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Sukhoi Delivers 6 Su-34 Jets to Russian Air Force
Today, four serial Su-34 frontline bombers went up in the sky from the runway airport of the Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association (NAPO) and off to the place of their deployment at the air base in Voronezh. Two more aircraft will arrive there in the next few days. The aircraft delivery is carried out in the [...]
Russia’s Special Forces get 30 Austrian sniper rifles
More than 30 Austrian-manufactured sniper rifles have been adopted for service with Russia’s Airborne Forces special task units, Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Alexander Kucherenko said on Friday. These are the first foreign made rifles to be officially used by this branch of service. The rifles have been delivered under a 2010 contract and more will [...]
DCNS Begins Building Two LHDs for Russia
The design for the BPC-type force projection and command vessels ordered by the Russian Federation is now underway. DCNS, prime contractor for the programme, has begun studies to tailor the vessel design to the specific requirements of the Russian Navy. Signed in June 2011 with Russian defence export agency Rosoboronexport, the BPC contract with Russia [...]
NATO, Russia at Odds Over Missile Shield
Russia has warned NATO that it is forcing a new arms race by deploying a missile defense shield in Europe. Russian Chief of Staff General Nikolai Makarov told a group of foreign military attaches Wednesday that the NATO defense shield poses a risk to his country’s strategic nuclear defenses. He said that will inevitably lead [...]
NATO tells Russia missile response a waste of money
NATO’s chief urged Moscow on Wednesday to refrain from wasting money on countering an “artificial enemy” as alliance foreign ministers met to calm Russian fears over a European missile shield. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance still wants to reach a deal with Russia to cooperate on the system after President Dmitry [...]
Russia to sell six Su-30 fighter jets to Indonesia
Russia started the first day at an arms show in Malaysia with a preliminary agreement on the delivery of six Su-30MK2 fighters to Indonesia, the Kommersant business daily said on Wednesday. Kommersant cited a Russian source at the talks with Indonesia during the LIMA-2011 arms show on the main island of Langkawi as saying that [...]
Russia to build hulls for 2 Mistral-class warships
Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation and the Baltiisky Zavod shipyard signed a 2.5 billion ruble ($80 million) contract on Friday to build hulls for the third and fourth French Mistral-class warships for the Russian Navy. The signing ceremony took place in the presence of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. French shipbuilder DCNS said on Wednesday it had [...]
Russian Navy to receive 1st Graney class attack sub by end of 2012
The delivery of the first Graney class nuclear-powered multipurpose attack submarine to the Russian Navy has been postponed until the end of 2012 due to additional tests of its weapons systems, the Sevmash shipyard said. Construction of the Severodvinsk submarine began in 1993 at the Sevmash shipyard in the northern Russian city of Severodvinsk but [...]
Russian missile cruiser Varyag returns home after Pacific trip
A Russian Pacific Fleet’s task force, led by the missile cruiser Varyag, returns to its home base in Vladivostok on Friday, the fleet’s spokesman said. The task force, which also includes the Irkut tanker and a salvage tugboat, set sail for a tour-of-duty in the Pacific on September 20. “The solemn meeting of the vessels [...]
