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nicky

Junior Member
Crimea gives Russia comfortable control ground over Black Sea and force projection into Mediterranean.
Black Sea diesel subs and small surface vessels equipped with Club-type missiles cover strategic targets like Paris and London without INF violation.
Crimean campaign was successful due to support of the local population both for ethnic and economic reasons.
Ethnic problems with almost half of the population of Estonia and Latvia render them weak allies.
Both provided significant transit capabilities for the USSR. Putin cut those to the minimum expanding Saint-Pete region sea ports dramatically.
Plans for the Baltics of the switching from West-East to North-South can hardly be appreciated by Poland which provides safer and shorter route Danzig-Constanca, avoiding Belorus with this Lukashenko guy.
 

LesAdieux

Junior Member
Russian President Vladimir Putin warns he'll retaliate against NATO missiles


(CNN)Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia will retaliate against the placement of U.S. missiles in nearby countries such as Romania, according to Russia's state-run news agency TASS.
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earlier this month in Romania. The system is meant to defend Europe against rogue states like Iran and not intended to target Moscow's missiles, Washington has said.
Putin issued his threat during a news conference Friday after meeting with Greek Prime Minister Aleksis Tsipras in Athens.



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Putin is a man of his words, what will he do?

and US is planning to deploy Thaad in south korea, how will China respond?
 

delft

Brigadier
And what was the point of occupying the Crimea? It's pretty useless in terms of strategy (talk about Germans when they evacuated from there during WWII and it ended in one ugly pointless mess) aside from naval base (which Russians could evaporate easily using ballistic missiles in case of war). It only turned out to be a black hole for Russian budget and people there aren't too happy now as well.
One of the first acts of the Kiev parliament after the coup was to accept as law that only the Ukrainian language should be used. It was not signed by the provisional president so it didn't become an act but it was sufficient reason, having in mind the discrimination against Russian speakers in the Baltic states, for the parliament of the autonomous region of the Crimea to declare independence, organize a referendum and then seek accession to the Russian Federation. ( There was no need for a 77 days bombing campaign as was necessary to achieve the failed state Kosovo. See recent articles in the New York Times for the strength of the supporters of IS in that unfortunate country ).
It was to be expected that the Victory Nuland created regime in Kiev would not accept the extension of the lease of the Sevastopol naval base from 2017 to 2042 that was already signed which would have reduced the ability of Russia to defend itself against NATO and would have limited severely its capability to support Syria against the terrorists acting against it. So Russia happily accepted the accession of Crimea.
The infrastructure of Crimea was in a deplorable state after a quarter of a century of neglect and also remember the Zubr destined for China that was damaged when a hoist failed in the shipyard at Feodosia. But repairing that is investment, not waste. And Russia is saving $500m a year rent for the naval base.
You began with suggesting that Ukraine might conquer the Crimea. How do you imagine that might happen? :D
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Russia Flight Tests Anti-Satellite Missile
Launch took place as Air Force held space war game

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May 27, 2016 5:03 am


Russia conducted a successful flight test of a developmental anti-satellite missile on Wednesday that is capable of destroying satellites in orbit, American defense officials said.

The Nudol direct ascent anti-satellite missile was launched from the Plesetsk test launch facility, located 500 miles north of Moscow, said officials familiar with the situation.

The missile was monitored by U.S. intelligence satellites and the test appeared to be successful.

The launch marks another major milestone for Moscow’s efforts to develop weapons capable of destroying U.S. navigation, communications, and intelligence satellites, a key strategic advantage.

No additional details were available, and it could not be learned if the Nudol missile was fired against a satellite or was test launched in a suborbital trajectory without hitting a target.

It was the second successful
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of the Nudol, following a Nov. 18 launch, and shows Russia is advancing its anti-satellite weaponry.

Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Michelle Baldanza declined to comment.

Under Russian President Vladimir Putin, Moscow is modernizing its entire strategic arsenal and developing new weapons like anti-satellite missiles.

Air Force Lt. Gen. David J. Buck, commander of the Joint Functional Component Command for Space, told a House hearing in March that the Russians are developing space weapons, known as “counter-space capabilities.”

“Russia views U.S. dependency on space as an exploitable vulnerability, and they are taking deliberate actions to strengthen their counter-space capabilities,” Buck told the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee.

Gen. John Hyten, the commander of Air Force Space Command, also has said both Russia and China are building space weapons. “They are developing capabilities that concern us,” Hyten has
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in press reports.

Russia’s Nudol program has been couched in secrecy, but it appears linked to Moscow’s missile defense systems. State-run press reports in the past have mentioned the Nudol experimental development project as a “a new Russian long-range missile defense and space defense intercept complex.”

Former Pentagon official Mark Schneider said senior U.S. military leaders have been warning about Russian anti-satellite threats for years and regard it as serious.

“GPS guidance has been widely adopted for many of our weapons because it was cheap, all weather, and works well in low and medium intensity conventional conflict,” he said. “The loss of GPS guidance due to [anti-satellite] attack would take out a substantial part of our precision weapons delivery capability and essentially all of our standoff capability.”

Geneva-based Russian military analyst Pavel Podvig speculated whether Russia may have conducted a simulated intercept in the latest test.

How the Nudol program fits within Russia’s military doctrine is difficult to assess, he said.

“My take is that it is not necessarily part of a well thought out strategic plan,” Podvig said.

Soviet-era and current Russian weapons developments were often developed without a clear idea on how they would be employed.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if the [Nudol] system is being developed just because it can be developed—they will think about its role later, assuming that it works,” he noted.

Podvig said the apparent missile manufacturer, Almaz-Antey, “is making an argument that an [anti-satellite] system might be useful to hold U.S. [low-earth orbit] assets at risk.”

“But if it gets to a real conflict scenario it is very difficult to see how this capability might be militarily useful,” he added.

A Defense Intelligence Agency report to Congress in February 2015 warned that, “Russia’s military doctrine emphasizes space defense as a vital component of its national defense. Russian leaders openly assert that the Russian armed forces have anti-satellite weapons and conduct anti-satellite research.”

Schneider said the threat to U.S. satellites is compounded by a lack of kinetic U.S. counter-space capabilities that could hold Russian Glonass satellites at risk.

China also is developing anti-satellite missiles and in 2007 conducted a test of a missile that destroyed a weather satellite, resulting in tens of thousands of pieces of dangerous orbiting debris.

The blog Planet4589.org, which monitors space launches, lists three earlier Nudol tests, including an April 22, 2015, test that failed. The two other tests were the successful launch on Nov. 18 and an Aug. 12, 2014 launch.

The blog identified the Russian designation for the Nudol missile as “14Ts033.”

Coincidentally, the Nudol test took place a day before the Air Force Space Command concluded a major annual war game involving a notional Russian adversary armed with both direct ascent anti-satellite missiles and orbiting anti-satellite robots, command officials told reporters.

Air Force Col. Mike Angle, Space Command’s chief of training, weapons, and tactics, said the exercise involved European allies and U.S. forces facing off against a “peer competitor” in 2026 that appeared to be Russia.

The annual exercise is called Schriever Wargame 2016 and was held this year at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala.

The exercise included simulated activities by missiles, cyber attacks, and orbiting satellite-killing robots. Scenarios also included cyber attacks against GPS satellites that provided false data to military GPS receivers that are widely used for navigating precision-guided weapons.

“We’ve got to, and we feel we need to, prepare for a crisis or conflict that might extend in the space domain,” Angle said.

Jason Altchek, a Space Command official who directed the war game, would not say if the notional adversary was Russia. “I can tell you it was a global scenario that focused on the European Command,” he said, noting that the scenarios were split evenly among space and cyber crisis and conflict simulations and responses.

Pressed on whether Russia was the adversary, Altchek said such details remain classified. “But I can tell you that the Schriever Wargame has gone from looking at a near-peer competitor, to a peer competitor,” he said.

The seven allied nations that took part in the war games were not immediately identified by the Air Force. However, Angle said one lesson was that “were not all on the same sheet of music” in dealing with space and cyber threats.

Past Air Force exercises had been limited to mainly launching and controlling satellites in a relatively peaceful space domain. “We had never trained to perform in the face of a thinking adversary,” Angle said.

In recent years and including the recent war game, the military has begun training to deal with space threats such as “what happens when you have a direct ascent [missile] launched against a satellite,” Angle said.

Missiles are easier to identify than unidentified, small maneuvering satellites that might either be a killer anti-satellite robot or a benign maintenance satellite.

The goal of the exercise was to simulate coalition warfare that extends into space and cyber space.

The scenarios took place in the European Command area and included “a full spectrum of threats across diverse operating environments to challenge civilian and military leaders, planners and space system operators, as well as the capabilities they employ.”

About 200 military personnel and civilians from 27 commands and agencies took part.
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to those who recently were slinging mud, in either direction, instead of posting news in this Thread:
if you don't stop, I'll report
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/russian-military-news-reports-data-etc.t1545/page-342#post-399905
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/russian-military-news-reports-data-etc.t1545/page-342#post-399909
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/russian-military-news-reports-data-etc.t1545/page-342#post-399910
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/russian-military-news-reports-data-etc.t1545/page-343#post-399940
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/russian-military-news-reports-data-etc.t1545/page-343#post-399980
and whatever other posts will present similar no-news

(I'm saying this because I think only Jeff regularly checks
Russian Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
and he's in (I'm his Facebook Friend so I happen to know where he is), otherwise he already would've told you something)
 

navyreco

Senior Member
Russian Navy Upgrading its Project 949A Oscar II SSGN Submarines into 949AM Variant
Russia has started the multi-year program to upgrade Project 949A (Antey-class, NATO reporting name: Oscar II) nuclear-powered submarines armed with cruise missiles (SSGN), according to a source in Russian defense industry.

"The upgraded Project 949A submarines will be designated as Project 949AM (M stands for upgraded, Modernizirovannaya). The number of cruise missiles is planned to be increased from 24 to 72 and 3M45 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) cruise anti-ship missiles (ASM) are to be replaced by a mix of 3M55 Onyx (SS-N-26 Strobile) ASM and 3M54 Kalibr (SS-N-27 Sizzler) ASM/land-attack missiles. The upgrade of Project 949A SSGNs does not require drastic design changes to the submarines` hulls. Russian defense industry is developing new standard launching tube suitable for both 3M55 and 3M54 missiles. The Project 949AM SSGNs will also receive new fire control system (FCS), navigation and communication suites, sonar, radar and electronic warfare (EW) equipment, as well as updated Omnibus-M combat information system and Simfoniya navigation suite," the source said. He did not mention the total cost of the program. According to open sources, the cost of one boat`s upgrade is estimated at RUB12 billion (about USD180 million). Most of Project 949A submarines are planned to be turned into Project 949AM boats by 2020.
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TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Russians have issued a requirement for a new Squad automatic weapon in 5.45x39mm to replace the RPK 74 and supplement The new PKP variants in 7.62x54R
US published short on the requirements
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FAB take including run down of requirements in english
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2.3 Name of product: 5.45 mm handheld assault machinegun with a combined feed “KORD-5.45”, abbreviated – “Kord-5.45” MG.
2.4 Index – PR-5.45.

3.1 Composition of the machine gun
3.1.1 The barrels:
a) long;
B) short.

3.1.2 Receiver.
3.1.3 The bolt frame.
3.1.4 The spring.
3.1.5 The stock, telescopic, folding.
3.1.6 folding bipod, telescopic, removable.
3.1.7 Tactical grip and carrying handle.
3.1.8 The cover of the receiver.
3.1.9. Receiver
3.1.10 Receiver cover.
3.1.11 Flash hider
3.2.12 Supressor
3.1.13 60 round magazines, 6 per each MG
3.1.14 Belt for MG, 14 parts with 50 pieces each [50 bullets]
3.1.15 Cartridge box with a capacity of 100/250 rounds (two boxes of each kind).
3.1.16 Carrying strap small arms type 6SH5.
3.1.17 sleeve for firing blank.
3.1.18 Tool kit, accessories and spare parts (spare parts box).
3.1.19 Bags for magazines with a “Malle” mounting system – 3 pcs. 2 mag. (60 rounds) each.
3.1.20 Bags for cartridge boxe (100/250 round), 2 pcs. on the gun.
3.1.21 Case for carrying a machine gun.
3.1.22 The transport containers.

3.14.1 On machine gun should be provided connecting position (“Picatinny rail”) over the entire length of the receiver.
3.14.2 Installation of optical sight (such as sight “Narodovolets”) with mounting places for night (thermal) vision on connecting places on p.3.14.1 should not affect the convenience of the service dealing with a machine gun.
3.14.3 On the machine gun should be provided connecting space (bracket type “Picatinny”) in the forearm area.
3.14.3 Machine gun must have a folding stock, adjustable in length and height adjustable support under the cheek.
3.14.4 Machine gun must have a mechanical sight for firing at ranges of 100 to 800 m in increments of installation of the sight of 100 m.
3.14.5 Magazine location – lower part of the gun, ± 15 ° from the vertical.
3.14.6 The design of machine gun ammunition feed system shall be able to accept both belts and magazines (“combined feed”): use the AK-74 and RPK-74 machine gun magazines and belts.
3.14.7 60 rounds magazines should be able to be use in the AK-74 and RPK-74.
3.14.8 The machine gun has to have an ambidextrous safety.
Now attached to both of these stories is an image, this is not the new gun, This is infact a weapon the IP-2 dating back to the 1970's. Why is it there? because it actually matches the wants to a T, only the Soviet command of the time decided it was to complicated.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
And More,
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Since the Russians are now basically giving the Russian army a Total rebuild with new uniforms, new camo, new tanks, new AK's New LMG's new GPMG's, new pistols and now new DMRs? the Dragonovs in current service started back in 1963 and have limitations for mounting new sights and ergonomics a few have rebuilt to something more modern but it's expensive to overhaul and tends to add weight and complexity. also there are no muzzle devices suitable for use. Photos surfaced a while back of Russian SF ditching SVD's for HK417's because of the problems.
The new weapon the SK16 if adopted would be shorter and have options for suppressors and the like. It sill operates on the same basic operation of the SVD. notably it's not using the 7/62x54R round that has been a mainstay of Russian Marksmen since the last decades of the Tsars. instead they are chambered for the American .308 Winchester Aka NATO 7.62x51mm round that was devised for the M14 and forcefully adopted by NATO.
 
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