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Military personnel of the Leningrad Air Force and Air Defense Association will conduct live firing at the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

On March 25, 2021, the US Navy announced that it had received the first commercially upgraded Tomahawk cruise missile of the new Block V modification. The Tomahawk Block V cruise missiles are an upgrade of the existing Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles, which are being upgraded at the Raytheon Technologies Corporation facility in Camden, Arkansas.

Major Sergey Nakazny noted that the main task of the training was the moral training of the pilots, as well as practicing accurate aiming and launching

Pilots of the Russian Knights aerobatic team conducted combat firing on Su-35S for the first time during scheduled flights together with the crews of the Strizhi aerobatic team. This was reported to journalists by the flight commander of the Russian Knights aerobatics group, Major Sergei Nakazny.

The United States once again called on Turkey to abandon the advanced Russian S-400 system, which Washington considers a threat to its own security.

According to the commander of the Philippine Navy, Vice Admiral Giovanni Carlo Bacordo, the BrahMos medium-range missile system equipped with a supersonic missile system is an ideal solution as a coastal defense system for the country's Navy.

The crews of the Ka-52, Mi-28 Night Hunter, Mi-24 reconnaissance and attack helicopters, as well as the multi-purpose Mi-8, fired at ground targets from automatic aircraft guns and launched unguided aircraft missiles. The launches took place near St. Petersburg.

Supporters of the movement "Ansar Allah" (Houthis) released a video showing the destruction of another drone belonging to Saudi Arabia in the sky over the province of Marib.

In Syria, along with the "Tigers", "Typhoons-K", "Lynxes", the operation of the "Shot"armored vehicles continues. A new photo of such a combat vehicle in desert camouflage, armed with a 12.7-mm NSV-12.7 "Utes" machine gun, has appeared on the Network.

The warship of the Northern Fleet "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" carried out a training firing of a cruise missile in the Barents Sea. Military expert, captain of the 1st rank of the reserve Vasily Dandykin on the air of Sputnik radio assessed the results of the exercises.

According to the source, state tests will begin in the near future

Flight design tests (LKI) of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from the surface carrier-the frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" of the Northern Fleet-have been successfully completed, and state tests will begin in the near future. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The Norwegians and the Americans conducted the first launch of the latest anti-ship missile JSM from the fifth-generation fighter F-35.

Unique anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMS) S-500 "Prometheus" are looking for a place in the army. The Ministry of Defense is now working on the issue of their placement. In particular, new regiments or brigades can be equipped with aerospace air defense systems. The first deliveries to the troops of complexes capable of destroying ballistic missiles and satellites will begin this year. The staff of the formations will be determined depending on the location and forces of the potential enemy, experts say.

On March 17, 2021, the European Missile Association MBDA announced that it had received the first launch contract for the supply of the new Teseo Mk 2/E (Teseo Evolved) anti-ship missile system to the Italian Navy.

All multi-purpose nuclear submarines (submarines) The Russian Navy of projects 971, 949A and 885 will be armed with Kalibr, Onyx and Zircon missiles, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

North Korea on Sunday last week launched two cruise missiles from its west coast, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Wednesday.

The exercise with the withdrawal of autonomous launchers of the Yars PGRK to combat patrol routes began in the Strategic Missile Forces in Yoshkar-Ola (Republic of Mari El) and Teikovsky (Ivanovo region) missile formations.

Ships from the strike and anti-submarine groups of the water area protection unit of the Troops and forces in the North-East of Russia during the planned exercises performed a series of artillery fire to suppress visible coastal targets.

The crew of the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" this year will be involved in testing hypersonic weapons, the press service of the Northern Fleet (SF) reported on Wednesday.

The US uses the Zumwalt stealth destroyer to control drones

American stealth destroyers Zumwalt found a new application-ships of this type in the upcoming naval battles will control unmanned ships and unmanned aerial vehicles. During the upcoming exercises in the Pacific, the US Navy intends to get the first idea of what such operations will look like.

The former anti-submarine ship was equipped with the most powerful strike weapons

Already in May, the unique frigate "Marshal Shaposhnikov" will be able to take up combat duty after the completion of the modernization started in 2016. In the near future, its crew will conduct training shooting with all standard weapons. The former large anti-submarine ship (BOD) became the carrier of cruise missiles "Onyx" and "Caliber", as well as hypersonic "Zircons". The updated combat unit is necessary for the fleet's actions in the Asia-Pacific region, off the coast of Africa and in the Middle East, experts say