NATO’s air exercises have got under way over the three Baltic States, - Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The exercises, to last until the 20th of this month, comprise air units from France, Lithuania, Poland and the United States. The NATO pilots will rehearse manoeuvring, midair refuelling, aircraft ground handling and the Baltic... →
Russia ranks second after the US in terms of arms exports from 2005 to 2009, The Guardian says citing a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The report says the US remains the world's top arms exporter, accounting for 30% of the total, followed by Russia (23%), Germany (11%), and France (8%). →
About 100 thousand mines and bombs from the years of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 are neutralized on former battlefields in Russia annually. According to the Chief of the Engineering Corps’ Training Center, Colonel Vasily Kondratyuk, the bulk of unexploded mines on the territory of the former Soviet Union had been neutralized before... →
The Russian Government has indorsed a draft agreement with South Ossetia on a military base on the territory of the republic. A corresponding decree has been signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. A similar accord was signed with Abkhazia in the course of a recent visit to Moscow of the republic’s President Sergey Bagapsh. The document... →
Under a contract in New Delhi on Friday, India is to start receiving 29 Russian-made MiG-29k jet fighters, beginning with 2012. These cutting-edge planes will be flying missions from a Russian-made carrier, to be sold to India in 2013. India is currently receiving a previously agreed consignment of 16 such jets. Six have already been... →
Two Russian strategic bombers have successfully carried out a patrol flight over the Arctic Ocean, the Interfax news agency reported Firday citing Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Drik. The bombers were shadowed by four NATO' jet fighters, namely Norwegian F-16s and two British Tornados. The mission lasted for 11 hours. All flights by... →
This year Russian military exports are expected to exceed $9 billion, First Deputy of the Federal Service for military and technical cooperation Alexander Fomin said. He said that in 2009 Russia's military exports totaled $8.8 billion. Last year Russia exported weapons to 62 countries. Fomin said that Algeria, Venezuela, India and China account... →
An engine has been mounted on the second prototype of the Sukhoi T-50 fifth generation fighter, head of the Saturn production company Ilya Fyodorov said Thursday. In January-February the first prototype of the fighter made its maiden flights. The Russian armed forces will receive the new aircraft in 2015. The fighter's maximum speed... →
NATO’s air exercises have got under way over the three Baltic States, - Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The exercises, to last until the 20 th of this month, comprise air units from France, Lithuania, Poland and the United States. The NATO pilots will rehearse manoeuvring, midair refuelling, aircraft ground handling and the Baltic countries’ ground service cooperation. →
Russia ranks second after the US in terms of arms exports from 2005 to 2009, The Guardian says citing a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The report says t he US remains the world's top arms exporter, accounting for 30% of the total, followed by Russia (23%), Germany (11%), and France (8 →
About 100 thousand mines and bombs from the years of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 are neutralized on former battlefields in Russia annually. According to the Chief of the Engineering Corps’ Training Center, Colonel Vasily Kondratyuk, the bulk of unexploded mines on the territory of the former Soviet Union had been neutralized before 1970. →
The Russian Government has indorsed a draft agreement with South Ossetia on a military base on the territory of the republic. A corresponding decree has been signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. A similar accord was signed with Abkhazia in the course of a recent visit to Moscow of the republic’s President Sergey Bagapsh. →
Under a contract in New Delhi on Friday, India is to start receiving 29 Russian-made MiG-29k jet fighters, beginning with 2012. These cutting-edge planes will be flying missions from a Russian-made carrier, to be sold to India in 2013. India is currently receiving a previously agreed consignment of 16 such jets. →
Two Russian strategic bombers have successfully carried out a patrol flight over the Arctic Ocean, the Interfax news agency reported Firday citing Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Drik. The bombers were shadowed by four NATO' jet fighters, namely Norwegian F-16s and two British Tornados. The mission lasted for 11 hours. →
This year Russian military exports are expected to exceed $9 billion, First Deputy of the Federal Service for military and technical cooperation Alexander Fomin said. He said that in 2009 Russia's military exports totaled $8.8 billion. Last year Russia exported weapons to 62 countries. →
An engine has been mounted on the second prototype of the Sukhoi T-50 fifth generation fighter, head of the Saturn production company Ilya Fyodorov said Thursday. In January-February the first prototype of the fighter made its maiden flights. The Russian armed forces will receive the new aircraft in 2015. →
An anti-submarine destroyer from the Russian Northern Fleet will participate in the FRUKUS 2010 international naval exercises to be held in the Atlantic in July, a spokesman for the Russian Navy told reporters on Thursday. The annual FRUKUS drills that traditionally involve France, the United States, Britain and Russia will set off from the UK port of Plymouth, ITAR-TASS reports. →
The Cabinet Committee on Security of India has approved the allocation of extra money for finishing the modernization of the «Admiral Gorshkov» aircraft carrier in Russia. After being handed over to the Indian Navy, the vessel will be re-named “Vikramaditya” after an epic hero. →
Parts of Afghanistan's Helmand province currently under British control could be transferred to American troops, Britain's Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth has told the BBC. →
The US is plannning to deploy a battery of the Patriot surface-to-air anti-missile systems in Poland by the end of next month, Commander-in-Chief of US armed forces in Europe, Admiral James G. Stavridis has announced. →
North Korea has set up a special-purpose division of intermediate-range ballistic missiles, reports South Korea’s Yonhap news agency with reference to an unidentified government source. Seoul sees the move as North Korea’s determination to go ahead with developing missiles with an effective range of over 3000 kilometres. →
The Georgian government is working out a new military doctrine and plans to replenish its stocks of antitank and air defense weapons it lost during the brief war of August 2008. →
Russia is concerned not with the expansion of NATO itself but with the fact that its military infrastructure is approaching the Russian borders, Yury Baluyevsky, deputy secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation said Friday. He also said that Russia is not going to oppose NATO. →
This country’s armed forces are down to one million and will be 70 percent rearmed with latest precision weaponry before 2020. Speaking before the board of the Defence Ministry in Moscow Friday, President Medvedev pledged adequate funding for this. He also said the existing arsenal must be properly looked after and any decommissioned weaponry, frugally recycled. →
This year China's expenditure on defense will exceed $78 billion, which is 7.5% increase on the year, an official with the Chinese parliament said Thursday. He said that the government had decided to increase financing of the defense sector due to numerous potential threats to national security. →
Pakistani troops killed about 30 Taliban militants on the Pakistani-Afghan border on Thursday in a counterattack that followed a Taliban raid on an army post in the tribal region of Mohmand. On Tuesday, the army launched a successful offensive on a Taliban stronghold in the neighboring Bajur region, killing 75 militants. →
Two police officers were wounded in the Derbent region of Dagestan (autonomous republic in Russian Caucasus) when they tried to stop a car for an examination and the people in the car opened fire. The authorities are looking for the criminals. →
Six militants have been killed and six detained on Tuesday in the Nazran district of Russia's republic of Ingushetia. Police officers blocked several houses in the village of Ekazhevo where the militants were hiding. The militants offered strong resistance. →
