© AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic BELGRADE, November 13. /TASS/. International exercise “Slavic brotherhood 2016” ended near Belgrade a solemn ceremony, the Russian and Belarusian military personnel throughout the day will fly to Russia. This was announced by the Department of information and mass communications of the Russian defense Ministry.
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Source: Tu-160 and Tu-95 on the basis of “Engel” are in the mode of combat duty
© Dmitry Rogulin/TASS MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/. The crews of Russian strategic bombers Tu-160 and Tu-95 air base Engels, located in the Saratov region, are in the mode of combat duty. On Sunday was reported by TASS military-diplomatic source.
“Fire battery!”: video of live firing systems “Sun” and howitzers “Msta-s”
Share {{secondsToDateTime(data.visiblePosition) | date: ‘HH:mm:ss’}} / {{(videoDuration | date: ‘HH:mm:ss’) || ’00:38′}} {{secondsToDateTime(data.visiblePosition) | date: ‘mm:ss’}} / {{(videoDuration | date: ‘mm:ss’) || ’00:38′}} {{qualityItem | uppercase}} HD .mp4 High quality SD .mp4 Medium quality © TASS/defense Ministry TASS publishes video footage of the firings of TOS-1A “Sun” and ACS “Msta-s” in the process of checking the combat readiness of the armed forces in the South of the country. Also in the events involved tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and troops, armored personnel carriers, anti-aircraft missile and artillery systems, mortars and grenade launchers. “Sun” – heavy flamethrower system (TOS-1A), an improved version of TOS-1 “Buratino”. The system is capable of hitting enemy targets at ranges from 3.6 to 6 thousand meters (depending on missile type), and the area of damage is from a thousand to two thousand square meters. “Msta-s” – 152-mm self-propelled guns (SPGs) class self-propelled howitzers. Designed to destroy tactical
The burn is “Sun”: “wonder weapon” of the Russian army
© AP Photo Developed in the 70-ies of the last century, heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A is a unique weapon of the modern Russian army, having no analogues abroad. Many military experts believe “Sun” is ideal for operations in the mountains, and to attack underground bunkers and tunnels of the enemy.
“Bumblebees”, “Sun” and the scout robots: armed military chemists of Russia
{{$root.cfg.modules.slider.galleryTable_2429901.stepNow *12 +1}} – 12 from {{$root.cfg.modules.slider.gallery_2429901.sliderLength-1}} {{$root.cfg.modules.slider.galleryTable_2429901.stepNow *12 +1}} – 13 from {{$root.cfg.modules.slider.gallery_2429901.sliderLength-1}} Heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A “Sun”. 24 guides of the caliber of 220 mm can fire unguided rockets with a warhead thermobaric or incendiary © Vitaly Kuzmin Machine chemical reconnaissance RHM-6 © Russian defense Ministry The mobile robotic system MRK-46 © Vitaly Kuzmin Rocket infantry flame-thrower RPO-a “Shmel”. The war in Afghanistan, he was called “Shaitan-pipe” © Vitaly Kuzmin Heavy fighting machine flamethrower BMO-T © Vitaly Kuzmin The instrument chemical reconnaissance remote actions PHRD-2B © Vitaly Kuzmin The reconnaissance machine RPM-2. Carries out search, detection and determining the location of radioactive and chemically hazardous anomalies © Vitaly Kuzmin Station serifs nuclear explosions K-612-O is part of the lighting complex to detect nuclear explosions in the zone of responsibility of operational command © Vitaly Kuzmin Analytical station RAST-3K for the automated collection, processing, accumulation and storage of ground
Aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov” maneuvers off the coast of Syria
Aircraft-carrying cruiser “Admiral Kuznetsov” © AP Photo MOSCOW, November 12. /TASS/. Carrier group of the Northern fleet, composed of cruisers “Peter the Great” and “Admiral Kuznetsov”, is located in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean sea, maneuvering off the coast of Syria. About this on air of the program “Vesti on Saturday” said the commander of the “Admiral Kuznetsov”, captain first rank Sergei Artamonov.
Military transport aviation of the Russian Federation has fulfilled all the tasks for the international exercises near Belgrade
© Dmitry Rogulin/TASS BELGRADE, November 12. /TASS/. Military transport aviation (VTA) coped with all the tasks in the exercises “Slavic brotherhood-2016” near Belgrade, despite the difficult weather conditions, said today Deputy commander of BTA Russia Colonel Vasily Galiy. International tactical exercises “Slavic brotherhood-2016” held from 2 to November 15, near Belgrade, involving units of the armed forces of Russia, Belarus and Serbia. The exercise involved about 50 Russian soldiers VTA from Orenburg.
Shoigu: it is necessary to raise public healthcare to the level of military
© Press-service of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation/TASS MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/. The Russian defense Minister, army General Sergey Shoigu has called the wrong formulation of the question reasoning on the inclusion of military personnel in the system of mandatory health insurance (MHI) and stated the need to raise public medicine to the level of the military.
Russian missile detonation engine was named after the demon of fire
© Alexey Filippov/TASS, archive MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/. The program of development of the Russian detonation of the engine, which leads NGOs “Energomash”, called “Ifrit”, according to the annual report of the Association. “The study of the concepts and a demo sample of oxygen-kerosene liquid rocket engine with rotating detonation regime of combustion (“Ifrit”)”, – stated in the document. Previously reported that NPO “Energomash” this summer, successfully passed the test two full-length detonation of liquid-propellant rocket engines with clean fuel. Experts managed to achieve their performance over several starts. Work on the project will be conducted in 2014. Detonation engine differs from the conventional liquid propellant rocket engine is that the jet stream is not created just by burning fuel, but by controlled explosions, while the shock wave is twisted in the combustion chamber of the engine. All this ensures less fuel consumption with more power.
New military transport aircraft Il-112V will receive protection from anti-aircraft and aircraft missiles
The layout of the aircraft Il-112V © Marina Lystseva/TASS MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/. “Concern radio-Electronic technology” (KRET, part of rostec state Corporation) creates airborne defense system for a new light military transport aircraft Il-112V, which will protect the machine from all kinds of rockets of a class “earth-air” and “air-air”. This was reported by TASS Advisor to the first Deputy of the General Director of concern Vladimir Mikheev. “Today the ongoing development work involves not just the adaptation for the Il-112V existing systems, and creation on their basis of a new modification on-Board defense system that will be effective against all future threats at least until 2025,” – said Mikheyev.