Back in 2019, Russia tested a new anti-missile interceptor.
Though Russian media hailed the test as an impressive demonstration of Russian military power, it’s not exactly clear why this is so.
Russian television showed a one-minute video of a rocket launch, said to be from the Sary-Shagan test site in Kazakhstan. The video shows a canister presumably with the missile inside being transported on a flatbed truck, and then lowered into a pit. The launch, shot from multiple camera angles, shows a rocket rising from a silo so fast that the only thing that can be seen is a streak of flame and a rust-colored cloud of smoke.
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Licensed to kill: A surveillance drone, designed in Israel and made in Russia, has played a shocking, pivotal role in Putin’s endless bombing campaign to rescue the Assad regime and illegally target civilians, including hospitals
Israeli technology used by Russia helped save Assad
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus, Syria on 11 February 2016 [JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images] May 7, 2021 at 5:08 pm
Russia has been utilising Israeli drone technology over the past decade, significantly enabling it to help defend the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad and keep him in power, an article by the Israeli news outlet
Haaretz has reported.
According to the article by the US-based journalist Patrick Hilsman, Russia decided to bolster its presence in the growing UAV industry after discovering its inadequacy in its conflict with Georgia in 2008, when it lost a high number of aircraft to the Israeli drones which its opponents possessed.