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On September 13, the Czech government approved the purchase of 52 units of 155-mm CAESAR self-propelled howitzers from the French company Nexter Systems, placed on the Tatra chassis.

The heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser (TARKR) "Peter the Great" and the missile cruiser (RKR) "Marshal Ustinov" worked out the destruction of an amphibious detachment of a conditional enemy during exercises in the Barents Sea, the press service of the Northern Fleet (SF) reported on Wednesday.

The cruisers of the Northern Fleet "Peter the Great" and "Marshal Ustinov" fired cruise missiles at a target position in the Barents Sea, depicting a detachment of landing ships of a conditional enemy. The press service of the fleet published a video of the launch of the Vulkan missile defense system from the Marshal Ustinov.

The Czech army will be armed with new self-propelled guns. September 14, portal defbrief.com It was reported that the Czech government officially approved the purchase of Caesar self-propelled howitzers from the French company Nexter.

US intelligence chiefs are discussing efforts to rearm their agencies to counter China. They believe that the Russian nuclear triad is convincing and effective, so the Chinese are largely guided by it and would like to have the same one.

Various air defense systems were used at the Mulino training ground (Nizhny Novgorod Region) during the main stage of the joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus "West-2021".

The DPRK is not engaged in provocations, testing missiles, but fulfills the key tasks of the defense plan. This was stated by the sister of the North Korean leader Kim Yo Jung, the KCNA news agency reported on September 15.

Boeing and the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have successfully presented a new interceptor missile for the ground-based medium defense System (GMD), designed to destroy ICBMs in space at the initial stage of flight.

The Defense Advanced Development Agency (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense has launched the Space-BACN program to create cheap optical communication terminals that can adapt to most standards of optical communication lines between satellites. So the military wants to combine various groups of small satellites in low Earth orbit, which cannot yet exchange data, into a "space layer".

A military expert, retired Colonel Viktor Litovkin, on Wednesday, September 15, commented to Izvestia on the information that Ukraine can receive two tactical anti-missile defense systems (ABM) "Iron Dome"from the United States.

The United States condemns the new missile launches of the DPRK. Washington calls on Pyongyang to engage in dialogue. This was announced on September 15 by a representative of the State Department of the United States.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the latest Russian weapons systems fully comply with global trends

Russia plans to maintain its leadership in the field of hypersonic and innovative weapons systems. This was stated on Wednesday to journalists at the Tyumen Oil and Gas Forum (TNF 2021) by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov.

The White House did not confirm the reports of the American press that the United States could allegedly supply Ukraine with an Iron Dome missile defense system. This was stated on September 15 during a briefing by a representative of the US administration, Jennifer Psaki.

They want to integrate the latest air — to-surface aviation missile of the LMUR class not only into the armament of attack helicopters, but also manned aircraft and UAVs. The carrier will be able to act, in particular, the Su-25 attack aircraft.

White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre said that the United States is still ready to conduct a dialogue with the DPRK. This implies the possibility of holding negotiations at any time and without prior agreements, RIA Novosti reports.

Within the framework of the joint strategic exercise "West-2021" in the Baltic Sea, the crews of the corvettes "Steregushchy", "Stoyky" and the patrol ship "Yaroslav the Wise" successfully fulfilled the tasks of repelling attacks by means of an air attack of a conditional enemy and inflicted an artillery strike on sea and coastal targets, the press service of the Western Military District reports.

The Ministry of Defense noted that the crews of the VKS were approaching the area of responsibility of the air defense units of the ZVO from different directions, at different altitudes and speeds

More than 50 aircraft and helicopters of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) checked the work of the air defense forces on duty in the Western Military District (ZVO) at the joint exercises of the Russian Federation and Belarus "West-2021". This was reported on Tuesday in the Russian Defense Ministry.

For the first time, the change of positions of motorized rifle units in conducting maneuverable defense was provided by reconnaissance and fire support robots from the Uran-9 robotic complex during the practical actions of troops (forces) of the main stage of the SSU "West-2021" at the Mulino training ground.

The Russian military in Kamchatka conducted an exercise to eliminate the ships of a conditional enemy in the Pacific Ocean with missiles of the Bal coastal complex, the Pacific Fleet reported on Tuesday.

The latest B-19 combat vehicle with the Epoch combat module came into view at the Zapad-2021 exercise. This time in the photo you can see three such IFVs at once, that is, a whole platoon.