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JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) has started mooring tests of a large diesel-electric submarine of the project 636.3 "Magadan", the press service of the enterprise reported.

The exercise to repel an air raid by the calculations of the S300V4 anti-aircraft missile system was held on the Kuril Islands, the press service of the Eastern Military District reports.

Nuclear submarines (NPS) of the project 885M (code "Ash-M") are capable of firing Kalibr and Onyx missiles in a salvo. The unknown possibility of Russian submarines was revealed by TASS, citing a source in the military-industrial complex.

The NORA B-52 M21 wheeled 155 mm self-propelled artillery system of the Serbian company Yugoimport-SDSR will take part in the tender of the US Army for the purchase of this type of guns.

The Northern Fleet will receive almost 250 units of modern weapons in 2021, and its share in the fleet will reach 62.3% by the end of the year, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

Command and staff training (KSHT) with military authorities, formations and military units has started on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, the headquarters of the Eastern Military District (VVO) reported on Monday.

The MiG-31BM interceptor fighters worked out the elements of air combat and conducted missile firing over the Pacific Ocean.

According to the press service of the Pacific Fleet, the training was attended by aircraft of a separate mixed aviation regiment of Troops and forces.

The ground forces of Saudi Arabia began to actively use heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A against supporters of the Ansar Allah movement.

In social networks, there were shots of night shooting of one of these combat vehicles. The installation was deployed in a desert area and fired five 220-mm rockets at the enemy.

The Northern Fleet began training exercises involving ships, submarines, aircraft and air defense systems. The main purpose of the maneuvers is to ensure the security of Russia's economic activities in the Arctic, the Russian Defense Ministry said. They noted that during the training, rescue operations, assistance at sea, crisis resolution, as well as the protection and defense of maritime communications will also be practiced.

"Orlan-10E" transmitted the coordinates of the target to the control machine, which calculated the settings for firing and sent them to the crew

Specialists of the Uralvagonzavod State Corporation Rostec demonstrated to the representatives of the foreign customer the interaction of the Msta-S self-propelled howitzer, upgraded to the NATO 155 mm caliber, and the Orlan-10E reconnaissance drone. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the press service of Rostec.

Russian strategic aircraft Tu-160 and Tu-95MS have once again confirmed their high combat effectiveness. During the command and staff exercise, their crews, who rose from the Engels air base in the Saratov region, successfully hit targets with cruise missiles at the Pemboy training ground in the Komi Republic. In total, about a dozen aircraft were involved in the exercise. And the precise strikes of the missile carriers were recorded by means of objective control.

After a recent software update, the German Air Force's Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets were able to use the new MBDA Meteor air — to-air missile.

Formations of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District (SE) have worked out combat training tasks as part of heterogeneous tactical groups at the military training ground "Opuk" in the Crimea, the press service of the SE reported.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called the work of the Republican army and police, which were equipped with Russian anti-aircraft missile and gun systems (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S1" and Mi-35 helicopters, very effective, RIA Novosti reports.

The Smerch 9M55K5 and 9M531 multiple rocket launchers are effective weapons against lightly armored vehicles and enemy personnel. The difference between them is in the range of the flight. The first one can hit 70 km, and the second one can hit 90 km.

The strategic nuclear submarine of the project 955A of the Borey-A class "Prince Oleg "will be ready for transfer to the Russian Navy in October, the General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexey Rakhmanov said in an interview with RIA Novosti on April 15.

The Russian army may be armed with a new light multiple launch rocket system. This weapon is developed by specialists of the NGO "SPLAV", which is part of the concern"Techmash".

As part of the tactical exercise, the air defense units of the Southern Military District conducted live firing from S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems at air targets at the specialized Telemba training ground in Buryatia.

This summer, the Russian and Belarusian military will begin joint combat duty on air defense (air defense) at one of the airfields in Belarus.

In 1969, during the border conflict over the island of Damansky, the Soviet side very successfully used the new BM-21 Grad MLRS. The Chinese military was very impressed with the power of the new weapon. When a captured BM-21 fell into their hands ten years later, they immediately copied it and began to improve it in stages.