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The best way to deal with the drones will be other drones. This is the opinion of Lockheed Martin, which presented its new creation - "flying microwaves" called MoRFIUS.

Washington threatens Jakarta with sanctions for partnership with Moscow

Indonesia seems to be becoming the first major state to abandon full-scale military-technical cooperation with Russia.

India has mastered the production of Israeli missiles for air defense systems. Yesterday, March 16, the portal indiatimes.com He reported that KRAS has delivered the first batch of MRSAM missiles to the Indian Army and Air Force.

The Pentagon, as part of the Low-Cost Cruise Missile (LCCM) project, has completed the development of weapons that will create a swarm of low-cost Coyote unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of Raytheon's Block 3 version, allowing for "saturating" enemy air defense attacks, The Drive reports.

During the exercises in Kamchatka, the military personnel of the radiation chemical and biological protection unit made the positions of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems invisible to aviation and radar radars.

Missile weapons of the US Army can not replace the corresponding arsenal of the Air Force (Air Force) of the country, writes in a column for the American magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology, Lieutenant General of the Air Force of the country (retired) David Deptula.

In the Crimea and other regions of the south of Russia can deploy long-range anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMS) of the new generation S-500, as well as new medium-range air defense systems S-350, said the commander of the Southern Military District (SE) Army General Alexander Dvornikov.

The Turkish S-400 will have a partner-the HISAR-O complex.

The Egyptian publication NoonPost reacted to the news about the completion of the initial tests of the HISAR-O system. This was recently stated by the head of the Turkish Defense Industry Department, Ismail Demir.

Developed as part of the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) project, the helicopter for the US Army will receive a 20-millimeter cannon capable of" killing "lightly armored systems, in particular, the Russian-made Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and gun system (ZRPK), writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

The Eastern Military District will receive the Tor-M2 air defense system — one of the most effective short-range air defense systems in the world. They shoot down planes, helicopters, drones, cruise missiles, and even small quadrocopters. The new product will radically increase the capabilities of military air defense in the Far East.

Russia has supplied Belarus with new radar stations (radars). This was announced on March 11 by the head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of the Russian Federation Dmitry Shugaev.

Aircraft of the Royal Saudi Air Force destroyed a self-propelled launcher of the 2K12E "Square" complex during strikes on targets of the Yemeni movement "Ansar Allah"(Houthis).

The defeat of the combat vehicle with high-precision ammunition was demonstrated in the published video report.

Roomy, high-speed, modern-in the shipbuilding industry, some characteristics of the universal landing ships of the project 23900 were revealed. Two pennants have already been laid on the slipways of the Kerch plant "Bay". Previously, ships of this class were not built in Russia. Thanks to them, the fleet will receive unique opportunities for expeditionary operations.

The TCG Anadolu ship can become a carrier of attack drones. March 12, portal defensenews.com He reported that Baykar is developing a new version of the Bayraktar TB2 drone with the possibility of being based on a failed aircraft carrier.

The Ministry of Defense completes the formation of the Primorye air defense structure

In recent months, Russia has radically strengthened the grouping of air defense assets on the Far Eastern islands. In addition to the short-range anti-aircraft missile systems, units equipped with long-range S-400 and S-300V4 were deployed there. What threats should these defensive systems protect against and whether they are sufficient for the security of Primorye — military expert Anton Lavrov understood.

The US Air Force and Northrop Grumman have released the first images of the new B-21 Raider bomber. The photos were taken in combination with artistic renderings against the background of the hangars of Ellsworth Air Force Bases (South Dakota), Whiteman (Missouri) and Dice (Texas).

Sakhalin has completed the formation of a new air defense system. It was based on the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as the Pantsir-S missile and cannon systems. The group covers not only the island itself, but also the cities of Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Khabarovsk. In fact, the entire territory in the east of the country has turned into a missile bastion.

The network published the first photo of the mobile missile defense system HQ-19 of the Chinese army. As follows from the images, the HQ-19 kit includes two radars with AFAR: apparently, target detection and missile guidance, - interceptor launchers of two types, as well as a command post. All vehicles of the complex are mounted on four-axle all-terrain chassis.

Belarusian defense engineers are developing a mobile anti-aircraft missile system "TRIO" based on the ASILAK armored car.

According to the State Military-Industrial Committee of the Republic of Belarus, the novelty is designed to counter various types of high-precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Scientists of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - the All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics (RFNC-VNIITF), located in the city of Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region, have come up with a device for combating drones, which is a rocket from which a network of drones is released, it follows from a document published on the website of Rospatent.