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The Ministry of Defense completes the formation of the Primorye air defense structure

In recent months, Russia has radically strengthened the grouping of air defense assets on the Far Eastern islands. In addition to the short-range anti-aircraft missile systems, units equipped with long-range S-400 and S-300V4 were deployed there. What threats should these defensive systems protect against and whether they are sufficient for the security of Primorye — military expert Anton Lavrov understood.

Statements by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov about Russia's retaliatory actions in the event of the US deployment of medium-range missiles in Japan caused hysteria on the Japanese islands. The media was flooded with hundreds of aggressive and malicious comments from Japanese readers. Some even suggest turning Russia "into a sea of fire."

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyers of the US Navy, based in Spain, have electronic warfare systems (EW) AN / SLQ-62 Portable Electronic Warfare Module-Speed To Fleet (TEWM-STF), capable of "killing" Russian anti-ship missiles P-800 "Onyx", writes The Drive.

Sakhalin has completed the formation of a new air defense system. It was based on the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as the Pantsir-S missile and cannon systems. The group covers not only the island itself, but also the cities of Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Khabarovsk. In fact, the entire territory in the east of the country has turned into a missile bastion.

Northrop Grumman Corporation showed the concept of a gun that can be equipped with helicopters created under the Future Vertical Lift program.

The network published the first photo of the mobile missile defense system HQ-19 of the Chinese army. As follows from the images, the HQ-19 kit includes two radars with AFAR: apparently, target detection and missile guidance, - interceptor launchers of two types, as well as a command post. All vehicles of the complex are mounted on four-axle all-terrain chassis.

Belarusian defense engineers are developing a mobile anti-aircraft missile system "TRIO" based on the ASILAK armored car.

According to the State Military-Industrial Committee of the Republic of Belarus, the novelty is designed to counter various types of high-precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles.

The Russian army is developing a new type of military equipment. On March 10, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on its official YouTube channel published a video of the first regular firing of combat vehicles supporting the Terminator tanks.

B-1B Lancer strategic bombers deployed by the Air Force (Air Force) The United States in Norway, probably aimed at Russia, says The Drive.

Scientists of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - the All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics (RFNC-VNIITF), located in the city of Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region, have come up with a device for combating drones, which is a rocket from which a network of drones is released, it follows from a document published on the website of Rospatent.

MiG-31 planes will intercept ballistic missiles, Izvestia reports, citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

Rare footage of a Soviet railway-based nuclear missile has appeared online.

The Drive portal drew attention to a fragment of a video about the Soviet RT-23 UTTH ICBM "Well Done" (in the NATO classification SS-24 Scalpel), published on March 9 on Twitter. The author recalls that the Soviet Union was the only country that created a railway mobile intercontinental ballistic missile.

Missile boats of the Baltic Fleet conducted a complex of artillery firing off the coast of the Kaliningrad region.

During the planned sea launch, the strike group consisting of the missile boats "Morshansk" and "Zarechny" successfully hit all large and small shields that mimic the ship's detachment of a simulated enemy

Diesel submarines Kolpino and Veliky Novgorod have put to sea for maneuvers, the Russian Black Sea Fleet said on Wednesday.

The deadline for the delivery of ships to the fleet is 2026 and 2027, the agency's interlocutor said

The nuclear-powered strategic missile cruisers Dmitry Donskoy and Prince Potemkin of Project 955A (code "Borey-A") will be laid down at Sevmash in May 2021. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

"The fastest supersonic rocket in the world" has found its first foreign buyers. March 4, portal indiatimes.com India and the Philippines have signed a preliminary agreement on the conclusion of intergovernmental contracts for the purchase of Indian military equipment and weapons for the Philippine army.

The Admiral Nakhimov heavy nuclear cruiser will become the most dangerous ship of the Russian Navy thanks to new weapons, radars and electronic warfare equipment. After modernization, the project 1144 ship will be able to sink vessels of any displacement.

The US plans to deploy missiles to islands in the East China and South China Seas to counter Chinese activity in the region.

This was reported by the Japanese newspaper Nikkei with reference to a document on funding sent by the command of the US armed forces group in the Indo-Pacific region.

MBDA on March 3 announced the signing of the first contract with an unnamed foreign customer for the supply of a new air defense system "Albatros NG" (Albatros NG) based on the anti-aircraft guided missile CAMM-ER.

Defense Ministers of Russia and Belarus Sergei Shoigu and Viktor Khrenin at talks in Moscow on Friday agreed to create three training centers for joint training of military personnel, one of the centers will be based in Belarus, the Russian Defense Ministry reported