MIC 2024, November

Since 2013, Russia will practically double the production of both strategic and operational-tactical missiles (Yars, Bulava, Iskander). Such a statement was made by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, speaking at a meeting dedicated to the development of the domestic defense industry and the implementation of the arms procurement program for

Igor Karavaev, director of the department for the development of the military-industrial complex of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, does not agree with the statement of representatives of the Ministry of Defense that Russian military equipment is expensive and inferior to modern Western models, Interfax reports

The export version of the Russian fifth generation T-50 / FGFA fighter will be offered to the world market no earlier than 2018-2020, said Konstantin Makienko, deputy head of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

According to the latest assurances of the Russian government, a gigantic amount of 20 trillion rubles will be spent on the rearmament of the army by 2020. Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin immediately announced that with this money, within the next 10 years, 600 aircraft will be produced and sent to the Armed Forces

Over the past ten years, our Armed Forces were to receive many new types of weapons. What did they get? The first decade of the new century and the new millennium of Russia is over. Subtotals can be summed up. What has been done in the military-industrial sectors of the domestic

Specialists from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) assessed the market for importers of conventional weapons and military equipment and compiled a list of the largest importing countries. The top five include four Asian states - India, China, South Korea and Pakistan. By

Successful political cooperation between Russia and China does not negate serious problems in the field of military-technical partnership. The military power of the PRC is largely due to military-technical cooperation with Russia, which over the past 20 years has transferred to China advanced military technologies developed

Russia and India are fruitfully cooperating in almost all spheres of military affairs - aircraft building, shipbuilding, engine building, air defense systems, helicopters, armored vehicles. This cooperation began back in Soviet times, but the Russian Federation is gradually losing ground to competitors - Israel, the United States

D. Medvedev signed a decree on Russia's support for the sanctions against Libya, imposed by the UN on February 26. The Russian Federation has stopped all supplies of weapons to Libya, all contracts have been "frozen", the possibility of concluding new ones has been interrupted

In December 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Prosecutor General's Office to check the activities of Roscosmos. The order was given after December 5, 2010 three Glonass-M satellites fell into the Pacific Ocean. The materials of the check to resolve the issue of initiating a criminal case were transferred to

According to the existing portfolio of orders and intentions for the direct purchase of weapons, the volume of Russian military exports in 2011, according to TSAMTO, will amount to at least $ 10.14 billion. With this indicator, Russia will confidently retain its second place after the United States ($ 28.56 billion). The top ten

Russia and Italy have agreed on the acquisition by the Russian side of ten multi-functional armored vehicles "Lynx" from the Italian company Iveco, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Friday at a meeting in Sochi with Italian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa, which takes place within the framework of

On December 7, the American newspaper Wall Street Journal published an article that the success of the Chinese aviation industry is largely due to the copying of Russian fighters. But such an assessment from many experts reminded the saying “do not see the forest for the trees.” The newspaper writes that after the collapse

More than 1,300 pieces of equipment and weapons - this is how much the Russian army will have to purchase by 2020 in accordance with the State Armaments Program. It was discussed today in Severodvinsk, at a meeting convened by Vladimir Putin. Before the meeting, the prime minister visited the famous

The gloomy Teutonic military-industrial genius may not be shy about his reputation in the market for deadly vehicles: the multi-functional combat aircraft Eurofighter, the main battle tank Leopard, the project 214 submarine - these products, according to Der Spiegel, brought Germany to third place in

Zhuhai, China - A year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the cash-strapped Kremlin sold to China much of its huge military arsenal, including the pride of the Russian Air Force, the Su-27 fighter. Over the next 15 years, Russia became the largest arms supplier to China

According to the magazine, General Shah Safi also noted that the Iranian Air Force can fully defend the national airspace and that the country has made significant efforts to produce spare parts needed to modernize its aircraft. Commander of the 2nd Tactical Air Base in Tabriz

The United States recently announced a $ 60 billion sale to Saudi Arabia, one of the largest in United States history. Just like two years ago, when the whole world plunged into an international financial crisis, so now, when the world economy with a large

The principles of military-technical cooperation of Ukraine with other countries, to put it mildly, cause bewilderment. We have to return again to the topic of counterfeit construction of the Feodosia Shipbuilding Company (FSK) "Sea" of four landing air cushion ships (DKVP) of the project 12322 "Zubr"

Contrary to its tradition of keeping China away from the sale of the latest weapons, Russia has signaled its intention to supply the latest model of its Su-35 fighter to this country. "We are ready to work with Chinese partners in this direction," Deputy Director told RIA Novosti

According to the calculations of the Center for Analysis of World Arms Trade (TsAMTO), Russia is in first place in the ranking of exporting countries of MBT (main battle tanks). Moreover, in terms of quantitative parameters, it ranks first with a wide margin from competitors, somewhat behind the United States in terms of cost. V

So, let's talk about the Russian "intelligence" and Chinese "stupidity" not unfounded, but with facts in hand. According to the Top-500 supercomputer rating, at the beginning of this year, the fastest Chinese machine was Tianhe-1 ("Milky Way"), which occupies the world ranking fifth place (563

China is looking for a replacement for Russian aircraft and is developing its analogue of GLONASS On November 21, the eighth Airshow China 2010 exhibition ended in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai - the largest in its history since 1996. About 600 companies from 35 countries took part in it. The salon did not start the best

Despite the fact that the Russian defense industry received every penny under the state defense order, the army received only two-thirds of the ordered samples. Former St

The fact that Russia is a leader not only in the production of weapons and military equipment, but also for civilian purposes is confirmed by the interest of many countries in the world in Russian equipment to meet internal needs. So it became known that China is showing interest in acquiring from

In the period from 2025 onward, the Russian promising frontline aviation complex (PAK FA) and the American F-35 will become uncontested products in the world market of modern multifunctional fighters. At this point, the vast majority of countries that pay due attention to

The refusal of the Ministry of Defense in April of this year from further funding of the program for the creation of the T-95, to put it mildly, looks strange. Although the tank was observed by a narrow circle of specialists, a lot is known about it. However, to the information contained in print media and online publications, of course

American experts complain about the chronic underfunding of the Pentagon Since the end of the Cold War, the US Department of Defense has been constantly receiving less money from politicians in the amount necessary for the military to replace aging weapons and maintain technological superiority over the armies

This week Rosstat published data on salaries in federal authorities, many were surprised to see these figures. Rosoboronpostavka, which did not really work, became the record holder for wages. Its employees receive an average of 135,000 rubles. per month or more than 1.6 million rubles per year (in

The S-500 air defense missile system, which is under development, will be put into mass production in 2014. Until that time, the military intend to start actively operating the S-400 Triumph air defense system. In March, the second S-400 regiment will take up combat duty in the Central Federal District, which will replace the outdated S-300. Military experts assess

Gennady Trubnikov, chief designer of the St. Petersburg company "Kronstadt-Technologies", giving an interview to journalists at the exhibition of unmanned aircraft in Moscow, said that "drones produced by Kronstadt-Technologies" are better than Israeli ones, which

More than 19 trillion rubles will be spent on the purchase of new weapons, equipment and the modernization of the units in service, from 2011 to 2020. First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Vladimir Popovkin announced the main directions of the Russian state development program

The international premiere of the Belarusian air defense system took place at the jubilee, twentieth in a row, IDEX-2011 weapons salon in Abu Dhabi. Considering the scale of this weapons salon, which once started as a regional exhibition, the premiere can be called a success. At this salon, traditionally

The supply of military equipment and weapons abroad is often carried out with the help of special services. Any specific details of such transactions are usually kept secret. As a rule, only the totals of transactions are reported to the media. In 2010, Russia exported military products abroad

It makes little sense to list the failures of our defense industry, they are in plain sight, you just need to search the Internet, and they will come out en masse. It is useless to argue about who is to blame for all these failures. Each of the disputants will still remain unconvinced, but it is here

Large-scale plans for the rearmament of the Russian army, as well as a series of research works during the implementation of the State Armament Program (GPV) until the end of 2020 can be successfully implemented only if strict control over the financial and economic side is carried out

At the Indian airbase Yelahanka, the largest in Asia aerospace exhibition Aero India 2011 completed its work

The Chinese fifth-generation fighter does not threaten Russia militarily, but economically - Russian fighters will have to make room for the international arms market. At the same time, it is aviation that is the basis of the income of military exports of the Russian Federation.In China, on January 11, flight tests of the fighter began

The French and Italians sell warships and armored vehicles to the Russians, Gaddafi becomes a shareholder in the Italian engineering holding Finmeccanica, while Brussels is under pressure to lift the embargo on the sale of military technology to China. And we are confident that the sale

The leadership of the largest state in South America in terms of area and population continues to skillfully maneuver between large aviation companies, trying to knock out the best offer for themselves. It is possible that in the next round of this game a certain place will again be assigned to the Russian