DefenceTalkA new attack missile boat has started sea trials with Russia’s Caspian Flotilla, the Southern Military District said Monday. The Grad Sviyazhsk missile corvette is due to join the flotilla after completing all trials and state tests before the end of the year, the district’s press service said. The Project 21631 (Buyan-M) corvette has a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/new-russian-missile-boat-starts-caspian-trials-48674/

DefenceTalkA Russian-built aircraft carrier due to be delivered to the Indian Navy following a much-delayed refit has successfully passed engine tests during the first stage of final sea trials in the White Sea, shipbuilder Sevmash said Tuesday. The current trials focused on the ship’s propulsion system and its ability to perform as required. The aircraft […]https://www.defencetalk.com/indian-aircraft-carrier-passes-engine-tests-in-russian-sea-trials-48642/

DefenceTalkRussia’s deputy defense minister has suggested updating the agreements on conventional weapons control, which no longer match the political situation and the effectiveness of modern high-precision arms. Speaking at a session of the Russia-NATO council, Anatoly Antonov said that the new ideas could be used when the European countries start building a new space of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-calls-on-nato-to-review-cold-war-methods-of-arms-control-48647/

DefenceTalkRussian video game publisher 1C Company boarded a former US aircraft carrier to re-write the Cuban Missile Crisis that had super powers on the brink of nuclear war in 1962. The tense Cold War stand-off has an apocalyptic outcome in the “Nuclear Union” computer game showcased late Thursday amid vintage fighter jets on the hangar […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-war-games-play-on-former-us-aircraft-carrier-48632/

DefenceTalkThe top US general has informed Congress of options for military intervention in Syria, but stressed that the decision of whether to go to war was one for civilian leaders. In a non-classified letter made public Monday, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey set out five options — from nonlethal intelligence […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-general-lays-out-military-options-in-syria-48560/

DefenceTalkThe Pentagon has no plans to halt a $550 million deal with Russia to acquire helicopters for the Afghan Special Mission Wing, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday. In late June the Special US Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction urged the Pentagon to put the deal on hold until the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pentagon-stands-by-russian-arms-deal-48527/

DefenceTalkThe Russian Sukhoi T-50 5G fighter jet is equipped with cutting-edge computerized life support systems, including an oxygen station securing unlimited breathing gas supply and advanced pilot’s compensation system that anticipates gravity overload. The research and development enterprise Zvezda has announced the final tests for its onboard oxygen generation system that will be installed on […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-5g-fighters-boast-cutting-edge-life-support-systems-48520/

DefenceTalkIndia’s biggest defence project in the making, the critical joint development of the fifth-generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) with Russia, has flown into some rough weather. Defence ministry sources said the inking of the final design and R&D contract for the stealth fighter has been hit by a huge delay, with Russia also jacking up costs […]https://www.defencetalk.com/5th-generation-fighter-plan-hits-hurdle-as-russia-hikes-cost-48458/

DefenceTalkRussia will continue to increase its potential in air-space forces and other parts of its nuclear deterrence strategy, Chief of Staff said Tuesday. “(Russia) will beef up its air-space defense capabilities through modernization of its informational and first-strike parts,” Valery Gerasimov told reporters. He added that such modernization would guarantee early warning about launch of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-to-beef-up-strategic-deterrence-potential-48477/

DefenceTalkIn 2010 a Customs Union comprising Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan was launched as part of a Russia-led project aimed at economic reintegration within the former Soviet space (as Russian President Vladimir Putin explained in an article published in Izvestiya in October 2011). Evidence gathered during the short period of the Union’s existence suggests this project […]https://www.defencetalk.com/should-the-west-be-afraid-of-moscows-plans-for-a-eurasian-union-48430/