DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: Russia Halts Plans To Supply S-300 Missile System To Syria - Reports

DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: Russia Halts Plans To Supply S-300 Missile System To Syria - Reports


(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 29, 2012: Russia’s main weapons producer has allegedly suspended its contract with Syria to supply S-300 long-range missile systems. Russia’s ‘Vedomosti’ daily published the report, citing unnamed sources within the military-industrial complex.


The very fact of the contract’s existence was not known until it was revealed in an annual report made only last week and published online by the makers of the S-300 systems, Almaz-Antey.


The report states that the company’s largest contracts are with Algeria (which is paying $39 million for a long-range missile defense system), and Syria, which signed a contract for the same system for $105 million.


The report also says that deliveries on the Syrian contract are expected to be made between 2012 and 2013. But ‘Vedomosti’ claims two separate sources, who chose to remain anonymous, have said deliveries have been put on the back-burner “after a direct order from above.”


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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Rosoboronexport Showcasing New Equipment And Technologies At TVM-2012 Forum

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Rosoboronexport Showcasing New Equipment And Technologies At TVM-2012 Forum

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 27, 2012:From 27 June to 1 July, the Rossiya Transportation & Exhibition Complex in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, will be hosting the 2nd International Forum "Engineering Technologies 2012". The Forum’s program encompasses the OboronExpo International Exhibition of Weapons and Military Equipment.

The organizers of the Forum are the RF Ministry of Industry and Trade, Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation and the Rostekhnologii State Corporation. The general sponsor is JSC Rosoboronexport, the sole Russian state intermediary authorized to export and import the full range of final defense and dual-purpose products, technologies and services

The best enterprises of the domestic defense industrial complex will show thousands defense products offering significant export potential. JSC Rosoboronexport has placed its exposition on stand 4 in Hall C 3. Here, the information equipment is presented on a wide range of weapons and military in the form of mockups, posters, multimedia presentations, brochures and other promotional materials with regard to potential customers.

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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Rosoboronexport Showcasing New Equipment And Technologies At TVM-2012 Forum

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Rosoboronexport Showcasing New Equipment And Technologies At TVM-2012 Forum

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 27, 2012:From 27 June to 1 July, the Rossiya Transportation & Exhibition Complex in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, will be hosting the 2nd International Forum "Engineering Technologies 2012". The Forum’s program encompasses the OboronExpo International Exhibition of Weapons and Military Equipment.

The organizers of the Forum are the RF Ministry of Industry and Trade, Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation and the Rostekhnologii State Corporation. The general sponsor is JSC Rosoboronexport, the sole Russian state intermediary authorized to export and import the full range of final defense and dual-purpose products, technologies and services

The best enterprises of the domestic defense industrial complex will show thousands defense products offering significant export potential. JSC Rosoboronexport has placed its exposition on stand 4 in Hall C 3. Here, the information equipment is presented on a wide range of weapons and military in the form of mockups, posters, multimedia presentations, brochures and other promotional materials with regard to potential customers.

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DTN News - HONG KONG TODAY: Military Bands Rehearse For Upcoming Celebrations Of 15th Anniversary Handover Hong Kong To China

DTN News - HONG KONG TODAY: Military Bands Rehearse For Upcoming Celebrations Of 15th Anniversary Handover Hong Kong To China

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 24, 2012: Military bands from Australia, Scotland, U.S. , Hong Kong, China, Russia and Turkey perform under a Chinese national flag and a Hong Kong flag during the rehearsal of the International Military Tattoo in Hong Kong June 21, 2012, as part of the celebrations ahead of the 15th anniversary of the territory's handover to Chinese rule on July 1.  (Photo - Reuters)

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DTN News - HONG KONG TODAY: People's Liberation Army Rehearse For Upcoming Celebrations Of 15th Anniversary Handover Hong Kong To China

DTN News - HONG KONG TODAY: People's Liberation Army Rehearse For Upcoming Celebrations Of 15th Anniversary Handover Hong Kong To China

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 24, 2012: Guard of Honour of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) from China performs during the rehearsal of the International Military Tattoo in Hong Kong June 21, 2012, as part of the celebrations ahead of the 15th anniversary of the territory's handover to Chinese rule on July 1.

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DTN News - HONG KONG TODAY: Military Bands Rehearse For Upcoming Celebrations Of 15th Anniversary Handover Hong Kong To China

DTN News - HONG KONG TODAY: Military Bands Rehearse For Upcoming Celebrations Of 15th Anniversary Handover Hong Kong To China

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 24, 2012: Military bands from Australia, Scotland, U.S. , Hong Kong, China, Russia and Turkey perform under a Chinese national flag and a Hong Kong flag during the rehearsal of the International Military Tattoo in Hong Kong June 21, 2012, as part of the celebrations ahead of the 15th anniversary of the territory's handover to Chinese rule on July 1.  (Photo - Reuters)

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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Navy Cadets Celebrating Their Graduation Ceremony With Champagne

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian Navy Cadets Celebrating Their Graduation Ceremony With Champagne

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 23, 2012: A navy officer drinks champagne from a huge wine glass containing his dirk presented to navy graduates as he celebrates graduation from a Navy Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, June 23, 2012. Graduation ceremonies are held all over Russia now as students of elementary and high schools and military academies finish their education. (AP)

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DTN News - G20 MEXICO 2012: Russia's President Vladimir Putin Shakes Hands With India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh During The G20 Summit In Mexico

DTN News - G20 MEXICO 2012: Russia's President Vladimir Putin Shakes Hands With India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh During The G20 Summit In Mexico

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during their meeting at the G20 summit in Los Cabos June 19, 2012. Picture taken June 19, 2012. (Photo - Reuters)

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DTN News - VENEZUELAN DEFENSE NEWS: Venezuela Making Drones, Assembling Rifles Says President Hugo Chavez

DTN News - VENEZUELAN DEFENSE NEWS: Venezuela Making Drones, Assembling Rifles Says President Hugo Chavez


(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 13, 2012:   Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his government has begun to assemble Kalashnikov assault rifles with assistance from Russia and has also started making surveillance drones.
Chavez says Venezuela has produced three drones so far. One of the small planes was shown on television atop a truck.
Chavez also said during a televised speech on Wednesday that Venezuela has so far assembled 3,000 Kalashnikov AK 103 rifles. He said that Venezuela has also started making grenades and ammunition for its military.
Chavez says Venezuela is strengthening its military with help from allies including China, Russia and Iran.
*Iranian Mohajer-2 drone appears in Venezuela. Chavez’s building his own drone fleet with the help of Tehran

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DTN News - VENEZUELAN DEFENSE NEWS: Venezuela Making Drones, Assembling Rifles Says President Hugo Chavez

DTN News - VENEZUELAN DEFENSE NEWS: Venezuela Making Drones, Assembling Rifles Says President Hugo Chavez

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 13, 2012:   Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his government has begun to assemble Kalashnikov assault rifles with assistance from Russia and has also started making surveillance drones.

Chavez says Venezuela has produced three drones so far. One of the small planes was shown on television atop a truck.

Chavez also said during a televised speech on Wednesday that Venezuela has so far assembled 3,000 Kalashnikov AK 103 rifles. He said that Venezuela has also started making grenades and ammunition for its military.

Chavez says Venezuela is strengthening its military with help from allies including China, Russia and Iran.

*Iranian Mohajer-2 drone appears in Venezuela. Chavez’s building his own drone fleet with the help of Tehran

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DTN News - 2012 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit: Leaders Gather For The Family Photo At Great Hall Of The People In Beijing

DTN News - 2012 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit: Leaders Gather For The Family Photo At Great Hall Of The People In Beijing 

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 6, 2012: Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov, Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Sharshenovich Atambayev, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmon gather for the family photo at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 6, 2012, at the start of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. 

Security in Central Asia, including the situation in Afghanistan, is set to be the focus of talks at a meeting in Beijing of a regional group dominated by China and Russia. (Photo - Getty)

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DTN News - ITALIAN DEFENSE NEWS: Obama Set To Arm Italy's Drones In Milestone Move

DTN News - ITALIAN DEFENSE NEWS:  Obama Set To Arm Italy's Drones In Milestone Move

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 31, 2012: President Barack Obama's administration appears set to notify the U.S. Congress of plans to arm a fleet of Italian MQ-9 Reaper drones, a step that may spur a wider spread of remotely piloted hunter-killer aircraft.

The administration could move ahead within two weeks on the proposal to let Italy join Britain in deploying U.S. drones with weapons such as laser-guided bombs and Hellfire missiles, American officials said.

Italy has a fleet of six Reapers. The sale of the technology to arm them, including bomb racks and "weaponization" kits costing up to $17 million, would help the United States redistribute the burden of its global military operations as the Pentagon's budget is being squeezed by deficit-reduction requirements.

Aides to Obama have been informally consulting the House of Representatives' and Senate's foreign affairs committees about the proposed sale to Italy since last year, congressional staff said.

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DTN News - INDIA DEFENSE NEWS: HAL To Make Multirole Aircraft With Russian Firm

DTN News - INDIA DEFENSE NEWS: HAL To Make Multirole Aircraft With Russian Firm

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 31, 2012: Bangalore, May 28 JSC “UAC-Transport Aircraft”, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Multirole Transport Aircraft Ltd (MTAL) have concluded a General contract at the HAL’s headquarters. The contract was signed by MTA Program Director Alexey Boykov, HAL Design Director Shri T Suvarna Raju and MTAL General Director N.C. Agarwal.

As of May 28 2012, JSC “UAC-Transport Aircraft” has completed preparation of IT and PLM infrastructure necessary to start work of a joint group on preliminary design.

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DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: U.S.-Pakistan Military Negotiations ‘Very Positive’ According Gen. John R. Allen

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: U.S.-Pakistan Military Negotiations ‘Very Positive’ According Gen. John R. Allen

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 23, 2012: Military-to-military talks between the U.S. and Pakistan, which recently resumed after a lapse, are going well, the commander of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan said today.

Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen, International Security Assistance Force commander, acknowledged during a Pentagon press briefing that the issue of reopening Pakistani ground supply routes to NATO is still unresolved. Pakistan closed the routes after a late-November 2011 cross-border attack by NATO forces near a border coordination center in Afghanistan’s Kunar province accidently killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

“I have recently led a team to Islamabad to renew our conversation with the Pakistani military,” Allen said, noting the participants had “a very positive conversation about taking steps and measures necessary to prevent a recurrence of the events of 25 and 26 November.”

He said Lt. Gen. Shir Mohammad Karimi, general staff chief of operations for the Afghan National Army, also traveled to Islamabad for the two-day military talks with Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the Pakistani army chief of staff.

“We committed ourselves to recurring meetings … with the idea of creating a constructive long-term relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan,” Allen said.

Allen noted Pakistan has many challenges along its border with Afghanistan. Pakistan’s forces are also fighting an insurgency, he said, and they have taken more casualties in the last two years than the U.S. has in 10 years of combat in Afghanistan.

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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian AF To Get First T-50 Fighters In 2013

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Russian AF To Get First T-50 Fighters In 2013

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 18, 2012: The Russian Air Force will receive the first batch of prototypes of its fifth-generation T-50 fighter for performance testing in 2013, Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin said on Thursday.

The T-50, developed under the PAK FA program (Future Aviation System for Tactical Air Force) at the Sukhoi experimental design bureau, is Russia's first new major warplane designed since the fall of the Soviet Union.

“The work on the fifth-generation fighter is going according to schedule,” Zelin, a former Air Force commander, told a news conference in Voronezh (central Russia). “The third prototype has joined the testing program and the fourth is being built.”

The T-50 made its maiden flight in January 2010 and three prototypes have since been undergoing flight tests.

Zelin earlier said that the number of T-50 aircraft involved in testing would be increased to 14 by 2015.

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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Iran, Pakistan, N. Korea May Pose Nuclear Threat to Russia

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Iran, Pakistan, N. Korea May Pose Nuclear Threat to Russia

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 6, 2012: A nuclear-armed Iran, Pakistan and North Korea could potentially trigger regional chain reactions that ultimately threaten Russia's security, the former director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, said.

“Even if Iran, Pakistan and North Korea are not Russian adversaries, their current and projected nuclear potential could destabilize the regional situation. It could trigger a chain reaction of proliferation (Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) that gives rise to a new missile threat for Russia,” Trubnikov said in an article included in the digest for an international conference on missile defense in Moscow.

History shows that relations with unstable states and radical regimes can rapidly deteriorate and their nuclear potential could become a real threat to Russian national security, Trubnikov said.

That is why Russia needs to work toward mutual understanding with the United States and NATO on the issue of missile defense, he said.

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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Iran, Pakistan, N. Korea May Pose Nuclear Threat to Russia - World's Nuclear States Map - World's Nuclear States Map

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Iran, Pakistan, N. Korea May Pose Nuclear Threat to Russia - World's Nuclear States Map - World's Nuclear States Map

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 6, 2012: A nuclear-armed Iran, Pakistan and North Korea could potentially trigger regional chain reactions that ultimately threaten Russia's security, the former director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, said.

“Even if Iran, Pakistan and North Korea are not Russian adversaries, their current and projected nuclear potential could destabilize the regional situation. It could trigger a chain reaction of proliferation (Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) that gives rise to a new missile threat for Russia,” Trubnikov said in an article included in the digest for an international conference on missile defense in Moscow.

History shows that relations with unstable states and radical regimes can rapidly deteriorate and their nuclear potential could become a real threat to Russian national security, Trubnikov said.

That is why Russia needs to work toward mutual understanding with the United States and NATO on the issue of missile defense, he said.

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DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Russia-China Joint Naval Exercise Held From April 22 To 27 At Naval Base In Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, China

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Russia-China Joint Naval Exercise Held From April 22 To 27 At Naval Base In Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, China

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 28, 2012: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese military band performs as they see off the leaving Russian Navy's missile cruiser Varyag in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Friday, April 27, 2012. 

The Chinese and Russian navies announced on Friday the conclusion of their six-day joint naval exercise, Xinhua said.   (Photo - AP)

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DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Russia-China Joint Naval Exercise Held From April 22 To 27 At Naval Base In Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, China

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Russia-China Joint Naval Exercise Held From April 22 To 27 At Naval Base In Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, China

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 28, 2012: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese military band performs as they see off the leaving Russian Navy's missile cruiser Varyag in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Friday, April 27, 2012. 

The Chinese and Russian navies announced on Friday the conclusion of their six-day joint naval exercise, Xinhua said.   (Photo - AP)

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DTN News - RUSSIA VICTORY DAY: Russian Military Vehicles During Rehearsal For Victory Day Military Parade At Moscow's Red Square

DTN News - RUSSIA VICTORY DAY: Russian Military Vehicles During Rehearsal For Victory Day Military Parade At Moscow's Red Square 

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 26, 2012: Russian military vehicles make their way down a road during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade which will take place at Moscow's Red Square on May 9 to celebrate 67 years since victory in WWII, in central Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 26, 2012. (Photo - AP)

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