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Sailors help anti-aircraft gunners protect the city from air raids

Ships of the Russian Navy based in Sevastopol have joined the fight against unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) trying to conduct reconnaissance and drop grenades on urban objects. Since August 18, Black Sea sailors have been forced to open fire on newly discovered air targets almost daily. As a rule, they appear late in the evening, at night or early in the morning.

Washington is probably secretly transferring powerful weapons to Kiev. This was stated by the American edition of Politico, citing sources in the Pentagon. Although the US authorities publicly deny this. About what exactly can be in secret supplies — in the material of RIA Novosti.

India has tested a new short-range anti-aircraft guided missile VL-SRSAM, designed for ship-based anti-aircraft systems. According to the Indian Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), the tests were successful.

The Soviet interceptor Project 701: the failed successor to the MiG-31 was one of the most promising combat aircraft in history

The USSR had many ambitious plans to create weapons. One of the "most mysterious" programs is the MiG–701 heavy interceptor, writes MWM. It was supposed to replace the MiG-31 fighter.

The US Navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Preble has received a High-Energy Laser weapon with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance system (HELIOS) designed to monitor and blind the enemy. This is with reference to the Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Drive edition reports.

During a special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces used hypersonic Kinzhal missile systems three times. This is told by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

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The United States has provided more than $13.5 billion in military aid to Ukraine since January last year, and more than $15.5 billion since 2014. This is stated in a written statement issued on Wednesday by Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder.

How have the combat capabilities of the missile system changed

The main carrier of hypersonic "Daggers" will be a modification of the MiG-31 combat aircraft, which received the index I. This version of the interceptor is equipped for the first time with unique digital complexes — an electric control system and on-board computers.

A TOPH frigate and Ka-27 helicopters destroyed an enemy submarine during exercises in the Sea of Japan

The crew of the Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet), as part of exercises in the Sea of Japan, together with two Ka-27PL helicopters of naval aviation, found and "destroyed" a submarine of a conditional enemy, the Pacific Fleet reports.

On August 23, the Russian Defense Ministry published footage of the combat work of the calculations of the S-300V anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) of the Western Military District during a special military operation to protect Donbass.

Izvestia correspondent Kirill Olkov on Tuesday, August 23, presented a video of the work of gunners in camouflaged positions in the vicinity of Ugledar of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The growth of military and political tensions in the Asia-Pacific region implies the need to strengthen Japan's military potential. The Polish edition of Defence24 writes about this.

The adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, estimated how many American HIMARS MLRS Kiev would need to "completely change the course of the war" in its favor.

The space industry, which emerged at the junction of rocket engineering and aviation, has historically been closely linked with the aircraft industry. The genius of theoretical cosmonautics Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, in parallel with the creation of the theory of rocket flight, published in 1903, developed aeronautical devices.

The APU also used NATO weapons, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire regime said

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on Tuesday shelled the center of Donetsk with American MLRS HIMARS and NATO weapons. This was reported in the representation of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in the JCCC.

Since 2011, Vietnam and Israel have been experiencing increasing cooperation in the defense sector. According to expert estimates, to date, the value of military-industrial complex transactions between Hanoi and Israel has amounted to $1.5 billion. In particular, an Israeli businessman founded a $100 million factory in Vietnam to assemble Tavor assault rifles.

About 50 people and 10 pieces of equipment were involved in the exercises

Calculations of the Bastion complexes of the coastal missile unit of the Baltic naval base of the Baltic Fleet, as part of a planned exercise, have worked out tactics for launching missile strikes against a detachment of warships of a conditional enemy in the sea area off the Kaliningrad coast, the press service of the fleet reported on Tuesday.

Ukraine will receive the German IRIS-T SL medium-range anti-aircraft system in the "coming weeks", the delivery of which was announced to Kiev by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in early summer. This was stated by German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock.

According to the source of the publication, the weapons will be transferred in 2023, and some types of equipment may be earlier

Germany plans to supply Ukraine with additional weapons worth more than €500 million. This was reported by Reuters on Tuesday .

The small rocket ship Mytishchi of the Baltic Fleet successfully fired a Kalibr cruise missile at a ground target in the White Sea. This was reported on August 23 in the press service of the fleet.