Category: Army

Small missile ship “Grad svijazhsk” © Russian Defense Ministry ASTRAKHAN, June 5. /TASS/. The Russian defense Minister, army General Sergei Shoigu had personally carried out an exercise with the crew of the small missile ship “Grad svijazhsk”, which in October 2015 for the first time applied the latest cruise missiles “Caliber” in actual combat, striking at the infrastructure of the militants in Syria.

A soldier during the contest “masters of reconnaissance” on the ground Koltsovo in the Novosibirsk region © Cyril Kuhmar/TASS The status of “shock” will be assigned by the special order of the Minister of defence of the Russian Federation in respect of the most capable infantry, tank, Marines, airborne and air assault units. They will be awarded the distinctive heraldic sign. About the initiative the defense Department has learned from the head of the Main Directorate of combat training of the Armed forces of the Russian Federation the General-Lieutenant Ivan Buvaltseva.

© Sergey Bobylev/TASS KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR, June 5. /TASS/. Aircraft manufacturers Sukhoi company will produce in 2017, two samples of the newest Russian fighter PAK FA (T-50), Deputy defense Minister of Russia Yuri Borisov. “Work on the PAK FA are now in the final stage. This year we get 10-th and 11-th samples which will be connected to the test, and in a future state armament programme for the years 2018-2025, we have planned the first serial purchase of T-50 fighter jets”, – Borisov said during a visit to the aviation plant named after Gagarin in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

© Yuri Smityuk/TASS VOLGOGRAD, June 5. /Offset. TASS Igor Kalenić/. The all-army competitions in the framework of the army-2017 “Tank biathlon” and “Suvorov onslaught” opened today near Volgograd on the range Prudboy, told TASS in the press service of the southern military district.

The cruiser “Aurora” during towing is the Palace bridge, 1967 © Fotokhronika TASS/Igor Barmin The cruiser “Aurora” is rightly called the ship of the number one Navy of Russia. He is a member of the most important events in the history of the country of the XX century: Tsushima battle, the revolution of 1917 and the great Patriotic war.

Deputy Minister of defence of the Russian Federation Alexander Fomin © Vadim Grishanin/press service of the defense Ministry of the Russian Federation/TASS SINGAPORE, 4 June. /Offset. TASS Yevgeny Solovyov/. The deployment by the United States elements of the global missile defense in Asia only aggravated the problems of the Korean Peninsula, said the Deputy head of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation Alexander Fomin. “We are convinced that ongoing in the region under the auspices of the United States to deploy elements of a global missile defense not only not solve the existing problems on the Korean Peninsula, but, on the contrary, will only exacerbate them,” – said Fomin, speaking at the international conference “Shangri-La dialogue.” “It is important to joint efforts to prevent the development of the situation crisis scenario and move the process towards negotiations that would meet the security interests of all countries in the

The Ka-52 “Alligator” © Marina Lystseva/TASS ARSENYEV /Primorsky Krai/, June 3. /TASS/. Ministry of defense of Russia in 2017 will receive 14 helicopters Ka-52 “alligator” only by 2020 will be delivered 50 of these aircraft, said Deputy defense Minister Yuri Borisov.

Firing of reactive systems of volley fire “Grad” at the exercises in the southern military district © Press-service YUVO 22-year-old Marina Mkrtchyan in just six months, the service has learned to Orient by the sun artillery unit and can find the error on the open fire, even an experienced gunner. Your track record of the standard it covers twice, and the results of recent field exercises, along with other soldiers of the brigade received the medal. About all this, not without pride, says the commander, Colonel Alexander Baranik. Among his subordinates women a little — only 3.5%. They are here under contract.

© Department of information support the press service of the Eastern military district, Pacific fleet/TASS YEKATERINBURG, June 1. /TASS/. The calculations of the Russian operational-tactical missile complexes (PTRC) “Iskander-M” held the first launches into the exercises on the territory of the Russian Federation. Ballistic missile destroyed an accumulation conditional militants on maneuvers in Tajikistan. This was reported by TASS assistant commander of the Central military district (CVO) Colonel Jaroslav Roshupkin.

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