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The Russian Embassy in the United States said that the deployment of hypersonic missiles by the United States would be an extremely destabilizing step.

The new Voronezh-M radar station of the Russian missile attack warning system (SPRN) near Sevastopol will "see" the Mediterranean Sea and the central part of the Atlantic Ocean, the general designer of the SPRN Sergey Boev told Interfax at the MAKS-2021 air show in Zhukovsky, near Moscow.

Old Soviet T-55 tanks continue to be used in Syria. During the recent clashes in Southern Idlib, representatives of illegal armed groups managed to destroy one such combat vehicle.

In the Leningrad Region, servicemen of the Keletsko-Berlin Artillery Brigade of the Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District (ZVO) began live firing from closed firing positions at targets simulating enemy fortifications and armored structures.

Combat crews of the Leningrad Association of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District hit the equipment and manpower of the "enemy". The exercises were held at the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan Region, they fired from the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex.

The first contracts have already been signed, said the general director of the company Alexander Mikheev

Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec state Corporation) is fulfilling a contract for the supply of Orion-E unmanned aerial vehicles. This was announced to journalists during the MAKS-2021 air show by Alexander Mikheev, General Director of Rosoboronexport.

Deliveries will begin as planned, in the fourth quarter of this year

The S-400 batch planned for delivery to India in the fourth quarter is at the final stage of production, the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax on Tuesday.

The project will be ready in the coming months, said the general director of the company Alexander Mikheev

Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec state Corporation) will prepare a project for the supply of an additional batch of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to Turkey in the coming months. This was announced to journalists during the MAKS-2021 air show by Alexander Mikheev, General Director of Rosoboronexport.

It will be carried out from the frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" of the Northern Fleet, a source in the military-industrial complex said during MAKS-2021

The next test launch of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" at the maximum range will be performed in the near future from the frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" of the Northern Fleet. This was reported to TASS on Tuesday during MAKS-2021 by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The Russian navy continues testing the hypersonic missile "Zircon". On July 19, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" successfully fired at a ground target.

The Chinese company Aerospace Long-March International (ALIT) has introduced a new ship-based anti-aircraft missile system LY-80N, intended for export.

For the first time, the Russian Ministry of Defense showed footage of test live firing at a high-speed ballistic target, carried out from the Kapustin Yar test site with the latest domestic S-500 anti-aircraft missile system.

The missile, in particular, has a concrete-piercing warhead of increased power

The Techmash concern of the Rostec State Corporation for the first time presented the S-13B multifunctional unguided high-efficiency rocket at the MAKS-2021 Air show.

The Admiral Gorshkov frigate will perform a new test launch of the Zircon hypersonic missile in the coming days, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

Russia's creation of hypersonic missiles is also a response to the deployment of the American missile defense system in Romania and Poland. This was announced on Tuesday, July 20, by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

The task of the test firing of the S-500 Prometheus missile defense system was to check the launch complex and the rocket. The radar part of the system was tested and adopted by the state commission last year, military expert Sergey Khatylev, who led the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Moscow Air defense from 2007-2009, told MK.

Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said that serial deliveries of the S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile system to the Russian military will begin this year.

The Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear – Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), L. Zerbo, met with the head of the Special Control Service, Deputy Head of the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel Igor Tokarev, in Moscow.

Today, the XV International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2021 opened in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, and its work will last until July 25. The event is attended by the Concern of East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz-Antey" - existing and promising samples of civil, dual-use and military products of 14 subsidiaries of the holding are presented at the exhibition sites, according to an official press release.

Anti-aircraft gunners of the motorized rifle division of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District (SEO) in Chechnya destroyed an unmanned strike aircraft of a conditional enemy, the press service of the SEO reports.