Category: Army

© Matej Divizna/Getty Images At the sites of Russia and Belarus started joint strategic exercises “West-2017”. They are attended by about 12 700 troops (including about 10 to 200 on the territory of Belarus) and employs about 680 pieces of equipment. These exercises have already provoked a strong reaction in the West, but the European countries very often hold similar training and combat activities in the border areas.

© Eugene Bags/DIMC MO RF MOSCOW, September 14. /TASS/. Advanced units of the Pskov connection airborne troops in the framework of the exercises “West-2017” engaged in battle with the forces of a conventional enemy, who illegally crossed the state border, said Thursday the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation. “The landing of more than 500 paratroopers and around 10 units of military vehicles took on new limited the landing pad located in the rear of force and sabotage units of the enemy. Intelligence units of the Pskov connection in the course of the battle, taking the initiative in their hands, rebuked promotion sabotage units of the imaginary enemy into the Pskov region”, – said in the defense Ministry. The paratroopers also destroyed ground-based reconnaissance-strike complexes and auxiliary control points conventional adversaries. “While the main forces of troops completed training units and military equipment for combat use, units at the

Missile complex “Iskander-M” © Ladislav Karpov/TASS KOLOMNA, September 14. /TASS/. New types of rockets designed for tactical complex “Iskander-M”. About it to journalists on Thursday said chief designer of NPK “engineering Design Bureau” (MSC) Valery Kashin. “We continue further developmental work on the creation of new missile complex “Iskander-M”. It is constantly evolving. Several types of missiles created, externally they do not differ, but the inside is radically. Now he has, to put it mildly, seven types of missiles, maybe more,” said Cashin, who on Thursday was 70 years old.

© The video/office of the press service and information Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation/TASS, archive MOSCOW, September 14. /TASS/. Submarines “Great Novgorod” and “Kolpino” struck with cruise missiles “Caliber”. (banned in the RF group) in Syria from an underwater position in the Mediterranean sea. This was reported in the defense Ministry.

© Russian defense Ministry In the six ranges of Russia and Belarus has developed a large-scale military exercises “Zapad-2017”, becoming the most significant event preparation military this year. According to defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, will work on “joint action of the Armed forces of the two countries in the interests of ensuring military security of the Union state”. During the development of the plan of the exercises you used modern approaches to the use of troops and forces on the basis of the experience of local wars and armed conflicts, including those acquired in Syria. Western design The main part of the maneuver takes place on military sites of Belarus, also involved the landfills in the Kaliningrad, Leningrad and Pskov regions of Russia.

Deputy Minister of defence of the Russian Federation Alexander Fomin © Vadim Grishanin/press service of the defense Ministry of the Russian Federation/TASS TASS, September 14. Russia will restore the previous format of relations with NATO, including in the framework of the Council Russia – NATO (SRN) in the next year or two. This was the Deputy Minister of defence of the Russian Federation Alexander Fomin said Wednesday in interview of broadcasting company Deutsche Welle.

© Department of information and mass communications of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation/TASS HOMS /Syria/, September 13. /TASS/. About 600 Syrian deminers were prepared by the experts of the International mine action centre of the armed forces of the Russian Federation in its branch in HOMS. On Wednesday the chief of the mine action Centre Syrian Arab Republic – branch of the International anti-mine centre of the Russian armed forces Anatoly Morozov.

© Sergey Kazak/TASS MOSCOW, September 12. /TASS/. Strategic rocket forces (RVSN) conducted a test launch from the Plesetsk cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk region) solid-fuel Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) RS-24 “YARS” silo-based missiles equipped with multiple warheads. This was reported on Tuesday in the defense Ministry. “The main purpose of the launch is to confirm the reliability of a series of rockets of the same class. The experimental warheads arrived at the specified area on the Kura testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The goals achieved, objectives met in full”, – told in the defense Ministry.

© Anatoly Medved/TASS BISHKEK, September 12. /TASS/. The terrorist threat is intensifying on the southern borders of the Commonwealth of independent States (CIS), said on Tuesday Deputy chief of the General staff of the Armed forces of Russia Sergey Astrakov.

© EPA-EFE/SANA The AIRFIELD HAMIM /Syria/, September 12. /TASS/. Syrian troops complete the rout of militants “Islamic state” (IG banned in Russia as a terrorist organization), which blocked the Northern and southern neighborhoods of Deir ez-Zor. On Tuesday he told reporters the chief of staff of troops of the Russian Armed forces in Syria, Lieutenant-General Alexander Lapin.