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Russia to Begin Testing Three More Stealth Fighter Prototypes

United Aircraft Corp. plans to deliver three more prototypes of an advanced stealth fighter jet to the Russian military for testing as early as next year, a company official said.

The president of the Moscow-based company, Yuri Slyusar, said three more of the T-50 PAK-FA, a fifth-generation stealth fighter made by United Aircraft subsidiary Sukhoi, will be transferred to the Russian air force in late 2016 or early 2016 as part of a test program.

“We can say that we are in the schedule and these three additional prototypes will allow us to greatly expand the testing program and do it faster,” he said through a translator during a briefing with reporters Monday at the Paris Air Show. “What we’re speaking about in the schedule is to deliver the first batch at the end of 2016, beginning of 2017 to the customer, the ministry of defense, so the aircraft demonstrate all necessary and design characteristics.”

That will bring the total number of T-50 prototypes to eight, according to a fact sheet distributed at the event. The PAK-FA first flew in 2011 and is designed to compete against such U.S. military aircraft as the

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, both of which are made by Lockheed Martin Corp.

“Compared to the previous generation fighters, the PAK-FA combines the functions of a strike aircraft and a fighter, thus offering a number of unique capabilities,” the fact sheet states. “As the fifth-generation aircraft, it has an essentially new thoroughly integrated avionics package providing superior automatic control and intelligence support.”

While the T-50 has experienced some development challenges such as

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, the aircraft is performing well in tests, according to Slyusar.

“The aircraft demonstrates all necessary and design characteristics, so we can say that there is no risk in the program moving it forward and the aircraft meets all the specifications that were initially planned,” he said. “There’s no risk in delays whatsoever.”

The governments of Russia and India have partnered to develop an export version of the aircraft. Russian officials have trained their Indian counterparts and supplied with them data and software to work on research and development.

The Indian version of the aircraft “will have some differences from the Russian prototype due to specific requirements of the Indian air force,” the fact sheet states.

Unlike the previous Paris Air Show, when Russian aircraft such as the Su-35

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and dazzled the crowds, the government doesn’t have any military aircraft performing at this year’s event largely because it wanted to focus attention on new civilian aircraft such as plans for a new wide-body airliner to be developed in collaboration with China.

Slyusar also said the company expects to sign a contract this year to sell 24 Su-35s for the Chinese military and is in talks to ink a deal to perform

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there's a "wow" in this article: twelve of those destroyers are expected to be delivered in the 2023 - 2025 period, six to the Northern, and six to the Pacific Fleet

and also an incredible mistake: a wrong word for the (nuclear power) plant ... I was glad somebody in the discussion below that article pointed this out, too, otherwise I'd have thought I had already forgotten the Russian language LOL

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there's a "wow" in this article: twelve of those destroyers are expected to be delivered in the 2023 - 2025 period, six to the Northern, and six to the Pacific Fleet

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Yes...like many Russian claims these days.

More for their own citizen consumption than a serious forecast.

Time will tell...but given the problems the Russians are having producing much smaller frigates these days, I highly doubt, short of a HUGE economic turnaround, that meeting such a schedule will even be possible.

As of now, they have not even started building one of these large vessels yet (in fact the first is scheduled to start in 2017), and they want us to believe that they will be able to produce 12 of them in 7-8 years?

Sorry...I do not think it is going to be possible.

Vladimir Putin says Russia beefing up nuclear arsenal with 40 new ballistic missiles

Vladimir Putin says Russia will add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year, as defence official accuses Nato of provoking new arms race


(Daily Telegraph, UK) Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said on Tuesday that would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year and a defence official accused Nato of provoking a new arms race.

Putin made his announcement a day after Russian officials denounced a on Russia's border as the most aggressive US act since the Cold War.

"More than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles able to overcome even the most technically advanced anti-missile defence systems will be added to the make-up of the nuclear arsenal this year," Mr Putin, flanked by army officers, said in a speech to a military and armsfair.


Foreign visitors examine 120mm self-propelled artillery gun 'Hosta' during the International Military-Technical Forum

Tension is high between Russia and the United States over the crisis in and Washington and Moscow have disagreements on a range of other issues.

Russian officials have warned that Moscow will retaliate if the United States carries out the plan to store heavy military equipment in eastern Europe, including in the Baltic states that were once part of the Soviet Union.

"The feeling is that our colleagues from Nato countries are pushing us into an arms race," RIA news agency quoted Anatoly Antonov, Russian deputy defence minister, as saying on the sidelines of the arms fair.


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Yes...like many Russian claims these days.

More for their own citizen consumption than a serious forecast.

Time will tell...but given the problems the Russians are having producing much smaller frigates these days, I highly doubt, short of a HUGE economic turnaround, that meeting such a schedule will even be possible.

As of now, they have not even started building one of these large vessels yet (in fact the first is scheduled to start in 2017), and they want us to believe that they will be able to produce 12 of them in 7-8 years?

Sorry...I do not think it is going to be possible.

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Jeff, that article didn't even call a power plant right (the second part of my post you quoted)

First Ever Soviet Nuclear Submarine K3 to Become Museum

After the submarine 'Leninsky Komsomol' is reequipped it is planned to be placed in the city of Murmansk.

The first Soviet nuclear submarine K-3 ‘Leninsky Komsomol’ will be turned into a museum, Russian Commander of the Northern Fleet in 1999-2001 Admiral Vyacheslav Popov told media.

After the submarine is reequipped it is planned to be placed in the city of Murmansk.

According to Popov, the submarine's renovation process will take about a year. During this time at the shipyard "Nerpa" (Murmansk region) the boat will be prepared to be launched with a solid base, and towed in Murmansk.

Earlier, in 2013, Nerpa's director Arkady Ohanian said that re-equipping the K-3 submarine will cost about 46 million rubles ($885,000 at the current ruble exchange rate).

К-3 was a project 627 submarine of the Soviet Navy's Northern Fleet, the first nuclear submarine of the Soviet Union. She was built in Molotovsk, launched on August 9, 1957, commissioned in July 1958, and home ported at Zapadnaya Litsa on the Kola Peninsula.

On June 17, 1962, the submarine reached the North Pole underwater, the first among Soviet submarine. The submarine also surfaced on the Pole. Following this journey the submarine was awarded the name Leninskiy Komsomol.

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Share of modern hardware in Russian army to reach 70%-100% by 2020

"I expect that the defense-industrial enterprises and the research and design bureaus will do their utmost for the timely and proper implementation of the identified plans," Putin said

KUBINKA /Moscow Region/, June 16. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes that the defense-industrial complex will cope with the task of building up the share of modern types of hardware at the disposal of the Russian armed forces to 70%-100% by 2020.

"Let me remind you that the implementation of the state program is to build up the share of cutting-edge weapons in the armed forces to 70%, and in some cases, to 100% by 2020. This is an impressive parameter, indeed," Putin told an audience at the opening of the international arms show Army-2015 in Kubinka, near Moscow Tuesday.

"I expect that the defense-industrial enterprises and the research and design bureaus will do their utmost for the timely and proper implementation of the identified plans," Putin said.

Defense-industrial complex must remain innovation engine in various spheres

Russia’s defense-industrial complex must be a resource for the development of many industries and an innovation engine in general, Russian President said.

"It is nakedly clear that the effectiveness of the defence-industrial complex is the most important resource of growth for the whole economy. Moreover, it is the defense-industrial complex that should set the benchmarks regarding many technological and manufacturing parameters and remain one of the innovation engines, including dual purpose and civilian ones," Putin said. He mentioned such industries as energy production, power engineering, communications and microelectronics.

"It is important to perfect the mechanisms of public-private partnership in the industry and to spread the successful experience of private companies, which provide parts and components for military products," Putin said. He called for giving civilian enterprises, universities and research centers in the work on state defence contracts.


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Russia Completes 2014 State Arms Procurement by 97% - Deputy Minister

Russia's 2014 state arms procurement program is 97 percent complete with the remainder to be fulfilled in the third and fourth quarters of 2015, Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said Friday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Ministry of Defense said in January that the program was 95 percent complete by the end of 2014. Its volume has grown by a multitude of 1.25 in comparison to 2013, with 1.65 times more equipment delivered to the armed forces.

"More than 97 percent of all commitments in 2014 have been confirmed, while all other activities will be completed in the third and fourth quarters," Borisov told the Rossiya-24 television channel.

The defense minister added that out of 3,100 of last year's contracts, only 157 (or five percent) have not been completed on time.

Russia's 2016-2025 arms procurement program focuses on the development of purely defensive high-precision weaponry in the country.

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Hardware upgrade, import substitution are Russian army’s development priorities

MOSCOW, May 18. /TASS/. Russia needs to upgrade its armed forces not to meddle in geo-political conflicts, but to provide reliable protection for its own security and the security of its allies, polled experts have told TASS after studying the results of a series of meetings President Vladimir Putin as the commander-in-chief held with the military elite and the heads of the defence-industrial complex in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi last week.

Putin has used the format of such conferences for several years in a row. Once a year he brings together senior military and chiefs of the defence industry for joint in-depth analysis of the situation and development prospects in various branches of the defence-industrial complex. In the course of the latest series of such meetings Putin paid special attention to putting to effective use the 20 trillion rubles ($400 billion) earmarked for rearming the ground, air and naval forces and another 3 trillion ($60 billion) for re-equipping the arms manufacturing industries. Also, he set the task of stepping up the substitution of imported military technologies with products of domestic manufacture.

"The priorities Vladimir Putin has identified are quite logical. Throughout the 1990s the Russian army’s weapons and equipment remained basically unchanged. The hardware’s parameters were falling behind those of the other armies around the world. The quality of armaments and equipment in service was identical to what the Ukrainian army with its low combat readiness is today," the deputy director of the Institute of Military-Political Studies, Anatoly Khramchikhin, told TASS.

This explains why the Russian army needs wholesale and fundamental upgrade of its hardware.

"In the ground and air forces the share of the newest armaments should exceed 30% by the end of 2015, in the airborne troops, 40%, and in the Navy and air and space defence forces, 50%. By 2020 the share of modern weapons in the Russian armed forces should go up to 70%, and in some arms and services, to 100%. These targets the president has identified are quite achievable, bearing in mind the funds allocated for re-armament," Khramchikhin said.

"Against the backdrop of anti-Russian sanctions, disruption of military-technological cooperation with Ukraine and the row over France’s failure to deliver the helicopter-carrying amphibious assault ships Mistral on time, if at all, the priority of import substitution is more than obvious. Although in fact Russia does not need the Mistrals very much, as the Navy sees no specific tasks the ships might be charged with," Khramchikhin believes.

"The issue of import substitution will be addressed in various ways. For instance, gifted young men may be offered employment at arms manufacturing enterprises as an alternative to military service on conscription. Under a presidential decree defence industries will be allowed to hire young men possessing special technical skills and talent, who otherwise would be drafted into the armed forces, to fill vacancies on cutting-edge research and production teams. Within some Russian army units there have already been created special research groups for particularly gifted young scientists. This is another factor for the armed forces’ upgrade," Anatoly Khramchikhin said.

The president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, Konstantin Sivkov, believes that the production of heavy inter-continental ballistic missiles and the upgrade of the Bulava missile, is a priority for the Russian armed forces.


"Also, the Russian defence industries must step up noticeably the output of smart weapons and to build 3,000-4,000 armored vehicles on the new generation Armata chassis," Sivkov told TASS.

"In the context of modern hybrid warfare fundamentally new arms and services must be created within the Russian armed forces: for one, an information warfare arm, identical to those already operating against Russia within NATO. As Putin said at the meetings in Sochi, Russia was not threatening any country. Nor did it have the slightest intention to meddle in geopolitical conflicts. But for protecting its integrity and sovereignty Russia should perfect its military skills and potential," the chief of the Centre for Military and Political Studies, Aleksey Podberyozkin, told TASS.

"There are serious reasons to believe that the state defence contract program extending till 2020 will be implemented successfully. But far more attention should be paid to research and development. The Soviet Union’s bank of ideas and promising technologies in aircraft-building and air and space defence has been exhausted 80%. Time is ripe to give thought to creating advanced military technologies capable of outperforming the best foreign counterparts. In the military industry it is not enough to just keep abreast of world standards. For that breakthroughs in the fundamental science are to be achieved first," Podberyozkin said.


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Russian four mast sailing ship (state fishing fleet training ship) collides with two Iclandic Coast Guard vessels in Reykjavík, Iceland, on June 11, 2015.

The Russian STV Kruzenshtern was built in Germany in 1926 and was later surrendered to the USSR in 1946 as reparation following WWII. The tall ship is currently used as a training vessel for the Baltic Fishing Fleet State Academy.

The vessel will remain in Iceland as part of the ongoing investigation