The chief of the General staff of the armed forces discussed with the head of the NATO Military Committee exercises “West”

© Russian defense Ministry MOSCOW, September 7. /TASS/. The chief of the General staff of armed forces Valery Gerasimov held in Baku on Thursday a meeting with Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Peter pavalam in which to discuss international security and the exercise “West-2017”. This was reported in the defense Ministry.

FSI Russian for two weeks, killed in Syria 1.2 thousand militants

© Vadim Grishanin/Office of the press service and information Ministry of defense of Russia/TASS MOSCOW, September 6. /TASS/. Planes videoconferencing over the past two weeks has made 1417 sorties, command posts, camps, and clusters of militants 2687 inflicted air strikes destroyed 83 armored vehicles. On Wednesday said the commander of Russian troops in Syria, Colonel-General Sergey Surovikin. “For the past two weeks, Russian planes carried out sorties 1417. At the command posts, camps, and clusters of militants inflicted 2687 air strikes. 83 destroyed armored vehicles, more than two hundred vehicles mounted with heavy machine guns, rocket systems of volley fire, artillery and anti-aircraft guns and more than 1,200 terrorists.”

Syrian forces beat ISIS the battle for Deir-ez-Zor

© EPA/STRINGER MOSCOW, September 6. /TASS/. Syrian troops beat the “Islamic state” (ISIS is a terrorist organization banned in Russia) the battle for the city of Deir ez-Zor. On Wednesday the chief of the Main operations Directorate of the General staff of armed forces Colonel-General Sergey rudskoy. “To win the battle over the terrorist groups near the town of Deir ez-Zor, which surpasses in importance and scale of all previous wins. That the Syrian people have waited more than three years,” said rudskoy. The tide of battle As reported, in turn, the commander of the Russian group of forces in Syria, Colonel-General Sergei Surovikin, “during the counter offensive of the troops of General Suhela and defenders of Deir-ez-Zor, under command of General Zahreddin the encirclement defense of the militants was broken on a site with a width of 3 km”. “Tonight the corridor was expanded in two” – the General

Defense Ministry: the Syrian army has seized a large fortified area of militants in Deir ezzor

© SANA via AP MOSCOW, September 6. /TASS/. Assault troops of the Syrian government forces during the operation to liberate the city of Deir ez-Zor seized a large fortified area of militants of the terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG banned in Russia), where on the eve of aircraft of Russian air force and cruise missiles “Caliber” of the frigate “Admiral Essen” has been applied to surgical strikes. This was announced on Wednesday, the defense Ministry.

The plane to replace the An-2 can go to the series by 2020

The plane’s TVs-2-DTS © NRC “Institute named after N. E. Zhukovsky” MOSCOW, September 5. /TASS/. The new aircraft FA-2-DTS (composite technology demonstrator), developed to replace the An-2 can go into the series already by 2020. In an interview with TASS said the Director of the Siberian research Institute of aviation named after S. A. Chaplygin (SibNIA, is part of the NRC “Institute named after N. E. Zhukovskogo”) Mr Badger.