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Jura said:

I quickly scrambled the description of the active-protection "President-S" system of a "Black Shark" chopper "for you" (if you don't like it, don't read it, am not an expert, translator, whatever):

the most interesting link in English I found in the process (I know it's an Ukrainian source!) is related to #1 in this chart, and is:

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FORBIN said:

Ka-52 with Mi-28 and AH-64 are the most protected for armor thickness others Tigre, A-129 etc... a level less.

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The Russian Defense Ministry ordered the Vympel Shipyard (Rybinsk) of new buildings for the fleet of the Black Sea, the Baltic Fleet and the Caspian Flotilla.

Two contracts were signed: the first on 2 stars missile of 12421 Project (pictured above) to be delivered in 2018-2019, and the second on 2 ammunition transport vessels of 20360 project (picture below below), with delivery expected in 2019-2020.

The stars actually wears contract on part of a set of 3 units put on hold in 1991-1992 for export, but have never been either completed or delivered. The construction of the seed unit, however, was completed in 2000, the R-32 star to be delivered to the Russian Navy. The ship, however, has never left the shipyard, and it is only recently that it was delivered to the Egyptian Navy (agreement concluded in August 2015 delivery expected in 2016 under the name of Ahmed Fadel). This leaves two units of 12421 project which will therefore be completed under Project 12418 (Office Almaz), under the agreement signed by the Russian Vympel and MINDEF this week. The first will be paid to the fleet in the Black Sea (November 2018), the second in the Baltic fleet (November 2019). These buildings will be equipped with anti-ship missiles Uran.

The second contract is for the construction of ammunition transport vessels for the fleet of the Black Sea that will receive the first unit (2019) and the Baltic Fleet (2020). This is a new program for Vympel who has never built buildings of this project.

Both contracts are quite emblematic of the evolution of the wing and missions of the fleet in the Black Sea and the Baltic. These two "fleets fortress" (especially that of the Black Sea) with limited offshore capabilities, but to provide for logistical support to fleets North Pacific that they have more developed offshore resources. Their buildings regularly attend Mediterranean waters and the supply chain of Russian naval detachment in the Mediterranean is primarily based on the capabilities of the fleet in the Black Sea and the Baltic.

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The Vympel Shipyard in Rybinsk in central Russia will build two Project 20360M armament support ships for the Russian Defense Ministry before 2020, shipyard spokeswoman Tatyana Gerasimova told TASS on Friday. "Two Project 20360M armament support ships have received factory numbers No. 01551 and 01552. They are expected to be delivered to the customer in 2019 and 2020, respectively," the spokeswoman said.

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The Vympel Shipyard in Rybinsk in central Russia will complete, repair and upgrade two Project 12418 Molniya-class missile boats for the Russian Navy, the shipyard’s press office said on Friday. "The Vympel Shipyard has signed a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry to upgrade and repair two Project 12418 Molniya-class missile boats," the press office said.

The two missile boats, originally laid in 1991-1992 at the shipyard "Vympel" were export Project 12421 with the "Mosquito" antiship missile system. Export customers were never found and since the mid-1990s, the two boats are in an unfinished form (and never launched in the water) at the shipyard.

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The Project 11711 large amphibious assault ship Ivan Gren being built at the Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad in west Russia for the Navy will start undergoing shipbuilders sea trials in late April, shipyard chief shipbuilder Igor Leonov said on Monday.

"Perhaps, the most complex order, the large amphibious assault ship Ivan Gren, is coming close to one of the most important stages of its construction. It will start undergoing shipbuilders sea trials in late April," the shipyard’s newspaper quoted Leonov as saying.

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Russian Coastal Missile and Artillery Troops (RCMAT) service has deployed 36 modern mobile coastal defense systems, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies` (IISS) report.
As of March 2016, RCMAT service has received 24 mobile launchers of 3K60 Bal (NATO reporting name: SS-C-6 Sennight) system.
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RCMAT service has deployed 12 K340P mobile launchers of 3K55 Bastion (SSC-5 Stooge) system.

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The Russian Northern Fleet’s Project 949A Antey-class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine (SSGN) K-266 Orel (NATO reporting name: Oscar II-class), which suffered fire in a dock of the Zvyozdochka Shipyard in Severodvinsk last April, will be set afloat in May, Zvyozdochka’s spokesman, Yevgeny Gladyshev, told TASS on Tuesday.

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The Project 1155 large anti-submarine warfare ship Admiral Tributs (NATO designation: Udaloy I anti-submarine Destroyer) will become operational with Russia’s Navy in July after its technical readiness is recovered, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman for the Navy Captain 1st Rank Igor Dygalo told TASS on Wednesday.

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