Troops of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection made “invisible” critical facilities in 5 hours during exercises near Samara

More than 1,500 military men took part in the military exercises of Troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection in the Samara region, where with the help of special equipment during five hours they managed to make conditional “critical facility” “invisible”. This was reported on August 18 by the press service of the Central Military District.
The press service specified that 300 units were involved in the maneuvers.
“As a result of special equipment within a radius of 2.5 km solid aerosol screens were established, allowing five o’clock conditional critical facilities remained inaccessible to the means of visual intelligence and missile guidance systems of the enemy,” the press service noted.

Corporation “Zaschita” to supply the Defense Ministry with armored vehicles party “Skorpion LSHA-2B”

Russian ground forces will adopt armored “Skorpion LSHA-2B”, CEO of “Zaschita” Sergei Starun said.
“The contract with the Ministry of Defense for supply of the troops with pilot batch of army armored vehicles “Skorpion LSHA-2B”, said Starun. He underlined that it is about dozens of cars.
Starun noted that in April of this year, a series of military armored “Skorpion” were taken on the supply of special purpose units of the Armed Forces.
“At the moment “Skorpion LSHA-1″ (LSHA – light assault vehicle) with an open top,”Skorpion LSHA-2” with a hard metal top, as well as an armored vehicle “Skorpion LSHA-2B” passed state tests,” recalled the official.

Four aerobatic team of Aerospace Forces of Russia to take part at the air show “MAKS-2015”

Four aerobatic team of Aerospace Forces of Russia will take part in the International Aviation and Space Salon “MAKS-2015”, which will begin on August 25 in Zhukovsky near Moscow. This was told to the journalists by the representative of Aerospace Forces Igor Klimov.
“For the first time will take part in the air show new aerobatic team “Krylya Tavridy” (“Wings of Tauris”), which will perform the span of six crews on modern combat training aircraft Yak-130. The crews of air groups have already started practical training”, he said.
Also, according to him, will perform at the air show air group “Russkie Vityazy” (“Russian Knights”), “Strizhy” (“Swifts”) and “Sokoly Rossii” (“Russian Falcons”).

The Mongol military arrived in the Trans-Baikal region for the military exercises

The military from Mongolia arrived in the Trans-Baikal on joint exercises “Selenge 2015”.
The soldiers from Mongolia arrived in the Trans-Baikal Territory on landfill “Tsugol” to participate in the Russian-Mongolian military exercise “Selenga-2015” from 18 to 24 August, ITAR-TASS reported August 17, citing the press-secretary of the Eastern Military District Alexander Gordeyev.
“The military exercises of united grouping of troops of Russia and Mongolia will work together on tactical actions during anti-terrorist operations with tactical landings and the forcing of water barriers. On the Russian side are participating tank battalion, mechanized infantry company, a mortar, self-propelled artillery and rocket batteries, divisions of flamethrower, snipers, reconnaissance, as well as radiation, chemical and biological defense. There are about 90 units of armaments and military equipment, including Su-25, Mi-8AMTSh, Mi-24, “- said in a statement.

Visitors of “Patriot” park see its development in organization of shootings

Visitors of the “Patriot” park in Kubinka find organization of shootings, military-historical reconstructions and placement of museum exhibitions to be interesting and promising directions of its development, says the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM).

The survey was conducted jointly with the Scientific Research Centre of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on July 16-18 among visitors of the military-patriotic recreation park of the Russian Armed Forces “Patriot” and visitors of the Central Museum of armored vehicles in Kubinka. The survey involved 381 people.

More than 30 armored vehicles “Tigr” entered CMD brigade

More than 30 special application armored vehicles “Tigr” entered service of the mountain brigade of the Central Military District, the CMD press service reported on Tuesday.

“The mountain motorized rifle brigade of the Central Military District (CMD) received more than 30 units of special purpose armored vehicles” Tigr-M SpN”, – a statement said.

It is reported that currently the servicemen of the mountain brigade are practicing driving the vehicles, and in September they will perform a series of combat training missions at the CMD training ground.

According to the press service, these vehicles are designed for reconnaissance, escort and guard of columns, patrol and fire support of units.

Black Sea Fleet flagship, missile cruiser “Moskva” returned to Sevastopol

The flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, the Guards missile cruiser “Moskva” returned to Sevastopol from a long voyage, head of the Black Sea Fleet information support department, Captain 1st Rank Vyacheslav Trukhachev said Tuesday.

In early June, the “Moskva” in cooperation with the ships of the Black Sea and Baltic fleets took part in the first Russian-Egyptian naval exercises “Bridge of Friendship-2015”. Later, ships and vessels of the Navy’s permanent grouping in the Mediterranean Sea formed a detachment of warships of the Black Sea Fleet. It continued performing tasks in the Atlantic Ocean.

The rest ships of the detachment continue performing tasks in a distant sea area.

Promising “Obzor-R” Earth remote sensing satellite to be shown at MAKS

The first Russian promising “Obzor-R” Earth remote sensing complex, scheduled to be launched in 2018, will receive a unique highly detailed locator, CEO of Samara-based Space Rocket Center “Progress” Alexander Kirilin told RIA Novosti.

A prototype of the “Obzor-R” promising spacecraft will be presented at the international aerospace show MAKS-2015 at a scale of 1:10.

According to technical characteristics, the term of active existence of the “Obzor-R” spacecraft will amount to 5 years. It is planned to be launched on the “Soyuz-2.1a” rocket.

The device will complete tasks of various ministries and departments of the Russian Federation: mapping, monitoring of natural and man-made emergencies, identifying potentially dangerous geological processes, mineral exploration, and many others. It will be able to conduct remote sensing of the Earth at the time when clouds or nighttime make it difficult or impossible optoelectronic devices to operate.