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WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Despite facing the threat of bankruptcy because of rock-bottom global prices for its oil exports, the Russian government is pushing ahead with a costly new plan to re-equip and upgrade its armed forces with state-of-the-art and high-tech weapons by 2020.
WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- Russia's landmark sale of transport helicopter assembly kits to be assembled in China could point the way to a vastly larger transformation in global arms production.
WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) -- Why has Russia changed its long-established policy and agreed to sell Mi-171 military transport helicopter assembly kits to China?
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Russia's ability to out-sell the United States in heavy weapons systems can be attributed to Russia hanging on to "heavy" industry.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Russia has a record of building endless numbers of usually reliable intercontinental ballistic missiles, included man-rated boosters of a kind the United States is no longer capable of producing. So why has it been having so much trouble with its new Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile?