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Syria, Turkey, Iran – Highlighting the Key Points

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…

19.10.2016

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…

17.10.2016

152 mm Cannon for T-14: Actuality and Perspectives

Author Artur Kovalivsky. The idea to install the 152 mm cannon to the tank is nothing new; the attempts to install such type of guns were made as far back as the middle 1980s, though technical difficulties, excess capacity and crisis in the country made it impossible to implement this idea in Soviet times. …

17.10.2016

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…

18.05.2016

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…

18.05.2016

Arms Export: Weapon Generation Change Around the Corner

According to reliable sources, including Western expert community, Russia continues to hold its position as the world’s second largest arms exporter. By Leonid Nersisyan For example, the research group for the U.S. Congress states that in 2014 the arms export income of Russian companies totaled $10.2 billion, maintaining the same level in comparison…

15.03.2016

In late September 2015, the scenario that had seemed to be a sci-fi story or a computer game’s script became real. The Russian Air Force launched an air operation against militants of the so-called “Islamic State” (the terrorist organization banned in Russia). By Pavel Rumyantsev and Leonid Nersisyan Since late August, the events…

15.03.2016

The new diesel-electric icebreaker of 21180 design “Ilya Muromets” ship's keel was laid in the dockage facilities of the “Admiralteiskie Verfi”. It has taken place at the building berth where the-first-in-the-world nuclear-powered icebreaker “Lenin” was laid in 1956. A Hero This is the first icebreaker in Russia, where the steerable propellers of “Azipod” type are attached outside the…

12.11.2015

Do It Yourself, or Back to the Future?

The international economic sanctions aimed not at certain Russian politicians and leaders but at entire industries, primarily – military-industrial complex, exposed a tangled ball of problems which for some obscure reason for a long time remained unseen for our officials from their high places. Obviously, they did not read the press either – experts and…

01.11.2015

Stuffed canard In the first decade of September 2014 Russian military-industrial complex was shocked by surprising news: quite respectable mass media, including international ones spread the information that the President of Russia after consultations with the Prime Minister (and possibly – by the initiative of the latter) abolished … Rosoboronexport. However, quite soon it turned…

01.11.2015

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Syria, Turkey, Iran – Highlighting the Key Points

Airbus A400M Atlas: Fatigued Before Start-Up. To be replaced with the Antonov An-70?

152 mm Cannon for T-14: Actuality and Perspectives

Turkey – Russia’s “Old Friend”

Iran. The S-300 saga

Arms Export: Weapon Generation Change Around the Corner

Syria: Direct and Indirect Tasks

Icebreaker Ships are Cold Weapons

Do It Yourself, or Back to the Future?

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