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Importer Claims To Start Ak-47 Manufacture In US
January 21, 2015 @ 01:37 PMThe importer of Russian Kalashnikov rifles in US, RWC, has claimed to start manufacturing the AK-47 guns in the USA, CNN Money reported yesterday. The importing of the AK-47 gun in US was stopped after it imposed sanctions in July against Russia
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Russia, Iran Agree To “Resolve” S-300 Missile Defence System Delivery
January 21, 2015 @ 09:05 AMThe Iranian and Russian defence ministers have agreed to resolve problems which have prevented the delivery of Russia's S-300 air defense systems to Iran. FARS news reported that the agreement signed on Tuesday between Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan and his visiting Russian counterpart General Sergei Shoigu includes broadening of their defense cooperation, joint campaign against terrorism and extremism besides addressing the long delayed S-300 delivery
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Iran, Russia Sign Military Cooperation Pact, No Mention of S-300 Delivery
January 20, 2015 @ 12:02 PMIran and Russia signed a defense and military cooperation agreement today but left out the contentious issue of S-300 missile delivery to Tehran. The agreement was signed by Irans Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan and Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in Tehran after two day negotiations between the two sides
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Russia Threatens To Renege Commitment On Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty With US
January 14, 2015 @ 09:52 AMMoscow has threatened to renege its commitment to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) both in the framework and in the area of non-proliferation with Washington. "We have not taken any concrete steps in this direction, but I am not ruling out the possibility that Washington could force us to do so, to adjust our policy in this area," Mikhail Ulyanov, Head of Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti Tuesday
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As Sanctions Bite, Russia Offers Weapons for Goods
January 13, 2015 @ 01:45 PMAs Western sanctions have caused the Rouble to plummet to record lows, Moscow is hunting for weapons verses goods deals. Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov was in Thailand last week talking to the Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon where he proposed military cooperation and countertrade
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Russia Demands Written Explanation Over Delay In Mistral Helicopter Carrier Delivery
January 13, 2015 @ 12:43 PMRussia has demanded a written explanation from Paris as to why a Mistral helicopter carrier not delivered to Russia according to an earlier agreement, Ria Novosti reported Tuesday. “Russia could not accept oral explanations from individual French politicians of why the warship was not delivered on time, even if that politician is the countrys president,” a high ranking official from the Russian Defense Ministrys Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) was quoted as saying
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AgustaWestland To Supply 160 AW189 Helicopters To Rosneft
January 8, 2015 @ 08:28 AMFinmeccanica-AgustaWestland will provide 160 AW189 civil helicopters to the oil company Rosneft by 2025, under an agreement signed on December 29. HeliVert, a joint venture of Russian Helicopters and AgustaWestland, will be responsible for the final assembly of the helicopters at its Tomilino plant near Moscow, AgustaWestland announced today
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Russia May Barter Su-24 Aircraft With Argentina For Beef, Wheat
January 1, 2015 @ 03:01 PMRussia and Argentina are looking at a deal under which Moscow would lease 12 Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer aircraft to Buenos Aires in return for beef and wheat, according to the London based paper Sunday Express. As a result, the British Defence Ministry has reportedly launched a review of the air defenses of the Falkland Islands, a UK overseas territory Argentina lays claim to
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Rosneft, Rostec And Finmeccanica To Co-Develop AW189 Helicopters In Russia
January 1, 2015 @ 11:42 AMRosneft, Rostec Corporation and Finmeccanica have signed an agreement for the joint production of the medium helicopter AW189 in Russia. The JV will be based on the HeliVert plant situated in the Moscow Region and Rosneft will become a new partner of the Russian-Italian JV
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RS-24 Yars Missile Test-Fired
December 26, 2014 @ 10:26 AMRussias intercontinental ballistic missile RS-24 Yars has been test fired from the Plesetsk military cosmodrome in the countrys northwest. The missiles dummy warheads with given accuracy hit a target at the Kura range in Kamchatka in the Russian Far East
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NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?
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After Israel revealed its decision to decommission its U