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Strong army – strong Russia

February 22 2012 21:35

February 23 is the day of the Armed Forces in Russia. This holiday is very popular with Russian. Unofficially →

Russian missile forces: a cardinal renewal

February 21 2012 22:29

On Tuesday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev decorated Strategic Missile Forces servicemen with government awards during his visit to the Taman missile division in the Saratov region ahead of Defender of the Fatherland Day celebrated on February 23. Addressing servicemen, he said that the missile forces would receive up-to-date weapons and equipment under a major modernization program. →

Rogozin calls for greater domestic microelectronics industry

February 20 2012 23:37

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was speaking in the Far Eastern Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Monday after emerging from a high-level meeting on modernizing Russia’s defence industry: "We urgently need to replace the microelectronic elements that we import with similar ones produced at home. The problem has to be solved within a couple of years. →

Growth of conflicts demands army development - Putin

February 20 2012 08:45

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin believes that only economic and diplomatic ways are not enough to counteract to the growth of conflicts near Russian borders. →

Response to global missile defense - Putin

February 20 2012 01:46

Russia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin warns the U.S. of an effective and asymmetric response to deployment of a global missile defense system. "Russia’s military-technical response to the U.S. global missile defense system and its segment in Europe will be effective and asymmetric. And it will fully correspond to the U.S. →

Indian air forces receive Russia helicopters

February 17 2012 15:56

Russia Mi-17V-5 helicopters have entered the service of Indian air forces. At a grand ceremony held in the vicinity of New Delhi India’s on Thursday Defense Minister Arackaparambil Kurien Antony  handed symbolic keys from the first shipment of helicopters to the commander of one of the helicopter units. →

India inducts Russian Mi-17V5 choppers

February 17 2012 15:05

Indian Defense Minister Shri A.K. Anthony believes that India’s latest acquisition, Russian Mi-17V5 helicopters, will augment the army’s military capabilities. The choppers were formally inducted Friday at an Indian air base Palam near New Delhi. →

Defence expenditures not to be cut – Ministry of Finance

February 17 2012 12:11

The amount of budget spent on defence will not be reduced, according to Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. «We’ll not have to underfinance the military programme. The next 3 years no cuts will be assumed», the Head of the Ministry of Finance said. RIA →

Military tensions threaten Russia security - Patrushev

February 17 2012 09:30

The growing threat coming from international terrorism in the wake of “color” revolutions in the Middle East might jeopardize Russia’s security. →

Russian Army: ‘Yes’ to new tanks, ‘No’ to Euro-ABM

February 16 2012 19:10

The Russian army needs modern equipment at reasonable prices. That’s one of the main conclusions experts have drawn from the Moscow press-conference held this week by Chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff Gen. Nikolai Makarov. A possible way out is to develop new technologies and upgrade the existing ones. Gen. →

Russia remembers servicemen killed abroad

February 15 2012 11:37

February 15th marks Remembrance Day for Russian servicemen who were killed while carrying out their military duty abroad. February 15th 1989 was the day when Soviet troops left Afghanistan. Some 15,000 Soviet servicemen were killed in Afghanistan over 10 years. →

Russia unveils fifth-generation AK-12 assault rifle

February 14 2012 23:42

Russia’s Izhevsk Machine Building Plant (Izhmash) has officially unveiled its new fifth generation Kalashnikov AK-12 assault rifle. Until recently, the new Kalashnikov rifle remained shrouded in mystery. The reason for that was that the plant started developing the new model on its own initiative. →

Russia warns US against deploying Aegis ships in northern seas

February 14 2012 13:05

The Russian Chief of Staff, General Nikolai Makarov, today warned the US against stationing Aegis-equipped ships in the Black and northern seas. Gen. →

Russia's first strike drone to be tested in 2012

February 14 2012 12:09

Russia will test its first strike drone in late 2012, Gen. Nikolay Makarov, the Chief of the Russian General Staff, announced today. “We will launch the test flights of our strike drone in late 2012,” the chief army commander said. Currently, the Russian army is only equipped with reconnaissance drones of this type. RIAN →

More S-400 Triumf systems to enter service in Russia by year-end

February 13 2012 14:51

More units of the S-400 Triumf missile defense system will be put on service in the Russian Armed Forces before the end of this year, Air Force chief Alexander Zelin said on Monday. A new generation anti-aircraft system, the S-400 Triumf is designed to protect Russia’s major political, economic and military infrastructure facilities, Zelin said. →

New S-400 air-defence systems to be deployed on Russian border

February 13 2012 10:39

Several new air-defence systems S-400 Triumph are due to be deployed on the Russian border this year, the Russian Air Force Commander, Alexander Zelenin, has told the RIA Novosti news agency. He failed to specify the regions of deployment. →

Russian chopper on display at HeliExpo 2012

February 13 2012 10:31

The Russia Helicopters  company showcased its Mi-171A2 helicopter at the HeliExpo-2012 in Dallas on Monday. The Mi-171A2 is a modernized version of the Mi-8/17, the Russian bestseller which ranks among the most popular helicopters in the world. →

Another ballistic missile early warning radar deployed in Russia

February 11 2012 11:52

Another ballistic missile early warning system, the fourth in Russia, is being deployed in the Leningrad region. Earlier, such radars were deployed in the Kaliningrad, Krasnodar and Irkutsk regions. These are radars of a new generation, the official spokesman for the Aerospace Defence Troops, Alexei Zolotukhin, said. →

Nuclear submarines to enter service this summer

February 9 2012 16:37

Nuclear-powerd ballistic missile submarines «Yuri Dolgorukiy» and «Alexander Nevsky» will enter service in June and August, 2012 respectively, said Anatoliy Serdyukov, the Defense Minister of the Russian Federation at the Duma Defense Committee Session in the Ministry of Defense. (Interfax) →

NATO tests its forces in Arctic

February 9 2012 12:49

NATO forces prepare themselves for Cold Response 2012 – military games, up to 16 thousand people as well as fighting ships and aviation from Great Britain, Denmark, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, France, Sweden and the USA are to take part. NATO countries and neutral Sweden cooperate in the Polar region in the light of Russia's increasing activities. →

 
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