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About 8 thousand military personnel of the Southern Military District worked out elements of bringing to the highest degrees of readiness during the exercises
More than 2 thousand special forces troops will be relocated to the Crimea for exercises
As part of the command and staff exercise, in which about 8 thousand servicemen take part, formations and military units of the Southern Military District (SE) have been alerted to work out elements of bringing them to the highest levels of readiness, the press service of the district reported on Thursday.
In Russia, they told about the superiority over the hypersonic weapons of the United States
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the superiority of Russian developments over hypersonic weapons of the United States. He stated this during a speech at the plenary session of the Russian Energy Week forum, Interfax reports.
Rogozin showed the work of the robot "Marker" on the East
The robot can detect and intercept violators, as well as counter terrorist attacks and fight drones
The General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin showed a video of patrolling the territory of the Vostochny cosmodrome by the Marker robot.
More than 2,000 military personnel will be transferred from the Kuban to the Crimea for exercises
More than two thousand servicemen of the Krasnodar Territory have begun to be transferred to the Crimea, where part of the program of large-scale command and staff exercises of the Southern Military District troops will be held at the Opuk military training ground. This was reported by the press service of the Southern Military District.
The Ministry of Defense and Gazprom have signed an agreement on the reconstruction of the Levashovo airfield
The total volume of investments under the concession agreement will exceed 10 billion rubles
The Russian Military Department and Gazprom PJSC have concluded a concession agreement on the reconstruction of the Levashovo airfield (Leningrad Region), which will allow it to be used in the interests of the civil air fleet.
The intelligence units of the Ground Forces receive modern means of intelligence
In order to increase the combat capabilities of the reconnaissance units of the Ground Forces, the delivery of the second-generation Sagittarius-M intelligence, control and communications systems (KRUS) is planned.
At the end of October, the German Ugryumov base minesweeper will return to the CFl after modernization
At the end of October, the basic minesweeper "German Ugryumov" will return to the crew of the ships of the Caspian Flotilla (CFL), which has undergone technical repairs and modernization on the basis of the Severodvinsk branch of JSC "Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center" in Astrakhan.
Japan launched the first production submarine of the Taigei type
Japanese Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) launched the second Taigei — Hakugei type submarine. The launch ceremony of the lead boat was held in 2020.
Calculations of the Buk-M3 air defense system were shot at the Kapustin Yar training ground
Calculations of the latest Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile systems conducted firing at the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region. They successfully hit ten targets.
Breaking Defense: The US Army is not ready for a confrontation with Russia
The US army was advised to take Russia's ground forces seriously.
The Breaking Defense publication criticized the Pentagon's policy. According to Daniel Gur, vice president of the Lexington Institute, a former official of the US Department of Defense, America has focused too much on the Chinese threat in the Pacific region, weakening attention to Russia. However, this short-sightedness against the background of the growing power of the Russian ground forces is fraught with problems in Europe.
Progress will be in autonomous flight for more than a day, waiting for conditions for docking to Nauka
Roscosmos reported that it will move away from the ISS at a distance of up to 185 km
The Progress MS-17 cargo ship will be reconnected from the Search module to the Science module. He will spend 29 hours in an autonomous flight, Roscosmos said in a statement released on Thursday.
The secret of longevity: how Indonesia prolongs the life of PT-76 tanks
The armored long-lived PT-76 continues its service in the land forces and Marines of Indonesia. The first batch of Soviet light tanks was delivered to the armed forces of the state in 1962. According to various sources, less than a hundred such machines have been received in total.
Russian Pantsir complexes provided air defense of Belgrade during an exercise in Serbia
The Russian military put the Pantsir-S air defense systems on duty near Belgrade, which were transferred by planes to Serbia for joint exercises, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
Motorized shootings on pickups demonstrated new ways of conducting combat at exercises near Samara
More than 1.2 thousand servicemen took part in the exercises
Units of the 2nd combined Arms Army on Patriot pickups showed new ways of conducting combat at exercises at the Roshchinsky training ground near Samara, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Thursday.
Ships and vessels of the Northern Fleet have completed the tasks of the tenth Arctic campaign
The ceremony of greeting and awarding the participants of the hike will take place on Friday, October 15
The ships and vessels of the Arctic grouping of the Northern Fleet have completed all the tasks of the tenth campaign on the seas of the Arctic Ocean and are returning to the main base of the fleet Severomorsk. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the fleet.
Scientists in Russia have developed an aeroplatform for stratospheric research
The aeroplatform is capable of climbing to a height of 20-40 km and moving along a given route for several months
Specialists of Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR, Tomsk) have developed a new type of high-altitude balloon that can reduce the cost of scientific research in the stratosphere. This was announced on Thursday by the press service of the university.
Launches of Russian missiles from Baikonur, Plesetsk and Kuru are expected by the end of the year
Launches of Russian rockets from the Vostochny cosmodrome in 2021 are no longer expected
Launches of Russian rockets from the Vostochny cosmodrome are no longer expected this year. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Thursday.
The technical characteristics of the PRP-5 armored reconnaissance aircraft became known
Some technical characteristics of the Russian mobile reconnaissance point PRP-5, made on the basis of the serial domestic armored personnel carrier BTR-82A, have become known.
This car was demonstrated at the beginning of October this year at an exhibition dedicated to the Day of the Ground Forces held in the Patriot Park near Moscow.
GBU-72: "prick" bunkers in a new way
The Americans are preparing to get their enemies out of the ground. On October 13, the press service of the US Air Force reported that the GBU-72 Advanced 5K Penetrator bomb passed the first test by air drop.
The first modern military enlistment office will appear in Russia by next spring
The deadline for the readiness of the country's first military commissariat, modernized as part of a large-scale project of the Russian Defense Ministry, has become known.
It is planned to open in the Tver region by the beginning of the spring draft-2022. This was announced by the governor of the region Igor Rudenya. "The new digital military enlistment office should become a flagship, exemplary facility as part of the further development of the network of military enlistment offices of the Russian Federation," he said after a meeting in Moscow with Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov.
