

Russian Ambassador to the United States Antonov: events in Kazakhstan are taking place after the American flight from Afghanistan and the rapid development of extremist movements in the region

According to the commander of the 4th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Southern Military District, Lieutenant General Nikolai Gostev, the indicator of the provision of anti-aircraft missile troops with equipment has reached 100%

The S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMS) will be delivered to the southern parts of the Russian army by 2025. This was announced by the commander of the 4th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Southern Military District, Lieutenant General Nikolai Gostev, in an interview with the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, published on Monday.

A group of experts on Russia during a videoconference on the eve of the talks in Geneva called on the national security adviser to the US President Jake Sullivan to send more weapons to Ukrainians, Axios reports with reference to the participants of the meeting.

The Estonian Defense Ministry intends to supply Ukraine with Javelin ATGM and 122-mm howitzers from the presence of the country's Armed Forces. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced on New Year's Eve by the head of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense Peeter Kuymet.

On New Year's Eve, Russian President Vladimir Putin ratified an agreement between Russia and Tajikistan on the creation of a joint regional air defense system.

In Kazakhstan, only local special forces and the military are involved in the counter-terrorism operation, Secretary of State of the Republic Yerlan Karin said.

Secretary of State of Kazakhstan Yerlan Karin is confident that such a cynical scenario of what happened in the republic can be unleashed against any other country.

In 2021, more than 170 launches of foreign and domestic ballistic missiles and space missiles were detected by the on-duty means of the Russian missile defense system, specialized means of space and missile defense control systems.

This year, the Strategic Missile Forces plan to conduct more than 10 launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, most of which will be test launches.

More than 2 thousand servicemen of the CSTO forces and 250 units of military equipment are performing peacekeeping tasks in Kazakhstan, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said.

More than 100 flights of Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft were used to transfer CSTO peacekeepers to Kazakhstan, Secretary General of the Organization Stanislav Zas said.