MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has started official testing of its modernized A-50M Mainstay AWACS aircraft for the country's Air Force, a Russian electronics company said Wednesday. The A-50 Mainstay is a Russian airborne warning and control system
MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian naval task force from the Northern Fleet will go on a tour of duty in the Atlantic Ocean and participate in joint naval drills with the Venezuelan navy in November, a Navy
The world is anxious about strict policy of the Russian Federation directed at its neighbors. When Russia was threatening countries of the former USSR with economic and other sanctions, the country was keeping some control other them.
GELENDZHIK (South Russia), September 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's new carrier-based fighters will replace the Su-33 naval fighter in service with the Russian Navy after 2016, a senior military official said on Sunday. The Su-33 (NATO reporting name 'Flanker-D') is
SEVASTOPOL, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia could build up its presence in the Mediterranean to make up for the loss of its naval base in Ukraine's port of Sevastopol, a Black Sea Fleet official said on Monday. "Undoubtedly, the
Russian warships will continue patrolling waters off the coast of Abkhazia until all U.S. ships leave the Black Sea, Russia's NATO envoy said on Wednesday.
They may be cornered by high-tech U.S. destroyers and cruisers... But the sandaled pirates who seized a cargo vessel laden with Russian battle tanks off the coast of Somalia still stand a good chance of escaping unscathed.
RIGA, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - The U.S. Air Force will patrol the airspace over the Baltic states from October, the Latvian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. A group of U.S. F-16 fighter jets will replace the current German planes
The are no plans, so far, for arming the Baltic Fleet with nuclear weapons as a response for the installations of Anti-missile systems in Poland. This was reported by the chairman of the Defence Committee of the State Duma, Victor
The Arkhangelsk-based Zvezdochka shipyard might take over another two yards in Murmansk Oblast. In 2009, both the yard in Polyarny and Safonovo might be incorporated into the company.
NEW DELHI, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and India will jointly develop two versions of a new fifth-generation fighter, the head of an Indian defense company said on Monday. A Russian-Indian advanced multirole fighter is being developed by Sukhoi,