“For the first time, consolidated combat calculations of anti-aircraft missile systems of Russia and Egypt were created at the joint international exercise Strela Druzhby-2019,” the agency said.

The head of the exercises from the Russian side, Colonel Valery Chernysh, said that “the decision to form them was made in the course of earlier agreements” with the Egyptian side “at planning conferences.”

Earlier it was reported that the first joint Russian-Egyptian air defense exercises "Arrow of Friendship - 2019" began in Egypt.