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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 Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations is a grouping at the United Nations, established in July 2021 in New York.The group was initially formed by 16 UN member states (Algeria, Angola, Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Laos, Nicaragua, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Syria, and Venezuela) and one UN observer state ().
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 Biden administration on Monday warned those involved in a new migration scheme to help Cubans, Haitians and other asylum seekers reach the United States by flying expensive charter planes to ...
"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 ...
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.