Rogozin proposed to hold at the site of the battle between the tanks and drones

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry © Mikhail Klimentyev/press service of the Russian President/TASS NIZHNY TAGIL, September 9. /TASS/. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has offered to host a battle between tanks and drones on the ground in Nizhny Tagil. He reported about it in interview to TV channel “Russia 24”. “I think we are on one of the following activities here, in Nizhny Tagil, organized by the real tank battle tanks with crews [modern tanks T – 72, T-90], and these fighting robots,” said he.

Defense Ministry: more than 60 Soviet citizens were killed in Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis

Soviet transport ship off the coast of Cuba, 1962 © AP Photo/DoD MOSCOW, September 9. /TASS/. The Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation has published data on Soviet citizens who died in Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis – the period of sharp confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. Losses, according to data published Friday on the official website of the defense Ministry amounted to 64 people.

The Russian defense Ministry is surprised by the words of the defence Minister of Germany about the exercises “West-2017”

The official representative of the Ministry of defense of Russia Igor Konashenkov © Vadim Grishanin/press service of the defense Ministry of the Russian Federation/TASS MOSCOW, September 9. /TASS/. The statement of the Minister of defence of Germany Ursula von der Leyen about raising 100 thousand soldiers to the Russian-Belarusian exercises “West-2017” were a surprise to the defense Ministry, said the official representative of the Russian defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov.

Rogozin suggested to call the Ka-52 for Egypt “the Nile Crocodile”

Reconnaissance and combat helicopter of the new generation Ka-52 “alligator” in the final Assembly shop of the plant “Progress” © Yuri Smityuk/TASS MOSCOW, September 8. /TASS/. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin visited the plant “Progress” (part of the holding “Helicopters of Russia”), where he talked with the Egyptian pilots and offered to call bought Egypt export version of the attack helicopter Ka-52 “the Nile crocodile”. This was announced Friday in a press-service of the holding.