ROSOBORONEXPORT,
http://www.roe.ru - Russia's agency for military exports/imports including Space Exploration.
Hi Tech Space Products and Services include:
Airborne and Spaceborne Side-looking Radars
Light Multi-purpose Airborne Surveillance Systems
Aerial Earth's Surface Photography Systems
REIS-D Unmanned Aerial Reconnaissance System
Earth Remote Sensing, Mapping and Cartographic Services
Airborne/Heliborne Remote Sensing Systems
AISBERG-RAZREZ Airborne Dual- frequency Side-looking Radar System
IL-38 Airborne Remote Sensing System
The technology transfer between the United States and Russia is considerable. Joint ventures in space require it. Going to Mars or anywhere else is going to involve ROSOBORONEXPORT,
http://www.roe.ru .
Russia sees military applications for any space venture and with ROSOBONEXPORT they will capitalize on it with any country willing to pay the bills including North Korea, Communist China, and Iran.
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If you have read the small print in SeaPower posts,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SeaPower, regarding PLA Navy, ROSOBORONEXPORT keeps croping up. This Russian agency supplies arms to PLA, North Korea, Arab nations, and just about anyone or any nation desiring Russian arms and technology and has the funds to procure them. The agency website,
http://www.roe.ru, though dated reveals quite a lot. The information below is from that site; to learn more go directly to the site.
The USA considers Russia a friend just like Communist China. I suspect some of our NASA joint ventures in outer space are coordinated through RosoboroneExport. Maybe Russia is a friendly nation officially but the country's continuted development of state of the art weapons and export to our potential and actual adversaries does not seem too friendly to me. President Bush once stated words to the effect, "Either you are for us or against us."
In the years ahead, and not too many years at that, we will find out who are friends and who are foes. Let's hope we have more friends than enemies and regardless of the source of their arms they are not directed at us. With Russia and China increasing production of arms - it looks like the Space Race is a continuation of the Cold War all over again.
Phelps Hobart, Moderator
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SeaPower
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http://www.patriotfiles.com/forum/sh...hreadid=38585.
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The ROSOBORONEXPORT State Corporation is the sole state intermediary agency for Russia's military exports/imports. ROSOBORONEXPORT is the principal Russian arms exporter ranked among the leading operators in the international arms market. The name of "ROSOBORONEXPORT" is associated with major arms deliveries within the framework of the Russia's military-technical cooperation with foreign countries, famous brands of Russian armaments classed among the world's best, prominent defence industries with high-skilled workforce and time-tested traditions, advanced military science and technology.
ROSOBORONEXPORT delivers a complete range of defence-related products for all military, paramilitary and special services, as well as dual- and civil-purpose technologies. It works out and implements integrated defence projects tailored to customer needs.
Basic Trade Activities:
export/import of military/dual-use equipment and strategic raw materials;
logistics and maintenance, delivery of spare parts, tools and accessories, special liquids, fuels and lubricants required for proper operation of the supplied materiel;
technical assistance in construction of defence infrastructure, including arms manufacturing plants, airfields, depots, firing ranges, training centres, etc;
delivery of materials, components, and parts for licensed arms production;
retrofits, upgrades and modernisation of previously supplied weapon systems;
personnel training in Russia and on customer site;
promotion of civil-purpose innovative technologies developed by the Russian defence industries.
ROSOBORONEXPORT has set up an analytical and information database including over 700 innovation civil projects of the Russian enterprises in the defense industry complex covering various fields of science and technology. Apart from this, it has published the catalogues of innovation projects in Russian, English, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, and French.
The ROSOBORONEXPORT?s activity is aimed at the product differentiation in the foreign market, quality improvement and raising competitiveness of the products, upgrading engineering capability of the enterprises, refurbishment and replacement of the obsolete equipment, maintenance and development of the scientific, technical and industrial potential of the defense industry complex enterprises.
Cooperation experience of ROSOBORONEXPORT in the sphere of innovations with a number of companies from China, India, Lebanon, Syria, Peru and Egypt shows a highly competitive potential of the Russian defence industry complex in terms of high technology innovation products. Target marketing missions were undertaken with respect to many innovation projects, a number of road shows were organized abroad, some financial support agreements were signed and joint ventures are to be established on bilateral basis.
At present, ROSOBORONEXPORT cooperates with more than 500 enterprises and organizations in the sphere of high technology products. The defence industry enterprises are located in 56 regions of the Russian Federation. The Corporation?s permanent representatives have their offices in 24 main industrial regions.
Successful promotion of Russian innovation projects in the foreign market will make it possible not only to maintain and build up scientific, technical and industrial potential of the Russia?s defense industry in separate industrial segments but to raise additional possibilities of establishing mutually beneficial cooperation with foreign countries including the development of modern and advanced weapons and military equipment.
16 April 2004 Rosoboronexport State Corporation press service
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