Topic: Nikita Petrov

MOSCOW, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- In 1998, Russia's Security Council and the country's president decided that the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering and its general designer, Yury Solomonov, should develop the missile system for a series of Borei-class submarines, with assistance from Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau experts, a fact never mentioned by Institute critics.

MOSCOW, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Russia's navy pins great hopes on the Bulava ICBM, which has been plagued by problems for 15 years. The missile is also the focus of intrigue, with some designers wishing it good luck and others good riddance.

MOSCOW, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- China is actively operating in the African market because other leading arms exporters, including Russia, tend to neglect the region. But judging by the countries involved in Africa Aerospace and Defense-2008, this is not exactly so.

MOSCOW, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- From Sept. 17 to 21 the largest regional aerospace, defense and security exhibition, Africa Aerospace and Defense-2008, was held at Ysterplaat Air Base near Cape Town in South Africa.

MOSCOW, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Defense's decision to deploy 10 Ground-based Mid-course Interceptors -- GBIs -- in Poland will expose the real interim and end goals of its plans for a global anti-ballistic missile -- ABM -- system, which Washington started creating after it withdrew from the Soviet-American 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile treaty in 2002.

MOSCOW, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has finished his visit to Warsaw. His talks with his Polish counterpart, Radoslaw Sikorski, focused on the situation in the Caucasus and the planned deployment of 10 U.S. anti-ballistic missile interceptors at Redzikowo, near Slupsk in northern Poland.

MOSCOW, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- The five-day conflict between the Russian army and Georgia last month exposed serious Russian weaknesses in the field of radio-electronic warfare.

MOSCOW, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- On Wednesday Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov had to explain to the State Duma why the Russian army lacked modern weapons during the recent enforcement operation in Georgia.

MOSCOW, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- In recent years Jordan has bought from Russia two Ilyushin Il-76MF military transport planes worth a combined $100 million and six light multirole Kamov Ka-226 helicopters at an estimated cost of $25 million, which will be assembled in Jordan under license. The two countries have even set up a joint venture, Oboronprom Middle East, to assemble 15 to 20 Kamov Ka helicopters a year.

MOSCOW, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Three events have come together independently. But they produced an intrigue that has hooked both politicians and media in the Middle East.