All news for 4 july 2012Russia comes in second by the volume of arms export ![](/images/tr.gif)
Among them are India, Algeria, China, Vietnam, Venezuela and USA. Altogether, Russia is carrying out military-technical cooperation with more than 80 countries.
Dmitry Medvedev proposed to remove duties on imported aircraft having fewer than 72 seats![](/images/tr.gif)
Medvedev noted that demand for such aircraft, taking into account maturing and removal from service of major part of aircraft with such capacity, is rather high, while Russia’s production capacities are rather limited.
The air forces may put a new bomber into operation in 2020![](/images/tr.gif)
Such optimistic forecast is connected with the fact that the concept of PAK DA has already been formed and now the request for proposals is being refined
Another $775,3 million will be invested in the “Air Launch” project![](/images/tr.gif)
It is planned to develop a technology demonstrator prior to the start of research and development work, because investors want to see the innovative part of the project.