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The Defense Ministry has completed the construction of infrastructure for the placement of new strategic missiles in four strategic missile defense facilities, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The range of aircraft missiles "Whirlwind" should be increased to 12 km, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. On Tuesday, during the Single day of acceptance of military products, the acting general director of the Kalashnikov concern, Andrey Semenov, reported that within the framework of the seven-year contract, the next batch of guided missiles "Whirlwind-1"was delivered to the troops ahead of schedule.

The Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) will be strengthened by 15 new intercontinental ballistic missiles by the end of 2021. This was announced on Tuesday, August 10, by Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko at the single day of acceptance of military products.

The second regiment of intercontinental ballistic missiles with a hypersonic planning unit "Avangard" will take up combat duty in the Strategic Missile Forces by 2023, the commander of the 13th Missile Division, Major General Andrey Cherevko, said during a single day of acceptance of military products.

To participate in the tactical exercise, units of the S-400 "Triumph" anti-aircraft missile regiment of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District (ZVO) have begun relocating to the center for combat training and combat use of the VKS (Astrakhan region). Combat crews of S-400 "Triumph" anti-aircraft missile systems will make a combined march of more than 2 thousand km to the Ashuluk training ground.

The state tests of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" will be completed this year, said Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko during the single day of acceptance of military products.

The Russian Su-35S fighter is better in a number of parameters than the American F-22 Raptor of the fifth generation, the media writes. On the air of Sputnik radio, a military expert, director of the Museum of Air Defense Forces Yuri Knutov, commented on the publication.

The Russian Armed Forces received more than 200 units of weapons and military equipment in the first half of 2021. This was announced on Tuesday, August 10, by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during the single day of acceptance of military products.

The Russian army has received a brigade set of the Iskander-M operational and tactical complex, Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko said.

The United States has successfully tested an upgraded PAC-3 MSE missile designed for the Patriot complex. She destroyed a tactical ballistic missile.

Representatives of Saudi Arabia held a number of preliminary consultations and negotiations on the purchase of the Abakan anti-aircraft missile system, the Newspaper reports.Ru" with reference to sources related to the Russian military-industrial complex.

During the Single day of acceptance of military products, the acting general director of the Kalashnikov Concern, Andrey Semenov, reported to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, that within the framework of a seven-year contract, an early delivery of the next batch of guided aircraft missiles "Vikhr-1"was carried out to the troops.

Ukraine has forgotten how to build warships. Several countries will build a modest coastal fleet for Ukraine at once. Marine Sergeant Taras Chmut believes that corvettes will not save Ukraine from Russia, as long as there are no SAMs, anti-ship and sonar systems, as well as torpedo tubes in the Ukrainian fleet.

Calculations of coastal anti-ship missile systems "Bastion" of the Coastal Troops of the Pacific Fleet (TOPF) in Kamchatka during the exercises destroyed a conditional group of ships in one of the naval ranges of the fleet, the press service of the Eastern Military District for the Fleet reported on Monday.

More than 1 thousand servicemen of the missile forces and artillery of the combined arms association of the Central Military District will take part in the exercises that started at the training ground in the Kemerovo region, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Monday.

The US State Department has approved the potential supply to Japan under the Foreign Military Sales program of a batch of RIM-116C Blok-2 missiles and other related equipment for ship-based RAM air defense systems.

The Russian Navy will receive three nuclear submarines at once this year, a source in the shipbuilding industry said. On the air of Sputnik radio, captain of the 1st rank Igor Kurdin stressed that the Russian navy is restoring the necessary and sufficient number of nuclear submarines.

Belarus is interested in buying the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system and counts on a positive decision of the Russian leadership, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said.

A group of researchers from the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Columbia University has found a new way to perform complex quantum algorithms on a traditional computer.

It is planned to complete the tests before the ice break on the White Sea with the implementation of several launches

Tests of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from the submarine carrier-the nuclear submarine (submarine) of the project 885 "Severodvinsk" - are scheduled to begin at the end of August. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.