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Russia Launches Thai Satellite On Converted Missile
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 02, 2008Russia launched a converted intercontinental ballistic missile from a rocket launch site the south Urals to put a Thai earth observation satellite into orbit on Wednesday, the Strategic Missile Forces said. "The launch of the RS-20B intercontinental ballistic missile was made at 10:37 a.m. Moscow time [06:37 GMT]," spokesman Colonel Alexander Vovk said. A representative of the ... more Russia, India To Develop New BrahMos Cruise Missile 
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Oct 02, 2008Russia and India will jointly develop a new BrahMos-2 hypersonic cruise missile, the head of the BrahMos company said on Monday. "At a meeting of the Russian-Indian intergovernmental commission on military-technical cooperation, we decided to set up a working group on the development of the BrahMos-2 missile," the company's CEO, Sivathanu Pillai said. "The new hypersonic missile will have ... more Venezuela To Spend One Billion Dollar Russian Loan On Air Defense 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 02, 2008Venezuela plans to use most of the $1 bln loan granted by Russia to buy air-defense systems, a Russian military analyst has said. Russia announced the loan offer earlier on Friday, during a visit by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. "Venezuela needs primarily Tor-M1 surface to air systems to protect the airfields where the 24 Su-30 MK2 jet fighters it bought from Russia are based," said ... more Outside View: Russia, Cuba team up again 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 1, 2008 There is every reason to say that Russia has started reasserting its global position. This includes big-time politics and efforts to expand scientific and military-technical cooperation with other countries, including Cuba, the Soviet Union's main Latin American ally. It is hard to overestimate the importance of Latin America, and Cuba in particular, for Russia. Commenting on the result ... more Defense Chief Says Russia Does Not Export Nuclear Submarines 
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Oct 01, 2008Russia has no plans to export nuclear submarines, the country's defense minister said on Monday during his visit to India. Asked to comment on media reports on alleged plans to export nuclear submarines, in particular to India, Anatoly Serdyukov said: "The press discusses lots of things. We do not export nuclear submarines." The Times of India earlier quoted an anonymous Indian defense ... more |
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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 Nuclear standoff, energy deals dominate Russia-SKorea summit 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 29, 2008Russia reaffirmed its opposition to North Korea's nuclear weapons programme in a summit with South Korea on Monday, as Moscow and Seoul concluded a pair of key energy deals. "Russia continues to support having a nuclear-free peninsula and seeks progress in the ongoing six-party talks," Medvedev said at a Kremlin press conference alongside South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak. Lee, in ... more New European system must ensure security for all: Russian FM 
United Nations (AFP) Sept 29, 2008Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday made a new pitch for a system of collective European security that would ensure security for all. He said the current security architecture "proved to be insufficient and flawed," citing as evidence NATO's decade-long eastward expansion into former Soviet republics or allies and the recent Caucasus conflict. He told a press conference on ... more |
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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 Chavez defies US by cozying up to Russia and China 
Caracas (AFP) Sept 27, 2008Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's visit to China and Russia this week and the military and energy cooperation deals he signed put him on dangerous ground in his relations with the United States, political analysts said. "This trip shows he intends not only to break free of the US sphere of influence in matters of defense, but also to strike significant political links with the very powers ... more An African Arms Bazaar Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 26, 2008 China is actively operating in the African market because other leading arms exporters, including Russia, tend to neglect the region. But judging by the countries involved in Africa Aerospace and Defense-2008, this is not exactly so. Beijing also takes advantage of the fact that Africa cannot afford to buy expensive, high-tech equipment offered by Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Washington an ... more
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