So, the top of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has undergone dramatic changes. The post of the head of the defense department was taken by the former head of the Moscow region, Sergei Shoigu. In his view ...

The Russian mass media have repeatedly raised the topic of the urgent resignation of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. At the same time, not only journalists and political scientists gave their forecasts, but ...

Following one of the popular expressions of recent times that it’s not customary to change horses, two judgments about the resignation of Anatoly that caused a lot of noise are naturally suggested ...

In 2011, Russian exports of weapons and military equipment (military equipment) reached a level in excess of ten billion dollars. For the current 2012, supplies for 12 billions have been contracted. Thereby...

The modern Russian information field sometimes gives rise to spikelets, which are increasingly similar to weeds. And if a pair of such artificially bred grows on one information "hectare" ...

For the past couple of years, the main topic concerning the Russian armed forces has been the future rearmament. In 2011, the corresponding State Program (so-called HPV-2020) was launched, during ...

How many copies were broken due to the increase in spending on the domestic defense industry! At one time, all those who disagreed with the concept of the need for the speedy modernization of the Russian army and the defense industry sector were ...

The Ministry of Defense of Russia has recently sent for approval to the security forces a new bill, which is called “On the Military Police”. According to him, as part of the military department ...

Russia has the longest sea borders in the world - about 39 thousand kilometers. At the same time, our country has a direct access to two oceans (Arctic and Pacific), there is also ...

Despite the sad experience of past years, the Russian armed forces stationed in Chechnya will again be involved in hostilities against militants in the North Caucasus ....

According to experts, in the world there are about a hundred large private military companies (PMCs) and private security companies (PSCs). Most of them are registered in the USA, France, ...

The ground forces of Russia will receive a new technique; this will happen on their 460 anniversary, that is, in just two years. The official representatives of the Land Force reported that before the 2015, the weapons ...

But here after all here is the dilemma that looms: the initiator of this very promising project was the very (indicated at the top of our list) deputy Klintsevich, who, judging by his biography, has ...

Russian news agencies have spread the information that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has prepared a draft law on how to increase the appeal of conscription service ...

In connection with the State program for the rearmament of the Russian army, which is currently under way, in recent months there have been a lot of news about the plans of the Ministry of Defense. Wherein...

The lack of housing for military personnel up to now has been preoccupied by the military personnel and government officials. And in the absolute majority of cases, the former were much more concerned than ...

A new concept of reforming the Russian armed forces began in the 2008 year (the previous one ended in the 2004 year). During it is planned to implement a set of measures, as a result ...

This year was a period of total rearmament for the Russian armed forces. First of all, this rearmament concerned aviation and naval forces, strategic missile forces, forces ...

The entire current week in the plans of the Ministry of Defense is reserved for the command-staff exercise Kavkaz-2012. In the events continuing a series of large-scale military exercises, soldiers of the Southern Military ...

Sometimes it is interesting to get acquainted with what others think about you. The current reform and rearmament of the Russian army attracts the attention of foreign countries and there are many reasons for this. How...

In May 2012, the media reported that a new intensive training program for servicemen serving in the Russian armed forces was being introduced ...

Not so long ago, in a whole series of Russian mass media, passions flared up over the fact that the Russian military personnel serving under the contract, the Ministry of Defense, is blocking oxygen ...

In war as in war, the French say. But in war one must be able not only to win. The main art in the war - to survive. Survive is not just at any cost, but to win and survive. Survive by saving ...

The ability to maintain parity on individual types of weapons and, in particular, in the field of non-strategic (in American terminology - “tactical”) nuclear weapons (NSNW) depends on ...