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Aircraft of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia and the Belarusian Air Force, during joint exercises, launched a missile attack on a conditional enemy whose forces were stationed at the Brest training ground. This was reported in the Russian military department.

The Ptitselov air defense systems will begin to be delivered to airborne units in 2023

Mobile air defense systems (PVO) "Birdman" next year will begin to arrive in the units of the Airborne Troops (airborne). Russian paratroopers will receive vehicles based on the BMD-4M. This was reported in the February issue of the magazine of the Ministry of Defense of Russia "Army Collection".

The United States is ready to consider giving Russia the opportunity to make sure that there are no Tomahawk cruise missiles at NATO bases in Romania and Poland, Bloomberg reports.

The United States has called on the UN Security Council to hold a meeting on Thursday to discuss North Korea's latest missile launch, the Associated Press reports, citing diplomats.

Deliveries of Russian S-400 air defense systems are an internal matter of Turkey, they do not bear a negative attitude towards NATO. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Poland adopted a resolution on the transfer of Polish-made MANPADS "Perun" to Ukraine. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced by the Minister of National Defense of the Republic Mariusz Blaszczak.

The joint nuclear mission of NATO countries will continue as long as Russia has the appropriate weapons, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, head of the German Bundestag Defense Committee, said at a briefing in Berlin.

The exercise of calculations of the S-400 "Triumph" air defense systems of the Central Military District (CVO) to repel a massive missile strike of a conditional enemy took place in Siberia, the press service of the CVO reported on Wednesday.

The military worked out the destruction of tanks in training in the Smolensk region, the press service of the Western Military District reported.

Tactical exercises of combat crews of anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMS) S-400 "Triumph" have started in the Leningrad region, the Western Military District (ZVO) reported on Wednesday.

The Tagil Division of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) began exercises with the withdrawal of autonomous launchers of strategic complexes "Yars" on combat patrol routes, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The decision on the transfer of Piorun portable air defense missile systems by the Polish military department was enthusiastically welcomed in Ukraine. Various Ukrainian experts and analysts thank Warsaw for such a generous gift in the form of "the latest MANPADS", allegedly surpassing even the American FIM-92 Stinger.

At the same time, not everything is clear with these weapons: in 2018, a scandal broke out in Poland when the results of tests of these military air defense systems became known.

The US Air Force is checking its "new thing". February 1, portal defensenews.com He reported that the F-15EX Eagle II fighter had passed the first fire tests by launching an air-to-air missile.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the launchers of the Yars mobile nuclear missile complex of the Teikov Division of the Strategic Missile Forces were brought to the combat patrol routes. As reported to the correspondent of "RG" in the Ministry of Defense, during the exercise, strategic rocket scientists, among other things, will work out the covert transfer of missile systems to field positions.

Yuri Baluyevsky clarified that the prototype was tested at the landfill in Plesetsk

The former chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Army General Yuri Baluyevsky, said on Monday that a prototype of hypersonic weapons was tested in Russia back in 2004.

Howitzers "Msta-SM2" were handed over to the units of the Western Military District

Units of the Western Military District (ZVO) received new self-propelled artillery units (ACS). 12 modernized self-propelled howitzers "Msta-SM2" were handed over to the military. This was reported in the press service of the ZVO.

Units of the Western Military District received new self-propelled artillery installations. According to the press service of the ZVO, 12 modernized self-propelled howitzers "Msta-SM2" were handed over to the military. 

Donetsk may turn to Russia for military assistance, said Eduard Basurin, a representative of the People's militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.

The Military-Industrial Corporation NPO Mashinostroeniya will soon conclude a contract with the Russian-Indian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace for the execution of the first export order for the supply of the Brahmos KR to the Philippines.

Next year, the airborne and amphibious assault divisions of the Russian Army will begin to receive mobile air defense systems "Birdman". This is reported in the material by I. Borovkov "Air defense for "winged infantry", published in the February issue of the magazine of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "Army Collection".