DefenceTalkRussia’s Western Military District will receive an unspecified number of advanced S-400 Triumf and Pantsir-S air defense systems by the end of 2015, the district’s spokesman, Col. Oleg Kochetkov, said Thursday. “Modern S-400 Triumf long-range air defense systems and Pantsir-S gun-missile air defense systems will be put in service with air defense units of the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-to-deploy-s-400-air-defense-systems-western-borders-2015-64710/

DefenceTalkFour Russian S-300 missile systems will be stationed by the end of this year in Belarus, while the issue of delivering S-400 missile systems to Belarus from Russia is being discussed, Belarusian Defense Minister Gen. Lt. Andrey Ravkov told TASS in an exclusive interview on Wednesday. “In the framework of creating a joint regional system […]https://www.defencetalk.com/belarus-in-talks-with-russia-on-supplies-of-s-400-missile-systems-64563/

DefenceTalkThe United States is not likely to place nuclear or conventional ground-based cruise and ballistic missiles in response to alleged Russian violations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, experts told Sputnik. The United States has accused Russia of conducting test flights of cruise missiles in violation of the Cold War-era INF Treaty. The Treaty […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-unlikely-to-deploy-missiles-to-europe-64552/

DefenceTalkMoscow has strongly criticized a proposed United States initiative to station military equipment along NATO’s eastern border. It would be the most aggressive act since the Cold War, a Russian defense official said. According to the Russian news agency Interfax, defense ministry official General Yuri Yakubov on Monday slammed the reported Pentagon proposal to store […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-would-retaliate-to-pentagon-weapon-stationing-plan-official-64521/

DefenceTalkRussia on Tuesday confirmed its decision to deliver S-300 air defence missile systems to Iran, but said it could not yet announce a date. “The decision on delivering S-300 to Iran has been taken but the realisation of the project will take some time,” Yevgeny Lukyanov, deputy head of Russia’s security council, was quoted by […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-confirms-sale-of-s-300-missile-systems-to-iran-64323/

DefenceTalkThe “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (SZ), a leading German national daily, reported on Friday that Berlin’s defense ministry had decided to purchase the Medium Extended Air Defense System (Meads) developed by US defense giant Lockheed Martin in cooperation with German MBDA and Italian companies. The defense ministry has, however, so far declined to confirm the report, saying […]https://www.defencetalk.com/german-defense-reportedly-decides-on-meads-missile-defense-system-64225/

DefenceTalkRussia and Turkey have tested a jointly produced short-range air defense system, as reported by Anatoly Aksenov, head of the Rosoboronexport delegation to the arms exhibition IDEF-2015. The project was developed by integrating Russia’s Igla system with a Turkish combat platform. The portable anti-aircraft missile system IGLA was designed to destroy tactical aircraft, helicopters, and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-and-turkey-have-tested-a-jointly-produced-air-defense-system-64182/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company announced it has been awarded a contract worth over $2.0 billion to deliver the combat-proven Patriot Air and Missile Defense System to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The contract, awarded on April 2, 2015 and booked in the second quarter as a direct commercial sale, includes fully digitized new-production Patriot fire units with […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-to-deliver-patriot-air-and-missile-defense-system-to-saudi-arabia-64000/

DefenceTalkThe top U.S. general says the military option to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon remains “intact” despite Russia’s decision to supply the Islamic Republic with surface-to-air S-300 missiles. Speaking at a news conference on April 16, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, “The military option that I […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-military-option-in-iran-intact-despite-russian-missiles-63881/

DefenceTalkRussia’s decision to lift a self-imposed ban on supplying an advanced air defense system to Iran is reverberating in Washington, where officials worry the move could lead to a series of complications, some of which could further destabilize the Middle East. Some of the harshest criticism came from the State Department, which said Secretary of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-troubled-by-possible-russian-missile-sales-to-iran-63837/