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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 ...
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.
53rd Arsenal Main Missile and Artillery Directorate Sklad-40: Tver Oblast 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 ...
The Russian Aerospace Defence Forces or Russian Air and Space Defence Forces (VVKO) [1] (Russian: Войска воздушно-космической обороны (ВВКО), romanized: Voyska vozdushno-kosmicheskoy oborony (VVKO)) [2] was a branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responsible for aerospace defence, and the operation of Russian military satellites and the ...
In 2014 Russia announced plans to install more radar and missile defense systems across the country to counter U.S. plans for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe. [ 68 ] As of January 2017, the top 3 candidate sites for a proposed Eastern United States missile defense site [ 69 ] are now New York, Michigan, and Ohio.
"The Air Defense and Missile Defense Command is headed by the former deputy commander of the Air Force in charge of Air Defense, Maj. Gen. Sergei Popov . The Command includes the 9th Missile Defense Division (the A-135 system, with an HQ in Sofrino) and three missile defense brigades stationed in Moscow region; all three — the 4th ...