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Negotiating contracts for Russian armaments in the first three quarters of 2017

By Andrei Frolov 2017 has a chance to be remembered as a revolutionary year in the history of Russian foreign arms sales. This results from the fact that Russian arms producers have been particularly successful this year in making a number of breakthroughs in markets that were previously inaccessible, or nearly inaccessible – the petrol-states…
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The Politics and Market of Military Aviation Materiel

By Yury Lyamin The market for modern military equipment has always been closely linked to big politics. In the case of military aviation, the influence of politics is even more significant, since the range of countries that are capable of producing military aviation equipment and especially fighter planes is very narrow. At the same time,…
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India and Russia. Long-Term Cooperation

By Leonid Nersisyan, military analyst.   This year, the total export portfolio of the Russian military-industrial complex (MIC) reached a record 52–55 (estimates vary) billion dollars. At the same time, for many years Russia has been confidently taking the 2nd place in the global arms market by the sales volume after the USA. India, which…
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Color Revolutions – a Final Touch in the Globalist Ideology Default

As of today, the strategic advantage given to Washington by a social technology of “soft power” has worn thin. But this does not mean that the USA will abandon new attempts to use this tool in planning the new color revolutions.     Multi-Sector Crisis Representatives of the Western political establishment tend to increasingly recognize…
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Russia & USA: Strategic Nuclear Forces. Land Component

By Alexander Ermakov, independent military expert.     Russia & USA. Strategic Nuclear Forces  Land Component  The escalation of political standoff between Russia and the USA along with an active phase of modernization of the Russian nuclear triad has heightened public interest in Strategic Nuclear Forces (SNF) of the leading countries. In the nearest future, this…
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Genesis of Russian High-Precision Rifles

 By Vladislav Grinkevich.  At least a dozen of specimens of high-precision rifles are produced in Russia today. It is hard to believe that only 20 years ago our industry did not produce sniper’s weapons whatsoever as it is understood, let’s say, in the West.   The high-precision rifles have not been produced in the USSR…
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Primus Inter Pares

By Leonid Nersisyan, military analyst.  For many years now Russia has held more than a half of the export market of new tanks. The main combat tank Т-90S, which was approved by very many buyers and especially by Indians, became a recipe for success in this respect.   In general, not less than 2,100 tanks…
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Common Synthetic Battlefield – Next Generation Combat Training

The development of computer simulation software and visual aids has been making a tangible progress recently, augmenting capabilities and role of simulators used for operational, combat and interoperability training of military units.     Virtual training, being actively introduced, not only allows to save military systems' service life and fuel and ammunition cost, but also…
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Analysis of BMP-3 Combat Potential

By Artur Volkov.  Recently there are a lot of talks about the new and advanced examples of armored vehicles. Definitely, the advanced developments imply the significant newsworthy information, however, prior to talking about future, it is important to analyze the existing examples, and compare them with the world competitors. Such an approach always extends the…
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Hear the Hypersound

By Leonid Nersisyan, military analyst.   The media are increasingly reporting about the development of prospective weapons capable of changing the realities of war – the hypersonic weapons. In contrast to lasers and rail guns that usually steal the show, these weapons actually have a real chance to move from prototypes to actual combat systems…
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