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The ships and submarines of the Northern Fleet on Thursday repelled a massive air attack as part of a bilateral tactical exercise of diverse forces to protect Russia's Arctic borders from threats from sea directions. They hit eight cruise missiles.

The Myanmar military delegation came to Russia to get acquainted with the production of the Pantsir air defense systems, an informed source told Interfax.

In the past, Russian aircraft of old types with inefficient navigation systems sometimes accidentally "hooked" the territory of the airspace of European countries, which caused an angry reaction from neighboring states and accusations of wanting to occupy the region, writes Izvestia columnist Anton Lavrov.

Qatar and Russia are exchanging military delegations for training and gathering information, but there is no progress on the issue of supplying S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to Doha. This was announced on June 9 by the Qatari Ambassador to Russia, Sheikh Ahmed bin Nasser Al Thani.

As reported, for a year and a half after launching, the border patrol ship Rasul Gamzatov (the 14th and last in the Project 22460 series), which is being defended at the Almaz Shipbuilding Company in St. Petersburg and has not yet been put into operation, received a new combat module on the forecastle, which the previous ships of this project were not equipped with.

The Western military District (ZVO) will be reinforced with hypersonic missile systems "Dagger", according to "Izvestia", citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

The S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft systems will be equipped with the latest interceptors. Their arsenal will include special ammunition that can destroy the warheads of enemy ballistic missiles.

It is pointless to compare the power of the Armed Forces of Russia and Ukraine, since they are "completely different leagues". On Friday, June 4, military expert Dmitry Boltenkov told Izvestia.

Serial deliveries of new-generation S-500 Prometheus air defense systems and Zircon hypersonic missiles will soon begin, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told Interfax.

The new-generation S-500 Prometheus air defense systems and the Zircon hypersonic missiles will soon be mass-delivered to the military units of the Russian army. This was stated at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov.

In Ukraine, they said that they managed to localize the Soviet 23-mm twin anti-aircraft gun ZU-23-2. According to the "Ukrainian Militaristic Portal", the first sample is currently located at the Rivne test site, where it is checked by specialists of the State Research Institute for Testing and Certification of Weapons and Military Equipment.

The Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Office in Geneva, Andrey Belousov, noted that " now the launches of American satellites are put on stream, which is more and more like a creeping expansion in space."

Turkey cannot accept the proposals of other countries to abandon the use of the S-400 air defense system. This was stated by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, RIA Novosti reports.

Deliveries of S-400 systems to India are carried out in accordance with the contract, New Delhi confirms its commitment to the agreements, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

China has a new anti-aircraft missile and gun system (ZRPC) in service. May 31 portal globaltimes.cn he reported that the company China South Industries Group (CSGC) has handed over the first self-propelled air defense systems of a new type to the army.

Developed in the 50s of the last century in the USSR, the S-75 Dvina anti-aircraft missile system once again confirmed its effectiveness by destroying a modern drone in the sky of Syria. The shooting took place as part of the air defense training of the government troops.

The Russian anti-aircraft missile system of the new generation S-500 can become a serious competitor to the advanced stealth platforms of NATO, the National Interest portal reports.

During the all-Army competition for field training among the units of the military air defense named after Colonel General B. I. Dukhov, anti-aircraft gunners jointly hit high-speed air targets.

The head of the investigation team in the case of the downed Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in 2014 in the sky over the Donbass, Digna van Butzelar, said that the investigation is currently working to identify those who ordered the delivery of the Buk anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) to Ukraine and those who directly "pressed the button".

The Igla man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) units intercepted an unmanned "swarm" of a simulated enemy during the All-Army Field Training competition among the air defense units of the military air Defense named after Colonel General B. I. Dukhov.