Category: Army

© Dmitry Serebryakov/TASS MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. The Spetsstroy of Russia is abolished. This was announced by Russian defense Minister army General Sergei Shoigu at the final Collegium of the Russian military.

© Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin has demanded to use the latest programs of training of the military. The head of state assured that the social guarantees for servicemen will be maintained at a high level.

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin got acquainted with the advanced developments of military equipment during a visit to the exhibition at the National control centre defense of the Russian Federation. The head of state has passed in exhibition at the conclusion of the extended meeting of the Collegium of the defense Ministry.

Vladimir Korolev © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. The naval fleet will focus next year on training of sea pilots, coastal forces and the development of inter-service groups. This was reported to journalists by the commander of the Navy Admiral Vladimir Korolev.

© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Larionov, archive SEVERODVINSK, December 23. /TASS/. Eighth nuclear submarine of project 955 “Borey” will be laid on Friday at the “Sevmash” in Severodvinsk submarine will be named “Prince Pozharsky”. About it journalists were reported by the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation.

© Artyom Korotayev/TASS MOSCOW, December 24. /TASS/. The ceremony of handing combat vehicles BMD-4M guards airborne regiment of the 106th guards airborne division held in Ryazan, reported in Department of information and mass communications of the Russian defense Ministry. “This is the result of a huge collective military-industrial complex. No country in the world, or in some armed forces, nor, moreover, is not in one of the airborne troops not a fighting machine. We are proud that this war machine came to us for weapons, said the commander of airborne troops Colonel-General Andrey Serdyukov. – The machine is capable of firing at ranges up to 7 km and to deal with the most modern tanks at a distance up to 5 km. It is agile, fast, floating, drop pod machine. Her combat unit unique.” According to the commander of the airborne forces in the future will continue to equip our

© Lev Fedoseyev/TASS MURMANSK, December 24. /TASS/. A group of soldiers land and coastal troops of the Northern fleet (SF) ahead on the day they completed a unique expedition on the road stretching for a thousand miles. As reported in the press service of the Federation Council, the route of the expedition lay through the territory of three regions of Russia – Arkhangelsk oblast, Republic of Karelia, Murmansk region.

© Ruslan shamukov/TASS SAINT PETERSBURG, December 24. /TASS/. Small missile ship of the new generation project 22800 Storm laid in the shipyard “Pella” in St. Petersburg, the correspondent of TASS from the event.

© Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS MOSCOW, December 24. /TASS/. Anti-aircraft missile systems “Buk-M2” will no longer be put in the Ground forces of the Russian Federation, is upgrading the systems “Buk-M3”.

Tu-95MS © ITAR-TASS/Dmitry Rogulin MOSCOW, December 23. /TASS/. Total flight time in the connections long-range aviation Air and space forces (VKS) Russia in 2016, has exceeded 20 thousand hours. About it journalists were reported by the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation. “This year, the average RAID on the crew amounted to more than 120 hours, with young pilots have flown more than 160 hours”, – said the commander of Distant aircraft the General-major Sergey kobylash.