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Russia and Myanmar are working closely on the arms market, said the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev.[/b]

"We are closely cooperating on the supply of military products, including aviation," Mikheev told Interfax at the MAKS-2021 air show.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted exercises to repel air strikes on the border with Crimea, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported on Facebook. "As part of the tactical training of air defense units <...>, combat crews of Buk anti-aircraft missile systems were trained to repel an airstrike by a conditional enemy," the release says.

Already this year, the Russian army may receive a new generation air defense system. Yesterday, on July 20, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on its official YouTube channel published the launch of a missile of a new air defense system.

An exercise with the personnel of the anti-aircraft missile regiment of the Kantemirovsky Tank Division of the Western Military District (ZVO) to repel massive air attacks on important military, industrial and administrative facilities has started in the Moscow Region.

The new Voronezh-M radar station of the Russian missile attack warning system (SPRN) near Sevastopol will "see" the Mediterranean Sea and the central part of the Atlantic Ocean, the general designer of the SPRN Sergey Boev told Interfax at the MAKS-2021 air show in Zhukovsky, near Moscow.

Combat crews of the Leningrad Association of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District hit the equipment and manpower of the "enemy". The exercises were held at the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan Region, they fired from the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex.

The first contracts have already been signed, said the general director of the company Alexander Mikheev

Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec state Corporation) is fulfilling a contract for the supply of Orion-E unmanned aerial vehicles. This was announced to journalists during the MAKS-2021 air show by Alexander Mikheev, General Director of Rosoboronexport.

Deliveries will begin as planned, in the fourth quarter of this year

The S-400 batch planned for delivery to India in the fourth quarter is at the final stage of production, the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax on Tuesday.

The project will be ready in the coming months, said the general director of the company Alexander Mikheev

Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec state Corporation) will prepare a project for the supply of an additional batch of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to Turkey in the coming months. This was announced to journalists during the MAKS-2021 air show by Alexander Mikheev, General Director of Rosoboronexport.

The Chinese company Aerospace Long-March International (ALIT) has introduced a new ship-based anti-aircraft missile system LY-80N, intended for export.

For the first time, the Russian Ministry of Defense showed footage of test live firing at a high-speed ballistic target, carried out from the Kapustin Yar test site with the latest domestic S-500 anti-aircraft missile system.

Russia's creation of hypersonic missiles is also a response to the deployment of the American missile defense system in Romania and Poland. This was announced on Tuesday, July 20, by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

The task of the test firing of the S-500 Prometheus missile defense system was to check the launch complex and the rocket. The radar part of the system was tested and adopted by the state commission last year, military expert Sergey Khatylev, who led the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Moscow Air defense from 2007-2009, told MK.

Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said that serial deliveries of the S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile system to the Russian military will begin this year.

Today, the XV International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2021 opened in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, and its work will last until July 25. The event is attended by the Concern of East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz-Antey" - existing and promising samples of civil, dual-use and military products of 14 subsidiaries of the holding are presented at the exhibition sites, according to an official press release.

Anti-aircraft gunners of the motorized rifle division of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District (SEO) in Chechnya destroyed an unmanned strike aircraft of a conditional enemy, the press service of the SEO reports.

The Almaz-Antey Aerospace Defense Concern will show for the first time at the MAKS-2021 Aerospace Salon an upgraded Wolf-18 drone designed to intercept and destroy mini-drones, the company's press service reported on Friday.

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

During the tests, the American Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS), a military control system that provides interaction with other elements of anti-missile and air defense (ABM and air defense), successfully shot down two targets that simulate enemy cruise missiles, Breaking Defense reports.

The US authorities are planning to build a special intelligence base to monitor the actions of Russia and China in space. This became known to Sky News.