© Yuri Smityuk/TASS VLADIVOSTOK, December 21. /Offset. TASS Natalia Nikulina/. More than 60 tactical exercises with combat launches of missiles held in 2016, and units of the air defense of the Eastern military district (TSB). In them participated more than eight thousand troops and more than two thousand units of military and special equipment, reported TASS the head of press service TSB Colonel Alexander Gordeev.
Category: Army
Defense Ministry: mountain training in the armed forces is brought to a qualitatively new level
© Dmitry Rogulin/TASS MOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/. Mountain training in the Russian army in 2016, was displayed on a qualitatively new level. On Tuesday said the state Secretary – Deputy defense Minister Nikolai Pankov. “In 2016, mountain training in the Armed forces is brought to a new level. Formed the mountain training center and survival in the settlement Terskol, at the commands of military districts, the airborne and special operations forces entered the professional mountain training,” – said Pankov told reporters.
FPI creates radiophonie radars that can detect drones
© Donat Sorokin/TASS MOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/. The Russian Fund of perspective researches (FPI) has developed a draft radiophonic radar that will be able to detect stealth vehicles, told TASS in PEF. Radiophonie radars form the pattern space, capturing the produced and reflected from objects on the ground photons.
Since the beginning of operations in Syria VKS Russian Federation had destroyed more than 62 thousand military installations
© Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/. Air and space forces (VKS) of the Russian Federation from September, 2015 made more than 30 thousand combat sorties and destroyed more than 62 thousand fighters in Syria. This was announced by the chief of the General staff – first Deputy commander of VKS Lieutenant General Paul Kurachenko.
More than 1 thousand of unannounced inspections of combat readiness took place in the formations and units TSB
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS, archive VLADIVOSTOK, December 20. /TASS/. More than 1 thousands of unannounced inspections of combat readiness of the different levels held in 2016 in connections and military units of the Eastern military district (TSB), in 2017 this practice will be continued, in particular, to be involved in the anti-terrorist unit, said the head of press service TSB Colonel Alexander Gordeev.
“Buk-M3” could be the sold on the arms market
© Press-service, the EBA Concern “Almaz – Antey” MOSCOW, December 19. /TASS/. The latest Russian anti-aircraft missile system (ADMS) medium-range “Buk-M3” could be the sold on the arms market and compete with the new system of air defense of the United States, MEADS (Medium Extended Air Defense System). This view was expressed by leading expert of the Bureau of political and military analysis Alexander Mikhailov. “It is expected that the development included in the “Almaz-Antey” named Tikhomirov NIIP will make a splash on the world arms market among products of its class. As a result, the developer MEADS may suffer financial losses,” – said Mikhailov. Specialist compared the Russian complex with the latest Western system, which since 1999, develops the American company Lockheed Martin. Integration into the combat network According to the military expert, one of the weaknesses of the “Buk-M3”, unlike MEADS, called the alleged inability to integrate into
Interceptors and bombers conducted exercises with refueling in the skies over the Urals
Supersonic all-weather fighter-interceptor long-range MiG-31BM © Yuri Smityuk/TASS, archive EKATERINBURG, December 19. /TASS/. The crews of the three air bases of the Central military district (CVO), stationed in Perm and Krasnoyarsk edges, and also in the Chelyabinsk region, has successfully conducted aerial maneuvers with refueling in the skies over the Ural mountains. About it journalists were reported by the assistant commander of the CVO Colonel Yaroslav Roshchupkin.
Almost 8 billion rubles servicemen paid the TSB for the purchase of apartments
© Donat Sorokin/TASS, archive KHABAROVSK, December 19. /Offset. TASS Sergey Mingazov/. About 1,400 soldiers of the Eastern military district (OIE) in 2016, acquired the apartments allocated to them for housing subsidies in the amount of 7.8 billion rubles. About this informed the head of press service of the district Colonel Alexander Gordeev.
Conquerors of the air and water: “miracle”-wig Rostislav Alexeyev
Ekranoplan “LUN” © CKB of SPK im. R. E. Alekseev 100 years ago in the city of Novozybkov (now the Bryansk region), a man was born who was destined to create some of the most amazing machines on Earth — wig, combining features of aircraft and spacecraft. Rostislav Evgenievich Alekseev was born in 1916 in the family of agronomist and teacher. In 1933, the Alexeyev family moved to Gorky, where Rostislav went to study at the Gorky evening technical school, simultaneously working part-time as a draftsman and artist. In those same years, he began sailing.
Shoigu discussed the situation in Aleppo with the colleagues from Syria and Iran, the head of Turkish intelligence
Sergei Shoigu © Vadim Grishanin/press service of the defense Ministry of the Russian Federation/TASS MOSCOW, December 17. /TASS/. The Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held a bilateral telephone negotiations with heads of military departments of Syria Fahed Jassem al-Frege and Iran by Hossein Dehgaon and also with the head of the national intelligence service of Turkey Hakan Fidana. This was announced by the defense Ministry. “During the talks they exchanged opinions on the situation in Aleppo. Discussed ways to normalize the military and humanitarian situation and concrete steps to create conditions ensuring the cessation of hostilities in Syria”, – is spoken in the message.