Category: Army

The launch of cruise missiles “Caliber” of the frigate “Admiral Essen” © Office of the press service and information Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation/TASS MOSCOW, September 5. /TASS/. Located in the Mediterranean sea, the frigate “Admiral Essen” cruise missiles “Caliber” killed at Deir-ez-Zor command and control and communications hub, as well as the plant on repair of armored vehicles of terrorists “Islamic state” (organization banned in Russia). This was reported on Tuesday in the defense Ministry.

© EPA/ATEF SAFADI MOSCOW, September 4. /TASS/. Two Russian contract servicemen were killed in Syria as a result of mortar shelling by the terrorists of the “Islamic state” (IG, an organization banned in Russia). This is stated in the message of the Ministry of defense received on Monday, TASS reported.

© Vadim Grishanin/Office of the press service and information Ministry of defense of Russia/TASS MOSCOW, September 4. /TASS/. Russian space forces to support offensive by Syrian government forces in Deir-ez-Zor flew more than 80 sorties. As a result, destroyed more than 70 of the terrorists, said Monday the Russian defense Ministry.

© Eugene Vadim epanchitsev/TASS TASS, 4 September. /TASS/. The competition in the flight school over the past five or six years has grown from one to eight people in place. This was stated by the commander of aerospace forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Viktor Bondarev, visited during the working visit to Kirov oblast under construction in the oblast center to the Kids space center.

Nuclear submarine “Dmitry Donskoy” © Peter Kovalev/TASS MURMANSK, September 4. /TASS/. The world’s largest nuclear submarine “Dmitry Donskoy” has completed a three-month hike and returned to the white sea naval base, Northern fleet. This was announced Monday in a press-service of the fleet. “The crew of the submarine for more than three months was beyond the point of permanent deployment – participated in the Main military-sea parade on Navy Day in Kronstadt and carried out combat training tasks in the Barents sea,” – said in the Navy.

Tank T-90S © REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin At the last International military-technical forum “Army-2017” it became known about the conclusion of a major contract for the supply of Russian armored vehicles in Iraq. To disclose the details of the document have not yet become, but as it became known earlier from the report “Uralvagonzavod” (UVZ) for the year 2016, the Corporation in 2017 intends to implement the two contracts for the supply of tanks T-90S/SK. The first (64 tanks) concluded with customer “704”, second — “368” (the first batch will be 73 cars). According to all-Russian classifier of countries of the world is Vietnam and Iraq, respectively.

© Vadim Grishanin/Office of the press service and information Ministry of defense of Russia/TASS MOSCOW, September 2. /TASS/. Syrian government forces backed by the Russian space forces liberated the city Akerbat in the province of Hama, eliminating the last major center of resistance to the terrorists in Central Syria. About it reports on Saturday, the defense Ministry.

© Vadim Grishanin/Office of the press service and information Ministry of defense of Russia/TASS MOSCOW, September 2. /TASS/. Aircraft of the Russian air and space forces (VKS) for the past two days killed at Deir-ez-Zor, nine armored vehicles in the Russian Federation banned the terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG). This was announced on Saturday by the defense Ministry.

Su-30CM © Marina Lystseva/TASS MOSCOW, September 2. /TASS/. Russian fighter su-30CM 4-th red banner army, air force and air defense of the southern military district this year, about 120 times accompanied reconnaissance flights near the southern borders of the Russian Federation. This was reported by TASS, the commander of the army Lieutenant-General Victor Sevostyanov.

Antonov an-2, 1978 © TASS 31 August 1947 took place the first flight of the prototype CX-1 (biplane An-2). It lifted into the air on the factory airfield Eltsovka (Novosibirsk) test pilot Pavel Volodin. At an altitude of 1,200 meters he met two large circles and 30 minute flight had landed. Today the An-2 is listed in the Guinness Book of records as the world’s only plane, which carried more than 60 years. The story of “foal” Piston Soviet light multipurpose aircraft an-2 (NATO codification — Colt, translated “foal”) was developed in the 1940-ies by a team of experienced design Bureau No. 53 (OKB-153) at Novosibirsk aircraft plant them. V. P. Chkalov (now the Ukrainian state enterprise “Antonov”) under the leadership of General designer Oleg Antonov. The car was designed in particular for replacement of the obsolete agricultural aircraft U-2 (Po-2) and originally was called SKH-1 or of art. Among