Category: Army

© Alexei Druzhinin/press-service of the Russian President/TASS MOSCOW, may 31. /TASS/. The combat capability of the Russian army is a guarantee of protection of interests of Russia and maintain balance in the world. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at ceremony of representation of the officers appointed to higher posts and received the highest military rank.

© Ruslan shamukov/TASS MOSCOW, may 31. /TASS/. The construction of the head nuclear submarine of the fifth generation “Husky” armed with hypersonic missiles “Zircon” is expected to be completed by 2027. About this TASS said a source in the Russian defense-industrial complex.

The Leningrad naval base in Kronstadt © Peter Kovalev/TASS MOSCOW, may 30. /TASS/. Ten surface ships and nine support vessels of the Baltic fleet will solve the problems in remote areas of the World ocean this year, told reporters on Wednesday the head of Department of combat training of the fleet Valery water, land.

Upgraded Mi-28N © Dmitry Serebryakov/TASS MOSCOW, may 30. /TASS/. The upgraded attack helicopter Mi-28NM will be submitted to the international military-technical forum “Army-2018”. This was announced by the Department of information and mass communications of the Russian defense Ministry. “Holding “Helicopters of Russia” (part of state Corporation rostec) will hold a presentation of the new helicopter Mi-28NM on the forum “Army-2018″ this summer”, – stated in the message of Department.

Tank T-72B3 © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, may 29. /TASS/. Crews guards tank army of the Western military district began testing upgraded models of the T-80БВМ, T-72Б3М and infantry fighting vehicles BMP-2 combat module “Berezhok” on the ground holoven’ky in the Moscow region, said Tuesday in a press-service of the district.

Transport-combat helicopter Mi-35 © Sergey Bobylev/TASS MOSCOW, may 29. /TASS/. Russia and Kazakhstan signed a new contract to supply four military transport helicopters Mi-35. This was reported on Tuesday TASS Deputy head of the Federal service for military-technical cooperation (FSMTC) of the Russian Federation Vladimir Drozdov. “A new contract for four helicopters Mi-35 was signed. This year,” he said.

F-16 Israeli air force © EPA/ABIR SULTAN MOSCOW, may 28. /TASS/. Information about the interception of fighter-bombers su-34 videoconferencing Israeli F-16 in skies over Lebanon is not true. This was announced on Monday at the defense Ministry.

Small missile ship “Vishny Volochek” © Russian defense Ministry MOSCOW, may 28. /TASS/. Small missile ship (IRAS) “Vishny Volochek”, the sixth in a series of ships of project 21631 – it is planned to transfer the black sea fleet on 1 June. On Monday TASS reported the official representative of the Navy captain 1-rank Vyacheslav Trukhachev.

The launching of the replica of the ship “Poltava” in St. Petersburg © Alexander Demyanchuk/TASS SAINT PETERSBURG, may 27. /TASS/. Sailboat to be built for the needs of the Navy of the Russian Federation according to the shipbuilding program until 2050 would be able to go, not only in seawater but also to go in the ocean swimming. This was told reporters Navy commander Vladimir Korolev after the ceremony launching the replica of the ship “Poltava” in St. Petersburg. “The program until 2050 construction of this vessel is incorporated. This ship will be able to go in addition to sea areas, and even in the ocean with the purpose of the practice of students,” – said the commander in chief. Korolev also noted that the aim is to use the tradition and experience of sailing and shipbuilding. At the same time commander did not specify the exact timing of any

Launching large landing ship “Peter Morgunov” © Vitaly Nevar/TASS KALININGRAD, may 27. /TASS/. Ships, auxiliary vessels, naval aviation and coastal troops of the Baltic fleet will provide testing of large landing ship (BDK) “Peter Morgunov”, launched at the Baltic shipyard (PSZ) Yantar on may 25. This was reported in the Sunday press service of the fleet.