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Russia Sets Arms Sales Record Above $15 Billion
Jan. 21, 2013 - 08:07AM | By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

MOSCOW — The world’s number two arms exporter, Russia, said Jan. 21 it had sold a record $15.2 billion (11.4 billion euros) in weaponry last year while expanding its list of clients to more African nations.

“The export volume of military products reached $15.16 billion,” news agencies quoted Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Chief Alexander Fomin as saying. “Our plans have been fulfilled by 111.8 percent.”
Fomin said the figure was preliminary and would be updated by early February.
Russia trails closely behind the United States in world arms exports and has expanded its sales by 46 percent in the past two years. Its contracts reached $13.2 billion in 2011 and $10.4 billion in 2010 —figures reliant heavily on military ties with India and China.

Fomin said Russia’s new list of 2012 clients included Ghana and Oman, as well as Tanzania.

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Russian Helicopters Looks To Foreign Production
By Tony Osborne - Source: Aviation Week & Space Technology

Plans to produce helicopters in India and China indicate a new direction for Russian Helicopters as the state-owned manufacturer makes bigger strides to take on its Western rivals.

The consortium, 100% owned by Oboronprom, Russia's aerospace holding company, wants to open an assembly line for helicopters in India. The new facility would be a critical component in the push to win the Indian armed forces' requirement for 197 light multirole helicopters—a program in which the coaxial Kamov Ka-226 is competing. It would also provide a useful advantage as India's civil helicopter market begins to take shape.
Russian Helicopters signed an agreement on Dec. 26 with Elcom Systems Private Ltd., part of the Indian investment conglomerate SUN Group, to set up a new facility to build models from the Mi- and Ka- families of helicopters. The move is significant because until now Russian Helicopters has not built a single helicopter outside the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), instead operating from its facilities inside the Russian Federation.
But now, Russian Helicopters, under the leadership of CEO Dimitry Petrov, is taking a view similar to that of its Western rivals, Eurocopter and AgustaWestland, both of which have set up final assembly lines overseas to establish a greater foothold in the region. Russian Helicopters currently claims a 14% share of the military and civil market, but is keen to boost that figure as it introduces new products.
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The two countries did, however, sign off on a significant contract to purchase new Sukhoi fighters and Mi-17 helicopters. Similar plans for helicopter production have also been discussed for China, another strong Russian Helicopters customer, which recently ordered 52 Ulan-Ude-built Mi-171s. In conjunction with Chinese manufacturer Avicopter, joint production of the Kamov Ka-32 model is being explored and work is pushing ahead on the development of a new heavy-lift helicopter—smaller than the 56-ton Mi-26 with a maximum takeoff weight of around 30-40 tons. It has been suggested that production of Ka-32s in China could begin in two years. A similar scheme discussed for Jordan in conjunction with Oboronprom back in 2006, also to build the Ka-226, has fallen by the wayside. ...

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FORBIN said:

Yes ) 48 on order

In fact problem of post !

The final name of T-50 : Su-50 ?

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MiG-29 said:

No idea but here are some very good pictures of the T-50-04

plus some nice Su-34

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Jeff Head said:

The T-50/SU-50 is going to be a very capable aircraft. It depends on the numbers they build in the end. The US has fewer than 200 F-22s...will the Russians also build in such small numbers?

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MiG-29 said:

I am also an aeromodelist my self, i love Su-34

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Russian Army Steps Up, Retiring Czarist-Era Footwear
By ALEXANDER KOLYANDR

A storied piece of Russian military equipment is at last getting booted out of the army.

Russia's military will retire foot wraps, or portyanki—the pieces of cloth that Russian rank-and-file have used in place of socks for more than three centuries—according to recently appointed Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. The army should "forget by the end of 2013 the word portyanki," he said Monday.


Czar Peter the Great adopted the rectangular pieces of cloth—flannel for winter, cotton for summer—from Western European armies. They remained in use at the battlefields of the Seven Years' War, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War and the two World Wars.

While generations of Russian peasants knew how to swaddle their feet before donning boots, with time city dwellers opted for socks. Even so, the Soviet and then Russian armies continued to employ the wraps, which are cheap to make and easy to dry and repair, even as Moscow adopted AK47 assault rifles and a nuclear arsenal.

Though near to Russians' soles for centuries, portyanki were nonetheless largely loathed in more recent years by sock-trained conscripts, whose first military instruction often involved learning the unwieldy art of foot-wrapping.

Eastern Europe armies changed their footwear as they geared up to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Ukrainians and the Georgians, too, abandoned portyanki in the first decade of this century.

The Russian Army decided to move toward socks and lace-up boots in 2007. But to judge from Mr. Shoigu's edict, the transition has been plodding. Portyanki have remained in use in several units, according to people with recent knowledge of Russia's military.

Write to Alexander Kolyandr at [email protected]

A version of this article appeared January 15, 2013, on page A8 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Russian Army Steps Up, Retiring Czarist-Era Footwear.

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Later Borey Class Subs to Carry Only 16 Missiles – Source
MOSCOW, February 20 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's upgraded Project 955A (Borey-A) class nuclear-powered strategic submarines will carry only 16 Bulava ballistic missiles each rather than the 20 missiles previously reported, a senior defense industry source said on Wednesday.
“The Project 955A differs significantly from the original Borey (Project 955) but not in the number of missiles carried – there will still be 16 on board,” the source said.
At the same time, the improved vessels are equipped with advanced sonar, navigation, communications and fire-control systems and have lower electromagnetic signature, which makes them more “stealthy,” the official added.
Previous media reports, including those from RIA Novosti, had reported the Project 955A as being armed with 20 Bulava missiles.
The first submarine of the improved Borey-A class, the Knyaz Vladimir, was laid down in July 2012.
The construction of the Alexander Suvorov, the fifth in the series and second of the improved Project 955A (Borey-A) class, will begin on July 28, when Russia celebrates Navy Day, while the sixth submarine, the Mikhail Kutuzov, will be laid down in November.
The Borey class submarines are set to become the mainstay of the Russian Navy's strategic nuclear deterrent fleet, replacing the ageing Project 941 (NATO Typhoon class) and Project 667 class (Delta-3 and Delta-4) boats.
Russia’s first Borey class submarine, the Yury Dolgoruky, officially entered service with the Russian Navy on January 10. It has been assigned to the 31st submarine division of the Northern Fleet.
Russia is planning to have three Borey class and five Borey-A class submarines by 2020.

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TerraN_EmpirE said:

That would put The number of missiles Carried into the Same numbers As upcoming planned American SSBN's and British Boombers

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TerraN_EmpirE said:

You know I am wondering if the russians might not try and cross bred some tech from these new SSN into these new boomers and vice versa SSBN To SSN. Impartial I am thinking reactors, sonar, and pumpjet.

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