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This year, for the first time, platoon sets of the Gibka-S ultra-short-range mobile anti-aircraft missile system will begin to arrive in the troops. This was reported in the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

We are talking about a technology called "railgun", which accelerates the projectile due to a magnetic field

The Japanese Defense Ministry intends to develop electromagnetic guns capable of countering hypersonic missiles. This was reported on Wednesday by the Nikkei newspaper.

Combat vehicles of tactical and army aviation will fly over the city

S-400 Triumph systems, Pantsir-S complexes, helicopters, as well as personnel will take part in the parade on Palace Square to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from the blockade during the Great Patriotic War. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the press service of the Western Military District.

Almaz-Antey Concern, a Russian manufacturer of air defense systems, intends to increase the production of radio-electronic equipment and communications equipment, including civilian ones, against the background of a slight decline in exports, said Pavel Sozinov, the concern's general designer.

The air defense systems manufactured by Almaz-Antey Concern are the most reliable in the world and the most demanded weapons on the world market. This was announced on Wednesday, January 5, by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with the general designer of Almaz-Antey Pavel Sozinov, according to a statement on the Kremlin's website.

Russian and Belarusian fighter jets conducted a new patrol of the state border of Belarus, the Belarusian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

Vladimir Putin called the Almaz-Antey concern's air defense systems the most reliable in the world

President Vladimir Putin gave an assessment of the Russian air defense systems developed by the Almaz-Antey concern. This is reported by TASS.

Almaz-Antey has completed the main part of the reorganization of the air traffic control system and has re-equipped most of the airports with new equipment, Pavel Sozinov, general designer of the concern, said.

Saudi Arabia's air defense system intercepted and destroyed five unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) launched in the direction of the kingdom, the Arab coalition against the Houthis said in a statement on Tuesday.

In 2022, an anti-aircraft missile regiment will be formed in Khakassia, equipped with Pantsir-S missile and cannon complexes. Its personnel will be on combat duty for the air defense of the region. This was reported in the press service of the Central Military District.

As specified in the Russian Defense Ministry, the specialists of the Main Center for the Exploration of the Space Situation paid special attention to the control of orbital groupings of foreign satellites

The space forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces controlled the situation in near-Earth space and the termination of the ballistic existence of more than 400 vehicles. This is stated in the message of the Russian Defense Ministry.

More than 1.7 thousand spacecraft were launched into orbit in 2021 under the control of the Space Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces, according to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry.

As the institute clarified, the telescope is a high-precision means of monitoring bright space objects

The Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences has launched a new telescope in Altai, which in the future will allow predicting dangerous approaches of objects in orbit. This is stated in the message of the institute, distributed on Monday.

A video has appeared on social networks of Iranian Air Force aircraft testing the interception and destruction of an aerial simulator of a TDU-11B cruise missile. MiG-29 fighters took part in the exercises, which hit the target with R-73 melee missiles.

The network published a video of the interception of a missile by MiG-29 fighters at exercises in Iran

A new video of the exercises of the Iranian Air Force aircraft, which practiced the interception and destruction of the simulator of the TDU-11B cruise missile, has been published online. MiG-29 fighters hit the target with melee missiles. This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Ka-52 helicopters, Su-25SM3 aircraft equipped with the latest sighting systems, as well as the S-350 Vityaz anti-aircraft missile system, as part of the state defense order, entered service with the 4th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Southern Military District in 2021, Army Commander Lieutenant General Nikolai Gostev said in an interview with the Military Bulletin of the South of Russia newspaper.

Anti-aircraft units of the 4th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Southern Military District were the first in Russia to receive the modern S-350 Vityaz missile system. New anti-aircraft missile systems have already entered combat duty.

Calculations of the Bastion anti-ship missile system, which are on duty on Matua Island (Kuril Islands), monitor the water area and strait zones around the clock, the Pacific Fleet said on Saturday.

The American media have identified five "deadliest" types of Russian weapons.

According to the publication 19Fortyfive, we are talking, in particular, about an unmanned underwater vehicle with a nuclear power plant "Poseidon". The publication describes it as a nuclear torpedo the size of a bus and with a huge range.

The construction of the Voronezh radar station (radar) of the Russian missile attack warning System (SPRN) will be completed in 2022, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.