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On Wednesday, July 28, at a special exercise in the Vladimir region, the engineering troops conducted a unique operation, the place of which is in the Guinness Book of Records.

For the first time in world practice, pontoon units equipped a double-width floating bridge. This crossing with a lifting capacity of 120 tons ensured the transfer of a large number of people and large-sized equipment across the Oka. Moreover, the traffic intensity on the temporary bridge was twice as high as the standard one.

As reported in the material of the publishing group "Jane's", the Israeli company Elbit Systems has developed a new fully automated 155-mm / 52 self-propelled howitzer SIGMA, made on a wheeled automobile chassis of the American company Oshkosh with the formula 10x10 (apparently, the M1075 type). The new self-propelled gun was developed in the interests of the Israel Defense Forces and is intended to replace the American 155-mm/39 tracked self-propelled howitzers of the M109 series in the Israeli ground forces from 2023, it is assumed that the new self-propelled gun will receive the official military name Roem.

The military personnel of the Eastern Military District at the Sergeyevsky training ground in the Primorsky Territory successfully destroyed a conditional enemy as part of a combat readiness check, the press service of the VVO reports.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken did not announce the imposition of sanctions against India for the country's possible purchase of S-400 air defense systems from Russia.

Marine units of the naval forces of the Vietnamese People's Army regularly conduct exercises on landing on the coast. Thanks to the video frames from such classes that have appeared on the Network, you can see which samples are currently in service with them.

Turkey tried to use its Bayraktar TB2 attack and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle to launch attacks on the positions of the Syrian military, however, the drone was successfully shot down.

The Slovak military has received a long-awaited update of its artillery fleet. Yesterday, on July 28, the press service of DMD GROUP reported that the company handed over the first Zuzana 2 self-propelled guns to the army.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has signed a contract with the Almaz-Antey concern for the supply of the first batch of advanced S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile systems. The aerospace forces will receive more than ten such complexes, starting from the first half of next year. A source in the military-industrial complex informed TASS about this at the MAKS-2021 air show.

The export modification of the Russian fifth-generation Su-57E fighter differs from the basic design of the Su-57 in the direction of " some deterioration in its tactical and technical characteristics and, accordingly, combat capabilities, "Konstantin Sivkov, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information Policy, Doctor of Military Sciences, admits in the Military-Industrial Courier.

The prototype, armed with the complex, is undergoing factory tests, the interlocutor of TASS noted

The upgraded anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) "Whirlwind-1"will be part of the armament of the Mi-28N attack helicopter ("Night Hunter") produced by the Rostov plant" Rostvertol "(as part of the Russian Helicopters holding). This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

In April 2021, the cycle of state tests of the Adjutant was completed, preparations for mass production are underway, said Alexander Dushkin, a specialist of the Target Complexes project at the Kupol IEMZ.

General Atomics has shown what a potentially revolutionary UAV carrier of air — to-air missiles can look like. Such devices will be launched from the carrier aircraft.

According to the Latvian news portal DELFI, the Latvian Ministry of Defense announced that an additional batch of 155-mm M-109A5OE self-propelled howitzers purchased from the Austrian Armed Forces was delivered to the country in July.

Calculations of operational-tactical missile systems (OTRK) "Iskander" have worked out the destruction of important objects of a conditional enemy during exercises in the Kaliningrad region, the press service of the Baltic Fleet (BF) reported on Wednesday.

During a special exercise, the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation provided the transfer of the group on the Oka River section in the Vladimir region.

The Ukrainian company Artyom has received a contract worth more than $ 200 million from a foreign customer, involving the production of medium-range R-27 air-to-air guided missiles, Defense Blog reports.

The Rostov Regional court sentenced Russian Denis Lobov to nine years and six months in a penal colony and Armenian citizen Ararat Khachatryan to 10 years and five months in prison.

As part of a special exercise in the Vladimir Region, military engineers transported the launch battery of the Yars mobile ground complex through the wide and deep-water Oka at this point. For the first time, a unique 360-ton double-width ferry was involved in the training, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

In July 2021, the Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant "Kupol" shipped civil products for partners from Bangladesh. We are talking about three recycling plants from Atomstroyexport, which will be used in the construction of the Ruppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh.

During the exercises, the units of the Irkutsk Missile connection took up field positions and began to carry out combat duty. The servicemen on the launchers of the Yars PGRK went on combat patrol routes.