Russia to Set Up Core Armor Testing Area in Urals

NIZHNY TAGIL (the Sverdlovsk region), April 21 (RIA Novosti)

Russia's core center to test armor and shells for it will be established at a testing range of a institute in Nizhny Tagil in the Urals, Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's deputy prime minister in charge of defense industry issues, said on Saturday.

"The center will be major in Russia for tests of armor and shells for armor. It will be a core demonstration center where we will hold top international meetings," Rogozin told reporters.

Russian tank makers will be also obliged to train tank crews for foreign customers.

"We have a great export potential. We are going to widen it by training [the crews] and then [those trainees] will become armed forces trainers for our partners in foreign states," he also said, adding that hotels, showrooms and special simulators of military equipment will be build near the testing range soon.