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Russia To Make 39 Space Launches In 2009 Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 23, 2008 
The Russian space agency will make 39 space launches next year from the Baikonur and Plesetsk space centers, the agency press service said on Thursday. Roscosmos said the launches would be made as part of the Federal Space Program, the Glonass federal program, an international cooperation program, and a number of commercial projects. Four Soyuz manned spaceships and five Progress ... read more
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Astrium-Built ASTRA 1M Satellite Commissioned In Orbit
Toulouse, France (SPX) Dec 23, 2008SES has formally accepted the ASTRA 1M satellite after having successfully completed in-orbit testing and verified its excellent performance. The satellite designed and built by Astrium is now ready for operational service. Astrium took control and commenced in-orbit operations following launch of the ASTRA 1M satellite on 5 November 2008 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The satellite reached ... more Analysis: Beware of Russians with gifts 
Washington (UPI) Dec 22, 2008 The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming ... to Lebanon. Indeed, the Russians are coming to Lebanon with unusual gifts. Moscow announced last week it would deliver to the Lebanese air force 10 MiG-29s as a gift. This is an incredible number of fighter planes for a small country such as Lebanon. Ten new war planes will double, if not triple, the size of the current Lebanese army's air ... more Russia denies delivering S-300 missiles to Iran 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 22, 2008Russia on Monday denied that it was delivering sophisticated S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Iran, following reports it was about to supply the weapons to the US arch-foe. "The information on the delivery of S-300 air-defence systems to Iran, which has appeared in certain media outlets, does not correspond to reality," Russia's military-technical cooperation agency said in a statement. ... more US, Ukraine risk irking Russia with strategic accord 
Washington (AFP) Dec 19, 2008The United States and Ukraine risked irking Moscow by signing a strategic accord Friday that calls for a US diplomatic post in Crimea, a Russian-speaking area where Russia's Black Sea Fleet is based. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Ogryzko signed the "charter on strategic partnership" that the State Department calls a statement of US intent to ... more Swords and Shields: Son of Satan threat 
Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2008 As UPI reported, at the end of November Russia successfully test-launched its new-generation land- and sea-based ballistic missile designed to penetrate U.S. missile defense systems such as the one planned for deployment in Poland and the Czech Republic. The new Russian missile can be equipped with up to 10 warheads, including decoys, to overwhelm or mislead American sensors. ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Dec 17, 2008 Senior Russian diplomats are pledging to cooperate with the incoming Obama administration to conclude a far-reaching nuclear arms reduction treaty by the end of next year. Statements to this effect were made in Moscow Monday by a senior Russian diplomat. They mark a dramatic U-turn from the eight years of accumulating gridlock and growing Russian resentment toward the Bush administration ... more Russia to deploy new missiles by 2020: military 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 17, 2008Russia will by 2020 replace its Soviet-era arsenal with new nuclear-capable intercontinental missiles that can overcome defence systems like the US missile shield, the military said Wednesday. "By 2015-2020 the Russian strategic rocket forces will have new complete missile systems with improved combat characteristics," General Nikolai Solovtsov told reporters at a briefing in the Moscow ... more Analysis: China's carriers Part Two 
Hong Kong (UPI) Dec 17, 2008 Russia today still has a large number of nuclear-powered submarines armed with cruise missiles and nuclear attack submarines in service. For instance, there are five Project P671 SSNs in service in the navy alone, eight Project 949B SSGNs and more than 10 Project 970 serial SSNs. Moreover, the first of the latest-generation P885 SSNs already has been launched. The Russian navy has ... more Russian Arms Exports Exceed 8 Billion Dollars In 2008 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 18, 2008Russian arms exports in 2008 have been worth over $8 billion, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday. Sergei Ivanov also said Russia had secured $33 billion worth of firm orders for arms deliveries. "Russia is among the [world's] three leading arms exporters," he said. He added that despite the global financial crisis none of Russia's foreign clients had reneged on their contracts. ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Dec 17, 2008Russia is to deliver 10 MiG-29 fighter jets as a gift for the Lebanese military, the head of the Russian defence cooperation body said Wednesday. "Russia's defence ministry has decided to deliver to Lebanon, as part of defence cooperation, 10 MiG-29 fighter jets from our existing contingent," the Interfax news agency quoted Mikhail Dmitriyev as saying. The fighter jets would be modernize ... more Lugar urges quick action in 2009 on Russia-US nukes 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 17, 2008Senator Richard Lugar, a veteran of US-Russian arms control efforts, on Wednesday urged Russia and the United States to get to work replacing a key arms treaty that expires next December. It was vital to make a "running start" in talks to replace the START 1 treaty, which was brokered between the United States and Soviet Union and brought about big reductions in nuclear arsenals, Lugar said. ... more Analysis: China's carriers Part One 
Hong Kong (UPI) Dec 16, 2008 Russia, India and China will be building aircraft carriers for their navies almost simultaneously over the next five years or so, using many of the same design concepts, technologies and equipment. This is unprecedented in the history of shipbuilding. The three countries currently are enjoying healthy political relations, smoothing the way for Russia's continued military cooperation ... more Siberian Shepherd Sues Roscosmos Over Rocket Debris 
Novosibirsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Dec 17, 2008A villager in southwest Siberia is to take legal action against Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, after a rocket fragment fell on his land, a local administration official said on Tuesday. Boris Urmatov, a shepherd in the Republic of Altai, filed a lawsuit after he was refused compensation when a three-and-a-half-meter (11 ft) fragment from a Proton-M carrier rocket, launched from the ... more
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