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Exercises have begun in the Teikovo Missile Division of the Strategic Missile Forces, during which the Yars strategic complexes will pass along the combat patrol routes in the Ivanovo Region.

An exercise with the personnel of the anti-aircraft missile regiment of the Kantemirovsky Tank Division of the Western Military District (ZVO) to repel massive air attacks on important military, industrial and administrative facilities has started in the Moscow Region.

There should be no great difficulties with the development of a ground-based version of the new Russian sea hypersonic missile "Zircon", if such a task is set, said Boris Obnosov, General Director of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation.

The Russian assault aviation will receive the Armored truck missile no earlier than 2023. This was announced by Alexander Kochkin, executive director of the Techmash concern of the Rostec state Corporation, in a conversation with TASS.

The head of the corporation Boris Obnosov called the new missile a breakthrough model of weapons

The development of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" is proceeding according to the schedule. This was announced to journalists during the MAKS-2021 air show by Boris Obnosov, General Director of the Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation (KTRV).

Russia is still ahead of the United States in the field of creating hypersonic weapons, and there is no need to stop, said Boris Obnosov, General Director of the Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation (KTRV).

The Pentagon has seen reports of a test of a hypersonic Zircon missile in Russia and believes that such weapons have a destabilizing effect, said John Kirby, a representative of the US military department.

The United States called the main obstacles to the development of weapons in Russia. This was written by experts of the American research corporation RAND in their report.

Russia and the United States are expected to hold consultations on strategic stability on July 28, The Hill reports. "It is expected that US and Russian officials will meet on July 28 to hold the first dialogue on strategic stability at the negotiations on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons..." the newspaper notes.

The first export contract for the Brahmos cruise missiles will be signed at the end of the pandemic, a face-to-face meeting of representatives is necessary, Alexander Maksichev, co-director of Brahmos from the Russian side, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

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.