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It monitors the surface and air situation and provides information about it to the command posts of the coastal surveillance system and the national Coast Guard forces

The over-the-horizon radar station (ZG radar) "Sunflower-E" was presented at the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) in St. Petersburg.

Russia is working on the issue of supplying Belarus with new radar stations, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) of Russia told Interfax.

Sniper pairs of special forces units of the Southern Military District for the first time began to train in shooting at drones and ground objects from the side of a helicopter barraging in the air. The maximum target range is two thousand meters.

The Ural-4320 became the platform for the installation of the British Rapier surface-to-air missile system.

The combat vehicle was demonstrated this month in the capital of Zambia, Lusaka, during a large-scale military parade dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the formation of the national armed forces.

The United States has begun deploying weapons at a missile defense base being created in northern Poland in Redzikovo, the Missile Defense Agency said.

The Iraqi People's Militia forces continue to operate improvised multiple launch rocket systems built on the chassis of tracked vehicles of the Kvadrat anti-aircraft missile system.

Three such launchers were seen during the rehearsals of the parade that these armed volunteer formations are going to hold.

The Israelis conducted a series of tests of a powerful laser system installed on the aircraft. With its help, it was possible to destroy the drones.

60 years ago, the S-125 short-range anti-aircraft system was adopted. It was a response to the changed tactics of the Air Force and is designed to deal with low-altitude high-speed targets.

After the war, the bombers received jet engines and climbed to heights inaccessible to anti-aircraft artillery. On the ground, long-range radars and interceptor missiles were urgently invented - so effective that by the mid-50s, the Air Force was forced to change tactics.

The video diary of innovations of the forum “Army 2021 " is a series of video broadcasts about innovative products of the most advanced enterprises of the military-industrial complex. The broadcasts will be held from August 23 to 27, 2021, during the Army-2021 forum, and are aimed at the heads of the main enterprises and the command of the Ministry of Defense.

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.