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The Mi-28N pilot Igor Butenko died in the crush. RIP...

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Su-33 Northern Fleet Navy Flankers Enter Into Kola Arctic Service

The fleet of aircraft entered into service in defense of the air borders of the Kola area of the Arctic region following a ceremony on August 1; the aircraft is a naval fighter jet based on the Su-27.

A fleet of Su-33 navy flankers have entered service in the Kola zone of the Russian Arctic, the Northern Fleet of the Russian navy announced on Monday.

"Pilots of the shipborne fighter aviation regiment of the Northern Fleet have begun service guarding the air borders of the Kola Arctic region using the deck-based Su-33 fighter jet – the naval equivalent of the multi-role Su-27 fighter jet," stated a spokesman for the Northern Fleet on Monday.

"The aircraft were introduced into service in a ceremony held on August 1."

According to the statement, the navy flankers had been employed in defense of Northern Fleet warship units on long campaigns. From now on, in between campaigns, the Su-33 aircraft will be employed in the air defense of the Kola area of the Russian Arctic.

The Su-33 is a single-seat ship-based fighter, designed to defend naval ships from aerial threats; the aircraft were brought into service on board the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov.

The aircraft are manufactured in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and first entered into official service in 1998.

A naval derivative of the land-based Su-27 fighter jet, it has a reinforced undercarriage and folding wings for landing on navy aircraft carriers, and is equipped with probe-and-drogue refueling capabilities.

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Russian MiG-31s Perform Unique Non-Stop Flight With Three Aerial Refuelings
A flight of Russian MiG-31 interceptor jets successfully performed an unprecedented operation: they covered more than 4,000 km with three air refuelings.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian MiG-31 interceptor jet pilots performed a unique six-hour non-stop flight with three air refueling operations, head of the press service of the Russian Central Military District, Col. Yaroslav Roshchupkin, said Saturday.

"The pilots from the Central Military District devoted the unique flight of MiG-31BM interceptor jets to today's opening of the International Army Games," Roshchupkin said in a statement.

The flight from Zabaikalsky Territory in Siberia to Perm Territory in Russia’s Ural is the first performed by a MiG-31 aircraft type, he added.

The crews which successfully performed the flight will be submitted state awards, he said.

Russia hosts the first International Army Games organized by the Russian Defense Ministry on August 1-15. The competition brings together over 2,000 participants from 16 other nations. The contests will be held in 11 different locations across Russia.

The MiG-31, one of the world's fastest fighter-interceptors in service, has been the subject of a comprehensive upgrade to MiG-31BM standard.

The type is a long-range supersonic interceptor jet designed to intercept and destroy airborne targets at extremely low, low, medium and high altitudes.

The initial MiG-31 type was first used in Soviet Russia in 1981. The production of the aircraft was stopped in 1994 but it remains in service in the Russian and Kazakh air forces.

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Shipbuilding complex "Zvezda" will attract 10 thousand new workers
Ship-building complex is created on the basis of the factory "Zvezda" - the only in the Far East, specializes in the repair, refurbishing and modernizing ships nuclear missile submarines.

VLADIVOSTOK, July 2 - RIA Novosti. Under construction in Primorye shipbuilding complex "Star" will attract 10 thousand new employees, according to the regional administration with reference to the governor of the region Vladimir Miklushevsky.

"The complex will allow us to develop production, create new jobs, improve the tax base. Ten thousand is planned to attract professionals to work: some of them - residents of Primorye, part - the newcomers. They need to build housing with developed social infrastructure," - said Miklushevsky.

He stressed that today there are four options for the future of housing professionals. One of them - the federal program "Housing for Russian families," the second option - the creation of cooperatives of shareholders, which allows you to build housing cheaper by 30%. It is also possible to build departmental housing. And planned construction of a kindergarten for 240 places to the 2018-2019 years.

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and the only one in the Far East, specializing in the repair, refurbishing and modernizing ships nuclear missile submarines. Now here comes the creation of the shipbuilding complex "Star".

The first phase of construction of the shipyard ends in 2016 (it is allocated 45 billion rubles), the second and third stages - in 2018. Start of production is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2016. It is expected that the complex will be engaged in the construction of ships for the development of hydrocarbon deposits on the
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Su-33 Northern Fleet Navy Flankers Enter Into Kola Arctic Service

Fancy way of saying that Kuznetsov will remain in drydock for long time :D It's aviation assets have been relocated to other tasks .

Russian Arms Are Best in War Against ISIL – Iraqi Defense Minister

Political statement above all. Iraq with its Shia majority naturally gravitates toward Iran, and therefore to Russia.
 

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Meet Afalina: Russian manufacturer reveals the world’s cheapest helicopter

The Russian designers are about to fulfil the consumer’s dream of an affordable helicopter, with Afalina rotorcraft expected to cost about half than currently the cheapest offer on the market and run on car fuel as it goes into production in 2016.

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Russia’s Novorossiysk submarine ready to join Black Sea Fleet after trials
The submarine fired a cruise missile from the Barents Sea against a target at the Chizha firing range in the Arkhangelsk region

MOSCOW, August 4. /TASS/. The Novorossiysk, Russia's new Project 636 (Varshavyanka) diesel-electric submarine has completed trials in the Northern Fleet and is ready to sail to the Black Sea to its permanent base, Northern Fleet acting spokesman, Captain 2nd Rank Andrei Luzik said on Tuesday.

The Novorossiysk submarine has completed its trials with a cruise missile launch from the Barents Sea against a target at the Chizha firing range in the Arkhangelsk region in north Russia, he said.

"Today the crew has completed a cycle of the ship’s basic preparation, replenished provisions and is fully prepared to make an inter-fleet passage from the Barents to the Black Sea to its permanent base in Novorossiysk," the spokesman said.

During the period of its stay in the Northern Fleet from November last year, the submarine successfully performed its submersion to the maximum depth and the check of its armament and technical means while carrying out live torpedo and missile launches in the Barents Sea, the spokesman said.

August 4 posted on the portal of public procurement tender "Execution of the state defense order for the development of design documentation" Reconstruction and modernization of production capacities experimental aviation airfields "Salk" to organize on the basis of tests of its complexes with UAVs, "the federal government enterprise" Nizhny Tagil Institute tests metals ", Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region."

The documentation for the tender, in particular, the following information:

Reconstruction and modernization of production capacities experimental aviation airfields "Salk" will be tested complexes with unmanned aerial vehicles on the stages of the chief designer for all enterprises of the industry of the Russian Federation involved in the development and production of UAV systems for the Defense Ministry of Russia, and in the long run will allow to organize on based airport "Salk" PCF "NTIMT" flight-test research center of unmanned aircraft in the interests of developers and manufacturers of experimental and serial unmanned vehicles in the Russian Federation.

The planned annual production program - 100 flights.

Terms of reconstruction and modernization: 2015 - 2016 years.

The marginal cost of work on the project of reconstruction and modernization in the year prices (including VAT) - 367.3 million. Rubles.



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The Ka-29 aboard the "Yellow 39" in Yeisk
An interesting photo shoot of one of the three are now in flying condition of transport and combat helicopters Ka-29 naval aviation of the Russian Navy - a helicopter with the hull number "39 Yellow" (RF-registration number 34188), operating in 859th Combat Center implementation and training of flight crews of naval aviation of the Russian Navy in Yeisk. The photos were taken in July 25, 2015.

As part of this 859th Center is also Ka-29 with tail number "Yellow 38" (registration RF-34194). In addition, as part of Northern Fleet aircraft operated helicopter Ka-29 with tail number "23 Red".

Total from 1977 to 1988 were built three prototypes and 59 series helicopters Ka-29, seven of which after the collapse of the Soviet Union moved to Ukraine (two of them are now in flying condition).

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''UAV flight test center''

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July 27 Director General of Nizhny Tagil Institute of Metal Testing (NTIMT) Nikolai Smirnov said that on the basis of the institute will set up a center for research and testing of UAVs:

"Right now in flight test base (Institute) a large-scale reconstruction, which will end at the end of 2015. At the aerodrome is already visited by representatives of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, they approved the creation of Russia's only center for the testing of domestic unmanned aerial vehicles. We have a good landing strip and its airspace. "

First drones tested enterprise-based developers.

"In the near future to come permission to start testing. We plan to test that drones from different manufacturers for the Defense Ministry will start before the end of 2015".

In an information report also stated that the results of the military-technical forum "Army-2015", which was held in June in Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry has selected for testing about 100 drones developed by Russian companies.


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