Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Egyptian Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi recently agreed to establish a training program for Egyptian pilots. Considering this development, it is very likely that Moscow and Cairo are in fact close to brokering a sale of Russian-made Ka-52K carrier-based attack helicopters to Egypt, which would become a welcome addition to…
Russian arms producers plan to export $15 billion worth of goods in 2016, Deputy Director of defense company Rosoboronexport Sergei Goreslavsky said. “Like last year, we plan to sell weapons worth $13 billion. Sales will total $15 billion including revenue of the Federal Service for Military and Technical Partnership”, Goreslavsky said. Rosoboronexport has sold $7…
The Ukroboronprom State Concern is presenting the potential of the Ukrainian defense and industrial complex at the 24th International Defence Industry Exhibition MSPO 2016 in Kielce (Poland) on September 6 through September 9. The concern’s press service reported that 14 Ukroboronprom’s enterprises were presented in Kielce thus showing the potential of the Ukrainian defense and…
General Dembele Adama, the Malian Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs’s cabinet chief, said that Mali wanted to sign a new contract with Russia on the purchase of tanks and air force technology, including aircraft, in addition to the existing arms procurement contract. “We in Mali are interested in receiving Russian weapons. We want to…
Over 40 import contracts on the deliveries of defensive equipment for the Ukrainian army, with their total value of $1.5 billion, are currently carried out. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said this during his annual address in the Verkhovna Rada on September 6. “We praise the support from the side of our western partners. Over 40…
Modern samples of armament and military hardware of the Russian Aerospace Forces will be demonstrated during stationary exposition and dynamic programs of the International military and technical forum “Army 2016”. The Forum will take place in the Patriot park on September 6-11. Visitors of the Forum will see Su-34 multidimensional bombers, Su-35S and Su-30Sm fighters,…
India intends to invest more than 20 billion rupees ($300 million) in the creation with Russia’s assistance of a logistics center of spare parts for Russia’s Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighters at the facilities of India’s state-owned aerospace and defense company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), a source in the Indian Defense Ministry reported. “To date, the main…