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Successful firing by the Granit anti-ship complex took place during military exercises in the Barents Sea. This was reported on September 12 in the press service of the Northern Fleet.

What are the military of Russia and Belarus working out at the Zapad-2021 exercises

Until September 16, joint maneuvers "West-2021"will be held in Russia and Belarus. As part of the exercises, the military has already worked out the capture of the coast, the mass release of paratroopers with night vision devices in the dark, bombing attacks from a height of 1 km and firing cruise missiles in the Barents Sea.

Specialists of the NASA research Center in Langley, Virginia have completed tests of the external Vision system XVS (eXternal Vision System) with a 4K video screen, which will replace the front glass of the cockpit of an experimental supersonic aircraft built using the so – called "quiet supersonic technology"-X-59 QueSST.

Belarus plans to buy more than $1 billion worth of weapons from Russia, President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko told reporters while visiting the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground near Baranovichi during the Zapad-2021 military exercises.

The Ministry of Defense has published a video of the launch of a cruise missile "Granit "from the nuclear submarine" Eagle"of project 949A ("Antey") in the Barents Sea.

The deployment of Russian Kalibr cruise missiles, and in the future, the Zircon cruise hypersonic missiles in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, puts almost all American military bases located in the Middle East at risk.

Two submarines are making an inter-fleet transition from the Baltic to the Pacific Fleet, a source in the shipbuilding industry said

The grouping of non-nuclear submarines of the project 636.3 of the Russian Navy (Navy) in the Mediterranean Sea has been brought to five units for the first time. This was reported to TASS by a source in the shipbuilding industry.

The system will allow monitoring the surface situation and preventing unauthorized navigation in the waters of the Northern Sea Route

The Corporation "Tactical Missile Weapons" (KTRV) is engaged in the creation of a coastal surveillance system of the coastal Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, which will help ensure the safety of the Northern Sea Route. This was reported to TASS in the press service of KTRV.

By the end of the year, Russia will supply the first foreign customer with a launch batch of the latest aviation concrete-piercing missiles X-59MKM, capable, in particular, of destroying the enemy's protected underground control points, a military and diplomatic source told RIA Novosti.

Russia begins exporting the latest aviation concrete-piercing missiles X-59MKM.

The first foreign customer will receive a batch of aviation concrete-piercing missiles X-59MKM by the end of the year. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a military-diplomatic source.

The Chinese 155-mm self-propelled artillery system, which is a deep modification of the PLZ-05 produced since 2005, has received a number of significant improvements.

Thus, the undercarriage has become longer by one support roller from each side, the engine power has increased, which now amounts to at least 1000 hp.

For the first time, Russia has deployed five submarines in the Mediterranean Sea, known as "black holes" and serving as carriers of Kalibr cruise missiles, TASS reports, citing a source in the shipbuilding industry.

The military of the CSTO countries conducted a training counter-terrorist operation, worked out the coordination and joint destruction of illegal armed groups that invaded from outside.

"Today, the final stage of the joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region of Collective Security of the CSTO" Rubezh-2021 "took place in Kyrgyzstan at the Edelweiss training ground, during which more than 30 introductory exercises were worked out," the press service of the CSTO Joint Staff reported.

Large-scale exercises have started in the Arctic, in which about 8 thousand military personnel, 800 units of combat and special equipment, as well as up to 50 ships and vessels will take part.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, units of land and coastal troops, as well as air defense troops of the Northern Fleet moved to the training grounds in the Murmansk region as part of an exercise with the Arctic expeditionary group.

The US position on the need to include non-strategic nuclear weapons in future agreements with Russia is unacceptable, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.

Ukraine wanted to create an upgraded version of the RK-360MC "Neptune" coastal missile system. The modified complex can be used to defeat ground targets. Oleg Korostelev, the general designer and general director of the Luch State Design Bureau, told about this in an interview with the Texts publication.

In Kamchatka, the division of the coastal anti-ship missile complex "Bal", which is part of the missile connection of troops and forces in the North-East of Russia, was alerted as part of a tactical exercise that has begun, said on Wednesday the head of the information support department of the press service of the VVO for the Pacific Fleet, Captain 3 rank Ilya Kolesnikov.

More than 500 Russian servicemen, tanks and artillery are involved in the exercise, which began on the Kuril Islands, the Eastern Military District (VVO) said on Wednesday.

South Korea has become the eighth country in the world to be armed with submarine-launched ballistic missiles. On September 8, the Yonhap news Agency reported that the Defense Development Agency (ADD) of the Republic of Korea announced the successful launch of the SLBM.

Calculations of the Leningrad Air Defense Association of the Western Military District took part in the exercises

Calculations of the anti-aircraft missile regiment conducted combat launches of guided missiles of the S-400 "Triumph" systems at air targets at the Ashuluk training ground. This was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.