Ultimate Combat Team: 11 Hardcore Russian Weapons

The Russian Tu-160 White Swan is a supersonic variable-sweep wing heavy strategic bomber/missile carrier, designed to engage targets around the globe with nuclear and conventional weapons. It can carry up to 40 tons of weapons.

The T-90 is Russia’s main battle tank armed with a 125mm smoothbore cannon and an anti-aircraft remotely controlled machinegun. The ammunition includes four types of missiles: armor-piercing, piercing, cumulative and high-explosive detonation from a remote system, allowing ammunition to explode at a desired point of the trajectory.

It can also fire using Reflex and Cobra anti-tank guided missiles. The elevation of the tank allows it to hit hovering helicopters.

The T-90’s Shtora electro-optical active protection system shields the vehicle from anti-tank guided missiles.

Novorossiysk is a Varshavyanka-class diesel-electric submarine featuring advanced stealth technology, extended combat range and the ability to strike land, surface and underwater targets. Such subs have been dubbed "black holes in the ocean" by the US Navy because they are virtually undetectable when submerged.

The Bora guided-missile vessel is in fact a hovercraft that can reach speeds of 100km/h. It carries eight anti-ship Mosquito missiles and 20 anti-aircraft Osa-M missiles. Its crew stands at 68 men.

The Pantsir-S1 (NATO reporting name SA-22 Greyhound) is a short-to-medium range gun-missile system combining a wheeled vehicle mounted with a fire-control radar and electro-optical sensor, two 30mm cannons and up to twelve 57E6 radio-command guided short-range missiles.

The system is designed to detect and hit a variety of targets flying at altitudes from five meters to 15 kilometers and at the range from 200 meters to 20 kilometers. It has a reaction time of just five seconds. It can shoot down planes, helicopters, guided bombs, cruise and ballistic missiles.

The MiG-35 4++ generation multipurpose jet can detect and destroy aerial, ground and surface targets, lock on to 10 targets and engage up to six of them. It can be armed with a 30mm gun, air-to-air, air-to-surface, anti-ship, anti-radar missiles, rockets, bombs and aerial mines.

The S-300 surface-to-air missile system can engage aerial targets such as helicopters, warplanes, cruise or ballistic missiles. It can track 12 and engage six targets simultaneously.

The Mi-28N Night Hunter is a modification of the Mi-28 gunship designed for round-the-clock combat operations. It can find and destroy the enemy's vehicles and manpower using its 30mm gun and missiles.

Borey-class submarines are armed with 16 Bulava ballistic missiles each carrying up to 10 nuclear warheads with an operational range of up to 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles). Eight Borey-class submarines are expected to enter into service by 2020 and become the primary nuclear force for the Russian Navy. Three of them have been already commissioned.

Above: The Alexander Nevsky nuclear submarine

The Buk-M2 (NATO codename SA-17 Grizzly) is an upgraded version of the proven Buk-M1 mobile air defense system and retains its main features. It comprises a command post, a target acquisition radar, and up to six loader-launcher vehicles carrying four 9M38 ground-to-air missiles.

The system has a target acquisition range of up to 50 km (31 miles), maximum target altitude around 25 km (82,000ft) and maximum target speed of around Mach 4.

The RS-24 Yars is a solid-fuel fifth-generation intercontinental ballistic missile which can carry multiple independently targetable nuclear warheads and is designed to evade missile defense systems up to a range of 7,500 miles.

It is an upgraded version of the Topol-M ballistic missile that can be fired both from a mobile launcher and silo.