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The system for combating unmanned aerial vehicles, including electronic and anti-aircraft countermeasures, will be presented by Rosoboronexport at the IDEX-2021 defense exhibition, which opens on February 21 in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

The newspaper "Kommersant" under the headline "The tension has long grown so that you no longer notice additional shades": Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov on the export of weapons " published an interview with the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov.

Russia occupies 21 percent of the global arms market, with 47 countries among its customers. Over the past decades, a lot of advanced systems have been released, which are actively sold abroad. The National Interest named the five most outstanding.

The small anti-submarine ship "Brest" of the Northern Fleet during exercises at the training ground in the Barents Sea repelled a training air attack. This was reported in the press service of the Northern Fleet.

The S-400 air defense systems division will take up combat duty on Sakhalin in the middle of next week, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The company MLM Division, a division of Israel Aerospace Industries, engaged in the development of a new generation of anti-missile interceptor. According to Defense News, the new missile received the designation "Arrow-4" (Arrow-4). It will have to replace the outdated interceptors of the Strela-2 complex. The missile defense system is being developed jointly with the US Missile Defense Agency.

Industrial Director of the Rostec weapons complex Bekhan Ozdoev-about the future of combat drones, the prospects of Armata and the latest Kalashnikov assault rifles

The past year 2020 has also been a difficult one for the Russian military-industrial complex. Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the armament complex of the Rostec State Corporation, told Izvestia about how the coronavirus epidemic affected the implementation of international contracts and state defense orders, whether Armata will become unmanned and when domestic kamikaze attack drones will appear.

As reported by the RIA Novosti news agency, Russia and Pakistan signed contracts for the supply of anti-tank systems, air defense systems and small arms to the Pakistani side, said the chief of the General Staff of the Pakistani Army, General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) have the technical capabilities and specialists capable of "thinning out the orbits" of Western satellites, RIA Novosti writes.

Moscow is concerned about the prospect of an echelon of the US missile defense system in space. The implementation of Washington's plans will destabilize the existing system of international security, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov is sure. The diplomat stressed that if this idea is successful, the Americans will be able to strike directly from orbit at the positional areas of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Without waiting for them to start.

Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec Group) will show the main novelties of the Russian defense industry and the most popular Russian weapons in the world at the International Defense Exhibition IDEX 2021, which will be held in Abu Dhabi (UAE) from February 21 to 25.

They solve the problems of obtaining and issuing data on missile launches and missile trajectories for warning about a strike at points of state and military control

All existing radar stations (radars) of the "Dnepr", "Daryal" and "Volga" types will be replaced with new radars of the "Voronezh"type. This was announced by the head of the Main Center for Warning about a Rocket Attack of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces, Colonel Andrey Revenok.

According to Sergey Saprykin, the missile attack warning system is able to track missile launches from anywhere in the world, including from areas of combat patrol of nuclear submarines.

Tests of the missile attack warning system in the Russian Federation have been completed

The Russian military and designers have finished testing the missile attack warning system. This system is designed to obtain data on enemy missile launches. In addition, the SRPN allows you to determine where the missiles were launched from and collects information about objects in space.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the changing mood in foreign countries on the issue of new types of weapons in Russia.

As it was reported at the briefing of the Center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties and Control over the Movement of Refugees in the Syrian Arab Republic, at 19:45 Moscow time on February 9, 2021, Russian air defense systems repelled an attack on the Russian air base "Khmeimim" with the use of long-range multiple rocket launchers.

In Yemen, the Houthis shot down another unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to Saudi Arabia. In a video report, they demonstrated how this happened.

Initially, the target was detected and taken for tracking with the help of a sighting thermal imaging system. Then a guided missile was fired at it. The footage shows how the solid-fuel accelerator worked, and then the main engine turned on.

In the airspace of the Crimea, the Russian air defense forces can shoot down any military aircraft without warning. This is reported by Аvia.pro. 

Russian designers have developed a marine version of one of the most effective anti-aircraft missile systems "Tor". This will significantly expand the capabilities of the Navy's warships and protect them from air attacks. Almost all ship-based air defense systems are land-based modifications. About some of them-in the material of RIA Novosti.

Found a means of total suppression of the enemy in the Far North

The Tornado-G complex-the upgraded Grad multiple launch rocket system-will be able to operate in hard-to-reach areas of the North.