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The Chief of General Staff of South Sudan’s military, General James Hoth Mai, has pledged that within a few months the country will acquire anti-aircraft missiles to defend its territory from attacks by neighboring Sudan, the Sudanese Tribune daily reported.
The Russian parliament approved on Wednesday in the first reading a government sponsored bill penalizing officials for failure to place state defense contracts on time.
Police in the Kuzbass town of Yurga found 200 boxes of artillery shells and explosives in a nearby forest, a law enforcement source said on Wednesday.
Russia is to put up for sale a batch of 18 Sukhoi Su-30 multirole fighter aircraft, rejected by India on concerns about their engines and returned to Russia in 2003, a defense official said on Wednesday.
Iran has been under international pressure to halt uranium
enrichment, needed both for electricity generation and weapons
production. Tehran has repeatedly rejected the demand, insisting it is
pursuing a purely civilian program. Several Western powers have called for harsher sanctions against Tehran if it does not agree to halt uranium enrichment.

An employee at a Russian defense firm in the Urals region has been accused of passing secrets on the Bulava intercontinental missile to a foreign intelligence service, the Kommersant daily reported on Monday.
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A private Cessna-172 airplane landed on a military airfield in Belarus without permission, the Belta news agency reported on Monday.
NATO will begin its Open Spirit 2012 mine clearing exercises in Estonia’s territorial waters on Monday, the country’s defense authorities said.
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Russia is testing Italy's Centauro wheeled tank and considering building it under license, a representative of the Oto-Melara company which makes the tank said on Saturday.
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The Russian government is to set out recommended profit margins and prices for domestically-produced armaments in a bid to reduce what it sees as their excessive cost, and speed up procurement.
The dismissal of Russian Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky was due to his reluctance to comply with an order by Russia’s top military leadership to move the Navy General Staff from Moscow to St. Petersburg, a high-ranking source in the General Staff of the Armed Forces said on Saturday.
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Russian air defense systems manufacturer Almaz Antei hopes to complete testing of its new Poliment-Redut ship-based air defense missile system by the end of this year, the company’s General Director Vladislav Menshikov said on Saturday.
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India has signed a $660 million contract on the purchase 145 M777 ultralight howitzers manufactured in the U.S. by BAE Systems Land & Armaments, IANS news agency reported on Friday.
American research into hypersonic weapons, which the U.S. aims to complete by 2015, represents an especially serious threat to Russia, acting Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.
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The United States and NATO will proceed with its European missile defense program despite Russia’s concerns while continuing to seek Moscow’s cooperation on the issue, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon said.
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The Russian-Norwegian Pomor-2012 naval drills will begin in the Arctic on Friday, the Russian Northern Fleet spokesman said.
Russia’s arms trading company Rosoboronexport has offered Jordan the TOS-1 Buratino multiple launch rocket system, Newsru.com reported on Thursday.
The United States has successfully tested a new ballistic missile defense interceptor, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said.
Russia will celebrate the 67th anniversary of Soviet victory in World War II (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War) on May 9, 2011. 




