Russian Defense Ministry Press Service

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  Massive Russian Drill to be Regularly Held in Mediterranean

  2018-11-06 Read More...
  Large scale naval and air exercises Ocean Shield will be held in the Mediterranean on the permanent basis, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in a distance conference on Friday, TASS news agency

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  Russia’s Avangard Hypersonic Missile System to Enter Service in 2019

  2018-11-02 Read More...
  The first regiment armed with the Avangard system comprising an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) and a hypersonic glide vehicle will assume combat duty until the end of 2019, a source in the domestic defense industry told TASS news

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  Russian Air Force to Receive Over 100 New Aircraft in 2018

  2017-08-02 Read More...
  Russian Aerospace Forces plan to receive more than a hundred new aircraft and helicopters in 2018, Russia’s Aerospace Forces Commander Colonel General Viktor Bondarev

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  Russia’s Nuclear Submarine Test-Launches Cruise Missile

  2017-07-07 Read More...
  Russia’s Project 949A submarine Smolensk of the Oscar-II class has successfully launched a Granit cruise missile and hit a naval target in the Barents Sea as part of the combat readiness drills, Northern Fleet’s spokesman Capt. 1st Rank Vadim Serga

 

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