C-400 "Triumph" will take up combat duty in March
As ARMS-TASS reported yesterday from St. Petersburg, the Triumph C-400 air defense system will soon take up combat duty in the Western Military District. As stated by the commander of the ZVO troops, Colonel-General A ....
The commander-in-chief of the ground forces told about the receipt of equipment by the troops in 2012.
In 2012, the Russian Ground Forces will receive more than 2.000 units of various armored vehicles. As reported by RIA “Novosti”, commander-in-chief of the Soviet Union, A. Postnikov said this. According to the commander in chief, the military will receive special ...
Belarus has developed the main directions of modernization of its armed forces
As TSAMTO reported yesterday, on the eve of the holiday 23 in February, the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus published material on the current state and development prospects of the country's armed forces. How...
Russia has developed a new rocket fuel
According to ITAR-TASS, the fuel developed by Russian scientists and designed for space rockets will increase the payload of the Soyuz and at the same time save billions ...
This year the second battery of the Tor-М2 air defense system will be delivered to the Belarusian army.
As ARMS-TASS reports from Minsk, by the end of 2012, the second battery of the Russian-made Tor-M2 air defense system will be put into service of the 120-th anti-aircraft missile brigade. This was reported yesterday ...
The program of deep modernization of the tank T-72: Omsk KBTM to it is fully ready
As ARMS-TASS reported from Omsk yesterday, Omsk KBTM is ready to implement the T-72 deep modernization program. As the ITAR-TASS correspondent was told by the general director of the Transport ...
ZVO will rearm the second squadron on the Su-34
This year, the Western Military District will receive 10 new Su-34 front-line bombers: they plan to rearm the 2 Squadron. According to RIA "Novosti", this was stated by the commander of the ZVO A ....
TsVO scouts improve skills in extreme conditions
Field exits of combined-arms reconnaissance units continue at the Central Military District. More than a thousand scouts improve their skills on the ranges in Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Samara and ...
After the Yak-42 crash, dozens of pilots lost their diplomas
Gross violations were revealed in flight schools during general supervision inspections of the transport prosecutor's office. In the course of the inspection initiated after the September tragedy in Tunoshna, almost eighty ...
In Libya, civil strife does not stop
In the clashes of warring tribes in the south-east of Libya, from fifty to one hundred people died (according to various sources). Fights for the disputed territory last for about a week. Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the head ...
Syria: the wind of change?
Syrians gathered in front of the parliament building expressed disagreement with one article from the future constitution. The 3-i article of the country's main law states that the president of the Syrian Arab Republic ...
Life in the Serbian enclaves of Kosovo
In order to understand how the inhabitants of the Serbian enclaves in Kosovo live today, one can pay attention to the publications of foreign journalists in various Western publications. There was a stereotype that ...
Results of negotiations with Iran: IAEA experts who were not allowed on the facilities are disappointed
Yukiya Amano, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, expressed his disappointment over the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. The agency was displeased, in particular, with the fact that ...
By 2020, the old weapons in the missile troops will not remain
21 February RIA "News" transferred from the Saratov region, that the proportion of new weapons in the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) Russia is now 30%, but by 2020 g ....
By 2015, sniper units will be formed in the Armed Forces
As reported by 21 in February to RIA Novosti, the creation of sniper units in the Ground Forces, where contract servicemen who have undergone special training in sniper schools will serve, ...
Ships of the Navy of the Russian Federation will again go out to the ocean
As RIA Novosti reported yesterday, the ships of the Russian Navy will again go into the ocean zone this year. They will also continue to perform tasks in the Gulf of Aden. This was reported last Thursday ...
Public assessment of military service in Russia - according to VTsIOM
21 February VTsIOM presented the processed data on how citizens assess the state of the country's armed forces, what they think about army reform, and what image of the army has developed in Russian society today ...
"Over 2300 modern tanks will go to the troops in the next 10 years"
Uralvagonzavod, the only armored vehicle manufacturer in Russia, will always be in demand by the country. This is once again confirmed by the article “Be strong: guarantees of national security ...
Russian army intends to create arctic brigades by 2015 year
According to the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, Colonel-General Alexander Postnikov, the Russian army intends to create a motorized rifle arctic brigade by 2015 year. Back in July last ...
Russia withdraws its peacekeeping forces from South Sudan
The active stage of the withdrawal of the Russian peacekeeping contingent from the territory of South Sudan began last weekend. This became known from the official representative of the Russian Air Force Vladimir ...
Relations between Azerbaijan and Iran are deteriorating
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan responded in writing to the note that Iran presented to 12 in February to the Azerbaijani ambassador to Iran. According to the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elman ...
Iran conducts military maneuvers to protect nuclear facilities
In Iran, began a four-day military exercise Sarollah ("Divine Retribution"), during which the troops will be engaged in practicing air defense and protection of nuclear facilities. Teachings are coming ...
Beijing is carefully studying the invitation to meet "a group of friends of Syria"
The Chinese authorities are carefully studying the invitation to the meeting of the "group of friends of Syria" sent to Beijing. This group was created with the direct support of the West and the Arab League (League of Arab States) ...
Intermediaries from OPK cut coupons
According to Vladimir Putin, 23 trillion rubles of the defense order are now being transferred to enterprises "on trust." The Ministry of Defense will receive the twenty-three trillion promised by Dmitry Medvedev ...