Russia said a new sea-based ballistic missile made its first successful test flight Thursday after several previous failures, in what was the country’s second major test of new rocket technology in a month.
Popularity: 19% [?]
June 29, 2007Russia has conducted a launch of an SS-18 Satan intercontinental ballistic missile from a silo in the Urals to launch a U.S. civilian satellite into orbit, a spokesman for the Strategic Missile Forces said Thursday.
Popularity: 18% [?]
Russia on Monday voiced support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, urging the emergency government to take necessary steps to normalize the current situation, Xinhua reported on June 19.
Popularity: 8% [?]
June 19, 2007Russia is using the Paris Air Show to showcase its breathtaking super-manoeuvrable MiG-29 OVT. The multi-role warplane uses three-dimensional thrust vectoring to perform jaw-dropping aerobatics, the likes of which have never been seen before.
Popularity: 11% [?]
June 17, 2007Iran said Sunday it had received indications from Russia’s president that he would not follow through with an offer to allow the US to use a radar station in neighboring Azerbaijan for missile defense against Teheran.
Popularity: 8% [?]
Venezuela is studying buying Russian submarines that would transform the South American country into the top naval force in the region, a military adviser to President Hugo Chavez said Thursday.
Popularity: 7% [?]
June 15, 2007Typically Russian “low silhouette†tanks made in Siberia are the only in the world called flying tanks.
Popularity: 6% [?]
June 6, 2007Russian armed forces will soon get uniforms of a new design, said Army General Vladimir Isakov, deputy defense minister and chief of support services of the Russian armed forces.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Vladimir Putin told a British newspaper U.S. plans to put a missile defense system in eastern Europe could trigger a nuclear war.
Popularity: 7% [?]
June 4, 2007A nuclear waste dump in the Russia Arctic may be in danger of exploding because of corrosion caused by salt water in enormous storage tanks, the Norwegian environmental group Bellona warned Friday.
Popularity: 8% [?]
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