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Military-technical cooperation between Russia and Kyrgyzstan is aimed at strengthening the common defense potential of the CSTO, including air defense, the press secretary of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of the Russian Federation, Valeria Reshetnikova, told RIA Novosti.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have entered the race for the introduction of AI in the field of defense

By 2030, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates plan to develop military artificial intelligence technologies to a level that can help their economies reduce their dependence on oil sales. How the introduction of such technologies will affect the defense capabilities of the two states - in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

The Polish company Mesko SA has started to supply the national armed forces with another batch of several hundred missiles and launchers for Piorun portable anti-aircraft systems.

Turkey is in talks to buy the second batch of S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems. The issue of technological cooperation is also being considered.

Saudi Arabia is discussing with Russia the supply of S-400 "Triumph" air defense systems and Su-35 fighters.

The head of the Rostec corporation, Sergey Chemezov, said in an interview with RT that Moscow and Riyadh are negotiating the supply of S-400 systems and Su-35 fighters. He clarified that the contract has not yet been signed.

BOD "Marshal Shaposhnikov" will turn into a frigate with "Calibers" and "Zircons"

The modernization of the remaining 30-40-year-old large anti-submarine ships of the project 1155 is designed to support the minimum necessary grouping of surface warships of the ocean zone-cruise missile carriers to the readiness of the project 22350M frigates and the Leader-class destroyers, the laying of the main hulls of which is expected in 2022-2024.

In the training center of anti-aircraft missile troops of the Military Academy ASD them. Zhukov carried out work on the development of the teaching staff of s-350 "Vityaz" and the preparation of educational material resources to the training of military specialists.

Calculations of the S-400 "Triumph" anti-aircraft missile systems have taken up combat duty on the island of Sakhalin, the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO) reports on Wednesday.

The volume of military contracts concluded in 2020 between Russia and African countries amounted to more than $ 1.5 billion. Rosoboronexport's share of the local arms market has grown to a staggering 49 percent. Over the past two decades, Moscow has significantly pushed the main competitors in Africa for arms imports: Washington and Paris, writes The National Interest.

The Polish company PIT-RADWAR presented the concept of a new short-range air defense system. It is stated that the system will be able to hit all types of air targets, including attack helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, barrage ammunition and cruise missiles.

Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec) will present a new integrated system for countering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at the IDEX 2021 International Defense Exhibition in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The 36 Tomahawk cruise missiles that did not reach the Al-Shayrat base in Homs (Syria) on April 7, 2017, could have been " destroyed "by Russian electronic warfare (EW) means, writes the Military-Industrial Courier.

Buyers are already making demands about the ability to resist them

The hypersonic revolution has begun in the world. According to Izvestia sources familiar with the situation on the arms market, foreign buyers are already demanding that many Russian systems be able to resist hypersonic weapons (GZO).

Destroyers, reconnaissance and strategic aircraft, large-scale exercises with allies-the NATO bloc continues to increase its military presence in the Black Sea region. The leaders of the organization claim that they are doing this involuntarily-allegedly "because of the increased activity of Russia". Moreover, when planning operations, Western generals and admirals are increasingly resorting to the help of Ukrainians who are ready to do anything to get closer to the alliance.

Russia occupies 21 percent of the global arms market, with 47 countries among its customers. Over the past decades, a lot of advanced systems have been released, which are actively sold abroad. The National Interest named the five most outstanding.

The small anti-submarine ship "Brest" of the Northern Fleet during exercises at the training ground in the Barents Sea repelled a training air attack. This was reported in the press service of the Northern Fleet.

The S-400 air defense systems division will take up combat duty on Sakhalin in the middle of next week, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The system for combating unmanned aerial vehicles, including electronic and anti-aircraft countermeasures, will be presented by Rosoboronexport at the IDEX-2021 defense exhibition, which opens on February 21 in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

The newspaper "Kommersant" under the headline "The tension has long grown so that you no longer notice additional shades": Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov on the export of weapons " published an interview with the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov.

Russia and Turkey are discussing various areas of military-technical cooperation, Deputy head of the Russian Federal Customs Service Alexey Frolkin told reporters, answering a question about the progress of negotiations on a new batch of S-400.