The legendary Soviet spymaster, who was highly respected by the USSR’s allies and rivals alike, took part in some of the most important Soviet missions in foreign countries and ran a large network of ...

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is looking at buying the Russian-made R-37 Vympel air-to-air missile, which can hit targets as far as 200 km away, news agency ANI reported. This step is part of the IAF’s ...

Cool photo of a Vympel R-73 (NATO reporting name AA-11 Archer). The R-73 is an infrared homing (heat-seeking), short-range missile with a sensitive, cryogenic cooled seeker that can “see” targets up ...

The first Stupinets-class missile corvette is launched at Vympel Shipyard in Rybinsk, Russia. (Vympel Shipyard JSC) Stupinets, the first of a new class of missile boat for the Russian Navy, was ...

RBTH has compiled information from open sources about the most famous covert operations by the Russian Special Forces. Since most of the information concerning these events is still classified, we ...

Vympel’s air-to-air missiles prepared for export include the short-range RVV-MD (R-74M), the medium-range RVV-SD (R-77-1) and the long-range RVV-BD (R-37M). Credit: Piotr Butowski Moscow-based GosMKB ...

Russian shipyard Vympel is currently in negotiation with Vietnam for the delivery of four 12418 Molniya class missile boats for the Vietnamese Coast Guard, according to the company and Denis Manturov, ...

The Russian Su-35S recently deployed to Syria have been accompanied by Vympel R-77 medium range, active radar homing air-to-air missile system; a weapon that can be considered the Russian counterpart ...