Category: military

(Xinhua)08:45, July 03, 2019

MOSCOW, July 2 (Xinhua) — Russia has successfully tested a new anti-ballistic missile, Colonel Pavel Kuzmin, a spokesman for the Russian air and anti-missile defense command of the Aerospace force, said Tuesday.

After a series of tests, the new anti-ballistic missile … (hit) an assigned target with a given accuracy, a statement by the Russian Defense Ministry quoted Kuzmin as saying.

The missile is designed to counter ballistic missile attacks and was launched from the Sary-Shagan test range in Kazakhstan, the statement said.

It did not provide more details other than mentioning that the launch was not the missiles first.

Moscow has successfully tested anti-ballistic missiles at the Sary-Shagan test range once or twice a year since 2011 and at least five times last year, according to the Russian Defense Ministrys website.

(Xinhua)09:21, July 03, 2019

BEIJING, July 2 (Xinhua) — Chinese and German militaries will hold a joint exercise on medical support from July 3 to 17 in Munich, Germany, said a source with the Health Bureau of the Logistic Support Department of the Central Military Commission of China Tuesday.

The exercise will be based on the joint operation of medical support teams from the two militaries in international humanitarian medical rescue missions and will focus on tasks including joint command, rescue and disease control.

Most of the 91 members of the Chinese military medical support team bound for Munich have had experience in major tasks such as international peace-keeping, flood emergency rescue and earthquake relief.

The upcoming exercise will be the second military drill on medical support jointly held by Chinese and German militaries, with the first held in southwest Chinas Chongqing Municipality in 2016, the source said.