He notes that despite nearly unlimited budgets (in 2022, the U.S. plans to spend around $800 billion on its military and new weapons development), it takes years to create hypersonic missiles. T-14 Armata tanks Vitaly Kuzmin In November 2021, the Russian military signed a deal for the cre...
MOSCOW, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin promised on Thursday to supply cutting-edge weapons to the armed forces, and raise allowances for active servicemen and pensions for veterans. The Russian Armed Forces will receive in the coming years the Kinzhal air systems, which in...
The international small arms community had a rare glimpse into the world of Russian weapons design when Gennadiy Nikonov stepped up to the podium at the Royal Military College of Science, in Shrivenham, England, this past March. The designer of the official next-generation Russian assault rifle...
Recently procured Mil and Kamov combat helicopters are to be equipped with a newly developed 305E multi-role missile which was developed by the Kolomna-basedKBM Design bureau, the High Precision Weapons (HPW) subsidiary. Showcased during the ARMY-2021 expo in August, the missile has been positi...
The military said the Avangard is capable of flying 27 times faster than the speed of sound. It carries a nuclear weapon of up to 2 megatons. Putin has said Russia had to develop the Avangard and other prospective weapons systems because of U.S. efforts to develop a missile defense system...
The Russian military previously had commissioned another hypersonic weapon of a smaller range. The Kinzhal (Dagger), which is carried by MiG-31 fighter jets, entered service with the Russian air force last year. Putin has said the missile flies 10 times faster than the speed of sound...
Putin said the new weapons will help ensure global stability and draw a line under attempts to weaken Russia. He said that another weapons system, called Kinzhal, already has been deployed in Russia's Southern Military District – a hypersonic missile carried by an aircraft that can strike targe...
More than 750 units of advanced weaponry, military and special-purpose equipment will take part in static and dynamic demonstrations during the Army 2018 forum, TASS news agency quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying. The number of military weaponry to be put on show for the event is un...
In a televised address last night,President Putinsaid the intermediate-range missile, which he called Oreshnik, the Russian word for hazel tree, had been used in a strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in response to US and UK weapons being used by Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia....
The Russian militaryappearsto have unleashed a new weapon on Ukraine for the first time on Thursday in northeastern Kharkiv.It's a 6,600-pound, air-launched glide bomb known as the FAB-3000 UMPK. It’s part of a wider Russian effort, as David Axe ofForbeswrote in March, to bolt “po...