Mil Mi-38 transport helicopter modification will be created by 2018, the Russian Helicopters company said. “The technical shape of the helicopter has been approved by the Defense Ministry and the holding’s experts, and all work on additionally equipping the vehicle will be completed by 2018”, Russian Helicopters said in a statement. The firm said flight…
Serial production of the Russian Korsar (Corsair) surveillance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will start in 2017, a manufacturing firm United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (UIMC) spokesperson reported. “Russia’s newest tactical surveillance UAVs of the Korsar tactical family will go into production in 2017”, the spokesperson said. The spokesperson added that in the long term the Korsar…
Russia is currently developing a plane with a new-generation laser weapon, a source in the Russian defense and industrial sector reported. “Work on a new-generation airborne laser weapon is currently under way”, the source said. According to the source, the talk is about a plane called A-60 by open sources. Media outlets reported earlier that…
The Caspian flotilla ships Volgodonsk and Makhachkala within the strike grouping have performed artillery firings in the assigned zones of the Caspian Sea at the strategic command-and-staff exercise “Caucasus-2016”, the press center of RF Defense Ministry reported. The ships also repelled attacks of simulated enemy surface ships. Besides that crews practiced air defense in movement…
The Russian Aerospace Forces will start receiving the upgraded Mi-26T2 heavy-lift transport helicopters in 2018, a spokesman for the manufacturing firm Russian Helicopters said. “Deliveries of Mi-26T2 to the Russian Defense Ministry are planned for 2018, but this deadline depends not only on the Russian Helicopters holding’s enterprises”, Director of Public Procurement and Military-Technical Cooperation…
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…