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Russian hypersonic missiles and a drone were included in the list of the main military technologies of 2021.

The French portal meta-defense analyzed the military technologies of the world powers in a geopolitical context. Not only the characteristics of the weapons were taken into account, but also how much these developments affected the defense strategy of different countries. The full list consists of ten items. Its first part has been published so far.

Exercises to repel an attack by sabotage reconnaissance groups of a conditional enemy on military infrastructure facilities were held in formations and military units of the Black Sea Fleet, as well as in the army corps of the Southern Military District stationed in the Crimea.

The test of the Russian Orion drone in air combat has become an important milestone in the development of Russia's air defense. The experiment showed that the drone is capable of hitting enemy drones, the Russian Defense Ministry stressed.

The Novosibirsk combat missile carrier, developed at the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise (Sevmash, Severodvinsk), belongs to the class of new multipurpose submarines of the Yasen project.

During the exercises of the units and formations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Payambar-e Azam-17 ("The Great Prophet-17"), a tank was first seen, very similar to the Karrar first introduced back in 2016.

However, it is reported that this is not a completely new model, but one of the deeply modernized T-72M used in the troops.

A batch of Su-34 fighter-bombers has arrived at the State Center for Training Aviation Personnel and Military Tests of the Russian Defense Ministry, stationed in Lipetsk.

17 sets should be delivered by 2023 Russian

Helicopters delivered four more sets to Kazakhstan in 2021 for the assembly of the Mi-8AMT/Mi-171E in Alma-Ata, the press service of the holding reported.

Russian main battle tanks with powerful gas turbine engines have traditionally been admired for their high-speed and maneuverable characteristics. The combat vehicles demonstrated their unique capabilities not only at the company's training ground, special screenings of international exhibitions, various tests, but also during real combat operations.

In the Rostov region, training camps for snipers of the Southern Military District were held at the Kadamovsky training ground. The servicemen practiced new tactical techniques based on the experience of modern local conflicts.

The Kronstadt company stressed that the center will additionally create more than 1.5 thousand jobs in the region

The Kronstadt company has created a center for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of aircraft and helicopter types in Dubna near Moscow. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the press service of the company.

Assistant to Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa Yozo Hirano noted that if he had been given such a chance, he would have taken it

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano, who visited the ISS, admitted that they would like to go into outer space. They reported this during a conference in TASS, which is held in an online format together with Roscosmos and the CPC.

He said that his colleagues on the crew helped him in his work - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano

Managing the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft alone turned out to be easier than it seemed before the flight, cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin said during a conference in TASS, which was held in an online format together with Roscosmos and the Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC).

Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin called this distance the hardest in terms of energy consumption

Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin considered the flight for 12 days difficult in terms of energy consumption, comparing it with a race at a distance of 800-1000 meters. He expressed this opinion during a conference in TASS, which is held in an online format together with Roscosmos and the CPC.

The first factory for the production of Orion and Sirius attack drones has been built in Russia. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Dmitry Litovkin commented on the event.

The Russian armed forces are staffed by contract servicemen by almost 100%, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The Pakistani military has launched a version of its Babur cruise missile with an extended range. According to the Associated Press, a munition called Babur 1B can hit targets at a distance of more than 900 kilometers. Its early version had a range of only 450 kilometers.

American companies L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman have defended the projects of hypersonic weapons detection satellites. Now they can move on to prototype production.

The head of the Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, said that the Russian Armed Forces are staffed by contract servicemen by almost 100%

The Russian armed forces are staffed by contract servicemen by almost 100%, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday.

An indoor swimming pool has been built and has already been commissioned on the island of Alexandra Land in the Arctic. This was announced by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at the plenary session of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on Wednesday. According to him, this is "the world's first indoor swimming pool beyond the 80th parallel."

The troops will be armed with the latest portable anti-aircraft missile system "Willow". This effective means of combating low-flying aerial objects will be delivered to the air defense units of the tank Army of the Western Military District in 2022, the press service of the ZVO reported on Wednesday.