RUSSIAN ⚔ ZAPAD-2021 EXERCISES – UPDATE

Video of servicemen from a Russian motorized rifle unit at the Brestky training area in Belarus manning their defensive positions with sniper and Igla-S MANPADS teams and responding to sabotage/recon teams.

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🇺🇸🤝🇱🇻 At the recent Northern Strike exercise in Michigan, six modern military aircraft landed on a U.S. public highway and then took off again - a first in American history, Latvian Army firefighters participating in Northern Strike supported the action.

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⚠️❗ RUSSIA – ZAPAD-2021 EXERCISES

The crews of the Tu-22M3 and Su-34 carried out a massive bombing strike at the training ground near Smolensk during the Zapad-2021 exercises. The pilots dropped aerial bombs at ground targets, in the role of which were concrete shelters, underground command posts and armored vehicles of a conditional enemy. The attack aircraft were covered by the Su-30SM fighters.

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🇮🇳 INDIA – First images of Noida made cargo drones ordered by the Army that will fly 20 kg loads of *anything* — food, ammo, equipment — to troops at frontline heights in Ladakh, western Himalayas.

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RUSSIAN ⚔ ZAPAD-2021 EXERCISES

⚓ The crew of the Baltic Fleet submarine "Dmitrov" during the large-scale exercises performed torpedo firing on the high seas at targets that imitated the warships of the imaginary enemy.

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US and Uzbekistan have reached an agreement to transfer a group of Afghan Air Force pilots and their relatives to US military base.

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Spokesperson of China’s Ministry of National Defense urged politicians from Australia to stop hyping the “China threat theory” or treating China as an “imaginary enemy” to avoid bilateral ties being further damaged.

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🇰🇷🤝🇬🇧 South Korean company Hanwha Defense will expose its 155mm K9 ammunition, drones and artillery to the British Army.

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🇮🇳🚀 This Thursday the Indian Air Force (IAF) received its first Indo-Israeli medium-range missile.

The MRSAM was first secretly deployed in September 2016.

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SYRIA – High-speed check-in of a pair of M-60T Sabra battle tanks of the Turkish Armed Forces in northern part of the country.

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