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Saudi Arabia is discussing with Russia the supply of S-400 "Triumph" air defense systems and Su-35 fighters.

The head of the Rostec corporation, Sergey Chemezov, said in an interview with RT that Moscow and Riyadh are negotiating the supply of S-400 systems and Su-35 fighters. He clarified that the contract has not yet been signed.

The Russian frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" went to the Barents Sea for firing at land and sea targets, the press service of the Northern Fleet (SF) reported on Thursday.

The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video confirming the use of the Iskander-M tactical missile system (OTRK) in Syria. The video was posted by RIA Novosti.

BOD "Marshal Shaposhnikov" will turn into a frigate with "Calibers" and "Zircons"

The modernization of the remaining 30-40-year-old large anti-submarine ships of the project 1155 is designed to support the minimum necessary grouping of surface warships of the ocean zone-cruise missile carriers to the readiness of the project 22350M frigates and the Leader-class destroyers, the laying of the main hulls of which is expected in 2022-2024.

Russia is radically changing the rules of air warfare. For strategic bombers, advanced fighters and drones, the latest hypersonic weapons are already being developed. And drones and planes are taught to fly and perform combat missions together. Anton Lavrov, a columnist for Izvestia, has been looking into how the new products will change the nature of military operations and how this will affect the confrontation with the enemy.

In the training center of anti-aircraft missile troops of the Military Academy ASD them. Zhukov carried out work on the development of the teaching staff of s-350 "Vityaz" and the preparation of educational material resources to the training of military specialists.

In Russia, this year, state tests of new guided shells "Krasnopol-M2", as well as guided mines "Gran"will be completed.

A remote-controlled combat module guarding the launch position of an intercontinental ballistic missile in the Kozelsky division of the Strategic Missile Forces near Kaluga has been shown on video for the first time. The story from the rocket compound was released on the TV channel "Zvezda".

Rostec enterprises have started preparing the latest heavy flamethrower system TOS-2 ("Tosochka") for state tests, they are scheduled to begin in March, the general director of RT-Capital LLC (part of Rostec) told RIA Novosti") Kirill Fedorov.

Calculations of the S-400 "Triumph" anti-aircraft missile systems have taken up combat duty on the island of Sakhalin, the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO) reports on Wednesday.

The Americans showed what the F-15EX, which are in service with the US Air Force, will look like. Previously, we could see this car in an unpainted form.

As reported by the RIA Novosti news agency, Rosoboronexport JSC (ROE) and the Jordanian company Jadara Equipment and Defense Systems have agreed to open a licensed production of anti-tank guided missiles from the Kornet-E missile system in Jordan. This was stated to journalists on February 22, 2021 by the official representative of the ROE.

The Polish company PIT-RADWAR presented the concept of a new short-range air defense system. It is stated that the system will be able to hit all types of air targets, including attack helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, barrage ammunition and cruise missiles.

The 36 Tomahawk cruise missiles that did not reach the Al-Shayrat base in Homs (Syria) on April 7, 2017, could have been " destroyed "by Russian electronic warfare (EW) means, writes the Military-Industrial Courier.

The hypersonic aircraft missile, code-named "Gremlin", will take off in two years: tests are scheduled for 2023. In some documents, the product is called GZUR-hypersonic guided missile. In terms of its dimensions, the Gremlin will be smaller than the previously adopted X-47M2 Dagger.

This will significantly reduce the time of fire control and eliminate operator errors

An automated guidance fire control system (ASU) for barrel artillery and multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) is being developed in Russia. This was reported to TASS at the international arms exhibition IDEX-2021 by the press service of the holding company " High-precision Complexes "(part of the state Corporation"Rostec").

Rosoboronexport (ROE) and the Jordanian company Jadara have agreed to open a licensed production of anti-tank guided missiles from the Kornet-E complex in Jordan. The official representative of the Russian organization told reporters about this during the defense exhibition IDEX-2021.

Firefly Aerospace, owned by Ukrainian entrepreneur Maxim Polyakov, is to launch the Orbital Test Bed (OTB) 2 research spacecraft from General Atomics in 2022.

Buyers are already making demands about the ability to resist them

The hypersonic revolution has begun in the world. According to Izvestia sources familiar with the situation on the arms market, foreign buyers are already demanding that many Russian systems be able to resist hypersonic weapons (GZO).

The US Air Force buys an analog of the Su-57. It will become the most armed fighter in the world

In February, the fourth-generation American fighter jet, the Boeing F-15EX Advanced Eagle, took off for the first time. The plane was in the sky over Lambert International Airport in St. Louis (Missouri) for an hour and a half.