Contents tagged with Weapons
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Ukraine's Motor Sich company developed a new attack helicopter
Specialists of the Motor Sich Public Joint Stock Company, in joint cooperation with Luch Construction Bureau, have developed a Mi-8MSB-V attack helicopter. According to "Military informator" news portal, Barrier-V RK-2Vanti-tank missiles will be mounted on these helicopters. The design of the helicopter was presented and discussed at the Arms and Security 2016 international military exhibition in Kyiv.
The new helicopter attack system is designed for the destruction of stationary and movable …
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Kyiv sends new batch of military equipment to the front
On Saturday, October 15, 2016, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, is sending a new batch of military equipment to the frontline, as he stated on Friday, October, 14 2016, during the Defender of Ukraine Day events.
"If we want to survive as a nation, as a people, as a state, we have to spend at least 5% of our GDP (Gross Domestic Product) on military and security. If you look at these costs in terms of the global prices of weapons and equipment, if you compare our budget with similar …
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Russia tested state-of-the-art radio electronic weapon
According to Russia's RIA Novosti news agency, Russia has developed new types of radio-electronic weapons which are based on new physical principles and have no analogues in the world. The agency claims that this information was received from an official representative of the development company, United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (UIMC), during the ArmHiTec 2016 arms exhibition.
The first samples of the weapons were presented to the Ministry of Defense in September this year at a …
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Russian naval ships to be equipped with Pantsir-SM missile systems
Small missile ships of the Russian Navy will be equipped with the close-in weapon system (CIWS) "Pantsir-SM", which will provide the highest level of vessel security, Izvestia newspaper reported.
Russia's new Buyan-M small missile ships will be armed with these missile systems.
Compared to their land-based "Pantsir-S1" counterparts, the naval air defense missile system has double the capability of detecting and destroying targets, able to detect all air and water activity at a distance up to 7 …
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Ukrainian state-owned Pivdenmash is developing analogue to Russian Iskander missile system
Ukraine is developing a Grom-2 (Thunder) system which will be “a close analogue” to the Russian Iskander. This was reported by the LIGA.News Ukrainian agency.
“This system,in fact, is a close analogue to the Russian Iskander. It is being created through the efforts of the state-owned enterprise Pivdenmash,” the news agency said.
The initially planned maximum firing range was 300 km, with the possibility of extending it to 500 km. However, currently th system is being designed with the ability …
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Russia tested latest missiles in Syria
Russia has used the new X-101 air-launched missiles in combat for the first time in Syria. Interfax reported that this was said by the head of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, Sergey Shoygu.
“We gained practical experience in firing long-range precision-guided weapons from ships and submarines in the Caspian and Mediterranean seas. Strategic aviation aircraft used the new X-101 air-launched missiles for the first time. These missiles have a range of up to 4,500 kilometers in a real combat …
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Russia to equip its Southern district with new generation of BUK missiles
This year the Southern military district of Russia will be equipped with the new generation of surface-to-air BUK-3M missiles. According to the Russian TASS news agency, this was stated by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces, Colonel-General Oleg Salyukov.
“As a part of strengthening of the ground forces the air-defense units will be equipped with modern missile systems. And these are in particular BUK-3M surface-to-air missile systems capable of engaging up to 6 air targets …
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Russia is developing a autonomous missile system to deploy in the Arctic
Russia is developing a fully autonomous missile system for deployment in the Arctic, according to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces, Colonel-General Oleg Salyukov, RIA Novosti reported.
“In order to ensure defense in the Arctic region and the Far North... the fully autonomous short-range air defense system Thor M2DT is being developed, which will be adapted to the particularly harsh climatic conditions and capable of performing combat missions in extremely low temperatures …
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Ukraine acknowledges it has lost nearly all Soviet-era mortars during the war in the Donbas
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry claimed that during the fighting in the Donbas, they used up nearly their entire stockpile of mortar weapons, which Ukraine had kept since Soviet times.
According to UNIAN, this was reported by the Chief of Armaments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mykola Shevtsov at a briefing in Kyiv. "The question of supplying our troops with exactly this kind of weapon is the most urgent,” he said “as during the aggressive hostilities we lost almost our entire arsenal of …
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Russian Bulava ballistic missile detonated prematurely during testing
One of the two Bulava ballistic missiles, which were launched from the Yury Dolgoruky submarine in the White Sea, has self-destructed. It was aimed at the Kura test site in Kamchatka.
This was reported on the 27th of September by the press-service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Experimental volley firing with two rockets, from a submerged position, was made on the 27th of September. Both missiles, as reported by the Defense Ministry, “were launched from the submarine …