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Aircraft of the Royal Saudi Air Force destroyed a self-propelled launcher of the 2K12E "Square" complex during strikes on targets of the Yemeni movement "Ansar Allah"(Houthis).

The defeat of the combat vehicle with high-precision ammunition was demonstrated in the published video report.

The network published the first photo of the mobile missile defense system HQ-19 of the Chinese army. As follows from the images, the HQ-19 kit includes two radars with AFAR: apparently, target detection and missile guidance, - interceptor launchers of two types, as well as a command post. All vehicles of the complex are mounted on four-axle all-terrain chassis.

Belarusian defense engineers are developing a mobile anti-aircraft missile system "TRIO" based on the ASILAK armored car.

According to the State Military-Industrial Committee of the Republic of Belarus, the novelty is designed to counter various types of high-precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Sakhalin has completed the formation of a new air defense system. It was based on the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as the Pantsir-S missile and cannon systems. The group covers not only the island itself, but also the cities of Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Khabarovsk. In fact, the entire territory in the east of the country has turned into a missile bastion.

Scientists of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - the All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics (RFNC-VNIITF), located in the city of Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region, have come up with a device for combating drones, which is a rocket from which a network of drones is released, it follows from a document published on the website of Rospatent.

MiG-31 planes will intercept ballistic missiles, Izvestia reports, citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

The US Army will receive the most powerful laser weapons in the world

The United States is developing a new pulsed laser weapon. According to the expectations of the US military, it should become more powerful than all currently existing models, and at once by three orders of magnitude.

The Admiral Nakhimov heavy nuclear cruiser will become the most dangerous ship of the Russian Navy thanks to new weapons, radars and electronic warfare equipment. After modernization, the project 1144 ship will be able to sink vessels of any displacement.

MBDA on March 3 announced the signing of the first contract with an unnamed foreign customer for the supply of a new air defense system "Albatros NG" (Albatros NG) based on the anti-aircraft guided missile CAMM-ER.

The production and procurement programs of the American fifth-generation F-35 fighter-bomber were a "complete disaster". This was stated on March 5 by the chairman of the Committee on the Armed Forces of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Adam Smith.

The US Army is studying the possibility of using Israeli missiles on its air defense systems. March 5, portal breakingdefense.com He announced that the SkyCeptor missiles of the David's Sling complex are now available for Patriot missile systems.

Defense Ministers of Russia and Belarus Sergei Shoigu and Viktor Khrenin at talks in Moscow on Friday agreed to create three training centers for joint training of military personnel, one of the centers will be based in Belarus, the Russian Defense Ministry reported

The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States until the end of 2021 will begin testing on-board collision warning systems with drones for passenger aircraft. According to Flightglobal, the systems will be tested at five international airports: Atlantic City in New Jersey, Columbus in Ohio, Huntsville in Alabama, and Seattle/Tacoma in Washington and Syracuse in New York.

Czech company RETIA at the IDEX-2021 exhibition in Abu Dhabi demonstrated a multi-purpose three-axis radar ReGUARD, designed to detect and track ground and low-flying air targets.

Naval aviation will be connected to the "killer" networks. The Navy will receive a unique automated control system (ACS). Thanks to the new aircraft, helicopters and drones in real time will be able not only to transmit, but also to receive the coordinates and parameters of targets from ships, submarines and ground surveillance systems.

The Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh exposed mock-ups of the Tor-M2 anti-aircraft missile systems to the Azerbaijani high-precision weapons.

The new contract provides for maintenance, operational repair and completion of target missiles

The Kalashnikov Group of Companies (GC) (part of the Rostec State Corporation) will supply the Russian Defense Ministry with 20 Armavir high-altitude target missiles by the end of 2022. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the press service of "Kalashnikov".

The Israeli missile attack on the suburbs of Damascus on February 28 was repelled by the Pantsir-S and Buk-M2 systems, confirming their high effectiveness, a military source told RIA Novosti on Monday.

The Polish company Mesko SA has started to supply the national armed forces with another batch of several hundred missiles and launchers for Piorun portable anti-aircraft systems.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have entered the race for the introduction of AI in the field of defense

By 2030, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates plan to develop military artificial intelligence technologies to a level that can help their economies reduce their dependence on oil sales. How the introduction of such technologies will affect the defense capabilities of the two states - in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».