KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR , Russia, May 11 (UPI) -- Russia's fifth-generation jet fighter will undergo its first test flights by the end of the year, military officials said Monday.

MOSCOW, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Russia's military says it will buy back and use 24 MiG fighter jets rejected by Algeria as inferior.

MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Vice President Joe Biden returned to the United States Sunday after cordial, yet separate, meetings with Georgia's president and Russia's deputy prime minister.

MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Russian officials say a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the United States must include a ban on militarization of space.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Russia's former defense minister and First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who still spearheads high-tech development programs, said Wednesday the country's ambitious fifth-generation air superiority combat aircraft would take its first test flight before the end of 2009, RIA Novosti reported.

MOSCOW, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The testing of Russia's fifth-generation fighter aircraft has been moved up to 2009, a Russian government official said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Russia's troubled Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile has finally won its decadelong battle for survival.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Russia is planning to boost its military spending to its highest levels since the height of the Cold War, but where is it going to get the money to pay for it?

MOSCOW, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- The conflict with Georgia has prompted Russia to boost its military budget for 2009 to a record $46.8 billion, analysts said.