New equipment for jumping from a great height experienced during the exercises of the airborne troops near Pskov

© Press-service of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation/TASS, archive PSKOV, August 9. /TASS/. New equipment for aerial delivery from high altitudes tested during the drop of the soldiers separate brigade of special purpose airborne troops from Mi-8 helicopter in part of the regimental tactical exercises of the airborne troops near Pskov, told reporters in the defense Ministry.

Russia leads after a 10-day Military games

© Sergey Bobylev/TASS ALABINO /Moscow region/, August 9. / TASS/. Russian military occupy the first place in the team standings at the end of 16 competitions held for the first 10 days of the international Army games (Armi-2017). It is followed by Kazakhstan and China, told reporters Wednesday the chief judge of competitions the General-major Dmitry Gorbatenko.

The semi-final of tank biathlon under Armey-2017. Video

© Russian defense Ministry Ruptly On the ground in Alabino within the international Army games is the semi-final of the contest “Tank biathlon”. The relay involves teams of Russia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan. This is the first race in this phase. The other two will take place on 9 and 10 August, respectively. The final will take place on August 12.

The defense Ministry will show on the “Army-2017” captured terrorists in Syria weapons

© Sergey Bobylev/press service of the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation/TASS KUBINKA, 8 Aug. /TASS/. The defense Ministry in the framework of International military-technical forum “Army-2017” will present an exposition, devoted to the operations of the Russian HQs in Syria, and show the captured weapons seized from the terrorists. On Tuesday the chief of the main Department of the research activities and technological support of advanced technologies of the Russian defense Ministry Alexander Mironov.

The team of armed forces of Russia won the competition “Military rally” in the framework of Military games

© Russian defense Ministry MOSCOW, 8 Aug. /TASS/. The Russian team became the winner of competition “War rally” that took place within the international Army games – 2017, the second place took the team of Egypt is the only foreign participant of the competition. This was reported to journalists by the Deputy Russian defense Minister army General Dmitry Bulgakov. “In all three phases of the “war rally” team VS Russia showed the best results and deservedly became the winner of the competition. Nothing from our military drivers I did not expect, because it is the best representatives of the profession, have passed a severe selection across the Armed forces,” – said Bulgakov. “Have adequately acted and command of the armed forces of Egypt, for the first time participated in the “Military rally” and took second place. Both the Russian and the Egyptian military drivers successfully coped with the harsh conditions

Russian military intelligence officers were the best in Army games

© Sergey Bobylev/TASS NOVOSIBIRSK, August 8th. /TASS/. The Russian team won the international competition of military intelligence, “masters of reconnaissance” ended on Tuesday in Novosibirsk within the international Army games. She took first place in all five stages of the competition, said Tuesday TASS in the press service of the defense Ministry. “In the General offset the first place took the team of Russia, in second place was the team of China, the third – the team of Uzbekistan”, – said the Agency interlocutor.

Troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection of the Russian Federation will receive a new generation of robots by 2020

A soldier of the brigade of radiation, chemical and biological protection © Donat Sorokin/TASS POLYGON KORLA, /China,/, 7 Aug. /TASS/. Robots of new generation will go to the Troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection (NBC) up to 2020. This was reported to journalists by the head of NBC defense forces major-General Igor Kirillov.

Russian tanks occupy the first place after the individual competition “Tank biathlon”

© Sergey Bobylev/TASS ALABINO /Moscow region/, August 7. / TASS/. The Russian tankmen are in the lead in the stage “Individual race” competition “Tank biathlon” in the Army games (Armi-2017), told journalists on Monday in the jury. “The team of the Russian Federation, acting in the “Tank biathlon” in the army-2017 took first place in the teams ranking, compiled by the stage of “Individual race”, – said the representative of the jury. He noted that also at the end of this phase in the semi-finals, 12 teams from Belarus, China, India, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Mongolia, Venezuela, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Iran. Army games this year are held on the 22 grounds of Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and China from July 29 to August 12. Their participants were representatives of 28 countries.

Stage of the competition “the Keys of heaven” on Army games. Video

© Sergey Bobylev/press service of the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation/TASS On Ashuluk range in the Astrakhan region in the framework of the international Army games (Armi-2017) is the stage of the contest “Keys from the sky” – competition of crews for repel the attack of enemy aircraft with combat launches anti-aircraft missiles. Russia at competition is represented by calculations of the s-300 systems. In the competition “the Keys of heaven” also involved crews from China, Kazakhstan, and Belarus.