Roger McDermott

Executive Summary Today, Moscow is modernizing and increasing its high-precision strike systems, partly reflecting the drive to implement the...

The joint Belarusian-Russian Zapad 2021 combined strategic exercise ( sovmestnoe strategicheskoe uchenie ), which lasted from September 10 to 16,...

Since Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in February–March 2014 and its subsequent involvement in destabilizing southeastern Ukraine, Russia’s Armed Forces...

During the ongoing modernization of Russia’s Armed Forces, increasing attention has turned to developing and exploiting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)...

Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has confirmed plans to create the country’s first robotic military unit. These plans draw on existing research...

Russia’s political-military leadership pays increasing attention to the combat potential of introducing and exploiting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)...

This year’s Russian annual strategic command-staff exercise ( strategicheskiye komandno-shtabnyye ucheniya —SKShU) was Kavkaz 2020, held during...

Moscow plans to develop and introduce next-generation infantry combat systems (ICS) to further advance this high-technology feature of the modern and...

Moscow’s efforts to develop, test and procure its new Su-57 fifth-generation stealth fighter have long stalled, with numerous setbacks and delays....

On April 19, Denis Manturov, the head of Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, stated that “foreign partners” had lodged applications to procure...