Established in 2002, Almaz-Antey Concern specializing in production of air defense missile systems has managed to bring together all the Russian defense companies involved in production and development of air defense systems and various radio aids. By Pavel Rumyantsev For now, Almaz-Antey is one of the biggest corporations of the Russian defense…
«Turn-Key» Defense Capacity
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…
Import Substitution: Next Step
“Defence industry is the significant scientific potential, the crème de la crème of engineering society, and companies that are able to meet today's challenges of any kind. These are the companies with the biggest scientific and engineering potential. Demonstration of our military equipment is a clear proof of this point” Oleg Sienko, CEO of Research…
CSTO: Strategy and Practice of the Collective Security Treaty
From the Middle East to Ukraine, from a terrorist attack to an armed conflict... A growing unrest in the world more and more evidently affects the interests of Russia and its closest political partners, i.e. the military and political alliance of CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization), including Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and…
What kind of the BRICS does Russia need?
The Russia's "U-turn to the East" started and turned into a strategic course long before the famous Crimean events. However, "the light at the end of the tunnel" for the BRICS transformation into the real, working union of states is far from being seen. The BRICS with its own financial system? Russian President Vladimir Putin…
Russian Armed Forces put the White Hats on
Russian military presence in the Arctic is essentially a response to the increase of specialized Arctic military formations by other countries. Creation of the Arctic group began with the restoration of military infrastructure at the New Siberian Islands and Franz Josef Land. NecessityRussia officially has an exclusive economic zone extending 370 miles from its shores.…