Category: Army

The fifth generation fighter, the su-57 © Sergey Bobylev/TASS MOSCOW, August 12. /TASS/. Work on combat aircraft of the sixth generation is already underway in Russia. While its predecessor, the su-57 preparing to enter the troops, the appearance of the new aircraft, its properties and abilities are understood even by the designers of the leading Russian enterprises. What can be the fighter of the sixth generation – in the material TASS, dedicated to the Day of Air and space forces (VKS) Russia. Harbinger About the beginning of work in Russia on combat aircraft of the sixth generation in March 2016, said Dmitry Rogozin, who was then Deputy Premier. According to him, Sukhoi introduced specific work “on the creation of the sixth generation fighter”.

Multirole fighters MiG-29 aerobatic team “Swifts” © Alexander Ryumin/TASS, archive KUBINKA /Moscow region/, August 11. /TASS/. Aerobatic team of the aerospace defence forces of Russia addressed the guests and participants of the final race of “Tank biathlon” at the Alabino polygon in the Park “Patriot”.

© Sergey Bobylev/TASS, archive DIAGHILEV /Ryazan oblast/ August 11. /TASS/. The closing ceremony of the flight experience competition “Aviadarts” was held at the airfield of Dyagilevo, Ryazan oblast. Participants congratulated the commander of the air force – zamglavnogo FSI Russian Lieutenant-General Andrei Yudin, as well as the delegations of the participating countries.

Anti-submarine ship “Severomorsk” © Mikhail Klimentyev/press service of the Russian President/TASS, archive MURMANSK, August 11. /TASS/. The detachment of combat ships of the Northern fleet (NF) came to the Mediterranean sea. About it reports on Saturday a press-service of SF.

© AP Photo/Caleb Jones WASHINGTON, August 11. /Offset. TASS Dmitry Kirsanov/. Russia gave the US information on two American military pilots shot down during the war on the Korean Peninsula (1950-1953). This was reported in an interview with TASS on the results of the working visit to the United States the chief of the Central archive of the Ministry of defence (MOD) of Russia Igor Permyakov.

© Sergey Bobylev/TASS MOSCOW, August 11. /TASS/. The final of the competition “Tank biathlon” and the closing ceremony of the international Army games in 2018 will take place on Saturday at the suburban landfill Alabino, the press service of the defense Ministry of Russia.

© Russian defense Ministry TERSKOL /Kabardino-Balkaria/, August 10. /TASS/. The closing ceremony of the competition the international Army games “Elbrus ring”, which was attended by mining units from seven countries, took place on Friday on the basis of Terskol in the Elbrus region, the correspondent of TASS from the event. According to head of the Department of physical training and sports of the Armed forces of the Russian Federation Oleg Boatswain, the main result of the competition was the successful completion all participants in his speech. “The most important thing in such events is exchange of experience and participation In the next year we will be five years, we expect that the number of countries will increase,” he said in an interview with TASS. According to the Deputy chief judge of competitions, the Vice-President of the mountaineering Federation of Russia Ivan Dusharin, all the teams did very well. “The ascent

Aerobatic team “Russian Knights” © Sergey Bobylev/TASS POLYGON DOBROVICI /Ryazan region/, August 10. / TASS/. Aerobatic team Russia will show an air show in Ryazan and the Moscow region on the eve of the aerospace forces (VKS) Russia. This was reported to journalists in the press center of the international competition “Aviadarts-2018”.

© Russian defense Ministry The main contenders for victory in the “Tank biathlon” are traditionally Russian tankers. A chance to challenge the leadership have teams of Belarus and Kazakhstan, acting on T-72B3. However, the most dangerous opponent looks to be the Chinese team on the tanks of its own production Type 96В. The rest of the crew also competes at the limit of their capabilities and can compete with the leaders of the team classification. TASS estimated the chances of success of the Chinese Type 96, and to understand its features helped the General-the major in resignation Nikolay Motrin in the recent past Vice-President of the International Federation of tank biathlon, and coach teams of DOSAAF of Russia in the “Tank biathlon” and “Suvorov onslaught”. Soviet roots Their ancestry Type 96, like many other examples of Chinese military equipment, leads from the Soviet prototypes. So appeared the first collected in

Frigate of project 11356 “Admiral Essen” © Vitaly Nevar/TASS MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/. The Russian frigate “Admiral Essen” in April in the Mediterranean sea for more than two hours was accompanied by an American nuclear submarine type “Ohio”, wrote in a Friday newspaper “Izvestia”.