By Andrei Frolov 2017 has a chance to be remembered as a revolutionary year in the history of Russian foreign arms sales. This results from the fact that Russian arms producers have been particularly successful this year in making a number of breakthroughs in markets that were previously inaccessible, or nearly inaccessible – the petrol-states…
The Politics and Market of Military Aviation Materiel
By Yury Lyamin The market for modern military equipment has always been closely linked to big politics. In the case of military aviation, the influence of politics is even more significant, since the range of countries that are capable of producing military aviation equipment and especially fighter planes is very narrow. At the same time,…
India and Russia. Long-Term Cooperation
By Leonid Nersisyan, military analyst. This year, the total export portfolio of the Russian military-industrial complex (MIC) reached a record 52–55 (estimates vary) billion dollars. At the same time, for many years Russia has been confidently taking the 2nd place in the global arms market by the sales volume after the USA. India, which…
“Almaz – Antey” in Iranian civil aviation
“Almaz – Antey” Air and Space Defence Corporation” (Russian Federation) and “Shiraz Electronics Industries” (Islamic Republic of Iran) signed an agreement on cooperation in the joint research, development, manufacture and supply of ground-based and airborne civil equipment and components for Communication, Navigation, Surveillance and Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM). The Agreement aim is to combine the resourses…
Primus Inter Pares
By Leonid Nersisyan, military analyst. For many years now Russia has held more than a half of the export market of new tanks. The main combat tank Т-90S, which was approved by very many buyers and especially by Indians, became a recipe for success in this respect. In general, not less than 2,100 tanks…
Russian Airborne Guided Weapons. Current State and the Future
For the years that passed since the commencement of a large-scale military reform initiated in 2008, the Russian Aerospace Forces (RAF) have incredibly changed. They have received many new aircraft. Four wings of the Su-35S fighters, almost seven wings of the Su-30SM and Su-30M2 fighters, three wings of the MiG-29SMT fighters, a wing…
NATO and Global Policy in Rambo Style
By Gabriela Ionita. When viewed from a world-wide perspective America is what in the language of Hollywood producers is called an overplay. This means a play-actor, not very bright and talented, but possessing with very distinctive physical features who exaggerates all the techniques he knows, from gestures to his speech, trying to be noticeable or…
Caspian Tangle
Author Oleg Gerasimov. The disintegration of the Soviet Union did not contribute to the world’s stability, but rather brought a large number of contradictions in an enormous melting pot of potential conflicts, which were basically caused by the presence of non-regulated zones and the spheres of bilateral relations. Today, mass media pay great attention…
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…
Deveselu: East and West, PR & Business
Text: Gabriela Ionita, a Romanian journalist, Editor in Chief of Power & Politics World. Political analyst, expert in the field of international relations and security issues analysis (mainly connected with the Russian Federation and Commonwealth of Independent States). She took her university degree in Communication and Public Relation at the National School of Political and Administrative…