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Russia To Sell One Billion Dollars Worth Of Arms To YemenMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 06, 2010 Russia and Yemen could sign an arms contract worth over $1 billion, an international arms expert has said. A Yemeni delegation led by President Ali Abdullah Saleh discussed sales of Russian arms to the Arab republic recently during the leader's short visit to Moscow. Igor Korotchenko, head of a Moscow-based think tank on the international arms trade, said Yemen "is interested in a very broad range of Russian arms and military equipment," especially MiG-29 SMT jet fighters (up to 30), Mi-35 a ... read more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 22, 2010A converted Russian intercontinental ballistic missile took Germany's TanDEM-X satellite into orbit on Monday, a military spokesman said. The RS-20B carrier rocket lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 6:14 Moscow time [2:14 GMT]. This is the 16th launch of an international satellite under the Dnepr program involving Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 23, 2010A fourth-generation Russian nuclear-powered multipurpose attack submarine that was floated out on Tuesday is too expensive for serial production, a business daily said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in the northern port of Severodvinsk to attend the official float-out ceremony. The construction of the Severodvinsk, the first Project 885 Yasen (Gra ... more  
Zhukovsky, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 23, 2010Russia's Defense Ministry will order at least 50 fifth-generation fighters from 2016, a senior official said on Thursday. "At the first stage, there will be dozens of planes, more than 50," said Vladimir Popovkin, deputy defense minister for arms procurement. He was on hand as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin observed the test flight of a prototype fighter and later talked to th ... more |
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German Radar Satellite TanDEM-X Launched SuccessfullyOberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Jun 22, 2010 Germany's second Earth observation satellite, TanDEM-X, was launched successfully on 21 June 2010 at 04:14 Central European Summer Time (CEST, at 08:14 local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Atop a Russian Dnepr rocket, the satellite, weighing more than 1.3 tons and five metres in length, started its journey into orbit. At 4.45 CEST first signal was received via Troll ground station in the Antarctic. The German Aerospace Center manages TanDEM-X (TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital ... read more |
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