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Lukashenko is a funny guy just last week he blamed moscow for high handedness and said he wont be cowed down and even blamed moscow for the embassy attack now he says this
"We have always been and will always be together. No politician can disrupt our relations," he said at a meeting with Collective Security Treaty Organization chief Nikolai Bordyuzha.
Belarus will forever remain "a reliable base and outpost" for Russia and the post-Soviet security bloc, he said.
Austin wrote:Lukashenko is a funny guy just last week he blamed moscow for high handedness and said he wont be cowed down and even blamed moscow for the embassy attack now he says this
"We have always been and will always be together. No politician can disrupt our relations," he said at a meeting with Collective Security Treaty Organization chief Nikolai Bordyuzha.
Belarus will forever remain "a reliable base and outpost" for Russia and the post-Soviet security bloc, he said.
He is probably saying that because winter is coming and the amount of heating gas used would go up, pushing up the gas bill for Belarus, so he is hoping that Gazprom would give him a good price.
At present, Russia has only one weather satellite, the Meteor-M type, in orbit and mostly uses meteorological data from U.S. and European weather agencies.
"The work on rebuilding the national space-based weather monitoring network is a priority task because Russia is lagging behind the developed countries in this area, which makes it difficult to ensure a fair exchange of meteorological data [between Russia and foreign countries]," the statement said.
According to Russian experts, at least six Meteor-type satellites will be necessary to provide sufficient data for independent weather forecasting.
In addition, Russia is planning to launch a separate satellite network to monitor climatic changes and survey energy resources in the Arctic region.
The Arktika (Arctic) satellite grouping, which is worth around 70 billion rubles ($2.5 billion), will comprise at least two sun-synchronous orbit satellites and two high-elliptic orbit satellites.
"The future decisions on the development of the national space-based weather monitoring network will be made in line with the prospects and achievements in the technology of monitoring devices, in satellite engineering and in communications," the government said.
Much like we have benefited from defence JV with Russia , We should also try to build our almost non existing Civil Aircraft Industry by similar JV. Russia has two new civilian project the narrow body short range Superjet 100 and medium range MS-21.
It is a good way to minimise and mitigate risk and gradually build our own civilian aviation industry and make some money from sales.
This NAL new initiative to build 70 seater is another disaster in making , they really do not have any experience and to go alone will lead to same result as Saras.
"The completion of the static tests program is an important landmark in the implementation of the SSJ 100 certification program," Sukhoi CEO Vladimir Prisyazhnyuk said.
"Besides the static tests, we have also completed a flight program to confirm [the aircraft's] strength characteristics," he said.
The SSJ100 is a family of medium-haul passenger aircraft developed by Sukhoi in cooperation with U.S. and European aviation corporations, including Boeing, Snecma, Thales, Messier Dowty, Liebherr Aerospace and Honeywell.
Sukhoi has so far sealed deals on the delivery of 122 SSJ 100s.
Seems like Russia will go ahead with the sale of P-800 Yakhont on which Brahmos is based upon , this should be a bad news for Israel, but is also an indication that Russia will protect its strategic tie and interest in Syria.
"It is the 2007 contract. The issue of selling the missiles to Syria was raised during the talks with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates... Undoubtedly, it [the contract] would be fulfilled by the Russian side," the Russian minister said.
Israeli media said in late August that the country was working to thwart Syria's plans to get the highly accurate missiles, which Israel considers a threat to its navy vessels in the Mediterranean Sea. Kremlin aide Sergei Prikhodko dismissed the media reports.
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Admiral Negi some Bulava news , seems to confirm the fact i had stated that Bulava failure is a production issue and the decentralization and rot that has taken over the manufacturing industry, irrespective of success or failure of next launch they should completely overhaul the production and manufacturing base this will do good for them in the long run as production of Bulava is established and the new ICBM moves from design to development phase.
Russia will have to overhaul the whole production and manufacturing system of its troubled Bulava ballistic missile if this autumn's tests fail again, the defense minister said on Friday.
Anatoly Serdyukov said that if failures continue and their causes prove to be different, "then we will have to overhaul the whole system of production and [manufacture] control of these missiles."
The Bulava (SS-NX-30), a three-stage liquid and solid-propellant submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), has officially suffered seven failures in 12 tests.
"The next three launches of the Bulava missile will be held until the first ice appears. We will definitely launch [the missiles]," Serdyukov said.
"The principal disagreement is that they [the U.S.] tell us: "our missile defense program is not aimed against you," while we say: "no, according to our calculations it actually is," the minister said during his visit to the U.S.
He said the Russian side proposed the U.S. to jointly evaluate present missile threats.
"Let's analyze them together and find out where they come from. After that we will be able to decide on how to counteract these threats and is it really necessary to deploy missile defense elements in the regions where [the deployment] is currently planned. Maybe, some other locations are possible," Serdyukov said.
India surpassed China in 2007 with purchases of Russian arms worth $1.5 billion. In 2008, Algeria pulled ahead of India. But in 2009, New Delhi regained the lead, importing Russian arms worth $1.78 billion, twice as much as China's $848 million, according to the Center for Analysis of International Arms Trade, a local think tank.
For the nearest four years - from 2010 to 2013 - India will remain the biggest client, accounting for 54.4 percent, or $15.16 billion, of the Russian foreign defense orders portfolio for this period, according to the center. Vietnam's orders for this period come second in size, reaching $3 billion.
Russia: Update. Russia agreed to purchase four French Mistral-class helicopter carriers in a deal worth an estimated 600 million euros ($788 million) that will be officially signed later in September, according to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry. Two of the four ships will be bought from the French manufacturer and two will be built in Russian shipyards, according to the statement.
Isnt that a bargain at ~ 150M Euros? How capable are those ships?
ramana wrote:Isnt that a bargain at ~ 150M Euros? How capable are those ships?
Cant be true , each Mistral costs ~ $600 million and Technology Transfer is a minimum criteria set for these ships , they would be far more expensive . The total deal is estimated around ~ $3 Billion for four ships.
The Mistral class ship is capable of transporting and deploying 16 helicopters, four landing barges, up to 70 armored vehicles including 13 battle tanks, and 450 personnel.
Its a political deal initiated by Putin to build broad military-technical relationship with France , The military has no choice but to agree to this, the local ship building industry USC is very unhappy as they had proposed an alternative cost effective option south korean helicopter carrier Dokdo class which is a very capable ship.
May be IN should look at Dokdo class LPD as a suitable option
There is no proof that Iran is working toward the creation of nuclear weapons, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
However in order for UN sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic to be lifted, Iran must prove its nuclear program has a 100% peaceful character, Lavrov told the U.S. PBS TV channel.
Any attack on Iran would have “negative” consequences for the region, he warned.
Russian president sacks Moscow mayor
Dmitry Medvedev orders longtime mayor who gave Russian capital a glamorous makeover to go, citing 'loss of confidence'
The Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, has fired Yuri Luzhkov, ending the 18-year rule of the Moscow mayor who gave the crumbling metropolis a glamorous facelift but was maligned for outdated values and bellicose posturing.
The intelligence found out some very interesting facts about Mr. Vagabov, who was self-renamed and crazy-islamic-jihadists-blessed as Amir Abdullah. Mr. Amir Abdullah received his college education in Karachi, and proceeded to training in terrorists camps in Pakistan. When a Jordanian Doctor Muhammad was killed in 2009, Amir Abdullah married the widow, former Mrs. Muhammad. Upon becoming Mrs. Abdullah, the lady provided access to infinite Jordanian money, and then--in search of a better afterlife--blew herself up at one of the subway stops in Moscow.
Indian Trade Minister Anand Sharma has this week met with his Russian counterpart Viktor Khristenko. Sharma "is satisfied with the bilateral discussion of possible rough diamond supplies to India under long-term agreements and the opening of an ALROSA office in India," the ministry says.
A source close to the negotiations said the Indian initiative had to be discussed with ALROSA first.
"India doesn't want to buy diamonds on a tender basis, but wants to sign long-term intergovernmental diamond supply contracts with Russia, while the Russian side said that ALROSA is a large company, so the issue should be first of all discussed with the company itself," the source told RIA Novosti.
According to Indian statistics, excluding arms deals, in 2009-2010 financial years, Indian-Russian trade amounted to $4.54 billion, while the goal is to reach $20 billion by 2015.
President Dmitry Medvedev has set Russia's security agencies the task of creating a reliable modern system for confidential mobile communications, the secretary of the Russian Security Council said Friday.
"We will work on this, and I hope such communications will appear soon: we have already done some groundwork," Nikolai Patrushev told journalists after a Security Council meeting.
Patrushev explained that he meant mobile phones on which confidential conversations could be held from any point on the Earth.
"And the talk cannot be intercepted," said Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who delivered a report at the meeting.
Patrushev said currently available systems are too bulky.
Giving a new dimension to defence ties, Russia signed a pact with India early september to jointly produce and design multi-purpose transport aircraft. It’s a flying machine that will stretch limits of aeronautical engineering. With a payload capacity of 20 tons and speed of 810 km per hour, the multi-role transport aircraft (MTA) is set to be another milestone in decades-old India-Russia defence relationship that is evolving from a buyer-seller to co-developers of cutting-edge military equipments.
The project has been on the drawing board for quite some time, but it took wings early September when India and Russia inked an agreement to form a $600 million joint enterprise for designing and producing MTA. This plane will first appear in the Air Forces of India and Russia.
The aircraft, which may serve various functions, including that of a fairly economical civilian cargo plane, will be developed by a joint Indo-Russian team of engineers. The first flight of the aircraft is expected to take place within six years. The shareholders' agreement for setting up the joint enterprise include: Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) with 50 per cent ownership; the Russian concern OAK-Transportnye Samolety with 25 per cent; and Rosoboroneksport with 25 per cent. The joint enterprise, to be called MTA Limited, will be registered in India within the next two months. A branch of MTA Limited will be registered in Russia. On the Russian side, the airplane’s de- sign will be managed by specialists from Ilyushin, maker of one of the 20th century’s best transport planes, the Il-76.
According to The Voice of Russia radio, the aircraft would be developed at Aviastar-SP plant based in Ulyanovsk city on Volga. The Indian Air Force is expected to order at least 35 and Russian Air Force as many as 100 medium lift transport aircrafts. MTA can be used to transport army sub-units to evacuate the wounded, including civilians, in case of a natural disaster, and to transport military technology and cargos stowed in special containers. Going by the record of multi- faceted Russian military- technical cooperation, the ambitious MTA project is set to be a success.
"The government will spend 22.5 trillion ($725 billion) rubles in the state's arms program in the next ten years. It's an unprecedented sum in our recent history," Ivanov said.
The bulk of the money -- $600 billion -- will be spent on buying arms and military hardware for the Defense Ministry.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has also called for improving the country's weaponry.
"The lack behind the industrially developed nations' in labor efficiency, industrial engineering and quality control backfires on our military and technical cooperation. We have to take action," Medvedev said.
"For two decades we have purchased and built nothing for our armed forces. This money is the minimum required to mount to meet the needs of Russian military," military expert Viktor Litovkin told Press TV correspondent.
New Delhi, Oct 5 : India and Russia will hold the 10th meeting of the Inter-Governmental Commission on Military Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-MTC) here on Thursday, a Defence spokesman said today.
The debt will rise to 13.6% of GDP by the end of 2011, 15.7% by the end of 2012, and 17.4% by the end of 2013, according to the Finance Ministry.
The leading world economies' debts will continue to mount, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said, citing figures for the United States, where government debt will rise to 97% of GDP. Other nations' debt figures include the UK with 84.8%, France with 88.6%, and Germany with 79.6%.
Can some one tell me how does US and Western Economy float with such high public debt ?
"Russia should help India develop Nuclear triad" (ET news item).
View of top Russian defence analyst,Ruslan Pukhov,Director of the Moscow based "Centre for Analysis of Strategic Technologies",CAST.Pukhov is also a memebr of the Russian advisory board for defence.
Some excerpts:
Russia must help India develop SSBNs,deterrence similar to that of the US,UK.
In case China develos carriers,Russia must provide India with Oscar class SSGNs,naval TU-22M3 Backfires,and even Kirov class nuclear powered type 1144 battlecruisers.
Mr.Pukhov also said that what Russia provided India with was far superior tech wise than what had been given to China and the Indian Flankers were a "generation" ahead of Chinese ones,similarly Indian Talwars vs PLAN Sovremenny DDGs.There were also no equivalent with China to the the 5th-gen fighter,MTA and Brahmos programmes .He also said that China possesses a "potential threat" to Russia's Far east and Eatsern Siberia,which is why Russia undertook large scale military exercises ,Vostok 2010 recently.
The talks starting today between Russian and Indian defence teams might see the ememrgence of even more advanced defence programmes in the offing,perhaps involving some of the systems given above.
Philip wrote:In case China develos carriers,Russia must provide India with Oscar class SSGNs,naval TU-22M3 Backfires,and even Kirov class nuclear powered type 1144 battlecruisers.
Sounds like Ruslan Pukhov is on a marketing blitzkriegng
The debt will rise to 13.6% of GDP by the end of 2011, 15.7% by the end of 2012, and 17.4% by the end of 2013, according to the Finance Ministry.
The leading world economies' debts will continue to mount, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said, citing figures for the United States, where government debt will rise to 97% of GDP. Other nations' debt figures include the UK with 84.8%, France with 88.6%, and Germany with 79.6%.
Can some one tell me how does US and Western Economy float with such high public debt ?
They have low interest rates due to AAA rating.
With interest rate at 2% and debt to GDP ratio of 100% just 2% of GDP goes for interest payments.
In India with 70% debt to GDP ratio and 7% interest rate 4.9% of the GDP goes towards interest payments.
Ok but interest rate is one part of the deal isnt it , I mean if you have ~ 100 % of GDP on external borrowing isnt that something worrisome and a very bad state of the economy itself ?
