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On Wednesday, September 15, North Korea tested a railway mobile missile system. The rocket that was launched during the tests may turn out to be a copy of the Russian Iskander missile system. This is the conclusion reached by the authors of the Ukrainian edition of Defense Express.

North Korea doubts the effectiveness of a submarine-launched ballistic missile tested by South Korea last week.

Foreign sources actively share their impressions about the past large-scale maneuvers "West-2021". Among the numerous samples of Russian military equipment, foreign observers, first of all, distinguish new products. So, in their opinion, the light wheeled 4x4 all-terrain vehicle "Sarmat-2" used by the units of the Russian Airborne Forces deserves attention.

The Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and gun systems located on the Kerch Peninsula (eastern part of Crimea) have worked out the destruction of cruise missiles, the official representative of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation Alexey Rulev said.

The personnel of the artillery units of the separate Guards amphibious assault unit stationed in Ulan-Ude have begun to master the new virtual artillery range "Arterra", which was received by the unit this month.

The modernized Arena-M active protection complex of armored vehicles, which is planned to be equipped with Russian T-72 and T-90 tanks, is able to repel the attack of any anti-tank missile - both the Israeli Spike and the American Javelin. The complex provides protection of the machine from any direction - including in the upper hemisphere.

The Americans solemnly "christened" their promising self-propelled gun, created on the basis of the Paladin M109A7. September 19, portal defence-blog.com He reported that the howitzer being developed as part of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) project was named "Iron Thunder" (Iron Thunder).

The British Navy plans the future of its nuclear submarines in advance. Yesterday, on September 19, the press service of the Royal Navy reported that the UK Ministry of Defense has allocated the first tranche in the amount of £170 million under the SSN-Replacement (SSNR) program.

The Russian military has launched major exercises in the south against the background of maneuvers launched in Ukraine with the participation of NATO contingents. About 10 thousand Russian servicemen are involved in the exercises, which began at training grounds in the Rostov region, Chechnya, Crimea and South Ossetia, the Southern Military District (SE) said on Monday.

A small missile ship of the Baltic Fleet conducted exercises in the White Sea.

As part of the exercises, the MRK Sovetsk made the transition from Baltiysk to the White Sea. The route was laid through the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Finland, the Neva, Lake Ladoga, the White Sea-Baltic Canal.

The Russian aerospace Forces have launched a new missile defense system, the Defense Ministry told reporters.

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has started installing weapons on new ships of the Israeli Navy. Four Sa'ar 6-type corvettes will receive new Barak MX anti-aircraft missile systems and the Iron Dome anti-missile Defense System (ABM). This is reported by the Navy Recognition portal.

The company reported that in the near future the heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A "Solntsepek" will be delivered to the troops

The Omsk Plant of Transport Engineering (part of the Uralvagonzavod concern of the Rostec State Corporation) has handed over to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation a batch of heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A "Solntsepek" with improved dynamic protection. This was reported to journalists on Friday in the press service of the enterprise.

Russian troops began receiving S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile systems. On September 16, the TASS news agency reported that the S-500 Prometheus complex had passed state tests, and it began to be delivered to the army.

A new aerosol munition developed by the Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering of the Rostec State Corporation has been adopted by the Russian Army.

The product is designed for individual protection of ground combat equipment from high-precision weapons with laser, optical and thermal guidance systems.

The Russian army has adopted a new means of protecting tanks. The 3VD35 munition is designed to protect the upper hemisphere of equipment from attacks by high-precision weapons, including Javelin anti-tank missile systems. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Rostec state Corporation.

One of the main novelties at the joint strategic exercises "West-2021" held at the Nizhny Novgorod Mulino training ground was the deeply modernized BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles. They are equipped with unmanned rocket-gun modules "Epoch", created in Tula.

A reusable single-stage rocket is being created in Russia with the participation of the developer of the new Sarmat ICBM, the first test launch of a demonstration sample of the propulsion system is scheduled for early October, the state corporation Roscosmos reported on Saturday.

Among other videos about the tests of new missile weapons distributed by the Ministry of National Defense of South Korea on September 15, 2021, the tests of a new South Korean supersonic anti-ship missile, which looks very similar to the Russian supersonic Onyx missile, were also demonstrated for the first time / "Yakhont "developments of JSC" Military-Industrial Corporation "NPO Mashinostroeniya" (part of JSC "Corporation "Tactical Missile Weapons").

US military expert Chris Osborne said that the US is closing the gap with Russia in the field of hypersonic weapons. On Saturday, September 18, the observer reported this in his article for the National Interest magazine.