As soon as people started to conquer “the fifth ocean”, or the sky, they made attempts to look behind the enemy lines, using air surveillance and reconnaissance vehicles. At first, such aircraft as hot-air balloons and airships were used to solve this problem but they failed to accomplish this task completely and, by the way,…
Almaz-Antey Concern Builds New Plants: Reaching a New Level in Production of Air Defense Missile Systems
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…
EPE2016, May 11-13, 2016
EPE2016, which is hosted by China Electronics Association and Zhenjiang International Exhibition Co., Ltd., will open to the world at May, 11-13,2016 in China Xia’men International Conference & Exhibition Center with 35000 net square meters, about 800 exhibitors, and 50000 professional visitors. EPE 2016, with the top of “better production for better future”, put its…
The Ups and Downs of Test Pilots
This is an article about the history and fate of the amazing people who let the mankind step into the sky, about their successes, failures, accidents and achievements. The victors Obviously, the first test pilots, in the sense that we are putting in the word today, were the builders of the first airplanes, aerodynes. But…
Fortress Aircraft of the World War I
War of motors In the early 20th century, the structure of the Russian Army included 12 military districts (St. Petersburg, Moscow, Finland, Vilna, Warsaw, Kiev, Odessa, Kazan, Caucasus, Turkestan, Siberia and the Amur). The Don Cossack Army was an independent military formation. The armed forces of the Russian Empire, as well as in many other…
Space Technologies on the Ground, under Water and in the Air
Speaking of the space technologies’ application here, “on the ground”, certainly, nobody provides using special small-lot and, for this reason, expensive components. The point is, first, of the “space” reliability level of the ground systems, and, second, of the use of “dual-purpose” components – for example, electronics and optics which may be manufactured both for…
Arzamas Instrument Plant: Heading for the Development
INSET: Arzamas Instrument Plant (AIP) named after P. I. Plandin JSC is a leader of the country’s defense and industry complex. It is the world-renowned plant manufacturing instruments for aviation, missile, space industries as well as a wide range of civil-purpose products. For more than 50 years the company has accumulated a vast experience in the design and…
Innovation Implementation: Imperative Demand of Our Time
Oleg Lavrichev: “Innovations are one of the key components that define our company’s performance today” Arzamas Instrument Plant JSC is one of the leading national defense companies producing world-class instruments and devices for the aviation, missile and space industries, including a wide range of commercial products, basically, flow measuring instrumentation and medical equipment. Oleg…
Electronics: we are not technological slaves
One of the segments of Russian economy, which needs import substitution to a maximum extent, is the sphere of IТ technologies. Text: Nikolai Bromilev Original code “Today we are in the unique situation, uniquely bad, when we have only 10 % of electronic equipment, new equipment in the Russian market delivered from…
Domestic Night Vision Devices
Technology and Application At all times military commanders have to solve the problem of night time effective use to complete tactical missions during combat operations. In our country, R&D efforts to develop Night Vision Devices (NVDs) were intensified in the 1930s. At that time, first photoelectronic devices were developed. Kirill Ryabov, a blogger and an expert…












