Russian Armed Forces are planned to be fully provided with satellite navigation by 2020

The Russian Armed Forces will be 100% equipped with satellite navigation by 2020, told head of the Military Topographic Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Sergey Kozlov.

At the time, the armed forces are provided with satellite navigation equipment by 85%, while in 2012 the figure was 50%.

He noted that the navigation equipment is not meant for every soldier now, but he expressed confidence that “this is the matter of the very near future”.

Kozlov also said that at the present time a promising system to equip the Armed Forces with geospatial information is being formed in Russia.

More than 40 thousand sets of satellite navigation equipment have already been delivered to the troops in 2014.

New Ships of Pacific Fleet to Be Used in Arctic

The ships coming into the auxiliary forces of the Kamchatka group of Pacific Fleet will be actively used for operations in the Arctic region.

This was reported to Interfax-AVN on Thursday, by the head of the department of information support of the Pacific Fleet Captain 1st Rank Roman Martov.

“In the second week of December the Pacific Fleet will include two special vessels. The flag of St. Andrew will be run over raid tugs “RB-406″ and “RB-407″ of auxiliary forces of the Kamchatka group,” R.Martov said.

According to him, only in 2014, the Pacific Fleet received 12 new ships of various classes. At the beginning of the year it was received the first batch of six multipurpose tug boats for auxiliary fleet.