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A video posted on YouTube by the US Army showing possible scenarios for the use of the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) shows a "strike" on the Russian project 1164 cruiser "Atlant" (NATO code — "Glory") and the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system "Triumph", reports The Drive.

The Biden administration has begun reducing US anti-missile systems in the Middle East as part of a reorientation of US military strategy, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Since the beginning of the Cold War, unmanned US reconnaissance balloons have become a real headache for the Soviet air defense system. To solve the problem, the M-17 Stratosphere interceptor was developed under the guidance of designer Vladimir Myasishchev.

As part of the Baltops 2021 exercise, the US army "tested" a new Challenger 650 Artemis reconnaissance and target designation aircraft in Russia, Izvestia reports, citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

Retired Colonel Viktor Baranets said that Russia has real weapons at its disposal that can strike back at the United States in the event of an attack and missile attacks. His words are quoted by "Moskovsky Komsomolets".

On June 17, MBDA Group announced the signing of a contract to equip the new Tamandare-class frigates of the Brazilian Navy with Sea Ceptor anti-aircraft missile systems.

During the exercise Africa Lion 2021, held under the leadership of the United States in the countries of North and West Africa, simulated attacks on Russian anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) S-400 "Triumph", writes The Drive.

A tactical exercise with the anti-aircraft missile unit of the Southern Military District, equipped with a unique S-300V4 anti-aircraft missile system, took place in the Krasnodar Territory, the press service of the Southern Military District reported on Thursday.

The troops in the east of the country will be among the first to receive man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) "Verba" in combination with specially designed to protect the fighters of the armored vehicles "Typhoon-AIR DEFENSE".

Two of the three tests of the combined US missile defense system ended in failure, according to a report by the US government Accountability Office.

According to the Ukrainian resource "Ukrainian Militarny Portal", the Ukrainian state enterprise "State Kiev Design Bureau "Luch" at the next defense-industrial exhibition "Zbroya ta Bezpeka-2021" held in Kiev from June 15 to 18, 2021, presented materials on the advanced project of the medium-range anti-aircraft missile system being developed by it.

Deputy Mayor of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol Sergey Zakharov said that the city administration intends to purchase the Israeli missile defense system "Iron Dome", reports the portal Focus.ua June 10.

The ships and submarines of the Northern Fleet on Thursday repelled a massive air attack as part of a bilateral tactical exercise of diverse forces to protect Russia's Arctic borders from threats from sea directions. They hit eight cruise missiles.

MC-130J Commando II aircraft of the Air Force (Air Force) The US dropped a cargo simulating a pallet with AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) cruise stealth missiles, The Drive reports.

Created by the American military-industrial corporation Northrop Grumman in the interests of the Air Force (Air Force) The US strategic stealth bomber B-21 Raider, called the" coolest "aircraft in the world, will be invulnerable to Russian anti-aircraft missile systems S-500 "Prometheus", writes The National Interest.

Qatar and Russia are exchanging military delegations for training and gathering information, but there is no progress on the issue of supplying S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to Doha. This was announced on June 9 by the Qatari Ambassador to Russia, Sheikh Ahmed bin Nasser Al Thani.

In the past, Russian aircraft of old types with inefficient navigation systems sometimes accidentally "hooked" the territory of the airspace of European countries, which caused an angry reaction from neighboring states and accusations of wanting to occupy the region, writes Izvestia columnist Anton Lavrov.

The Myanmar military delegation came to Russia to get acquainted with the production of the Pantsir air defense systems, an informed source told Interfax.

The Western military District (ZVO) will be reinforced with hypersonic missile systems "Dagger", according to "Izvestia", citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

As reported, for a year and a half after launching, the border patrol ship Rasul Gamzatov (the 14th and last in the Project 22460 series), which is being defended at the Almaz Shipbuilding Company in St. Petersburg and has not yet been put into operation, received a new combat module on the forecastle, which the previous ships of this project were not equipped with.