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The exercises of the air defense forces of the CIS countries "Combat Commonwealth-2021" will be transferred to the territory of Tajikistan and Kazakhstan from September 3, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The United States urges its allies to avoid major deals with Russia in the defense sphere, a State Department representative told RIA Novosti, commenting on the signing of an agreement on military cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia.

The militants of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in Russia ) could get weapons and military equipment delivered to Afghanistan from the Czech Republic. We are talking about D-30 howitzers, Mi-17 and Mi-24 helicopters transferred for the needs of the Armed Forces of Afghanistan. This probability was allowed by the newspaper "Mlada Front Dnes".

The Deputy Chairman of the Coordinating Committee on Air Defense Issues under the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS countries, Colonel-General Yuri Grekhov, noted that the goals were quite complex

The S-400, S-300 and Pantsir-S missile systems destroyed more than 20 targets simulating low-altitude drones and ballistic missiles during the exercises of the air defense forces of the CIS countries "Combat Commonwealth-2021" at the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan region.

The Algerian military is going to turn the T-62 into tank support combat vehicles. The material about this is posted on the portal menadefense.net. To implement this project, the turret with the 115-mm smoothbore 2A20 gun will be dismantled from the medium tank, and the Berezhok combat compartment will be installed instead.

The new Sarmat intercontinental missile, which is being prepared for flight tests, will become the basis of the Russian nuclear shield for 30-40 years. This was announced on Thursday, September 2, by the head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin.

Russian operational-tactical complexes (OTRK) "Iskander-M" can strike almost the entire territory of Ukraine, writes Defense Express.

The Pentagon told about a new package of US assistance to Ukraine, which will include the supply of Javelin anti-tank missile systems. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

Work is underway to radically improve both the combat and operational characteristics of the product, said Fanil Ziyatdinov, General Director of the Kupol plant

Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant "Kupol "(as part of the Almaz-Antey Aerospace Defense Concern) is working to modernize and improve all the main characteristics of the Tor anti-aircraft missile system (SAM). This was reported to TASS by the general director of the enterprise Fanil Ziyatdinov.

A detachment of small anti-submarine ships "Kholmsk" and "Ust-Ilimsk" of the Pacific Fleet conducted artillery firing on sea and air targets in the Sea of Okhotsk.

On August 31, the 53rd meeting of the Coordinating Committee on Air Defense under the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS member states was held in Astrakhan under the leadership of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Colonel General Yuri Grekhov.

Rumors that a new generation of ATGMs working on the principle of "shot and forget" began to enter service with the PLA have been going around for a long time, and prototypes of new ATGMs were presented back in 2014, but only this summer they began to appear on official photos and videos of the Chinese military.

Russia will supply Belarus with dozens of planes, helicopters, air defense systems (air defense) and, possibly, S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs). This was stated by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on September 1.

According to Lockheed Martin, officials from the United States and the Netherlands recently signed a contract for the supply of the PAC-3 MSE (Missile Segment Enhancement) and related auxiliary equipment to the Dutch Armed Forces.

No country today has weapons capable of countering the Russian airline complex with a hypersonic Kinzhal missile. This was announced on Wednesday by the head of the Rostec state Corporation Sergey Chemezov.

"We produce these missiles. First of all, they are highly accurate, they hit the target at a long distance. Plus, they have a very high speed, it is actually impossible to intercept such a missile. So far, there is no such counteraction to our missiles today, "Chemezov said during the" New Knowledge " marathon.

The Chinese company Space Transportation conducted the first successful test flight of the Tianxing-2 rocket, which became the third flight test of the Tianxing series of missiles, according to the company's official WeChat channel. Space Transportation plans to create inexpensive reusable carriers with a horizontal landing, as well as a tourist spaceplane.

The BMPT was nicknamed the "Combine of Death"for its versatility even before it was put into service. Indeed, the crew of this armored vehicle, consisting of five people, can bring down a steel rain on the enemy from 30-mm shells of 2A42 cannons, two 30-mm automatic grenade launchers AG-17 at once, as well as guided missiles "Attack" with various types of combat units . It was reported that up to four targets can be attacked simultaneously. The modern fire control system allows you to use this weapon at any time of the day.

The small rocket ship began the return transition to the place of permanent basing The

small rocket ship "Sovetsk"of the Baltic Fleet (BF) performed a combat training launch of the Kalibr-NK cruise missile from the White Sea. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of the BF.

The rocket was presented during the forum "Army-2021"

The military-industrial complex of India has adapted the latest Astra air-to-air missile to the Su-30MKI fighter. This was announced to TASS by Narendra Kumar Aria, director of the public relations department of the main Indian developer of military equipment of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO).

The Minister of Defense of Venezuela, General-in-Chief Vladimir Padrino Lopez, visited the 11th Armored Brigade (Fort Mara, Zulia State), where he got acquainted with the results of the work carried out on the modernization of 155/23-mm M-14A1 howitzers and the repair of AMX-13C90 light tanks.