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The US military plans to carry out three test launches of ground-based hypersonic missiles under development in the coming 18 months before putting them into service in 2023, said Lieutenant General Neil Thurgood, head of the US Army Hypersonic Development Department.

The United States decided to launch an unknown military missile system over the Pacific Ocean in the period from October 20 to October 29, Interfax reports, citing a navigation warning for pilots and navigators.

Local air defense systems "Joshan" and "Khatam", belonging to the Iranian Air Defense Forces, successfully shot down conditional targets in joint specialized exercises codenamed "Defenders of the Sky Vellayat".

The Soviet anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) "Strela-10M" was modernized. At the international exhibition of armaments and military equipment "Partner-2021" in Serbia, a new version of the SAM was shown, which was made inconspicuous. This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

China launched a hypersonic glider capable of carrying nuclear weapons in August. This was reported on Sunday, October 17, by the British newspaper Financial Times, citing sources in the US government and a number of Asian countries.

China, with the help of a launch vehicle, launched a hypersonic glider capable of carrying nuclear weapons in August.

Details have emerged of China's tests of a hypersonic glider, a combat gliding unit for ballistic missiles. Before hitting the target, the device flew around the planet, which was a very unpleasant surprise for the US military.

The US army should give priority to Russia, not China, writes the American edition of Breaking Defense.

On October 14, Jeffrey Eberhardt, the Special Representative of the US President for Nuclear Nonproliferation, demanded that Russia remove the missiles that are allegedly stationed there from Europe, as this goes against the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF).

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the superiority of Russian developments over hypersonic weapons of the United States. He stated this during a speech at the plenary session of the Russian Energy Week forum, Interfax reports.

Moscow and the Central Industrial Region of Russia are now covered by the latest anti-aircraft missile system (SAM). On October 13, the TASS news agency reported that the first brigade set of the S-500 Prometheus air defense system entered service with the 15th Special Forces Army of the Russian Federation.

Calculations of the latest Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile systems conducted firing at the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region. They successfully hit ten targets.

The US army was advised to take Russia's ground forces seriously.

The Breaking Defense publication criticized the Pentagon's policy. According to Daniel Gur, vice president of the Lexington Institute, a former official of the US Department of Defense, America has focused too much on the Chinese threat in the Pacific region, weakening attention to Russia. However, this short-sightedness against the background of the growing power of the Russian ground forces is fraught with problems in Europe.

The US statement about Russia's alleged deployment of missiles in Europe is unfounded. This was announced on October 14 by the Vice-speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev.

According to the head of the Polish military department Mariusz Blaszczak at a meeting with Polish servicemen undergoing training in the United States, the delivery of the ordered Patriot air defense systems to the country's armed Forces will be implemented as planned - by the end of next year.

The Russian military put the Pantsir-S air defense systems on duty near Belgrade, which were transferred by planes to Serbia for joint exercises, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

The US Army is preparing to conduct another test of a promising high-precision operational-tactical missile PrSM (Precision Strike Missile) in the coming days, it follows from the data of the developer Lockheed Martin.

The demand of the special representative of the US president to remove Russian missiles from Europe, which are allegedly placed there, is not justified by anything, said Konstantin Sivkov, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences. He stated this in an interview with NSN.

The air defense forces of Russia and Serbia conducted a training to repel an enemy air raid during a joint exercise, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

In Ukraine, they continue to rattle weapons, clearly not realizing that the militaristic threats against Russia only once again demonstrate Kiev's refusal to implement the Minsk agreements. Conducting maneuvers involving missile systems on the border with Crimea looks like an obvious threat to security on the European continent.