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The air show will run from November 14 to 18

The foreign premieres of the S-350E Vityaz anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) and the 98P6E Abakan anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) will take place within the framework of the Dubai Airshow 2021 international Airshow, which will be held from November 14 to 18 in the United Arab Emirates. This was reported to journalists on Thursday in the press service of the concern of East Kazakhstan region "Almaz-Antey".

AVN Deliveries of S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems to Saudi Arabia are possible, this issue has been discussed, and the chances of implementing such a contract remain, Vyacheslav Dzirkaln, Deputy Director General for Foreign Economic Activity of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region, told Interfax.

It became known about the confrontation between the Buk air defense system and the Smerch MLRS during the war in Karabakh. Azerbaijan's public television would have shown a story about last year's 44-day war in Karabakh. The officers involved in the conflict, for the first time, told about how they used the Buk air defense system to protect against the attack of the Smerch MLRS.

The modernization potential of Soviet and Russian-made air defense systems previously delivered abroad is estimated at a dozen and a half billion dollars.

The Polish Piorun is the best of the worst portable anti-aircraft missile systems (MANPADS) and does not surpass the Russian Verba, writes TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin, reacting to the publication of Defence24.

Russian submarines of the project 949A "Antey" are getting a new life. As a result of the modernization, they are expected to be able to carry hypersonic Zircon missiles. And such submarines will become even more formidable.

A batch of tank support combat vehicles, unofficially named after the famous American blockbuster "Terminator-2", is about to enter service. According to representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, it has successfully passed the tests.

By the end of the year, the Russian military will receive the first heavy flamethrower systems TOS-2 "Tosochka". The delivery dates were announced by the general director of the scientific and production association (NGO) "Alloy" Alexander Smirnov in an interview with Interfax.

The US Army has begun flight tests of the armament complex of a promising high-speed reconnaissance helicopter - the XM915 20-millimeter air cannon and a prototype MEL launcher for multipurpose ammunition and missiles. According to FlightGlobal, they are being tested on a modified UH-60 Black Hawk multipurpose helicopter.

The Pacific Fleet will soon receive a number of new ships and submarines, said the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Sergey Avakyants.

Russian military personnel will hold the strategic exercise "Vostok-2022" next year. According to the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Sergei Avakyants, the Pacific Fleet has already begun to prepare for it.

The Uraltransmash enterprise of the Uralvagonzavod concern, as part of the fulfillment of the state defense order, manufactured and supplied the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation with new 2S19M2 Msta-S self-propelled howitzers.

The Guards Tank Army of the Western Military District in the Moscow region received a training simulator "Arterra-VT-3D" for training and improving the practical skills of artillery specialists.

The export contract for the supply of sights for the Kornet anti-tank missile system has been completed ahead of schedule, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the first deputy General Director of TSNIITOCHMASH (part of Rostec Group) Sergey Loginov.

The Pantsir-S and Buk-M2 anti-aircraft systems in service with the Syrian army shot down six of the eight Israeli missiles. Two Syrian soldiers were injured.

The new S-550 air defense system is likely to replace the air defense complexes in service with the Russian army, including the S-350 Vityaz and S-400 Triumph, a well-known military expert Alexei Leonkov told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

The troops of the radiation, chemical and biological (RHB) protection of the Southern Military District (SE) will receive 60 units by the end of the year. new and promising samples of special equipment.

The first deliveries of the Tosochka heavy flamethrower system TOS-2 will take place this year, Alexander Smirnov, CEO of NPO Splav, told Interfax.

The creation of a new S-550 anti-aircraft missile system in Russia is a move towards space, since the Russian Federation should think about anti-satellite defense. On Wednesday, November 10, military expert Vladislav Shurygin told Izvestia.

The US Army has revived the 56th Artillery Command in Germany, which was based in the country during the Cold War. This was reported on November 8 by The Washington Times.