Military transport aircraft Il-76MD © Igor Rudenko/Agency “Voeninform” MO RF MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. The defense Ministry signed the first production contract for the modernization of military transport aircraft Il-76MD to Il-76MDM, said Wednesday in a press-Department service.
Day: October 29, 2016
The defense Ministry denied speculation of plans to call “Admiral Kuznetsov” in Spanish port
The Russian heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov” © Marina Lystseva/TASS MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. The Russian defense Ministry denied speculation in foreign media about the alleged planned approach for refuelling in the Spanish port of Ceuta heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov”. “Any requests from the defence Ministry to address the Spanish authorities about the arrival of a heavy aviabearing cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov” for the refueling in the port of Ceuta was not sent”, – said the official representative of the Ministry of defense of Russia major-General Igor Konashenkov.
The first recruits arrived in parts of the Western military district
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In the sky of Syria seen Russian helicopter reconnaissance Ka-35
Ka-31 © wikipedia.org MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/. New Russian helicopter radar picket (RLD) of Ka-35 (another designation – Ka-31СВ) first seen during the operation of the Armed forces against the terrorist groups in Syria. This is reported by sources in the network. The photographs published in his Twitter account, captured the helicopter with tail number “232 blue”, according to open sources, which is the second aircraft built under the program, the Ka-35. These machines are part of helicopter complex radar reconnaissance of ground targets 1К130.
“Admiral Kuznetsov” does not require visiting ports during a long voyage
The Russian heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov” © Marina Lystseva/TASS MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/. Russian aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov”, bound to the Mediterranean, does not need to visit ports for refueling or resupply, consider to experts interviewed by TASS.
More than 50 new helicopters entered service with the army aviation HQs in 2016
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS, archive MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/. More than 50 new helicopters, including Ka-52 alligator, Mi-28N “Night hunter”, Mi-35, Mi-8AMTSH “Terminator”, Mi-26, Ansat-U, came from the manufacturers in part of army aviation for the first three quarters of this year. About it reported in Department of information and mass communications of the Russian defense Ministry in connection with the running on Friday 68th anniversary of army aviation Air and space forces. They noted that more than 10 pieces of equipment will be delivered before the end of the year.
Missile ships “Karakurt” armed marine “Armor”
© Sergey Fadeichev/TASS MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/. Small missile ships of the project 22800 “Karakurt” in the future will be equipped with air defense missile-gun complex “Pantsir-M”, said to journalists on Friday, the CEO developed the draft Almaz Central marine design Bureau Alexander Shlyakhtenko.
Corvette new type of “Bold” laid to “Severnaya Verf” in St. Petersburg
© Anna Yudina/TASS SAINT PETERSBURG, 28 Oct. /TASS/. The first Corvette is the project 20386 “Bold” founded at Friday on “Northern shipyard” in St. Petersburg, the correspondent of TASS from the event. “Bookmark the new Corvette is always an exciting event. “Cocky” is a logical continuation of a series of 20380 and is a breakthrough in the future. The designers have put in a lot of new ideas. These ships are the pride of any fleet,” – said at the groundbreaking ceremony of zamglavnogo Navy arms Victor Borsuk.
Rogozin fears that the robots will gain control of nuclear Arsenal
Dmitry Rogozin © Dmitry Kandinsky/TASS TOMSK, 28 Oct. /TASS/. Improvement of technologies in the field of armaments could lead to the fact that one day people will give robots the right to retaliatory missile attack, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin at the meeting with students and young scientists at the Tomsk Polytechnic University.
France and Germany did not rule out discussion of sanctions against Russia at the EU summit
Photo: EPA German Chancellor Angela Merkel together with French President Francois Hollande press conference in Berlin said that does not preclude the discussion of anti-Russian sanctions during the EU summit, reports “Interfax”. “We cannot exclude this possibility,” she said. Hollande added that “should be considered all possibilities,” but it’s too early to talk about restrictive measures against Russia. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that talking about the release of the positive result for the Berlin meeting in the “Normandy format” is not necessary, reminds NSN.