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The air defense units stationed in the Moscow region conducted an exercise on Wednesday to repel a massive missile and air strike of a conditional enemy, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Thursday.

The Syrian air defense (air defense) repelled an Israeli attack in the sky over Homs, the Syrian state television channel Al-Ekhbariya reported.

The program for the creation of enlarged air traffic management centers (ATM) in Russia will be completed next year, said Dmitry Savitsky, Deputy General Director for products for the air navigation system and dual-use products of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region.

Alexander Mikheev, General Director of Rosoboronexport, said on Thursday, July 22, that foreign partners want to buy in Russia, first of all, Su and MiG fighter jets, Il-76 and Il-78 aircraft, Mil and Kamov helicopters, as well as Pantsiri.

Rosoboronexport has signed contracts worth over €1 billion within the framework of the MAKS-2021 air show. This was announced on July 22 by the head of the company, Alexander Mikheev.

The concern of East Kazakhstan Region Almaz-Antey presented at the MAKS-2021 air show an unmanned interceptor of small-sized drones "Wolf-18", which can independently detect UAVs and shoot them down.

The Defense Ministry plans to build several more such stations on the territory of the country, said Lieutenant General Andrey Demin, commander of the 1st Army of Air and Missile Defense (special purpose).

The new-generation S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile systems will enter service with the army, which provides anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense (air defense-missile defense) of Moscow, Lieutenant General Andrey Demin, commander of the 1st Army of special-purpose Air Defense-Missile Defense, said in an interview with the Russian Defense Ministry newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, published on Wednesday, July 21.

The new-generation S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile systems will enter service with the army, which provides air and missile defense (air defense-missile defense) of Moscow, the Russian military said.

Russia is ready to offer India the Pantsir-S short-range air defense systems in the development of the contract for the supply of S-400 air defense systems, the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax.

The US Department of Defense announced the signing of an agreement for the supply of Stinger anti-aircraft guided missiles by the US Air Defense Command with Raytheon.

Russia and Myanmar are working closely on the arms market, said the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev.[/b]

"We are closely cooperating on the supply of military products, including aviation," Mikheev told Interfax at the MAKS-2021 air show.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted exercises to repel air strikes on the border with Crimea, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported on Facebook. "As part of the tactical training of air defense units <...>, combat crews of Buk anti-aircraft missile systems were trained to repel an airstrike by a conditional enemy," the release says.

Already this year, the Russian army may receive a new generation air defense system. Yesterday, on July 20, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on its official YouTube channel published the launch of a missile of a new air defense system.

An exercise with the personnel of the anti-aircraft missile regiment of the Kantemirovsky Tank Division of the Western Military District (ZVO) to repel massive air attacks on important military, industrial and administrative facilities has started in the Moscow Region.

The new Voronezh-M radar station of the Russian missile attack warning system (SPRN) near Sevastopol will "see" the Mediterranean Sea and the central part of the Atlantic Ocean, the general designer of the SPRN Sergey Boev told Interfax at the MAKS-2021 air show in Zhukovsky, near Moscow.

Combat crews of the Leningrad Association of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District hit the equipment and manpower of the "enemy". The exercises were held at the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan Region, they fired from the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex.

The first contracts have already been signed, said the general director of the company Alexander Mikheev

Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec state Corporation) is fulfilling a contract for the supply of Orion-E unmanned aerial vehicles. This was announced to journalists during the MAKS-2021 air show by Alexander Mikheev, General Director of Rosoboronexport.

Deliveries will begin as planned, in the fourth quarter of this year

The S-400 batch planned for delivery to India in the fourth quarter is at the final stage of production, the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax on Tuesday.

The project will be ready in the coming months, said the general director of the company Alexander Mikheev

Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec state Corporation) will prepare a project for the supply of an additional batch of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to Turkey in the coming months. This was announced to journalists during the MAKS-2021 air show by Alexander Mikheev, General Director of Rosoboronexport.