Contents tagged with Bondarev

  • Kremlin: Russia will continue to develop new advanced weapons

    Viktor Bondarev, the Head of the Council of the Federation Committee on Defense and Security, told RIA Novosti that Russia will continue to develop advanced weapons, despite the reduction of the defense budget.

    Dmitry Peskov, the Russian President's Press Secretary, said earlier in an interview with RT that Russia's defense budget would be reduced. In five years Russia is planned to spend less than 3% of GDP on defense purposes.

    Bondarev said that "This won’t affect the financing of the …

  • Russian military to receive S-500 missile systems in the near future

    The deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Viktor Gumenny, said that the S-500 surface-to-air missile systems will soon be adopted by the army.

    "The adoption of the new air defense systems has already begun,” the Lieutenant-General said on Echo Moskvy radio. “We expect the S-350 Vityaz surface-to-air missile systems and the S-500 to arrive in the near future.”

    According to Gumenny, the Rusian Aerospace Forces will also receive a number of new radar stations.

    Speaking at …