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Russia denies missile sales to Iran
Moscow (AFP) Oct 9, 2008Russia on Thursday denied reports it plans to sell S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Iran, a move that could complicate an attack on that country's nuclear infrastructure. "We have repeatedly said at the highest political level that we do not plan to deliver such types of weapons to countries in... unstable regions," Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said when asked about the ... more Outside View: Russia trains to fight NATO 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 9, 2008 The Stability-2008 strategic maneuvers of the Russian armed forces are gaining momentum. On Monday, Tupolev Tu-95MS Bear-H and Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers began training flights with full combat payloads and the live firing of cruise missiles at practice targets. The Stability-2008 strategic exercise, which began Sept. 21 in Russian and Belarusian territory and at ... more Bulgaria-Russia agreement soon in historic arms licence row 
Sofia (AFP) Oct 9, 2008Bulgaria and Russia could soon sign an agreement over former Soviet arms licensing fees which Moscow has been claiming since the fall of Communism in 1989, government officals said Thursday. "We agreed to proceed to a new intergovernmental agreement to be hopefully signed by end-2008," Bulgaria's Economy and Energy Minister Petar Dimitrov said after intergovernmental talks in Sofia. ... more New ASTRA 1M Satellite To Be Launched On 31 October 
Betzdorf, Luxembourg (SPX) Oct 09, 2008SES ASTRA has announced the launch of its new satellite ASTRA 1M from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is scheduled for 31 October 2008. ASTRA 1M will be launched on a Proton Breeze M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS) and is the 7th ASTRA satellite to be launched on a Proton rocket. The spacecraft built by EADS ASTRIUM, and based on the Eurostar 3000 ... more US says Russian pullout in Georgia 'positive' 
Washington (AFP) Oct 8, 2008The United States described as "positive" the withdrawal of Russian forces from buffer zones around the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. "You can see that Russia is, in fact, starting to comply with the September 8th agreement with the EU," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters, pointing to a map of the region. The withdrawal came well ahead of ... more |
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Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Oct 8, 2008 Venezuela will have Latin America's largest armed forces in terms of firepower by 2013, if the country's oil revenues remain high in coming years. President Hugo Chavez has purchased and placed firm orders for close to $6 billion in Russian weapons since 2005, but he is also shopping for weapons in China, Belarus, Spain, France and Iran. The Venezuelan Defense Ministry's ... more Russia Defense Watch: Boosting war budgets 
Washington (UPI) Oct 6, 2008 Russia, flush with wealth from its record-level oil and gas exports, is planning to further boost its defense spending by almost 50 percent over the next three years, a senior legislator in Moscow said last week. "According to a draft federal budget for 2009-2011, expenditure on national defense will increase in 2009 by 25.7 percent from 1.02 trillion rubles -- $40 billion ... more Outside View: Seoul's Russian partnership 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 7, 2008 Despite increasingly chilly relations between Washington and Moscow, South Korea, the closest U.S. military-political ally in Asia, seems willing to become Russia's strategic partner. Although Russia's actions in the Caucasus have been sharply criticized by U.S. and other Western officials, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak spoke pragmatically about promoting relations with Russia ... more BMD Watch: BrahMos ALCM planned 
Washington (UPI) Oct 7, 2008 Flush with success on developing an air-launched supersonic cruise missile -- ALCM -- together, Russia and India have agreed to produce a more ambitious hypersonic one. Sivathanu Pillai, chief executive officer of the Russian-Indian BrahMos Aerospace joint venture, announced the project in New Delhi on Sept. 29. "Today, at a meeting of the Russian-Indian ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Oct 6, 2008Moscow and Athens are drafting a contract for the delivery of 420 Russian light-armoured infantry vehicles to Greece, Russia's state-run weapons exporter announced Monday. Rosoboronexport said the deal would involve "brand new" BMP-3M infantry vehicles. No other details were provided. "At the beginning of 2008, the Greek ministry of national defence submitted a formal request for the ... more International Space Station changes orbit awaiting tourist: report 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 4, 2008The orbital path of the International Space Station (ISS) was successfully adjusted Saturday to accommodate the landing of the world's sixth space tourist in eight days time, Interfax reported citing Russian space programme officials. "The maneouvre was conducted automatically," said an official from the Russian space control centre (TSOUP). The ISS had to change its distance from Earth ... more Latest Bulava Tests Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 3, 2008 In 1998, Russia's Security Council and the country's president decided that the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering and its general designer, Yury Solomonov, should develop the missile system for a series of Borei-class submarines, with assistance from Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau experts, a fact never mentioned by Institute critics. But the development specifications remained the sam ... more US envoy in China for talks on NKorea nuclear deal 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 4, 2008US envoy Christopher Hill held talks Saturday with his Chinese counterpart amid stepped-up efforts to salvage a crumbling North Korean nuclear disarmament deal, a US embassy spokesman said. Hill, who was in discussions this week in North Korea on the faltering deal, briefed Chinese officials, including top nuclear negotiator Wu Dawei, as well as Sergey Razov, Russia's ambassador to China, on ... more
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