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Boeing and the US Missile Defense Agency reported on the successful test of the GMD (Ground missile defense) interceptor system in an unusual mode.

The US Department of Defense announced the signing of an additional contract by the command for concluding contracts of the US Army with Lockheed Martin Corporation to support the production and deployment of multiple launch rocket systems of the M-270A2 version.

The issue of the possibility of deploying Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems in Belarus will be decided from the point of view of expediency within the framework of ensuring the security of the two countries. This was announced on September 13 at a briefing by the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov.

The Russian military for the first time used the Uran-9 and Nerekhta reconnaissance and fire support robots in the combat formations of combined-arms units, the Defense Ministry reported.

The heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A "Solntsepek" is designed for fire support of infantry and tanks, destruction of enemy manpower. The complex "Agriculture" is built on the principle of multiple launch rocket systems.

The calculations of the Iskander-M operational and tactical complexes from the starting positions located 50 kilometers from the Mulino training ground at the Zapad-2021 exercises carried out a group missile strike on the command post and other critical objects of the imaginary enemy, the Defense Ministry told reporters on Monday.

Engineering troops undermined a multi-row fire shaft with a length of 1.5 kilometers, disrupting the approach of the reserves of the conditional enemy during the episode of the Zapad-2021 exercise at the Nizhny Novgorod Mulino training ground.

The Terminator tank support combat vehicles and the Pacer and Outpost attack drones at the Zapad-2021 exercises supported the offensive of the motorized rifle division and tank brigade of Russia and units of Armenia and Belarus with fire and air strikes.

The anti-tank missile system "Chrysanthemum-S" still attracts the attention of foreign and Russian specialists. It is armed with fifteen unique supersonic missiles that can destroy any modern tank day and night, in any weather, at a distance of 6000 meters.

Before that, the combat crews made marches from the points of deployment, repelling at the same time the attacks of conditional saboteurs

Calculations of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and gun systems and radar stations have taken up combat duty to repel an air attack within the framework of the strategic exercises of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and Belarus "West-2021". This was reported to journalists in the Russian Defense Ministry.

In the Astrakhan region, the military personnel of the Southern Military District trained in repelling air raids and unmanned aerial vehicles of a conditional enemy. Special attention was paid to the fight against attack drones and kamikaze barraging drones.

According to the Taiwan News resource, the United States will supply Taiwan with the first 155-mm tracked self-propelled howitzers M-109A6 "Paladin" in 2023.

Combat crews of the S-400 and Pantsir-S complexes repelled a massive air strike by a simulated enemy in the Nizhny Novgorod Region as part of the strategic Russian-Belarusian exercise Zapad-2021, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Friday.

Poland has launched large-scale military exercises simultaneously with the Belarusian - Russian exercises "West-2021". The official start of the "Lynx 21" exercises was given on Friday at the training ground in Novaya Demba in the east of the country by Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak.

The Navy of the Republic of China received the first corvette catamaran of the Tuo Jiang II project. A total of 11 such ships should be built. Taiwan is seriously concerned about the growing power of the Chinese Navy. One of the efforts to neutralize the threat was the Tuo Jiang II missile corvette-catamaran project.

The Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, which are the longest-range air defense systems among those in service with Russia, were able to fully confirm the previously stated characteristics about the possibility of intercepting hypersonic targets.

A video of the highlights of the military parade in Pyongyang in honor of the 73rd anniversary of the formation of the DPRK has appeared on the Network. The fashion show was modest, without ballistic missiles and aviation, but several interesting novelties were shown there.

The area of the missile firing was previously closed to civilian shipping and aviation flights

Calculations of the coastal missile systems (DBK) "Bal" and the destroyer "Fyodor Ushakov" destroyed groups of ships of the conditional enemy at a distance of more than 100 km from the coast in the Barents Sea during exercises in the Arctic. This was reported to journalists on Saturday in the press service of the Northern Fleet.

Units of the Baltic and Northern Fleets within the framework of the joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of Russia and Belarus "West-2021" have practiced conducting combat operations during the landing of a marine landing, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The nuclear submarine "Eagle "fired an anti-ship cruise missile" Granit " in the Barents Sea, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported.