Russian MoD news

Today, an expanded meeting of Defence Ministry Board Session took place at the National Centre for State Defence Control of the Russian Federation, during which the results of the activities of the Armed Forces in 2019 were summed up and tasks for the next period were determined. The President of the Russian Federation, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Vladimir Putin, addressed the members of the Session.

Vladimir V.PUTIN: Good afternoon, dear colleagues! Today is our final meeting in the framework of the December meetings with Chief Executives of the Ministry of Defence and other departments, as well as enterprises of the military industrial complex. In the course of our work, the key development directions of the Navy were discussed. With the leaders of defence industrial organizations, we discussed the issues concerning implementation of state defence orders, primarily in the areas of construction, modernization, repair and maintenance of weapons and equipment of the Navy.

The meeting on the development of requirements for a promising information system with artificial intelligence elements in the interests of activities automatization for military control bodies will be held on December 4 at the Patriot ExpoCentre. This event will bring together the representatives of military control bodies and research organizations of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.

In the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Container-type over-the-horizon detection surveillance radar combat crews entered the combat duty (Kovylkino settlement in the Republic of Mordovia). The radar combat crews took part in the state tests. In cooperation with the commission, they conducted all inspections and tests for the station. This is the first sample of such product in the country. According to the state rearmament programme and the activity plans of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, more samples of this station will be deployed and put into operation.