ROSATOM not only leads digitalization in Russia, but it is also a competence center for the Digital Technologies federal project, which is part of the Digital Economy of the Russian Federation national program. The scale of the tasks facing State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM is impressive: digitizing the nuclear industry and other sectors of Russia’s…
International Exercises of the Russian Armed Forces in 2020: An Overview
Military exercises are one of the most important elements of military readiness. They serve several key purposes, including practicing new ways of using troops, verifying command and control capabilities, trying out new ways of organizing and conducting combats, and testing the latest weaponry. International exercises broaden the range of objectives: they increase trust between participating…
Export of Aviation Equipment In the Russian-Chinese Military-Technical Cooperation
The military-industrial complex (MIC) of the People’s Republic of China is rapidly developing, but still cannot manage to meet all its needs without foreign aids. In the context of a current political situation becoming even more complicated, Beijing has fewer and fewer opportunities to import foreign samples of military equipment. In September 2018, the United…
Russia’s Military-Technical Cooperation – 2020
In 2020, due to the pandemic-related restrictions, for a number of foreign clients, the terms of delivery of military products and implementation of contracts for overhaul and maintenance of weapons and military and special equipment were put off and rescheduled. The impossibility to ensure duly transfer of basic payment documents from customers led to…
Boris Obnosov: Hypersonics is an Impetus for the Development of Science and Technology
The ‘Tactical Missiles Corporation’ (KTRV) is one of the leading companies of Russia's military-industrial complex and a world leader in the development and production of high-precision weapons. Boris Obnosov, Director General of KTRV, talked to the New Defence Order. Strategy about the development of hypersonic technology, international cooperation, and export of KTRV's products. The meeting with the…
The Present is Great With the Future
Alexandra Grigorenko Editor-in-chief of the "New Defence Order. Strategy" "The present is great with the future" Leibniz The connectedness of the present and the future down to the smallest atom of our existence…
Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation in 2019. Main trends
In general, the results of the year in the area of military-technical cooperation can be considered successful for the Russian Federation
Military-technical cooperation and military-industrial complex in conceptual documents of post-Soviet states
Doctrines of not all states and for not all periods reflect existing actual situations and match it. Some documents only declare; this has to be taken into account and correlated with actual military and technical reality
Mi-24s still serving in Eastern Europe
The Mi-24/35 (NATO reporting name Hind) is an attack helicopter type which was once in mass use in Eastern Europe, operated in the 1990s and the early 2000s by the air arms of no less than seven countries, with a total fleet exceeding 170 aircraft
Thomas Countryman: On Russian-American Strategic Relations
Thomas Countryman, the chairman of the Arms Control Association board of directors since 2017, gave a lecture to the students of the ‘Strategic and Arms Control Studies’ Master’s program, at the School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University. This is the full transcript of the lecture.











