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Defense Ministry ordered development of new guns for armored vehicles Russia’s Defense Ministry has set a target to develop long-term solutions for combat armored sections “Kurganets” and “Boomerang”, which will be tested in 4 years, said deputy chairman of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission Oleg Bochkarev. “Today, the military set a new task, and the industry started manufacturing of some other warfare sevtions, there will be a different caliber from the main armament, but we will begin to test it approximately four years – this is an upgrade, various options and single base,” Bochkarev said on Monday.

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Assembly of a fuselage for Arctic version of Mi-8 helicopters is being completed Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant (part of Russia Helicopters Holding Company) is developing Mi-8AMTSh-VA helicopter designed for operation in the Arctic Region, Voenno-Promishlenniy Courier reports. «The fuselage assembly is being completed. We are receiving documentation for installation of systems. The helicopter should be transferred to the final assembly workshop in April. The work (including testing) should be completed in October or November,» a source said. He noted that the Arctic version of the helicopter differs from the traditional vehicles: it has upgraded navigation system, special flight preparation system, which uses TA-14 auxiliary power unit, as well as additional equipment designed to make the crew more comfortable. «Taking into account the aspects of flights performed in the North above the featureless terrain, the decision was made to equip the helicopters with inertial navigation system in addition to satellite navigation. Such systems are installed on Tu-95MS bombers,» the source said. He added that TA-14 auxiliary power unit after the start under temperatures of around -50 Celsius allows bleeding hot air (+100 Celsius) and heating the main engines and cockpit in order to carry out flight preparation. In order to improve the life-support system, ventilation and heating systems have been upgraded. In addition, the crews must wear immersion suits during flights; the suits are designed to help pilots survive in case of emergency landing in the Arctic Region.

Russia will develop Fenix missile to replace the “Soyuz” Russia’s space agency (Roscosmos) plans to begin in 2018 the development of a medium-class carrier rocket to replace the Soyuz rocket family the creation of which had started during the USSR times when Sergey Korolev was the country’s chief rocket engineer, a rocket and space industry source told TASS on Monday. “Roscosmos is to prepare the technical design specification for the medium-class carrier rocket during 2016-2017. In 2018, it is planned to begin the experimental development work on this rocket named Fenix,” he said.

Joint instrument-Corporation equipped new armored equipment for network-centric warfare Joint instrument-Corporation equipped the new Russian armored vehicles, including armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles “Kurganets-25″, as well as tank “Armata” with software and hardware complex, making it possible to take part at “network-centric warfare”, the press service of the company said on Monday. “Infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers “Kurganets-25″, armored personnel carrier “Boomerang”, armored “Typhoon”, and tank “Armata”, which will be presented for the first time on May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow, have been equipped with advanced software and hardware complex production instrument-United Corporation. New software and hardware complexes allow you to see all the operational and tactical situation online and interact with the control points, the other army units in a single system of automated control the fight,” said in a statement.

Russia will be producing more than 1500 navigation systems for PAK FA per year More than 1500 versatile BINS-SP-2M strapdown inertial navigation systems will be manufactured in Russia every year. The latest Russian fifth-generation fighter T-50 (PAK FA) will be fitted with this system, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press-service of Radioelectronic Technologies Concern (KRET, part of Rostec State Corporation). “Moscow Institute of Electromechanics and Automatics (MIEA, part of KRET) developed the versatile BINS-SP-2M strapdown inertial navigation system, which may be installed on aircraft, vessels or ground vehicles. The production program assumes output of 1500 systems per year,” KRET reports. Multi-role Su-35S fighter is fitted with BINS-SP-2M system. It will also be installed on PAK FA jets. “The cost of the new BINS system is 40% lower compared to foreign analogues. At that BINS-SP-2M outmatches the foreign systems in terms of performance. Moreover, its service life is at least 50,000 hours (almost two times longer compared to analogues),” MIEA CEO Alexey Kuznetsov said. BINS-SP-2M is able to define the position of an aircraft more precisely (precision is almost two times higher compared to the previous version), Kuznetsov added. KRET is going to modify BINS-SP-2M for use on carrier-based aircraft, press-service added.

L'armée Syrienne aurait lancé une contre attaque sur Jisr Alchoughour (Idlib), source la chaine d'al manar.

Pour la première fois le T-34 sera à Kaliningrad le 9 mai Le 9 mai sur la place principale de Kaliningrad le légendaire T-34 qui a participé à la prise de la ville fortifiée de Koenigsberg, sera à la tête de la colonne mécanisée pour la première fois. Véhicule de combat, produit en 1943, a été restauré et mis en service par les techniciens civils et militaires et la réparation et la restauration du matériel du bataillon et le soutien technique de la flotte de la Baltique. Experts réparation et unités de régénération, en dépit de l'absence totale de pièces de rechange pour ces modèles de matériel militaire, en utilisant les dessins originaux du siècle dernier, réparés et restaurés la possibilité de rouler à nouveau.

Su-35 made the first combat “air-to-air” class missile launches during exercises in Primorye On Saturday, April 11, 2015, the pilots of Su-35 successfully completed the combat “air-to-air” class missile launches at a special thermal targets in the framework of tactical flight exercises with fighter and ground attack aircraft of the Eastern Military District. Shooting took place over the sea ground Golden Valley in the Sea of Japan. The launches were carried out at medium and high altitudes with different distances on air targets simulating bomber and fighter aircraft imaginary enemy. Total destruction of some 20 different targets. According to the results of starts pilots were rated as “excellent”.

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Komsomolsk-on-Amur aviation plant to deliver more than 20 combat aircraft to Russian air forces this year In 2015 Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant (branch of Sukhoi Holding Company) should deliver 14 Su-35 multi-role fighters, five Su-30SM2 jets and four T-50 test aircraft (intended for flight testing) to Russian Ministry of Defense, Interfax reports with reference to Deputy Minister of Defense Yuri Borisov. “We visited the plant to see how the implementation of production program is going. I must admit that the program is on schedule,” Y.Borisov said after visiting Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant. He said that under the State Defense Order for 2015 the first Su-35 would be delivered to Russian air forces in June. “After that we will be taking delivery of two Su-35 fighters per month,” the Deputy Minister said. According to him, the ordered aircraft are being assembled by the enterprise. “The morale of the enterprise’s employees is high and we are glad to see that the plant will make it,” he added. Borisov also said that Russian Ministry of Defense is satisfied with work of Irkutsk Aviation Plant (part of Irkut Corporation) and Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant in the network of the State Defense Order. “We have two aviation plants, which are delivering aircraft to our air forces and competing with each other. We love these enterprises and provide them with new orders,” the Deputy Minister said.

Selon sputniknews l'armata serait doté d'un canon 125mm.

Selon un site proche du régime Syrien,le colonel Souheil Al Hassan alias "le tigre" serait à la tête d'une force composée de membres de la garde républicaine, forces spéciales et les NDF au nord ouest de la ville de Idlib.

Le pilote d'un ce qui semble un Su-24 syrien esquive un manpads.

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Une photo de la chaine de production du T-14 Armata.

L'Iran a lancé aujourd'hui une ligne de production du missile anti-navire, "Cruz Kadeer" qui a une portée de 300 kilomètres.

La semaine de rêve de Vladimir Poutine. http://www.lepoint.fr/editos-du-point/michel-colomes/la-semaine-de-reve-de-vladimir-poutine-20-02-2015-1906574_55.php