Cooperation news

India's Russian-made Mi-17 multirole helicopters and the US-purchased AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters are regularly engaged for joint missions.

At the recent exercises, the armed rotorcraft covered those that performed the landing. An episode of their joint use was shown on the video.

The Kalashnikov Concern expects to start mass production of the new RPL-20 belt machine gun after its adoption and testing in the military, said the general director of the concern Dmitry Tarasov.

Rosoboronexport (ROE) and the Jordanian company Jadara have agreed to open a licensed production of anti-tank guided missiles from the Kornet-E complex in Jordan. The official representative of the Russian organization told reporters about this during the defense exhibition IDEX-2021.

Firefly Aerospace, owned by Ukrainian entrepreneur Maxim Polyakov, is to launch the Orbital Test Bed (OTB) 2 research spacecraft from General Atomics in 2022.

About ten foreign countries are showing interest in the Russian small missile ships of the project 22800 "Karakurt-E", said RIA Novosti on Tuesday, Deputy General Director of the shipbuilding corporation" Ak Bars " for external cooperation Alexander Emelyushin.

Iran, according to its representatives, for the first time in its history began to build "large warships". Is this ambitious country preparing a full-fledged navy to confront the United States? Is she able to do it on her own? Maybe Russia should help Iran in this?

GlobalFoundries has signed a contract with the Pentagon to supply several batches of chips for the US Army. Their purpose is unknown, and the first shipment is scheduled for 2023. All chips will be 45-nanometer, although by 2023 the main chip suppliers are going to master the 3-nanometer process.

Russia signed a contract for the first phase of creating a joint production of Kalashnikov assault rifles (AK) with Saudi Arabia, the document is interstate procedures for the approval, said the Minister of industry and trade of Russia Denis Manturov in an interview published Saturday in the newspaper "Kommersant".

Russia occupies 21 percent of the global arms market, with 47 countries among its customers. Over the past decades, a lot of advanced systems have been released, which are actively sold abroad. The National Interest named the five most outstanding.

Russia is ready to sell the latest Su-57E fighter to strategic partners, and consultations are already underway with individual countries, Rosoboronexport reported. On the air of Sputnik radio, military political analyst Andrey Koshkin expressed confidence that the car has a great export potential.

Kabul would welcome progress in negotiations with Moscow on the supply of weapons, Russian helicopters have proven their effectiveness in combat operations, said the Ambassador of Afghanistan to the Russian Federation, Saeed Tayeb Javad, in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The system for combating unmanned aerial vehicles, including electronic and anti-aircraft countermeasures, will be presented by Rosoboronexport at the IDEX-2021 defense exhibition, which opens on February 21 in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

The newspaper "Kommersant" under the headline "The tension has long grown so that you no longer notice additional shades": Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov on the export of weapons " published an interview with the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov.

Russia and Turkey are discussing various areas of military-technical cooperation, Deputy head of the Russian Federal Customs Service Alexey Frolkin told reporters, answering a question about the progress of negotiations on a new batch of S-400.

The joint Russian-Indian enterprise can produce about 40 thousand AK-203 assault rifles this year if the corresponding contract is signed, said the general director of the Kalashnikov concern (part of Rostec") Dmitry Tarasov.

Russia debuted in the international arms exhibition IDEX 2021 anti-aircraft missile and gun system (zrpk) "Pantsir-С1М", modified by the enterprises of the holding "Precision complexes" (included in "rostec") at the end of the combat use of the complex against terrorists in Syria, reported the press service of the Corporation. A number of countries are already interested in the new ZRPC.

The UAE Defense and Security Development Fund Tawazun plans to order 200 light helicopters and drones of its development after joining the capital of the Russian design bureau BP-Technologies, the head of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, told reporters.

The command of the Ukrainian Navy discussed with representatives of the headquarters of Operation ORBITAL (Great Britain) the provision of training assistance and the main areas of cooperation.

As part of the International Defense Exhibition IDEX 2021 in Abu Dhabi, on February 23, Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec State Corporation) will hold a public presentation of "New Russian-made Small Arms" at its stand in Hall 12.

As reported by the RIA Novosti news agency, Russia and Pakistan signed contracts for the supply of anti-tank systems, air defense systems and small arms to the Pakistani side, said the chief of the General Staff of the Pakistani Army, General Qamar Javed Bajwa.