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Some reports now begin confirmed development future Mig-41 ? replace the Mig-31 for about 2030, two engines, capable mach 4/4,7 ! to rapidly cover the vast Russian territory, to see...

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FORBIN said:

Some reports now begin confirmed development future Mig-41 ? replace the Mig-31 for about 2030, two engines, capable mach 4/4,7 ! to rapidly cover the vast Russian territory, to see...

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MiG-29 fighter crashes in Astrakhan region, killing pilot

"According to preliminary data, the crash was caused by air equipment failure," Air Force Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev said

POGONOVO RANGE (Voronezh region), July 27 /ITAR-TASS/. A MiG-29 fighter of the Russian Air Force crashed near Astrakhan on Sunday. The fighter’s pilot was killed in the crash, Air Force Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev told reporters.

“A pilot has been killed in a fighter crash,” the commander said. “We are investigating this incident and, according to preliminary data, the crash was caused by air equipment failure,” General Bondarev added.

There has been no destruction on the ground as a result of Sunday morning crash of a MiG-29 fighter near Astrakhan, spokesman for the Russian Defence Ministry Major General Igor Konashenkov told Itar-Tass.

“A fighter of the Air Force combat training and tactical employment went out of control and fell 30 kilometres northeast of the city of Astrakhan in a steppe. It has caused not destruction on the ground,” he said.

“The flight supervisor gave the pilot a command to eject. However, the pilot, trying to save the aircraft, remained at the steering wheel and was killed [in the crash],” General Konashenkov said.

Earlier on Sunday law enforcement source told Itar-Tass that according to preliminary information, a MiG-29 fighter of the Russian Defence Ministry fell 30 kilometres south of the Privolzhsky airport in the Astrakhan region.

“The jet fell at a considerable distance from homes, so the local residents were not hurt,” law enforcers said.

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Russia’s Air Force to receive over 260 new aircraft in 2014 — deputy defense minister

Earlier, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov said this year the military will receive more than 230 aviation specimens

LIPETSK, July 28./ITAR-TASS/. Russia’s Air Force will this year receive over 260 new aircraft, a senior defense official said Monday.

“Over the past year, the Russian Air Force got more than 200 aircraft. This year, there will be many more of them - over 260; some 80 will be upgraded,” Russian First Deputy Defense Minister, Army General Arkady Bakhin, told journalists.

Earlier, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov said this year the military will receive more than 230 aviation specimens. He said that in the first half of 2014, military representative offices already obtained 34 planes and 38 helicopters for the Air Force.

Russian state-controlled United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) military aviation programs department head Vladimir Mikhailov said earlier that this year the Defense Ministry will receive about 100 combat aircraft.

According to Bakhin, technical tasks the army charges industrial enterprises with are successfully fulfilled, which could be seen by visitors of the recent Aviadarts 2014 international flying skills competition in central Russia.

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thunderchief said:

Numbers seem inflated, but looks like deputy defense minister really made that statement . Link below in Russian. Overall, if you count in fighters,bombers,helicopters and transport aircraft, both those newly produced and refurbished from storage, it could be true .

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Jeff Head said:

Well, I took it to mean:

260 new
080 Refurbushed/upgraded

So that would be 340 aircraft in total...and I really do not believe that.

If it were 180 new and 80 refurbed, that would be better, but would still be hard to believe.

He said they received 200 last year and would receive 260 this year. That would be 460 in two years. Even with military transports, helicopters, fighters, bombers, etc. that is a HUGE number. Unprecedented in these times.

I would have to see a breakdown.

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kwaigonegin said:

Putin answers to no one and the Kremlin pretty much controls 99% of all media in Russia. He has an approval rating of over 85% in Russia and European powers are pretty much buddy buddy with him behind closed doors in contrast to their outburst in public.

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White House accuses Russia of violating Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
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United States President Barack Obama has formally accused his Russian counterpart of violating a 1987 nuclear weapons treaty, the White House said on Tuesday.

Pres. Obama wrote Russia’s Vladimir Putin, White House press secretary John Earnest said during a routine briefing Tuesday afternoon, informing him that the US has determined that Russia has violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a pact signed by Presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev nearly 30 years ago.

Hours earlier on Monday evening, the New York Times reported that the Obama administration would accuse Russia of violating the agreement upon completion of a Department of State annual report on international compliance with arms control agreements.

“The United States has determined that the Russian Federation is in violation of its obligations under the INF treaty not to possess, produce or flight test a ground-launched cruise missile with a range capability of 500 kilometers to 5,500 kilometers or to possess or produce launchers of such missiles,” the Times said the report would read.

On Tuesday, press secretary Earnest confirmed that report and said Pres. Obama had written Putin to notify him of the allegations.

US President Barack Obama and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (R).(AFP Photo / Eric Feferberg)US President Barack Obama and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (R).(AFP Photo / Eric Feferberg)

“It is correct that the concerns that we’ve had about this have been raised with the Russian, it’s correct that our concerns have been discussed inside the administration for some time and it’s correct to assume that we’ve had conversations with our partners in the relevant committees in congress as well,” Earnest said, adding that adherence to the INF treaty is in the national security interests of US and its allies alike.

But after voicing those concerns to the Kremlin, Earnest said, Russia’s response has been “wholly unsatisfactory.”

"The United States is committed to the viability of the INF Treaty," a senior US official told AFP late Monday. "We encourage Russia to return to compliance with its obligations under the treaty and to eliminate any prohibited items in a verifiable manner."

According to the Times, US officials raised concerns about a potential treaty violation back in January, to which the State Dept. said the release of an eventual review would take into consideration. Three months later, Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, the top commander of NATO forces, told the paper that “A weapon capability that violates the INF, that is introduced into the greater European land mass, is absolutely a tool that will have to be dealt with."

The treaty, the Times reported this week, "helped seal the end of the Cold War and has been regarded as a cornerstone of American-Russian arms control efforts."

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Washington Says Moscow Violated INF Treaty
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MOSCOW, July 29 (RIA Novosti) — The United States has claimed Russia violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) by testing a prohibited ground-launched cruise missile, The New York Times reported citing senior US officials.
According to the newspaper, US President Barack Obama conveyed his findings to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a letter Monday.
The New York Times reported in January that Russia’s 2008 tests of new cruise missiles might have violated the treaty, while US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki confirmed that the United States raised treaty compliance issues with Russia, but noted that «there hasn’t been a conclusion made, nor would I want to make a prediction of what the outcome of that review process will be."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declined to comment on the reports.
Russia first began testing the cruise missiles as early as 2008, according to US officials, and the Obama administration concluded by the end of 2011 that they were a compliance concern. In May 2013, Rose Gottemoeller, the US State Department’s senior arms control official, first raised the possibility of a violation with Russian officials.
The INF Treaty, was signed in 1987 by the then-US President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, to ban tests of medium-range ground-launched cruise missiles.

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US accuses Russia of violating 1987 missile treaty
Published July 28, 2014FoxNews.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on Thursday, July 10, 2014.AP
The Obama administration has accused Russia of violating a 1987 nuclear missile treaty by testing a ground-launched cruise missile and says the U.S. is prepared for immediate high-level dialogue with Moscow over the matter.

An administration official told Fox News in a statement that the violation "is a very serious matter which we have attempted to address with Russia for some time now." The New York Times first reported the accusation.

President Obama informed Russian President Vladimir Putin in a letter Monday of the U.S.' determination that Russia broke the agreement. The official said the U.S. is prepared to engage in "senior-level bilateral dialogue immediately" with Russia with the goal of assuring Washington that Moscow will return to compliance with the treaty.

"The United States is committed to the viability of the I.N.F. Treaty," the official said. "We encourage Russia to return to compliance with its obligations under the Treaty and to eliminate any prohibited items in a verifiable manner."

According to the Times, Russia started testing the missiles as early as 2008, and the Obama administration flagged them as a possible violation at the end of 2011.

Russian officials have said they looked into the allegations and consider the matter closed.

Obama's most senior advisors recently unanimously agreed that the tests was a serious violation of the treaty, the Times reported. The State Department will publicly reveal the accusation in an annual report on compliance with arms control agreements Tuesday.

The treaty confrontation comes at a highly strained time between President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin over Russia's intervention in Ukraine.

In raising the issue now, the U.S. appears to be placing increased pressure on Russia and trying to further isolate it from the international community. The European Union and the United States plan to announce new sanctions against Russia this week in the face of U.S. evidence that Russia has continued to assist separatist forces in Ukraine.

The public finding comes in the wake of congressional pressure on the White House to confront Russia over the allegations of cheating on the treaty. The treaty, which President Ronald Reagan signed with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, banned all U.S. and Russian land-based ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 300 miles and 3,400 miles.

Obama, who has made nuclear disarmament a key foreign policy aim, has little interest in having Russia pull out of the treaty altogether. Obama won Senate ratification of a New START treaty, which took effect in February 2011 and requires the U.S. and Russia to reduce the number of their strategic nuclear weapons to no more than 1,550 by February 2018.

Obama last year announced that he wants to cut the number of U.S. nuclear arms by another third and that he would "seek negotiated cuts" with Russia, a goal now complicated by the accusation of a missile treaty violation.

The Obama administration has informed Congress and U.S. allies of its decision to seek Russian compliance.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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