By Leonid Nersisyan, military analyst. A few weeks earlier, Turkey sent troops to the border areas of Syria. The need to clear the Daesh militants from the city of Jarabulus, to support the forces of the pro-Turkish Syrian moderate opposition was named as the official reason for it. This action of the Turkish leadership has…
Russian Army’s Ground-Based Electronic Warfare Systems
By Pavel Rumyantsev. In any modern army, communication systems and troop command and control systems are of paramount importance. Communications breakdown and loss of troop command and control or failure to execute these functions with the required efficiency in today’s warfare conditions may result in fatal consequences that cannot often be compensated even with the…
Strategic Nuclear Forces of Russia and the USA Today and Tomorrow
By Alexander Ermakov, independent military expert Part II. Naval Component The naval component of a modern nuclear triad is represented with nuclear submarines, which are one of the most impressive engineering developments and, at the same time, the most invisible national defence components operating in the silence of the deep sea. First Experiments The…
Leaders of the Global Arms Market. Assault Rifles
By Vladislav Grinkevich. The same model of an assault rifle (or a machine gun) may be critically acclaimed as the world’s best rifle or attained as an absolutely obsolescent weapon. The matter is that there is no general criterion for evaluation of such a weapon – many rifle models have been developed for specific applications…
Deveselu: East and West, PR & Business
Text: Gabriela Ionita, a Romanian journalist, Editor in Chief of Power & Politics World. Political analyst, expert in the field of international relations and security issues analysis (mainly connected with the Russian Federation and Commonwealth of Independent States). She took her university degree in Communication and Public Relation at the National School of Political and Administrative…
Airbus A400M Atlas: Fatigued Before Start-Up. To be replaced with the Antonov An-70?
By Vladimir Dobrunin Last year, on May 9, 2015 the Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashed near Seville. This aircraft was Airbus Consortium’s pride and glory, the result of an ambitious development program that was meant to show everyone which company was able to develop the best aircraft in the world. The crashed aircraft…
Strategic Nuclear Forces of Russia and the USA Today and Tomorrow
By Alexander Ermakov, independent military expert . Part I. 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 interest will grow stronger…
Turkey – Russia’s “Old Friend”
On November 24, 2015 a Russian Su-24M frontline bomber was shot down on its mission against Islamist militants on the Syrian-Turkish border. An air-to-air missile launched by a Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter not only destroyed a Russian aircraft and killed one pilot, but also undermined the Russian-Turkish relations, which had supposedly thrived and gained…
Iran. The S-300 saga
There was an interesting event on April 11, 2016 – the saga of delivery of Russian air defense missile systems S-300PMU-1 to Iran came to an end. Hossein Jaber Ansari, Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman, officially declared that Tehran received the first components of the S-300 ADMS from Russia. Interestingly, this information has been neither confirmed…
The destiny of the Muslim world will be decided in Syria
The evidence for that is not only the Biblical prophecies, but also the modern geopolitics By Sarkis Tsaturyan, PhD in History, REX News Agency Editor-in-Chief Why Syria? The civil war in Syria is a global incident. And it is not only about the fact that the Syrian Arab Republic is located at the…