The Russian Aerospace Defense Forces (VKO) plans to order the new Kh-32 (also named X-32) cruise missiles to arm its Tupolev Tu-22M3 “Backfire” bombers. The VKO has successfully conducted Operational Evaluation trials of the Kh-32 air-launched stand-off cruise missile. The Kh-32 can use a combination of GLONASS and GPS and radar terrain mapping to achieve…
Agrarians of the Southern and North Caucasian Federal Districts of Russia started harvesting corn. The first results demonstrated that the average yield exceeded the last year results almost 4 times to 5.98 ton/ha, against 1.63 ton/ha on the same date in 2015, the Ministry of Agriculture declared. In particular, to date the North Caucasian District…
As of August 25, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the areas of 28.5 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 24 million ha), or 60% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 85 million tons of grains, with the average yield of…
Russian state space corporation Roscosmos is allocating over 1.9 billion rubles ($29 million) to upgrading carrier rocket engines, rocket boosters and spacecraft, according to materials published on Russia’s official public procurement website. The contracted upgrades include replacing engine parts and materials, increasing engine reliability and reducing defects and failures during test flights. Roscosmos also plans…
Russia’s S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia General Director Vladimir Solntsev said that state space corporation Roscosmos started working on designing a new super-heavy class carrier rocket on the basis of the RD-171 liquid-fuel rocket engine. “We are working on a super-heavy class rocket with an engine that we already have – the…
Under order from RSC Energia, Roselectronics has designed a single CCTV system used to monitor astronaut activity in space. The system will be tested in 2017. It was developed on the basis of the Orlan-MKS spacesuit currently used by Russian astronauts and designed for eight hours of continuous operation. A single TV camera block attached…
In September Russia will supply 3.7-3.8 million tons of grains to foreign markets, as opposed to 3.5 million tons forecast for August. But on the same month last year the exports totaled 4.18 million tons, the Deputy Director of the strategic management department at Rusagrotrans CJSC Igor Pavensky announced. According to Pavensky, to date the…