Two strategic missile carrying bombers Tupolev-95MS take part in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s anti-terrorist exercise Peace Mission-2016, currently underway in Kyrgyzstan, an assistant to the commander of Russia’s Central Military District Yaroslav Roshchupkin has said. “The planes took off from the Engels airdrome in the Saratov region, stayed in the air for about nine hours…
During the long-range cruise, the Smolny training ship with cadets of military naval schools of the Russian Defense Ministry has visited Malta and is now heading to Baltiysk, says press center of RF Defense Ministry. The crew replenished the supplies, performed maintenance examination of the Smolny, had a rest at the port and got acquainted…
Crews of the Baltic Fleet naval aviation are practicing intercepting and eliminating aerial targets, searching for submarines of the simulated enemy, and performing bombardment in naval and ground ranges in course of the flight tactic exercise. More than 500 servicemen, over 20 Su-27 fighters, Su-24 bombers, Mi-24, Mi-8 and Ka-27 helicopters, and An-26 transports are…
In accordance with the rearmament plan of the Southern MD troops, formations and military units of the 4th Air Force and Air defense army is to receive about 80 pieces of new armament and military hardware. The formations have already received about 30 pieces of modern armament and hardware, including about 10 Mi-8AMTSh and Mi-8MTV5,…
Crews of the Caspian Flotilla ships and radiotechnical service held joint exercise on detecting surface and aerial targets, says press center of RF Defence Ministry. Podsolnukh, over-the-horizon radar, was operated during the exercise. Podsolnukh is capable of detecting naval surface and aerial targets at different altitudes within line-of-sight distance and beyond the horizon. Dagestan and…
Russian Aerospace Forces Commander Viktor Bondarev said that the construction of sixth generation of jet fighters was not far off. Russia is simultaneously developing both manned and unmanned sixth-generation jet fighters. “Simultaneously, of course… Work is in progress here as well as abroad. We have an excellent aviation industry and design bureaus. I think that…
In 2016-2017, Russia will export the Mil Mi-8/17 and Mi-24/35 helicopters to Angola, Mali, Nigeria and Sudan, Yury Demchenko, the head of the delegation for Russia’s arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, said. Demchenko pointed out that helicopters remained one of the most sought-after types of military hardware in Africa. In 2014-2016, Russian-made helicopters were exported to Angola,…