An official ceremony of launching the construction of the future service center, including the embedding of a memory capsule with signatures of the project participants, was held in Baku. Director General of Rostec’s Russian Helicopters company Andrey Boginsky and representatives of the Helicopter Service Center company that will provide after-sales servicing of Russian helicopters operated…
Launching small spacecraft with Chinese partners
A coordination meeting with representatives of the Chinese Research Institute for Industrial Technology was held at the Khrunichev Center, for discussing prospects of launching small spacecraft using Russian launch vehicles. The main topic of the meeting was considering the possibilities of launching spacecraft designed and manufactured by the Chinese Research Institute for Industrial Technology using…
Russia retains world’s 2nd place by active combat aircraft
Russia continues to rank second in the world by the number of its operational military aircraft, according to the World Air Forces 2020 review published by the Flight International leading global aerospace magazine on Wednesday. As of December 2019, Russia operates 4,163 military aircraft and helicopters of various designation or 8% of the global military fleet and…
Ruselectronics Launches Cooperation with Manufacturers of Electrical Equipment from Italy and Australia
The Ruselectronics holding company of the State Corporation Rostec has signed cooperation agreements with the Australian company NOJA Power and the Italian company Tesmec, which develop and manufacture electrotechnical equipment. The parties will engage in joint implementation of projects for the automation of electrical networks in order to increase the reliability of the power grid…
Troops from Russia, Laos kick off first ever joint drills
The first ever joint Russian-Laotian military exercise Laros-2019 has kicked off at the Ban Peng training ground in Laos, the press office of Russia’s Eastern Military District reported on Tuesday. Overall, the drills that will run on December 10-19 involve over 500 troops. The personnel of a motorized infantry large unit from the Eastern Military District…
Philippines in talks with India to procure BrahMos supersonic cruise missile
The Philippines is seeking to acquire the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile system from India. Official sources told Jane's on 9 December that officials from New Delhi and Manila are in advanced negotiations about the number of missiles to be procured and the overall contract value, adding that they expect a deal to be signed "sometime in 2020".…
The assembly of the MC-21-300 fuselage to be tested with the Russian PD-14 engine was completed
The assembly of the MC-21-300 fuselage was completed at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, a branch of Irkut Corporation (part of UAC). This aircraft will be tested with the Russian PD-14 engine. The semi-bodies of the prototype were docked at the automated station. Installation of systems, joining of wing consoles and tail fins of the MC-21-300…
All new Russian warships fit to carry Tsirkon hypersonic missiles
All Russian warships of new Projects can carry Tsirkon hypersonic missiles, President of Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexei Rakhmanov told. «All the new Projects of ships we are building are universal for a whole family of missiles from the standpoint of launchers, including those, which you mentioned,» Rakhmanov said, replying to a question about rearming…
Northern Fleet to create air defense ‘dome’ over Russian Arctic with S-400 missile systems
The Northern Fleet will arm all its Arctic battalions with S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems in coming years to create an air defense dome over the Russian Arctic, Fleet Commander Vice-Admiral Alexander Moiseyev said in an interview with the Defense Ministry’s Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on Monday. "This year, S-400 systems will enter service with the air…
Russia’s Su-57 fifth-generation fighter performs 16 test flights with new 2nd stage engine
Russia’s state hi-tech corporation Rostec has conducted 16 flights of the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jet to test its new 2nd stage engine, Rostec Aviation Cluster Industrial Director Anatoly Serdyukov said on Friday. "Currently, the engineering bench tests of the advanced engine continue and the item is being tested on a flying laboratory. In October,…