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Two squadrons of MiG-29 SMT and Su-34 Fighter Wing of the Western military district (ZVO), based in Voronezh and Kursk regions, in the first phase of flight-tactical exercise "Ladoga-2016" made a flight from the airfields permanent basing airfields dispersal.

So, the crews of the MiG-29 SMT committed hop on one of the airports in the Republic of Karelia, and the crews of Su-34 - in the Tver region.

Flight technical personnel regiment was alerted to equip aircraft missile sets, alert forces took to the air and for the withdrawal of a conditional enemy air attack of the main forces.

In carrying out the tasks crews worked accelerated training of combat vehicles to fly and made the pair synchronous ups. In all this they took no more than 20 minutes, indicating that the high professionalism of the pilots.

Today, over the waters of Lake Ladoga began flight-tactical exercise fighter aircraft of the Western military district (ZVO) "Ladoga-2016". It is attended by fighter pilots ZVO air units based in Voronezh, Tver, Kursk regions and the Republic of Karelia.

During the week, the pilots union the Air Force and Air Defense District in the MiG-29 SMT and MiG-31BM and Su-34 and Su-27 of various modifications will perform live firing, launches missiles, will work for aerial combat.

About 50 fighter pilots skills will improve detection of air targets, their interception and destruction, both day and night. At the same time they have to perform one of the most difficult exercises, when the leading aviation unit produces light bomb, the illuminating surface of the ground, and his knowledge must destroy all the detected targets.

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nicky said:

all project 971 boats said to be modernized for kalibr missiles

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The 971m project will be armed with missiles Kalibr Source:

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Comment: note the "misinformation" that tends to suggest that all projects 971 will be equipped with this missile, then it will be just the 971M modernized version

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The upgrade of the Project 971 Bars-class (NATO reporting name: Akula-class) nuclear-powered attack submarines will afford them missiles of the Kalibr (SS-N-27 Sizzler) system, Viktor Kochemazov, chief, Training Department, Russian Navy, told the RSN radio channel in an interview on Monday. "Now, the upgrade of the Project 971 submarines provides for equipping them with the missile system," he said.

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Russia’s Pacific Fleet has received the Project 971 (Akula-class) nuclear-powered submarine Kuzbass (K-419) that underwent repairs at the Zvezda Shipyard in the Primorye Territory in the Russian Far East, the regional administration said on Monday. The nuclear-powered submarine Kuzbass is armed with missiles and torpedoes.

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President Vladimir Putin confirmed on 17 March that Russian special forces, artillery, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) units have been operating in Syria.

In a ceremony held at the Hall of the Order of St George in the Kremlin, Putin presented medals and decorations to 17 service personnel, including making four Heroes of Russia: the country's highest honour.

Awards were made to a "missile artillery" commander from the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade and an officer of the 120th Artillery Brigade. A Russian army UAV operator was also honoured, as well as a female officer from an air defence unit.

The senior ground forces officer who oversaw the Russian intervention, Colonel General Alexander Dvornikov, was named in public by the Kremlin for the first time.

Putin lavished praise on the pilots and commanders of the Russian Aerospace Force and several were honoured, including a number of senior test pilots.

The role of the Russian aerospace industry in sustaining the operation of deployed combat aircraft was highlighted by the president, with Sergei Smirnov, deputy director-general of Sukhoi's Novosibirsk Aircraft Work being honoured with a medal.

Putin confirmed that four Russian servicemen have been killed in Syria when he named four widows who had been invited to the ceremony.

The official Russian death toll is four, but one of the widows named by Putin was called Yulia Zhuravlev, apparently confirming for the first time that a fifth soldier called Fyodor Zhuravlev had been killed.

Zhuravlev is reported to have been a Military Intelligence (GRU) special forces operator who died in Syria in November.

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Jura said:

... on Friday left for

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to begin her sea-trials:
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delft said:

But note that the photo with the article shown a very much older missile being launched.

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• it should take it only about four minutes to pass its max. range of 400 km;
• according to the conjecture at
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  it's going to be solid-propelled (contrary to for example "missiles of Kalibr family"; hope FORBIN won't nitpick about the name

FORBIN won't nitpick about the name

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it should take it only about four minutes to pass its max. range of 400 km;

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