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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]
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.
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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 ...
Russia's top military officer has threatened to carry out a pre-emptive strike on U.S.-led NATO missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe if Washington goes ahead with its plan to build a missile shield. [80] Russian Defense Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov also warned that talks between Moscow and Washington on the topic are "close to a dead end."
According to the original plans, ten S-500 battalions were to be purchased for the Russian Aerospace Defense (VKO) under the State Armament Programme 2020 (GPV-2020). [13] As of 2013, the S-500s were intended to work in parallel with S-400s, and the systems together were planned to replace most of the S-300 missile systems. [14]
Newly-released footage appeared to show Russia's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) hitting Ukraine. Video posted on Telegram, and verified by the Associated Press, showed ...
The RS-26 Rubezh (Russian: РС-26 Рубеж, meaning frontier or boundary), designated by NATO as SS-X-31, [4] is a Russian solid-fueled intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) with a nuclear warhead, of which the range bracket just barely classifies it as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).