As the Russian military cleared the ancient citadel of Aleppo

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What hypersonic weapons expects the Russian army

© TASS In January 2017, the Russian defense Ministry has officially announced the completion of the development of hypersonic weapons that can act in the plasma. As said Deputy defense Minister Yuri Borisov, the weapon requires a completely new control systems and innovative materials. The nature of military conflicts shows that the time from decision to the final result of sharply decreased: if earlier it was hours and sometimes days, today tens of units of minutes, and “soon it will be second.” Hypersonic weapon is not armed with any army in the world. About specific models of Russian weapons today to talk pretty hard, they haven’t been openly demonstrated. But the importance of possessing such a powerful weapon already, many experts say. According to military observer TASS Viktor Litovkin, we need “reliable antidote” against future missile defense systems.

“Y”: former defense Minister Serdyukov may be appointed as a Deputy head of “Rosteh”

Anatoly Serdyukov © Stoyan Vasev/TASS MOSCOW, 1 Feb. /TASS/. The former head of the Ministry of defence, Director of the aviation cluster “Rostec” Anatoly Serdyukov to take the post of Deputy Director General of state Corporation which was left earlier by Dmitry Shugaev, has been appointed Director of the Federal service for military-technical cooperation (FSMTC). About this newspaper “Kommersant”, citing unnamed senior officials.

Naval aviation of the Russian Navy will soon receive about 30 modernized Il-38N

Anti-submarine Il-38N aircraft © Sergey Fadeichev/TASS MOSCOW, January 31. /TASS/. Naval aviation of the Russian Navy in the near term plans to get about 30 modernized anti-submarine aircraft Il-38N. This was announced by its chief major General Igor Kozhin. Another aircraft was transferred to naval aviation on Tuesday, he was given the name “Victor Potapov”. “Defence Minister tasked to modernize the entire fleet of these aircraft,” – said Kozhin during the ceremony.

Medvedev will hold a meeting in Kirov on the defence industry

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev © Dmitry Astakhov/press service of the Russian government/TASS MOSCOW, January 31. /TASS/. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will make on Tuesday a working visit to Kirov oblast, where he will hold meeting “About the development of production capacities of organizations of the military-industrial complex to fulfil the state armament programme”. This was reported by the press service of the Cabinet.