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The Russian remote mine clearance vehicle "Foliage", created for the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), will be equipped with a more powerful microwave gun during the modernization, which will increase the range of mine detonation, the state corporation"Rostec" told RIA Novosti.

The next stage of the joint maneuvers will involve one of the Russian frigates

The mobile coastal anti-ship missile system (BPKRK) "Bastion" as part of the exercise made a march to the positional area on the territory of Crimea, the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) said on Thursday.

T-55 and ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" of the Peruvian army were deployed to cover the border with Ecuador. The relocation of equipment is explained by the increase in the number of migrants from Venezuela.

Judging by the published photos, medium tanks are transported on trawls, while lighter self-propelled units move independently.

As announced by the Ministry of Defense of Australia, the capabilities of the maritime patrol of the country's Air Force will be strengthened by the acquisition of two additional aircraft BPA P-8A "Poseidon" produced by Boeing.

The US has stolen a Russian "Shell" in Libya

Russian air defense system "Pantsir-S1" was at the American base Ramstein in Germany, write the British media. The US military removed the complex last summer from Libya. It is assumed that in this way they wanted to protect civilian aircraft from an attack by terrorists who could take possession of the installation. On the other hand, American journalists believe that the United States could have stolen it for a more detailed study. Is there any sense in such an operation-I understood it "Газета.Ru".

Modernization of the Russian strategic missile defense system has been completed

Hundreds of billions of operations per second, an updated radar control station, and a new missile. In Russia, the modernization of the missile defense system of the Central Industrial District has been completed.

The Grom-E guided missile and bomb armament system is based on the X-38ME modular multi-purpose guided missile, equipped with various homing head (homing head) variants. Boris Obnosov, General Director of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation (KTRV), revealed details about the advanced weapons that the Hunter heavy strike drone, which is the wingman of the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter, was testing.

A brigade armed with the latest Buk-M3 and Buk-M2 anti-aircraft missile systems will appear in the Southern Military District. It is expected that the unit will become part of one of the combined arms armies. The Buk-M3 air defense system has already received the name "anti-aircraft submachine guns"in the troops. They are able to detect and shoot down targets at a range of up to 70 km and repel massive attacks by cruise missiles. According to experts, the brigade will become a mobile reserve. The connection will protect not only the sky of the south of Russia — if necessary, it can be quickly transferred to the Crimea or to the western direction.

The combat machine gunners-gunners MANPADS "Typhoon defense" is at the final stage, in the third quarter of this year will end development work, said the General Director of the Izhevsk Electromechanical plant "Kupol" (part of the concern VKO "Almaz-Antey") Fanil Ziyatdinov.

Short-range anti-aircraft missile system (SAM MD) "Tor-M2" in the near future will become interspecific, it will have a ship analog, said the general director of the Izhevsk Electromechanical plant "Kupol "(part of the concern of East Kazakhstan region "Almaz-Antey") Fanil Ziyatdinov.

The MiG-31 is already considered the world's fastest combat aircraft, but this is not enough for Russia, writes the user "Sina". Recently, the country announced the development of a new-generation fighter-interceptor. It is expected to replace the MiG-31 and MiG-31BM. Russia, because of its "unique geographical conditions", such fighters will definitely come in handy, the author is sure.

The Weapons Department of the Thai Navy announced the order of five complexes of support launchers "Dzhigit" produced by JSC "Scientific and Production Corporation" Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering "(JSC "NPK "KBM").

On the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy, a joint exercise of Naval aviation forces with a coastal missile system with an anti-ship missile (BPKRK) "Bal" was conducted to destroy a simulated enemy ship.

The extended start-up agreement will apply to Russian Avangard systems. This, as reported by "RIA Novosti", said the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov.

MiG-31BM interceptor fighters took the Northern Sea Route (NSR) under protection. The aircraft of the Northern Fleet aviation squadron will be on duty at the island and mainland airfields in the Arctic. The part was deployed back in 2019 in Monchegorsk. But since the end of 2020, the aircraft have a new task. Now, if necessary, they can be quickly relocated to any of the more than a dozen repaired airfields along the NSR.

More than 20 units of modern weapons and special military equipment will be received in 2021 by the units of the Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District, stationed in the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions.

The Venezuelan Air Force has become the strongest in Latin America due to the use of Russian Su-30MK2 multi-purpose fighters and S-300VM anti-aircraft missile systems, writes Military Watch magazine.

Dmitry Litovkin-why the submarines of the project 971 are called the perfect naval weapon

Already in 2023, Russian sailors will be able to return to permanent combat duty in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the project 971 type "Pike", or, as they are also called in the West, "Shark", will take on the escort of ships, and will also monitor the coasts of the United States and Britain.

The US Missile Defense Agency has signed a contract with the US company Northrop Grumman to develop a prototype satellite capable of detecting hypersonic targets. According to C4ISRNET, the transaction amount was $ 155 million. Under the terms of the agreement, the company will have to assemble a prototype of the satellite and conduct its demonstration tests.

Dynetics conducted successful tests of the promising X-61A Gremlins air system, which involves launching a UAV from a carrier aircraft. During the test, the drone was in close proximity to the C-130.