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On Tuesday, September 21, the air defense units covering the capital's sky were put on alert. Although the alarm was a training signal, the soldiers and officers had to act without discounts on conventions. If an enemy missile or an intruder aircraft had happened to fly up to Moscow at that time, they would not have had a chance to evade defeat.

The Russian military has launched major exercises in the south against the background of maneuvers launched in Ukraine with the participation of NATO contingents. About 10 thousand Russian servicemen are involved in the exercises, which began at training grounds in the Rostov region, Chechnya, Crimea and South Ossetia, the Southern Military District (SE) said on Monday.

The Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and gun systems located on the Kerch Peninsula (eastern part of Crimea) have worked out the destruction of cruise missiles, the official representative of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation Alexey Rulev said.

The Russian aerospace Forces have launched a new missile defense system, the Defense Ministry told reporters.

Russian troops began receiving S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile systems. On September 16, the TASS news agency reported that the S-500 Prometheus complex had passed state tests, and it began to be delivered to the army.

State tests of the new S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile system have been completed, and Russian troops have begun receiving the first samples of this weapon, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said.

US military expert Chris Osborne said that the US is closing the gap with Russia in the field of hypersonic weapons. On Saturday, September 18, the observer reported this in his article for the National Interest magazine.

For the first time, the commanders of the battalion tactical groups of the military base of the Southern Military District (SE) used mobile anti-tank groups to fight the columns of the conditional enemy in the mountains of South Ossetia.

The British company MSI-Defense Systems Limited (MSI-DSL) and the Estonian Milrem Robotics jointly presented a mobile system for countering unmanned aerial vehicles at the DSEI-2021 exhibition in London.

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has started installing weapons on new ships of the Israeli Navy. Four Sa'ar 6-type corvettes will receive new Barak MX anti-aircraft missile systems and the Iron Dome anti-missile Defense System (ABM). This is reported by the Navy Recognition portal.

Developed in the 40s, the Soviet S-60 anti-aircraft artillery system is still in service with almost three dozen countries around the world. These systems are also actively used in the air defense units of the Vietnamese People's Army.

India is named the first potential buyer of the S-500 from Russia

The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) have begun to receive the first samples of the latest S-500 anti-aircraft missile system, called Prometheus. This is a modern complex capable of repelling attacks even from space. The government does not exclude that in the future, India will become the first country where the Russian Federation will sell Prometheus.

The 201st Russian military base stationed in Tajikistan will receive upgraded T-72B3M tanks with improved maneuverability and crew protection.

Instead of the costly and difficult path of full-fledged military construction, Ukraine is looking for a" Wunderwaffe "(from the German Wunderwaffe) — a" miracle weapon "that would allow it to repel all the phantom attacks of the Russian side at once, said military observer of Izvestia Anton Lavrov.

India may become the first buyer of the latest Russian S-500 anti-aircraft missile system, but we will talk about deliveries only after the Russian army is saturated with these complexes, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told reporters on Thursday.

Which of the foreign customers can be among the first to be supplied with our unique latest S-500 anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs), Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government Yuri Borisov told reporters at the Tyumen Oil and Gas Forum.[

The strategic Russian-Belarusian exercises "West-2021", which made a lot of noise abroad, have come to an end. Almost 200 thousand servicemen who participated in them are returning to their places of permanent deployment. Although the exercises were officially "defensive" in nature, the British author insists that Russia was "rehearsing" an invasion of NATO countries.

The 80K6KS1 "Phoenix-1" radar detection station will become part of the Ukrainian Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs). The new station has been adopted by the Ukrainian armed forces, Defense Express reports.

The White House did not confirm the reports of the American press that the United States could allegedly supply Ukraine with an Iron Dome missile defense system. This was stated on September 15 during a briefing by a representative of the US administration, Jennifer Psaki.

A military expert, retired Colonel Viktor Litovkin, on Wednesday, September 15, commented to Izvestia on the information that Ukraine can receive two tactical anti-missile defense systems (ABM) "Iron Dome"from the United States.