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The second contract for the supply of an additional batch of S-400 systems (S-400 SAM) to Turkey may be signed this year. This was announced on Wednesday, August 25, by the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev.

The Turkish company Meteksan Defense presented an upgraded version of the Kapan UAV counteraction system (Kapan) as part of the IDEF-2021 exhibition held in Istanbul.

State tests of Lancet barrage ammunition, nicknamed "kamikaze drones", will begin at the end of 2021. This was announced at the Army-2021 forum by a representative of the Kalashnikov Group of companies.

The Far East is being made inaccessible to air attack means. Whether we are talking about foreign planes, drones or various types of missiles - all of them will be detected in time and guaranteed to be destroyed. To do this, a new generation of radar stations is being installed in the east of the country.

American fifth-generation fighters F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II can be detected by Russian radars, Pavel Sozinov, General designer, Deputy General Director of the Almaz-Antey concern, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The Turkish Bayraktar TB2 attack and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an easy target for Russian anti-aircraft missile systems, Pavel Sozinov, general designer, deputy General Director of the Almaz-Antey concern, told RIA Novosti.

The tests of the highly mobile universal target training complex (UMTK) "Adjutant" will be completed by the end of the year, said Vyacheslav Dzirkaln, Deputy General Director for Foreign Economic Activity of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region.

According to the commander of the Airborne Forces Andrey Serdyukov, the supply of air defense systems will be carried out separately

The Ptitselov airborne anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) will enter service with the Airborne Troops in 2024. This was reported to TASS on Tuesday by the commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel-General Andrey Serdyukov.

The air defense calculations used the Favorit anti-aircraft missile system and the Pantsir-S1 missile and gun system to repel a raid by bombers and unmanned aircraft of a conditional enemy at the Privolzhsky airfield in the Astrakhan region.

Russian developers have started creating mini-missiles for the destruction of unmanned aerial vehicles.

According to Pavel Sozinov, the general designer of the Almaz-Antey concern, the projectile will be a small-sized anti-aircraft missile. As RIA Novosti notes, the work is financed at the expense of the company.

Russia is ready to provide all types of Myanmar's armed forces with equipment and weapons within the framework of military-technical cooperation, the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax.

"Shell-С1М" got a new anti-aircraft guided missiles, so increased the range target and 20 to 30 km and a height of 15 to 18 km

Rosoboronexport (part of state Corporation rostec) performs a pre-contract work on anti-aircraft missile and gun systems (zrpk) "Pantsir-С1М" with ten countries in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. This was reported to TASS by Rosoboronexport during the international military-technical forum "Army-2021".

Hypersonic missiles, which are being created in the West, do not pose big problems for Russia's anti-aircraft missile systems, the country is able to successfully fight them. This was announced on August 24 by Pavel Sozinov, General Designer of the Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region.

Hypersonic missiles created in the West do not pose big problems for Russian anti-aircraft missile systems, Russia will be able to successfully shoot them down, Pavel Sozinov, general designer of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region, told RIA Novosti.

The contract for the supply of an additional batch of S-400 to Turkey is planned to be signed in the near future, the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, said in response to a question from Interfax

The new-generation S-500 air defense system is being mass-produced, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told Interfax.

The Sosna short-range anti-aircraft missile system continues to demonstrate its versatility. At the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", a version on the chassis of the four-axle domestic armored personnel carrier BTR-82A was presented for the first time.

The first group of Indian specialists has already completed training on these systems

Deliveries of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to India will begin before the end of this year, said Vyacheslav Dzirkaln, Deputy General Director for Foreign Economic Activity of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region.

The command of the French Armed Forces announced the testing of a 40-mm automatic grenade launcher manufactured by Heckler und Koch with the use of air-detonating grenades to neutralize micro - and mini-unmanned aerial vehicles.

One of the novelties of Rostec at the Army-2021 MVTF was the Pantsir-S1M anti-aircraft missile and gun system (an upgraded version of Pantsir-S1), capable of detecting air targets at a distance of up to 80 km.