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India, Russia To Develop Two Versions Of 5th-Generation Fighter
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Oct 01, 2008Russia and India will jointly develop two versions of a new fifth-generation fighter, the head of an Indian defense company said on Monday. A Russian-Indian advanced multirole fighter is being developed by Sukhoi, which is part of Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), along with India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), under an intergovernmental agreement signed in October 2007. ... more Outside View: Blackjack flies again 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 30, 2008 Russia's Tupolev Tu-160 White Swan bombers are back from Venezuela. The overseas visit by the most powerful strike aircraft of Russia has created a new surge of interest in these planes, which make up the core of Russian strategic aviation. The supersonic missile-carrying Tu-160 bomber -- NATO designation Blackjack -- was developed in the early 1970s, when it became clear that subsonic ... more Pentagon urges peaceful resolution of Somalia ship hijacking 
Washington (AFP) Sept 30, 2008The Pentagon urged a peaceful resolution Tuesday to the hijacking of a freighter off Somalia but said US warships were there to make sure pirates do not make off with its cargo of Russian tanks and other weapons. Several US warships had the Belize-flagged MV Faina "contained," said Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary. He would not comment on whether the navy has plans to liberate the ... more Outside View: Russia's Caribbean fleet 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 29, 2008 A Russian navy squadron set off for Venezuela on Sept. 22 in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War. During the Cold War, Latin America became an ideological battleground between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Kremlin recently has moved to intensify contacts with Venezuela, Cuba and other Latin American ... more Russia sought to topple Georgian government: Polish president 
Warsaw (AFP) Sept 29, 2008Poland's President Lech Kaczynski has alleged in an interview that Russia's military action in Georgia was aimed at toppling the Georgian government and that it sealed his country's decision to host a US missile shield vehemently opposed by Moscow. "First, Russia wanted to carry out an annexation of two provinces (Abkhazia, South Ossetia). Second, there was an attempt to topple the ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Sep 29, 2008 First, the good news. The tentative bailout reached in the early hours of Sunday morning by U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and congressional leaders could turn out to be America's best deal since William Seward bought Alaska from the Russian czar for $7.2 million back in 1867. The arithmetic of the $700 billion deal is very promising, and the terms, which include warrants for the ... more Russia Puts 3 Glonass Satellites Into Orbit 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 29, 2008Russia has put into orbit three Glonass navigation satellites after a successful launch from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency said on Thursday. "The Proton-M carrier rocket lifted off at 12:49 Moscow time [08:49 GMT], and the separation of the satellites from the rocket occurred on schedule at 12:59 Moscow time [08:59 GMT]," the agency's spokesman said. ... more Top US military chief downplays Russian military buildup 
Washington (AFP) Sept 26, 2008Chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff Admiral Michael Mullen on Friday downplayed Russia's announced army and navy buildup and its upcoming naval exercises with Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea. "When I dealt with my (Russian) counterparts, when I was head of our Navy ... it was very clear to me that their intention was to modernize their strategic forces," Mullen said at a press conference ... more Russia to overhaul air, naval defences: Medvedev 
Orenburg, Russia (AFP) Sept 26, 2008Russia will boost its air and naval defences by building more modern warships, nuclear-powered submarines and a system of air-space defences, President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday. "Construction of new types of warships is planned, primarily nuclear submarines armed with cruise missiles and multi-purpose submarines" by 2020, Medvedev said after military exercises near Orenburg in southern Ru ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Sep 25, 2008 Russia is likely to sell even more of its most modern anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense systems to Iran, according to the head of the nation's main arms export corporation. The move looks certain to even further strain relations between Moscow and Washington that are already now as fraught as at any time since the darkest days of the Cold War. "Contacts between ... more Russia grants Venezuela billion dollars to buy arms 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Russia is lending one billion dollars (682 million euros) to Venezuela to buy Russian arms, the Kremlin said Thursday, ahead of a visit by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. "Russia has taken the decision to grant Venezuela a credit of one billion dollars for implementing programmes in the field of military-technical cooperation," it said in a statement, using diplomatic jargon for arms sales ... more Russian agents seek to influence Czechs on US radar: intel report 
Prague (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Russian agents are working to build opposition among the Czech public to the deployment of a US missile defence radar in the ex-Soviet bloc nation, a Czech intelligence report said Thursday. The annual report from the Czech Security and Intelligence Service (BIS) spoke of "active measures linked to the plan to install elements of American anti-missile defence" in Czech territory. ... more US seems at a loss over NKorean nuclear defiance 
New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2008The United States consulted Wednesday with its Asian and Russian negotiating partners even as it seemed at a loss over how to deal with North Korea's defiance of a landmark nuclear disarmament deal. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that North Korea had kicked out its inspectors from the Yongbyon nuclear plant, removed its surveillance equipment there, and planned to reintro ... more
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