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The American company Aurora showed a multicopter to fight other drones. The MIDAS device is paired with a ground-based portable radar and is able to shoot down small multicopters using a grid without operator intervention. The information is available on the company's website.

The US Army is studying the possibility of increasing the range of Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) almost three times — from the current 500 kilometers to 1,600 kilometers, according to Breaking Defense.

In the Astrakhan region, at the Ashuluk training ground, combat crews of the latest air defense systems of the Western Military District during the exercise repelled rocket attacks of a simulated enemy. In the presented video, you can watch the combat launches of anti-aircraft guided missiles at targets that imitated aircraft and cruise missiles of the "enemy".

During the upcoming exercises, the Thai Navy Marine Corps will test the first batch of Israeli-developed guns received last year, which are assembled at the facilities of the local defense industry.

Wheelbarrows, gun-trucks, installation of NURS on pickups — what people will not come up with when full-fledged army equipment is not available or "ended". To mark the seventh anniversary of the launch of the Warspot portal, we offer you a selection of photos of military homemade items that can be found in combat zones.

As reported by the TASS news agency, development work (R & D) on the creation of the latest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Cedar" will begin at the turn of 2023-2024. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The contract for the supply of S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems to India is being implemented as planned, Dmitry Shugaev, head of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), told Interfax on Tuesday.

In the United States, the B-52 Stratofortress bomber failed to launch the ARRW hypersonic launch vehicle. The first flight tests of the new weapon took place on April 5 over the Point Mugu sea ridge off the coast of California.

On Tuesday, the Pacific Fleet frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov launched a Kalibr cruise missile at a ground target for the first time. This shooting was conducted by the crew of the ship from the waters of the Sea of Japan.

The press service of the Pacific Fleet reported that at the estimated time, the missile successfully hit the target position at the test site in the area of Cape Surkum. The range of fire at the same time exceeded 1 thousand kilometers.

The task of destroying a detachment of warships of a simulated enemy was fulfilled at the exercises by the calculations of the Bastion coastal missile systems( DBK), the Baltic Fleet (BF) said on Monday.

The destruction of strategic objects of the imaginary enemy was worked out in the Leningrad region by the military personnel of the missile brigade of the combined arms Army of the Western Military District (ZVO).

A quarter of a century ago, the Su-37, an experimental fighter with super-maneuverability, took to the skies for the first time. It did not go into production, and the only one built crashed during tests in 2002. But the Su-37 fulfilled its task.

The crews of two submarines off the coast of the Kaliningrad region attacked and counterattacked each other with the mutual use of weapons and sonar equipment.

The next Avangard complex will be delivered to the troops this year, Alexander Leonov, General Director and General Designer of the NPO Mashinostroyeniya, told reporters on the sidelines of the academic readings on cosmonautics on Friday.

According to Alexander Leonov, General Director of the NPO Mashinostroyeniya, there is nowhere to go further than hypersound, according to the characteristics of the Avangard known to him in terms of speed

Hypersonic technologies will be used in new weapons systems, said on Friday the General Director, General Designer of the NPO Mashinostroeniya (part of the corporation " Tactical Missile Weapons") Alexander Leonov.

The Russian Advanced Long-range Aviation Complex (PAK DA), which is being created, can receive subsonic X-101 missiles, the editor-in-chief of the site told Izvestia MilitaryRussia.ru Dmitry Kornev.

According to him, the missiles will replace the Yars complexes that are in service with the Strategic Missile Forces

Development work (R & D) on the creation of the latest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Cedar" will begin at the turn of 2023-2024. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

A wireless system for monitoring the state of silo launchers with intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) is being developed in Russia, according to the materials of the Royal Readings on Cosmonautics, available to RIA Novosti.

The American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower ("Dwight Eisenhower"), having passed the Suez Canal, entered the Red Sea, which is part of the area of responsibility of the US Central Command, the Egyptian information site Cairo24 reported.

Russian warships conducted live-fire exercises in the Sea of Japan, the Pacific Fleet said on Saturday.