Arctic rush

Tsavo Lion wrote:Britain intends to increase military presence in the Arctic
http://www.ng.ru/news/640177.html?print=Y

miketheterrible wrote:With an almost non existent navy and no I've breakers.

Good luck morons.

Tsavo Lion wrote:They won't need to go past Norway, Iceland, Greenland & Spitsbergen. Russia won't be sending her marines there, but defend her possessions. Canada has her units in their Arctic & the US won't need British help in Alaska. Small SOF groups can be deployed from subs, like they were from the German U-boats.

Tsavo Lion wrote:They want to train there, get used to Arctic cold weather ops., & put pressure on Russia. Also to prove that they too can operate there.

TsavoL wrote: If Russia's shelf claims r not honored, she can withdraw from UNCLOS & restore the Soviet Arctic sector boundaries, i.e. expanded EEZ.

besides attack on Russia is any other reason?

Tsavo Lion wrote:https://strana.ua/news/187496-vlasti-ssha-zajavili-chto-arktika-dolzhna-byt-mezhdunarodnoj-territoriej.html

If the US had as many icebreakers, those words would have more weight.

Tsavo Lion wrote:What kind of countermeasures in Scandinavia r going to stop Russian AShMs fired from land, sea &/ air? Finland isn't going to do much for the US unless she wants to become another target.
New Russian B/CMs can avoid the Arctic all together. SS/GNs escorting SSBNs in the Arctic can sink those ships too.
IMO, they want to sail there to spy & prevent Russia & China from  exploiting resources/NSR/high Arctic all by themselves.  
It's all part of economic war against both.

Tsavo Lion wrote:What kind of countermeasures in Scandinavia r going to stop Russian AShMs fired from land, sea &/ air? Finland isn't going to do much for the US unless she wants to become another target.

TS wrote: New Russian B/CMs can avoid the Arctic all together. SS/GNs escorting SSBNs in the Arctic can sink those ships too.
IMO, they want to sail there to spy & prevent Russia & China from  exploiting resources/NSR/high Arctic all by themselves.  
It's all part of economic war against both.

Tsavo Lion wrote:Russia's extended shelf claims outside of the EEZ r suspected to have a lot of resources & in any case those planning to navigate there will also need Russia's permission.

kvs wrote:The reason NATO is making so much noise about the Arctic is that Uncle Scumbag has plans to deploy his ship based ABM systems
 

Hole wrote:The russian claims (backed by scientific research) will extend the EEZ.

Tsavo Lion wrote:Update on US strategy in the Arctic:
https://regnum.ru/news/polit/2583549.html

http://sudostroenie.info/novosti/20583.html

Russia's coastal waters "don't belong to anyone".

Borisov said that Russia "will not lose her" in the Arctic

Russia will not cede its influence in the Arctic, since this region is in the zone of interests of Moscow. The corresponding statement was made by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov.

“This territory is the sphere of interests of Russia. We will not miss ours and will not give up, ”said Borisov in the program“ Moscow. Kremlin. Putin. "

Earlier, the commander of the US Navy in Europe and Africa, Admiral James Foggo, frankly stated that the United States would apply all possible forces and resources to prevent the leadership of the Russian Federation in the Arctic region. According to him, Moscow is allegedly expanding its military presence in the Arctic, and in this regard, Washington does not exclude the possibility of a Russian-American conflict in the future.

The Russian side, in turn, rejected the allegations of increasing its military presence in other regions and of any other actions aimed at violating the international order.

In late February, the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Dmitry Kobylkin, said that Russia has every chance to expand the zone of the Arctic shelf zone in the Arctic Ocean.

Tsavo Lion wrote:
What he means is the area beyond the 12 mile coastal waters & the 200 mile undisputed EEZ; but huge areas r disputed. Btw, the US didn't ratify UNCLOS & isn't a party to it; it sees itself as the special nation above the law.

Engineers in the Chelyabinsk region have developed a data center for arctic conditions

Scientists noted that the "Arctic data center" can be used in the petrochemical and gas industry, mechanical engineering
CHELYABINSK, February 28. / Corr. TASS Alexander Chirkov. Engineers of the All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Academician Zababakhin in Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk Region, have developed a data processing center (DPC) that will allow forecasting changes in climate and the world’s ocean and solving technical problems in arctic conditions. Much of the engineering and computing equipment developed by the data center is produced in Russia, TASS reported on Thursday at the Research Institute.

"The Russian Federal Nuclear Center has developed unique technical solutions that allow creating a data center of a complete architecture for regions of the country with relatively low air temperatures. Such a data center is able to work in arctic conditions. Our original engineering solutions effectively use low outdoor temperatures and allow using natural heat transfer processes for assimilation of heat surpluses of the main equipment of the data center without the use of vapor compression refrigeration machines, or not nachitelnogo their use under extreme loads and high ambient temperatures, "- a spokesman said.

The Research Institute added that the "Arctic data center" can be used in industries such as the petrochemical and gas industry, engineering. It is suitable for solving problems of aerohydrothermodynamics, complex processes in the atmosphere and hydrosphere, the study of climate change in the Arctic region, for operational high-resolution forecasting of the state of the World Ocean, the study of the Earth's inner core, etc.

"A significant component of the engineering and computing equipment for the" Arctic data center "is the equipment of domestic production," said the institute.

The Russian Federal Nuclear Center - All-Russian Research Institute named after Academician E. I. Zababakhin is one of two world-class nuclear weapons centers operating in Russia.