Latest news on "Air defense"

The range of destruction of unmanned aerial vehicles by the anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex "Pantsir" has been increased by 30%, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The Russian anti-aircraft gunner became the only participant of the "Clear Sky" competition at the Army International Games who hit a high-speed target-a TY-300D missile.

Russia will supply Myanmar with two short-range air defense systems "Pantsir", Dmitry Shugaev, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of the Russian Federation, told reporters.

Russian-made over-the-horizon radars, among other things, track the movement of inconspicuous NATO F-35 fighters and other aircraft built using stealth technologies.

Radar stations of the Russian Voronezh-type missile attack warning system are being upgraded to the level of the newest Yakhroma station. This radar station is being built in the Crimea.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has decided to deploy a system of over-the-horizon radar "Container", which are capable of detecting enemy aircraft at a range of 3 thousand km.

Russia has completed the modernization of the unique radar station "Don-2N", which provides anti-missile defense of Moscow, records the launch of ballistic missiles, and monitors space objects. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the general director of the concern "RTI Systems" Yuri Anoshko.

The Tor-MF air defense system is capable of providing not only self-defense of the ship on which it is installed, but also air defense of a connection of ships or a naval base on an area of up to 500 square kilometers.

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.

Rosoboronexport signed a contract at the Army-2021 forum for the integration of the Russian Palm air defense system into the armament system of the foreign customer's ship. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced by the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev.

Rosoboronexport has signed the first contract for the supply of the upgraded Pantsir-S1M anti-aircraft missile and gun system. This was reported in the press service of the company at the International Military-technical Forum "Army-2021".

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.

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 head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, said that Indian specialists are undergoing the second stage of training on the operation of the S-400 system.

The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system has been successfully tested against cruise missiles in the United States. August 24, portal upi.com He reported that the US Army conducted the first fire tests of its intermediate anti-missile system.

For the first time, Russia will sell to a foreign customer a mobile electronic counteraction complex "Repellent-Patrol", which provides zonal cover of territories for suppressing drones at a distance of up to 20 kilometers, RIA Novosti reports, citing a statement by Alexander Mikheev, Director General of Rosoboronexport.

The issue of the supply of S-400 air defense systems to Belarus has not yet passed into the practical plane, Dmitry Shugaev, the head of the Federal Customs Service of Russia, said in response to a question from Interfax.

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.

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.

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.