In 1955 the State Engineering Design Bureau (DB) Vympel was assigned the task of developing a new weapon, an air-to-air guided missile. Subsequently, this became a main work of Vympel, which is Russia's only enterprise involved in development of air-to-air missiles. In addition, the DB is working on air-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, launchers for guided and unguided missiles, bomb ... [+]

Comparison of Russian-made air defense facilities and their foreign counterparts leads us to conclude that in most characteristics the Russian equipment is on a par with its foreign analogs and in some respects surpasses them. The concept of Russian Federation air defense upgrading has been worked out with due consideration for the key trends in military evolution in the world and some ... [+]

According to an article published in Washington Times, sometimes in the middle of July 2001, Russia conducted an unannounced test of a new scramjet-powered missile, which, reportedly was tracked by US radar, as it hit an impact range at Kamchatka Peninsula (apparently Kura range). The newspaper claimed that the missile was launched on top of the SS-25 (Topol) ICBM and after reaching the ... [+]

The Volsk Mechanical Plant, a state unitary enterprise, was established in 1970 as a specialized enterprise for small batch production of three to four versions of combat vehicles. Soon it became Russia's major manufacturer and supplier of antitank guided missile systems (ATGM). The production potential of the plant makes it possible to manufacture first prototype models, series-produce ... [+]

The military actions that have taken place over the last decade have typically been limited-scale, air offensive operations which were well-coordinated both in time and space, and involving the mass employment of precision-guided munitions. It should be emphasized, however, that such operations are only possible if the opposing action initiated by a defender’s air defense assets are insignificant. ... [+]

The Grad modernization has made it possible to considerably raise the level of weapon functioning automa- tion and increase its firing range (up to 40 km), accuracy (despite a twofold increase in firing range, it remained sim ilar to that of the previous shorter-range version), and kill capacity. The year 1998 stands out in the history of the Splav State-owned Research and Production ... [+]

The weapon system had been built to help tackle a major task facing front-line and army-level aviation, that of destroying hostile aircraft kept in a variety of concrete shelters, as well as destroy runways, command posts, communications nodes and other fortified facilities. In the mid-1980s the S-13 airbcraft rocket pod system (NARV), designed to include the B-13L five-tube launcher ... [+]