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The Pakistani Navy, according to Shepherd, has decided to replace the anti-aircraft missile weapons of the Ada-class corvettes under construction (the Turkish MILGEM project).

MiG-31K fighters capable of carrying hypersonic missiles and Tu-22M3 long-range bombers flew over the Mediterranean Sea as part of the exercises. This was announced on June 29 by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The International exhibition of arms and Military Equipment "MILEX–2021"has ended in the Belarusian capital. One of the most popular expositions of the exhibition, held from June 23 to 26, 2021 in Minsk, was the products of the Russian Aerospace defense Concern Almaz-Antey. The guests of the exhibition were shown anti-aircraft missile systems of the Tor family, the Buk-M2E medium-range complex, the Antey-4000 anti-aircraft missile system, as well as the Adjutant universal target training complex and the operation of a number of new radar stations.

The South Korean Defense Procurement Authority (DAPA) decided to create its own air defense system, similar to the Israeli "Iron Dome". According to Yonhap, the development will begin next year and will be completed around 2035.

During the joint exercises of the forces of the permanent task force of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea and the aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces, tasks were worked out to repel the attack of enemy air assets and air defense training was conducted. This was told in the Russian Defense Ministry on June 28.

The Pantsir-M anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex (ZRAK) is capable of destroying the latest means of air attack, the Rostec State Corporation's High-Precision Complexes holding reported during the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021).

The largest exercise "Lightning Strike 2021" took place in the mountains in the south-west of Serbia with the key participation of military equipment purchased in the Russian Federation, or received under the agreement on military cooperation between Moscow and Belgrade, RIA Novosti reports.

JSC "Concern of East Kazakhstan Region" Almaz-Antey " and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus at the exhibition "MILEX-2021" approved a cooperation scheme for the repair of combat vehicles from the "Tor-M2K" air defense system in the interests of the Belarusian military department.

The crews of five ships of the Russian Navy, including the missile cruiser "Moscow", the frigates "Admiral Essen" and "Admiral Makarov", repelled the attack of a conditional enemy and conducted training of air defense forces at exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

Hypersonic weapons have already been put on combat duty – the Avangard and Dagger complexes, other unique weapons systems are on the way, among them the Sarmat ICBM, the Zircon shipboard hypersonic missile, the S – 500 Prometheus air defense system and other complexes.

The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, the Zircon shipboard hypersonic missile, and the S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft systems will soon be put on combat duty, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

At a meeting in the Kremlin with graduates of military universities, Vladimir Putin said that among the new weapons systems are the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, the Zircon hypersonic ship missile, and the S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft systems.

Kazakhstan will purchase modern short-range anti-aircraft missile systems "Tor-M2K". This was announced on Monday, June 28, by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic.

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The Russian over-the-horizon radar station "Sunflower-E" has unique qualities in comparison with foreign analogues and can simultaneously track more than 300 surface and air targets on an area of about 150 thousand square kilometers.

I'm looking for new weapons systems. For ex-super-athletes. So that they can fly past the air defense systems of Russia and China. The customer is the Pentagon. The agency decided to equip its AH-64 Apache with combat-ready systems. Better late than never?

Russian MiG-31K fighters, relocated to Syria for exercises, performed flights over the Mediterranean Sea with hypersonic missiles of the Kinzhal complex.

The holding company "High-precision Complexes" noted that the complex can be equipped with both new-built ships and ships undergoing modernization

The Pantsir-M anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex (ZRAK) is capable of destroying the latest means of air attack and fully provides the solution of the ship's air defense tasks.

The American analogue of the Russian over-the-horizon radar station "Sunflower" is a system of three Surface Wave Radar (SWR) radars from Raytheon, the designer of the Research Institute of Long-range Radio Communications (NIIDAR) Mikhail Skolotnev told TASS.

In terms of the depth of impact on the enemy, an aircraft carrier with long-range radar detection and control aircraft and carrier-based fighters will lose to surface ships equipped with Kalibr-NK missiles, Konstantin Sivkov, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information policy, Doctor of Military Sciences, predicts in the Military-Industrial Courier.

The anti-aircraft Missile Regiment of the Central Military District (CVO), stationed in the Irkutsk Region, will complete re-equipment with the modernized S-300PM-2 "Favorit"air defense systems by the end of the year.