By Alexander Ermakov After a period of diplomatic crisis and construction of media-propagandistic argumentation, the USA declared the decision to withdraw from the Treaty on intermediate and short range missiles (INF Treaty). This opens the way for development of new classes of armaments, threatens with a new upsurge of armament race and, in perspective, –…
Export of Infantry Combat Vehicles from Russia
By Andrey Frolov Export of armoured vehicles from Russia is one of the main ones with regard to supply of equipment for ground troops. Supplies of armoured fighting vehicles T-90 of various modifications are the most known in media, while supply of APCs and ICVs remains in some shade. Although, by scopes of supplies in post-Soviet…
Algeria as Export Show-case for Russian Air Defence Systems
By Akram Kharief Relationship between Algeria and the USSR started even before Algeria got independence. In 1959, when the war of independence was in its pride, Moscow made decision and trained some hundreds of young officers of the National Liberation Army. Other officers, at the same time, have been trained in military educational institutions of…
Military-Technical Cooperation between Russia and Countries of Pacific Rim
By Andrey Frolov The sharp breakthrough in “Indian direction” that happened in Autumn 2018 in Russian and Indian MTC, partly symbolizing the beginning of practical intergovernmental arrangement of October 2015 implementation, makes us look again at Arms market of countries of the Pacific Rim in terms of Russia's presence in it. Apparently, in the near future…
Ongoing challenge of rebuilding the Egyptian army
By Akram Kharief It is September 2018, the Egyptian Navy, which is one of the largest navy forces in the region, has just signed a 1.3 billion dollars contract for two German frigates MEKO from Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems. Before the official announcement, the German federal government having noted that the funds would come from…
GSCI to bring their new Canadian-made Quadro-G Fusion Goggles to the Asian Military Market
GSCI - the company behind some of the most innovative modern night vision and thermal imaging devices - will begin showcasing the newest addition to their already expansive lineup of advanced detection systems. In just a few weeks, Jakarta will be hosting IndoDefence 2018, an exhibition that will feature the highly anticipated GSCI Quadro-G Fusion…
Andrey TSYGANOV: “Attracting foreign investments is not an extraordinary event, but it’s routine and regular work”
In the exclusive interview to the ‘New Defence Order. Strategy’ magazine, Andrey TSYGANOV, Deputy Head of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) speaks on the business environment in Russia, laws and marketing tasks to be accomplished today in order to attract foreign investments. – What do you think of Russia as a country…
Summary of the NATO Summit 2018 held in July in Brussels
By Andrei Frolov The regular NATO Summit held on July 11–12 in Brussels raised a keen interest not only in Western countries, but also in Russia. This event was specific one as for the first time it was held in a new building of the NATO's political structure. Also, the summit was attended by Donald…
Military aviation. Export from Russia in 2014–2018
By Andrey Frolov Today, it is evident that 2014 has become the key milestone in Russia’s and the world history. The annexation of the Crimea, the beginning of civil war in Ukraine... These events have changed the modus vivendi for Russia and Western countries and resulted in imposing a package of anti-Russian sanctions, including sanctions…
Т-90. Where are you, competitors?
By Leonid Nersisyan, military observer According to the 2016 report of Uralvagonzavod, the company acquired two new contracts to supply T-90S tanks abroad: Iraq will get the first batch of 73 machines, and 64 equipment units more will be received by Vietnam. In addition, Uralvagonzavod plans to sign a contract in the nearest future to…