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Keeping Peace in the Nuclear Age

Why Washington and Moscow Must Extend the New START Treaty Ten years ago, the United States and Russia signed the New START treaty—a nuclear arms control agreement that we, as the heads of our governments’ respective delegations, helped negotiate. Since then, New START has played a central role in keeping the peace and preventing a dangerous arms…
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An Overview of Russia-Algeria Military Cooperation

SIPRI's latest report on trends in international arms transfers in 2019 states that Algeria was the third on the list Russia's top arms clients between 2015-2019. The North African country is only the second after Egypt in military power in Africa. In 2015–19 Russia delivered major arms to 47 states. A total of 55 per…
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Iran’s missile shield

        Developing own missile capabilities has been the main priority over many years as part of Iranian defense strategy aimed at containing the USA and its regional allies. Sanctions of the UN Security Council remaining in force against Iran until autumn 2020 and banning supplies of many ordinary armaments including combat airplanes…
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Russia Has Made China’s Air Force Stronger Than Ever

Unquestionably, China and Russia stand at an interesting inflection point with respect to their military-industrial relationship. For decades, the flow of expertise and equipment generally went in one direction. Can a more equitable arrangement be found? Chinese air power these days is something to behold. In the course of just about thirty years, Beijing’s aerial…
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Aviation. MTC Between Russia And Algeria

Algerian Air Force has a pressing need for upgrading its aircraft in service. After almost a fifteen-years embargo (1990–2005) Algerian AF has started an extensive modernization program. This process was initiated after an official visit of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin to Algeria in 2007 and conversion of Algerian debt to the Russian Federation…
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Changing political landscape

Alexandra Grigorenko, Editor-in-Chief “New Defence order. Strategy” Journal Changing political landscape Political patterns change rapidly. Contents and forms, motivation and methods are changing. It is impossible not to recognize this, just as it is impossible not to reflect on the future. “The liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests…
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Complex Area Protection “Anti-UAV”

Security is one of the most important factors affecting operation of companies. The process of security provision always supposes a set of measures that allow excluding accidental or intentional intervention into operation of an organization. One of the most popular and available intervention technologies is espionage by means of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Light-weight small…
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Engineer Troops of the Russian Federation On ARMY 2020

Speech by the Head of the Engineer Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation within ARMY 2020 International Military and Technical Forum. Questions and answers. 1. What are engineering troops today? What tasks are assigned to them? Currently, the engineering troops of the Armed Forces consist of military command and control bodies, formations,…
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India’s Republic Day. Congratulations For Strategic Partner!

On January 26, the people of India will celebrate the Republic Day. Seventy years ago, on January 26, 1950, the Constitution of India entered into force, proclaiming the country a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic. We congratulate Russia's strategic partner!     Russia and India are close friends and partners. In the seven-plus decades of their…
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American and Russian Development of Military Unmanned Ground Vehicles

By Samuel Bendett, Associate Research Analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses' International Affairs Group, member of the Russia Studies Program The pace of development of unmanned systems for the military is picking up around the world, with many countries and even non-state actors fielding air, land and seabased models for current and future use.…
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