The upgraded Pantsir-SM combined surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery weapon system, equipped with a multifunctional targeting system, will be able to destroy targets 40 kilometers away – twice the range of the current configuration, the first deputy CEO, chief designer of the Instrument Design Bureau KBP in Tula (an affiliate of Rostec) Alexander Khomyakov reported.…
The separate naval aviation regiment of the Black Sea Fleet has received the ninth Su-30SM fighter. The fighter’s crew has passed a training course in the Yeysk training center and has already started performing combat training tasks. The regiment is to receive another aircraft this year. (Russian Aviation/Business World Magazine)
On September 30, the international exhibition of arms ADEX-2016 came to an end. Ukraine was represented by the State Concern “UkrOboronProm,” having represented Ukrainian armored vehicles, combat modules, aviation and marine industries projects, missiles and other samples of military equipment. On the first day of the exhibition, September 27, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has congratulated the Kyiv-based government-run Luch Design Bureau on its successful test of the Sarmat new remote weapon system with anti-tank missiles. The head of state said that Ukrainian Armed Forces were the main guarantee of the country’s independence. (Interfax/Business World Magazine)
Southeast Asian countries are interested in Russia’s unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), Deputy Director of Russia’s state arms exporter Rosoboronexport Sergey Goreslavsky said. “We currently see sustained interest in technology including the Orlan UAV. Fruitful talks on this subject took place during the recent Army-2016 forum. We had a delegation from Thailand. The same subject is…
The Russian Knights aerobatic team based in Kubinka near Moscow has started receiving the first Sukhoi Su-30SM (NATO reporting name: Flanker-C) multipurpose fighter jets, some Russian Internet sources recently said. According to public sources, the Irkutsk Aircraft-Manufacturing Plant, part of the Irkut Corporation, manufactured the first Su-30SM fighter jet in September. The plane was given…
According to a spokeswoman for the company, Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG is currently holding talks with several potential buyers of the MiG-35 jet fighters. “At the moment, MiG-29 is being used in 29 countries around the world. All of these countries, some more and some less so, are interested in MiG-35s, as most of MiG-29s…