Report: sales of Russian arms manufacturers in 2015 have continued to grow

© Yuri Smityuk/TASS STOCKHOLM, 5 December. /Offset. TASS Irina Dergacheva/. Russian producers of weapons in 2015 continued to increase its sales. This is evidenced by the report on the status of military production and export in the world, published Monday by the Stockholm Institute for peace studies (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI). The largest Russian companies

The first engineers from Russia arrived in Syria

© Anton novoderezhkin/TASS, archive MOSCOW, December 3. /TASS/. The vanguard of the Russian military engineers arrived at the base Hamim and will soon start demining the liberated areas of Eastern Aleppo. This was reported to journalists the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation. “To the airfield Hamim in the Syrian Arab Republic arrived the vanguard of the International anti-mine centre of the Armed forces of the Russian Federation. Soon military engineers will begin the task of humanitarian demining of the liberated Syrian army fighters from Eastern districts of the city of Aleppo”, – stated in the message Department. The defense Ministry said that Syria profits the most prepared professionals with experience in such operations, including in Palmyra. The squad entered the canine unit. “As the advanced detachment of the delivered by special engineering machinery and equipment”, – the Ministry added. About the dispatch to Syria of the first group

Russia has created a drone helicopter reconnaissance for naval aviation

© Yuri Smityuk/TASS MOSCOW, December 3. /TASS/. Reconnaissance drone helicopter type will be created for the needs of the Naval aviation of the Russian Navy. On Saturday TASS reported a source in the Russian defense-industrial complex. “Unmanned aircraft system helicopters designed for reconnaissance and targeting, created in the interests of the Naval aviation of the Russian Navy,” – said the Agency interlocutor.

What awaits the Russian army in the new academic year

© Yevgeny Kurskov/TASS December 1 in the Russian army started a new school year. Main priority is improving the quality of training based on combat experience of modern armed conflicts. The Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu instructed and required to take into account the experience of using videoconferencing and the Russian Navy in Syria in case of individual training of military personnel, and to implement it into the program of the military schools. In 2017 we will continue the practice of conducting inter-specific and bilateral exercises with the relocation of aviation and the transfer of troops to unfamiliar grounds, including in the framework of a sudden military checks.