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Russia Tests New S-400 Air Defense System As Billions More Allocates For Arms Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 02, 2009 
The Russian Air Force is testing a new missile for the S-400 Triumf air defense system, the Air Force commander said on Friday. The S-400 (SA-21 Growler) is designed to intercept and destroy airborne targets at a distance of up to 400 kilometers (250 miles), twice the range of the U.S. MIM-104 Patriot, and 2.5 times that of the S-300PMU-2. The system is expected to form the cornersto ... read more
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Global Crisis Will Not Affect Topol-M Schedule
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 02, 2009Russia's Topol-M ballistic missiles will be put on combat duty on schedule despite the current global financial crisis, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces said recently upon returning from a field inspection. Some media reports have indicated that Russia could experience delays in the production of Topol-M (SS-27 Stalin) ICBMs due to a hike in prices for components and materials ... more NATO seeking airspace deal with Russia for flights to Afghanistan 
Brussels (AFP) Dec 31, 2008NATO is seeking to seal an agreement with Moscow to allow the military alliance to fly equipment over Russian airspace to Afghanistan, an official said Wednesday. "Both sides are already aware of the fact that an air agreement would be desirable," the NATO official told AFP. The talks "at many levels" are able to take place now following the end of a four-month freeze the alliance impose ... more BMD Watch: New missile for S-400 Triumf 
Washington (UPI) Dec 31, 2008 Russia is testing a new missile for its formidable S-400 Triumf air defense system that, if it performs according to its claimed specifications, is the most formidable long-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense system in the world. Three-star Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin, the commander of the Russian air force, announced testing plans for the new missile Tuesday, the RIA ... more Lock And Load In Africa Part Three 
Hong Kong (UPI) Dec 31, 2008 Ghana traditionally has been a client country of Western weapons manufacturers. It does have some Russian equipment in service, however, including SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles, Zu-23-2 air defense machine guns and D-30 122-mm howitzers. The People's Republic of China is now promoting its latest gun-launched laser-guided projectiles on the African continent. At least one African countr ... more Analysis: Central Asian energy in 2008 
Washington (UPI) Dec 31, 2008 The noted Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes once wrote, "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States." Substitute "Central Asia" for "Mexico" and "Russia" for the "United States," and one begins to have an idea of the energy exports problems facing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. For the three easternmost former Soviet "Stan" republics, 2008 has been a year of stress and p ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 30, 2008Russia's offer to the U.S. on joint use of the Gabala radar station it leases from Azerbaijan is still on the table, a first Russian deputy foreign minister said on Monday. "Our proposal remains on the table. The new U.S. administration will encounter serious problems with regard to the implementation of its third missile site plan in Europe. We are not exerting any pressure on the U.S. ad ... more BMD Focus: Bulava fails again 
Washington (UPI) Dec 30, 2008 Russia's latest test launch of its long-troubled Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile was another failure, and it was more costly than most as the Russian government had already approved the missile for full-scale production. On Dec. 25 four-star Army Gen. Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the Russian General Staff, announced that he believed production flaws were probably to blame ... more What Motivates Iran And Russia On The S-300 Deal Part Two 
Washington (UPI) Dec 29, 2008 How should one interpret the conflicting messages coming out of Moscow and Tehran last week about over whether Russia has sent S-300 air defense system components to Iran? First, a senior Iranian parliamentarian, Esmaeil Kosari, deputy chairman of the Iranian Parliament's Commission on National Security and Foreign Policy, informed Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency on Dec. 20 ... more Gazprom Continues Talks With Ukraine Despite Harsh Rhetoric 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 30, 2008Gazprom is continuing to hold gas talks with Ukraine and hopes to reach an agreement by the yearend to avoid supplies cuts over Kiev's outstanding debts, a deputy CEO at the Russian gas giant said Monday. "Three days remain before the New Year, and of course no one would like the sad events of the past to be repeated. But if we are doing everything required on our side to avoid that, we unfortu ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 28, 2008Russia launched a Proton-M carrier rocket on Thursday with three Glonass navigation satellites on board from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a space agency spokesman said. Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System - is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian use. Both systems allow users to determi ... more ISS Astronauts Successfully Complete Spacewalk 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 23, 2008Astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully completed their spacewalk on Tuesday, Russia's Mission Control said. The ISS commander American Michael Fincke and Russian engineer Yury Lonchakov, who arrived on the orbital station in October, closed the hatch to the Pirs docking station at 09:29 a.m. Moscow Time (06:29 GMT). The spacewalk, which was delayed by 37 minutes after las ... more Pakistan says no war with India amid calls for calm 
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 27, 2008Pakistan again said Saturday it did not want war with India, as the international community tried to defuse tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours after Islamabad moved troops to the border. The United States and Russia led calls for calm in both Islamabad and New Delhi in a bid to improve ties that have deteriorated in the month since the Mumbai attacks, which India has blamed on Pak ... more Russia selling surface-to-air missiles to Libya, Syria: report 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 26, 2008Russia has begun to fulfil a 250-million-dollar contract to deliver surface-to-air missiles to seven countries including Libya, Syria and Venezuela, the Vedomosti business daily reported Friday. Russia will also deliver the S-125 Pechora-2M missile batteries to Egypt, Myanmar, Vietnam and Turkmenistan under the contract, the newspaper said, citing a source in the state-owned Russian Technolo ... more
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