Artillery units of Russia will replace Tochka-U tactical missile with Iskander-M

Russia’s Missile, Rocket and Tube Artillery Corps will fully replace the Tochka-U (NATO reporting name: SS-21 Scarab-B) tactical ballistic missile system with the Iskander-M (SS-26 Stone) complex by 2020, Corps Commander Lieutenant-General Mikhail Matveyevsky said. 

Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile at Army-2016, International Military Technical Forum near Moscow, Russia.

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Russia and China implemented military contracts worth $3 billion for 2016.

Russia and China implemented military contracts worth three billion dollars this year, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting with Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Yu Zhengsheng. 

President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping (R) and Vladimir Putin President of Russia (L)

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UEC start testing new izdeliye 30 engine for PAKFA fighter jet

The United Engine Corporation (UEC, a subsidiary of Rostec) has conducted the first start of the advanced engine (Product 30) designed to power the T-50 (PAKFA - Russian acronym for Future Tactical Aircraft), the corporation’s press office says in a news release. 

A T-50 PAK FA still equipped with two NPO Saturn izdeliye 117 engines at MAKS 2011(Credit: Rulexip)

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Russian Navy to decide on prototype Koalitsiya-F 152mm naval howitzer system production

The Russian Navy has not yet made any decision on the production of a prototype of the promising Koalitsiya-F 152mm shipborne howitzer, the press office of Russia’s Uralvagonzavod armor producer said in an interview with Flotprom online media organization.

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Rosoboronexport has USD7 billion backlog of orders for land hardware

JSC Rosoboronexport (a subsidiary of the Rostec state corporation) is promoting the military hardware for land forces, being produced by Russia`s military-industrial complex, in full accordance with the tendencies of the world market. The company has a USD7 billion backlog of orders for land forces hardware, the press department of Rosoboronexport said in a statement.

JSC Rosoboronexport is the sole state intermediary agency for Russia's exports/imports of defense-related products, technologies and services. Here on the picture, a Pantsir production line (Photo Rostec)

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