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In 2022, 21 launchers with intercontinental ballistic missiles "Yars", "Avangard" and "Sarmat" will be on combat duty of the Strategic Missile Forces.

The strengthening of the general-purpose forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will continue next year, it is planned to receive over a thousand pieces of equipment, including five divisional sets of the S-400 anti-aircraft system, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.

The equipment of the Russian nuclear triad with modern weapons has reached the highest level in history, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The Drive: Russian Orion UAV is capable of shooting down Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones

The Russian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Orion has become a real "drone killer", having learned how to destroy other drones, says The Drive.

A separate aviation regiment of MiG-31 fighters armed with the Dagger hypersonic missile has been formed in Russia. This was announced on Tuesday, December 21, by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at an expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The first aviation regiment of MiG-31K fighters with hypersonic Kinzhal missiles has been formed in the Russian Aerospace Forces, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said.

The Eastern Military District (VVO) will receive Su-57 fighters for the first time in 2022, Colonel-General Alexander Chaiko, commander of the VVO troops, said.

A series of failures is pursuing the American hypersonic missile development program. Yesterday, December 20, the portal thedrive.com He reported that the third consecutive flight tests of the AGM-183A ammunition failed.

Russia has tested the famous Orion drone in a new quality. Over the landfill in the Crimea, a drone shot down another drone with a rocket, which was 100 kilometers away from it. Such tests show that Orion is close to combat readiness, and a successful air attack will make it even more attractive to foreign customers, writes The Drive.

Its serial deliveries will begin from 2022

State tests of the hypersonic cruise missile "Zircon" are being completed, its serial deliveries will begin from 2022. This was announced on Tuesday by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at an expanded meeting of the board of the military department.

The commander of the Central Military District troops, Alexander Lapin, said that in 2022 the capabilities of the district's electronic warfare troops will significantly increase

A new missile regiment equipped with anti-aircraft missile and cannon complexes "Pantsir-S" will be formed in Khakassia, the commander of the Central Military District (CVO), Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, told reporters on Tuesday.

In the aviation military units of the VKS, 2022 was declared the year of flight training, and for the air defense - missile defense and Space forces - the year of combat duty

The Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia will put on duty promising models of equipment with hypersonic weapons in 2022. This was stated on Tuesday by the deputy commander-in-chief of the VKS, Colonel-General Andrey Yudin.

Defense Minister Shoigu: serial deliveries of the Zircon missile will begin in 2022

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu revealed the timing of serial deliveries of the Zircon cruise missile to the troops. During his speech at an expanded meeting of the board of the defense Department, he noted that the supply of ammunition will begin in 2022. This is reported by TASS.

The Avangard and Dagger complexes have been put on combat duty, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

"The development of the latest types of weapons was proceeding at an active pace. Some of them - the Avangard and Dagger complexes have been put on combat duty," Putin said during an expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense.

The flight time of NATO missiles to the territory of Russia, provided they are deployed in Ukraine, will be no more than 10 minutes, and hypersonic weapons - no more than five. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin at an expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense.

The first regiment of Avangard missile systems with hypersonic gliding cruise blocks has been completely re-equipped in the Russian Federation, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday at the final board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Eastern Military District (VVO) will receive Su-57 fighters for the first time in 2022. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by the commander of the Air Defense Forces, Colonel-General Alexander Chaiko.

Two new nuclear submarines were handed over to the Navy — the strategic missile submarine "Prince Oleg" of project 955A and the multipurpose submarine "Novosibirsk" of project 885M.

The share of modern weapons in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has exceeded 71%, in the nuclear forces - 89%, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Motorized rifle and tank units, in particular, receive modern T-72BZM, T-80BVM tanks, BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles and BTR-82A armored personnel carriers

The Ground Forces (SV) received about 2.5 thousand units of various weapons in 2021, SV Commander-in-chief Oleg Salyukov told reporters on Tuesday during the final board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.