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The Ministry of Defense reported that the artillery unit of the Central Military District stationed in Kuzbass received 6 modernized self-propelled anti-tank complexes 9P149 "Sturm-S" based on the tracked armored tractor MTLB.

The Afghan authorities have installed a missile defense system at the Kabul airport against the background of the ongoing battles of government forces in the country against the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation), Western media report with reference to the Afghan Interior Ministry.

The US Air Force conducted a test detonation of a conventional warhead of an AGM-183A ARRW hypersonic air-launched missile, according to a message from military representatives of the Elgin Air Base (Florida).

Russian artillery has traditionally been considered one of the best in the world, which has been repeatedly confirmed by numerous wars and military conflicts.

The Russian-American dialogue on strategic stability should take into account the US program for launching strike weapons into space, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, speaking on July 8 at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with a lecture on "Russia's international activities for the development of Russian regions".

MBDA Group announced the signing of several contracts for the modernization of air defense systems/ABOUT six destroyers of the Type-45 class of the British Navy.

The Russian Defense Ministry has published a video of long-range aviation exercises. After taking off from the Engels Air Base near Saratov, the Tu-95MS and Tu-160 strategic bombers launched cruise missiles at targets at the Arctic test site.

The army Corps of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation held exercises with live firing of T-72B3 tanks at the training ground near Simferopol, the fleet said on Thursday.

The Long-Range Standoff nuclear cruise missile (LRSO), created by Raytheon for the US Air Force (Air Force), is designed to destroy strategic enemy objects, writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

In China, the PLC-181 self-propelled artillery units were modernized. These combat vehicles began to enter the troops quite recently - in 2019. For the first time, they were demonstrated at a military parade dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The show of force at the naval parade will take place after a recent spat with a Royal Navy destroyer. According to the author, the participation of three large submarines is presumably a reaction to the recent incident in the Black Sea, when the destroyer Defender was opposed by Russian troops during its passage past the Crimea.

Iran has a new high-tech ATGM. On July 7, the Tasnim news agency reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) received a missile called "Almaz".

At the final stage of large-scale tactical flight exercises of long-range aviation, the crews of the Tu-160 and Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers launched air-launched cruise missiles at ground targets at a training ground in the Arctic.

The US Space Force plans to receive digital models of early warning satellites for rocket launches for medium Earth orbit from Raytheon and Millennium Space Systems by the end of 2022. According to Breaking Defense, these satellites will allow you to observe the launches of cruise, ballistic and hypersonic missiles.

By 2022, Ukraine, with the help of the United States and Great Britain, will probably receive a fleet of small ships with combat capabilities. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the country Andrey Taran.

The promising new-generation S-500 Prometheus air defense system has successfully passed tests with live missile launches. This was announced by the head of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Sergei Babakov.

The Soviet mobile operational-tactical missile system of front-line subordination "Temp-S" was adopted at the end of December 1965.

The Russian military will send the Pantsir-S air defense systems to Serbia in October for exercises, said Sergey Babakov, head of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS).

The new-generation S-500 Prometheus air defense system has been successfully tested with combat launches of anti-aircraft guided missiles, said Sergey Babakov, head of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS).

The US Department of Defense announced that the US Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center has signed a contract with Raytheon for the implementation of the engineering development and preparation for mass production (EMD) of the advanced long-range LRSO missile defense system.