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Arms industry of Russia. The arms industry of Russia, also known as the defense industry of Russia is a strategically important sector and a large employer in the Russian Federation. [1] It employs approximately 3.5 million people nationwide and accounts for 20% of all manufacturing jobs in Russia. [2][3]
Rosatom (Russian: Росатом, IPA:), also known as Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation, the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom (Russian: Государственная корпорация по атомной энергии «Росатом», romanized: Gosudarstvennaya korporatsiya po atomnoy energii "Rosatom"), or Rosatom State Corporation, is a Russian state corporation ...
13 [3] On the night of 17–18 September 2024, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine launched a drone attack on the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU) ammunition depot in Toropets, causing a massive series of explosions and fires and shattering of windows across nearby towns. [4][5] The main explosion caused a seismic wave of ...
Russia, which inherited the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons, has the world's biggest store of nuclear warheads. Putin controls about 5,580 nuclear warheads, according to the Federation of American ...
The current doctrine was set out by President Vladimir Putin in June 2020 in a six-page decree. It states, in part: "The Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in response to ...
Russia's Defense Ministry said Monday that the military would hold drills involving tactical nuclear weapons — the first time such an exercise has been publicly announced by Moscow. A look at ...
The 3M22 Zircon, [13] also spelled as Tsirkon (Russian: Циркон, NATO reporting name: SS-N-33) [14] is a Russian scramjet -powered, nuclear-capable hypersonic cruise missile. Produced by NPO Mashinostroyeniya for the Russian Navy, the missile utilizes the 3S-14 launch platforms on frigates and submarines. [15][16] The missile has a ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Roughly 60% of the foreign parts found in Russian weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine come via China, Ukraine's presidential adviser Vladyslav Vlasiuk told reporters on Tuesday.