| 04/14/2018 12:55 | Turkish-designed Pakistan Navy Fleet Tanker Completes Maiden Sea Trials ( Defenseworld.net )
Turkish defense contractor STM announced Thursday the first successful sea trials of the 158-meter Pakistan Navy Fleet Tanker (PNFT), built in cooperation with Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works. According to STM's website the ship embarked on its maiden voyage on March 31, 2018, Anadolu ... |
| 04/14/2018 06:05 | Lockheed Martin Wins $14M USAF Contract For Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles ( Defenseworld.net )
The US Air Force has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin to produce four Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles (LRASM), the Department of Defense announced Thursday. âLockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Florida, has been awarded a $13,920,004 fixed-price incentive modification ... |
| 04/12/2018 11:50 | Algerian Military Plane Crashes, Killing 257 People ( Defenseworld.net )
A Mi-8 helicopter belonging to one of special services of the Russian Federation has crashed in Chechnya killing five people. ... changes in his organization and the impact this would have on future of the corporation and on important products of Russian aviation manufactured at the Irkutsk Aviation. |
| 04/12/2018 11:50 | Tulpar Interior Group expands Superjet 100 capability list ( www.rusaviainsider.com )
Components are delivered to Moscow within 10 to 16 hours and may be shipped to Ufa, Tyumen, Surgut, Mineralnye Vody, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk and other locations within Russia. Tulpar Aero Group's other subsidiary, Tulpar Technic obtained approval for SSJ100 maintenance in September 2016 and ... |
| 04/07/2018 06:55 | Russia's MC-21 to make international debut in autumn 2018 ( TASS )
... Russia-designed family of short-and medium-haul narrow fuselage passenger jets. The work on the project is proceeding at the Irkut Corporation, with the A.S. Yakovlev Experimental Design Bureau (an affiliate of Rostec) taking part. On May 28, 2017 the MĐĄ-21-300 performed the first flight in Irkutsk. |
| 04/06/2018 13:00 | US Approves Sale of 17 CH-47F Chinook Cargo Helicopters to Spain for $1.3 Billion ( Defenseworld.net )
... United Aircraft Corporation... Yuri Slyusar, recently appointed President of Irkut Corporation, Russia commented on the structural changes in his organization and the impact this would have on future of the corporation and on important products of Russian aviation manufactured at the Irkutsk Aviation. |
| 04/06/2018 13:00 | Russia, Tajikistan waive bilateral restrictions on air connection ( www.rusaviainsider.com )
Following Ural Airlines' failure to secure the desired routes, two Tajik carriers â Somon Air and Tajik Airlines received a notice from Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency suspending a number of their routes, including flights from Dushanbe to Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kazan, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, ... |
| 03/27/2018 13:00 | Russia to conduct test flight of second MS-21 aircraft in May ( Xinhua )
MOSCOW, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Russian aircraft manufacturer Irkutsk Aviation Plant said it has completed assembling of the second MS-21 passenger aircraft and its test flight will take place in May, a spokesman of the company said Monday. The second MS-21 has been transferred from the final ... |
| 03/26/2018 06:35 | Improved second MC-21 flight test prototype rolled out ( Aviation Analysis Wing )
The second flight test prototype of the Irkut MC-21-300 single aisle passenger jet has been rolled out from the Irkutsk plant in Siberia, Russia. ... At present, the fuselage of the third MS-21-300 aircraft is assembled at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, and the compartments and assemblies of the fourth car are ... |
| 03/26/2018 06:35 | Woman survives after getting trapped in avalanche for four hours ( Metro )
A teacher has been dug out from an avalanche after being buried for four hours. Anastasia Markova, 29, became trapped after two snow slabs fell on to her from a hospital roof in Artyomovsky, in the Irkutsk region of eastern Russia. METROGRAB - TAKEN WITHOUT PERMISSION Photographer has ... |
| 03/23/2018 14:50 | Russian container shippers: Far East port work too focused on bulk ( JOC.com )
By 2020, the same problem may occur at other sections of Russia's railways in the Far East, all of which have a direct connection to the largest local seaports: Lena-Vostochnaya-Taksimo (Western BAM), Irkutsk-Slyudyanka (Trans-Siberian Railway) and Komsomolsk-Vanino (Eastern BAM). |
| 03/23/2018 14:50 | Eco-Friendly Bitcoin Mining Can Reduce Carbon Footprints (Yes, Really) ( Bitcoin Magazine )
In the tiny Siberian town of Irkutsk, Russia, Ilya Frolov and Dmitry Tolmachyov are using the heat emitted by their mining rigs to keep their micro home warm. The system heats up a water source connected to the mining hardware, and once warmed, the water is piped to a space heater to keep their abode ... |
| 03/22/2018 07:00 | Visit Lake Baikal and fall in love with Siberia ( BEAM Media )
If you are traveling from a nearby town, such as Irkutsk or Ulan-Ude, you can also get to Baikal lake by bus or by car. The three main ... The idea of freedom from serfdom and the lure of free lands had driven many Russians to Siberia between the 17th and the end of the 19th centuries. Baikal lake was ... |
| 03/21/2018 14:40 | Mazda meets the beast in the east ( Eurekar )
Getting a Russian Visa to travel to East Siberia was a task in itself with pages of questions and a visit to a Consulate to be finger printed before being ... Irkutsk was founded back in 1661 by Cossacks and the road to the lake was 40 miles long and very straight which allowed time to get used to the icy ... |
| 03/18/2018 02:45 | Putin's Strategy Is To Glorify Russia's Past, Journalist Says ( Delaware First Media )
Putin's Strategy Is To Glorify Russia's Past, Journalist Says ... GREENE: And that includes a recent trip he took to the city of Irkutsk, which is a six-hour plane ride east of Moscow. ... Walker writes about this in his new book called "The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia And The Ghosts Of The Past. |
| 03/17/2018 13:40 | Putin's Strategy Is To Glorify Russia's Past, Journalist Says ( NPR )
To preview this Sunday's presidential election in Russia, NPR's David Greene talks with reporter Shaun Walker about his new book The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the ... GREENE: And that includes a recent trip he took to the city of Irkutsk, which is a six-hour plane ride east of Moscow. |
| 03/17/2018 00:45 | Plane loses its $368 million cargo of gold, platinum and diamonds on takeoff ( The Siberian Times )
Technical engineers at the Yakutsk airport who prepared the plane for takeoff have been detained. The value of the load was put at 21 billion roubles. Yakutsk is capital of Yakutia or the Sasha Republic, Russia's diamond producing region. |
| 03/09/2018 13:50 | Russia's Communist party candidate Pavel Grudinin is proving too popular for the Kremlin's liking ( NZCity )
The cooperative farm's success and socially responsible policies have become the calling card for its director of 22 years, Pavel Grudinin, the surprise Communist party candidate for Russia's presidency. He has got charisma, poise and a certain ease in front of the cameras. "The authorities are always ... |
| 02/24/2018 06:10 | George Eugene Mikhailovsky, PhD, Celebrates Nearly 50 Years of Professional Excellence ( Chicago Evening Post )
From 1981 to 1995, he was a leading researcher with the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology at the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow, Russia. Earlier in his career, he was a professor with Irkutsk State University from 1978 to 1981. Dr. Mikhailovsky began his career at Moscow State University, ... |
| 02/23/2018 21:30 | Novosibirsk's Tolmachevo embarks on boosting regional transport infrastructure ( www.rusaviainsider.com )
Novosibirsk's Tolmachevo airport (managed by Novaport) has contributed to developing the nearby railroad station Ob into a multimodal hub of regional significance. As a result of the efforts to connect the airport to the station, traffic through Ob increased 36% in 2017, whereas the number of passengers ... |
