DefenceTalkRussia’s Armed Forces received 58 planes and 34 helicopters in the second quarter of 2016, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. During this period, Russian servicemen also received a brigade set of the Iskander-M (NATO reporting name: SS-26 Stone) tactical ballistic missile system and a regiment set of the S-400 (SA-21 Growler) air defense missile […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russias-armed-forces-receive-58-planes-34-helicopters-in-2016-67852/

DefenceTalkRussia’s Army has received another set of the Iskander-M (NATO reporting name: SS-26 Stone) tactical ballistic missile system, the press office of the Machine-Building Design Bureau told TASS. The Machine-Building Design Bureau, part of Russia’s Precision Systems Group, is the producer of the Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile system. “The entire set of the tactical ballistic […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-army-receives-more-iskander-m-tactical-ballistic-missile-system-67746/

DefenceTalkAn Iskander-M missile unit of Russia’s Eastern Military District performed a computer-simulated launch of one of Russia’s most advanced rockets during a snap drill, the RMD’s press spokesman Alexander Gordeyev said Friday. “Members of a missile brigade of the Eastern Military District deployed Iskander-M missile complexes at the Bidzhan test range and performed electronically simulated […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-conducts-simulated-launches-of-iskander-m-missiles-64074/