The Russian Defense Ministry plans to buy Russian computers “Elbrus” for total cost 400 million. rubles, the materials, placed on the public procurement website.
According to the placement of orders, Russian Ministry of Defense till 30 September 2019 year plans to get laptops, working, graphics and multimedia stations, plotters, software and peripheral equipment, including those with special checking and spetsissledovaniyami based processors “Elbrus”. Besides, closed auction for the supply of 1 thousand sets “Elbrus-801RS” in the interests of the Defense Ministry will be held 19 October this year.
Workstation "Elbrus 801-RS" is developed on the basis of the microprocessor "Elbrus-8C" and is intended for computer workstations equipment (ARM) operators, mikroserverov and information terminals, applications in industrial automation and with high demands on information security systems.
earlier it was reported, that the Russian Defense Ministry plans to transfer all office computers of the military department with Microsoft's operating system for domestic Astra Linux, compatible with Russian processors “Elbrus”. The system for several years been used by the armed forces of Russia, in particular, It is based on the information system of the National Russian Defense Control Center. Besides, today it is used in existing weapons and military equipment and a number of promising developments.