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After the 1979 Sandinista revolution, Nicaragua significantly relies on Soviet and Russian military equipment. In February 2025, the country received 5 Mil Mi-17 helicopters, 3 Antonov An-26 military-transport aircraft, as well as 18 ZU-23 AE modernized air defense artillery systems as donations from Russia.
Nicaragua has a small military force with only 9,412 members as of 2010. This number includes 1,500 officers (16%), 302 non-commissioned officers (3%), and 7,610 troops (81%). [ 19 ] This relatively small armed force is supported by an extremely small $41 million-dollar defense budget (2010). [ 20 ]
Russian 102nd Military Base in Gyumri and the Russian 3624th Airbase in Erebuni Airport near Yerevan. Est. 3,214 [5] to 5,000 [6] Belarus: Russian military presence in Belarus: The Baranavichy Radar Station, [4] [7] [8] the Vilyeyka naval communication centre near Vilyeyka and a joint Air Force and Air Defense training center in Baranovichi [9 ...
Satellite imagery of the Lipetsk arsenal. Arsenals of the GRAU, according to Kommersant-Vlast in 2005, included the 53rd at Dzerzhinsk, Nizhniy Novogorod Oblast, the 55th in the Sklad-40 microraion at Rzhev, the 60th at Kaluga, the 63rd at Lipetsk, the 75th at Serpukhov south of Moscow, and the 97th at Skolin (all five in the Moscow Military District).
The Defense Ministry, which tested firing the Zircon missile from a warship in July, said that the nuclear submarine Severodvinsk fired the missile while deployed in the Barents Sea and had hit its chosen target. Low-quality video footage released by the ministry showed the missile shooting upwards from a submarine, its glare lighting up the ...
55th Arsenal Main Missile and Artillery Directorate Kaluga: Kaluga Oblast 60th Arsenal Main Missile and Artillery Directorate Lipetsk: Lipetsk Oblast 63rd Arsenal Main Missile and Artillery Directorate Karachev: Bryansk Oblast 67th Arsenal Main Missile and Artillery Directorate [44] Mozdok: North Ossetia 68th Arsenal Main Missile and Artillery ...
The center is located in the Main Building of the Ministry of Defense at Frunzenskaya Embankment, 22, Moscow, Russia. The computer network of the center is based on the Russian military computer operating system Astra Linux by Rusbitech company, [3] which in 2018 was declared the future ultimate standard for the Army.
9th Anti-Ballistic Missile Defence Division (ru:9-я дивизия ПРО) (Sofrino, Moscow Oblast, Military Unit No. 75555, armed with the A-135 anti-ballistic missile system) [8] 900th Command Center (Military Unit No. 20007) 164th Command and Computing Center (Military Unit No. 52361, using 5K80) [9] 102nd Anti Missile Center (Military Unit ...