Over 70 HIMARS rockets and two HIMARS launchers are claimed to be destroyed in a missile strike against the ArcelorMittal plant in Krivoi Rog in Ukraine, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Wednesday."According to confirmed information, a strike by ground-based high-precision weapons against a missile/artillery armament depot in one of the workshops of the ArcelorMittal metallurgical plant in the city of Krivoi Rog destroyed over 70 rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and two multiple rocket launchers," the spokesman said in comments quoted in several Russian media
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on Thursday recognizing two Ukrainian regions - Kherson and Zaporizhzhia - as "independent territories" after pseudo-referendums were held there. Proxy authorities in four Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine – Donetsk, Luhansk (both in the Donbas region), Kherson & Zaporizhzhia – held referendums between 23-27 September on joining the Russian Federation
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Russias Tor anti-aircraft missile system is getting an upgrade which will enable it to shoot down high-speed low-flying targets. A software upgrade to Tor will give it this new capability, Vyacheslav Kartashov, assistant to the general director of the Kupol plant was quoted as saying by Zvezda
The United Kingdom has lifted all restrictions on arms exports to Turkey, three years after they were imposed following the latters offensive in Syria. Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu last month said that London had lifted the ban, as contacts intensified between the two governments amid Russias invasion of Ukraine
The Philippine Air Force (PAF) officially took delivery of the first two Turkish-made T129 Tactical Reconnaissance and Attack Helicopters (ATAK) on Wednesday. The aircraft arrived in the Philippines last month and were subject to a technical inspection and flight tests
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Almaz, a subsidiary of Almaz-Antey East Kazakhstan concern and Rostecs Fly Dron signed an agreement with two specialized committees of the government of St. Petersburg on the implementation of a pilot project aimed at creating a system to monitor flights of unmanned aircraft
Russias Federal Air Transport Agency has allowed Rossiya Airlines to conduct maintenance on foreign-made aircraft – including Airbus and Boeing planes– registered in the state register of the Russian Federation. The agency said in a statement that the extended FAP-285 certificate will allow the carrier's aviation technical support department at the Pulkovo base to carry out the technical operation of the entire fleet of operated aircraft