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"Apart from the army and navy": Finnish media announced the emergence of a third ally for Russia

The demonstration of military power is extremely important for Moscow. Russian politicians want to achieve great power status for their country, recognized by other states. But Russia's share in the world economy is only about 3%, according to the Finnish TV and radio company Yle.

In this regard, the great-power aspirations of Russians rest mainly on how militarily strong Russia is seen in the world. And we must pay tribute, over the past decade, it has been seriously rearmed.

According to the Finnish Defense Ministry's Power of Russia report, Moscow has made significant progress on this issue, despite the world's economic woes. The percentage of modern weapons systems has grown significantly.

Now Russia's arms spending is being cut due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But they are still among the largest in the world, even though they make up less than 10% of the money the US spends on defense. At the same time, it is important for Moscow not only to develop new weapons, but also to create images - the image and perception of Russia's military power by others.

In 2018, Russian leader Vladimir Putin shocked the world by threatening an "invincible superweapon" - the Avangard hypersonic unit for ICBMs and other weapons systems. Since then, Russia has kept the planet in suspense, regularly recalling its military potential. This was last done on Putin's birthday, when the Russian military announced that they had successfully tested the Zircon anti-ship hypersonic missiles.

According to Professor Hiski Haukkala, reflected in the new book "The Big Game Returns", the Russian military doctrine pays great attention to information impact, since it can be used to influence the situation and make decisions. Even with a simple declaration of its military superiority, Moscow frees its hands. Therefore, the Russians in every possible way emphasize their military power, since this is important in solving foreign policy problems.

Every year in Russia, Victory Day is celebrated more and more solemnly and more monuments appear. The St. George ribbon became a symbol of Russian pride, and patriotic symbols began to be used everywhere. The state does everything it can to ensure that citizens admire the military power of their country. This is reflected in opinion polls, according to which Russians trust the army, Putin and the special services the most.

Russia has only two allies - its army and navy  - Emperor Alexander III once said.

As the Finnish media write, these words for Russians have not lost their relevance now. But given technical progress, the Russians now trust, in addition to the Ground Forces and the Navy, also the Aerospace Forces and the hypersonic missile component, calling them a third ally.

franco wrote:"Apart from the army and navy": Finnish media announced the emergence of a third ally for Russia

The demonstration of military power is extremely important for Moscow. Russian politicians want to achieve great power status for their country, recognized by other states. But Russia's share in the world economy is only about 3%, according to the Finnish TV and radio company Yle.

One does not aspire to something as a country in terms of power.   Either a country is a great power or it isn't.   That the west wrote
off Russia as a great power is its own idiocy and not Russia's failure.   Russia never stopped being a great power even during the 1990s.
Also, Russia is a superpower today.   In military terms this is without question.   But it is even valid in economic terms.  Having the
pool of energy and resources that it has makes it a natural economic superpower.   The economy is not a function of "financial industry"
and consumer trash production.   Energy alone is a critical product even if it is treated as cheap.   Without energy there is no economy,
but a solid economy can exist without speculative financial instruments an tens of millions of tons of plastic trash generation.   BTW,
even that plastic trash is directly linked to oil and natural gas for its very mass and not just the energy it takes to produce it.

In this regard, the great-power aspirations of Russians rest mainly on how militarily strong Russia is seen in the world. And we must pay tribute, over the past decade, it has been seriously rearmed.

More BS.  Russia has been digging itself out of the hole created by comprador Yeltsin.   Being a great power with a vast pool of resources that make
its enemies drool, Russia needs to protect itself.   The implicit assumption being pushed by the author is that Russia should spend this money on imports
or tranny toilet upgrades.   This shows that the author is a liberastoid.

Now Russia's arms spending is being cut due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But they are still among the largest in the world, even though they make up less than 10% of the money the US spends on defense. At the same time, it is important for Moscow not only to develop new weapons, but also to create images - the image and perception of Russia's military power by others.

Who is this clown, he writes at the level of a 7 year old without a clue.   Russia's military spending cannot be compared without PPP adjustment.
The Russian military and economy do not operate on US dollars.   Even if the PPP adjustment for the consumer sector (groceries, etc.) is a factor
of two, for the military sector it is around six.    So Russia actually spends 60% of the budget of the USA on its military and the 40% difference
can easily be accounted for by the fact that Russia does not have 800 military bases around the world.   Military bases are a locus for corruption.

Does this bonehead think Russia is merely a rotten facade, much like his closet hero Hitler?

In 2018, Russian leader Vladimir Putin shocked the world by threatening an "invincible superweapon" - the Avangard hypersonic unit for ICBMs and other weapons systems. Since then, Russia has kept the planet in suspense, regularly recalling its military potential. This was last done on Putin's birthday, when the Russian military announced that they had successfully tested the Zircon anti-ship hypersonic missiles.

How to spin Russia defending itself against the US scheme to neutralize its nuclear arsenal (a guarantor of peace in our time) with the breaking of the
ABM treaty and attempt to encircle Russia with ABM systems.    Putin never said that the Avangaard was an "invincible superweapon" that
is the author putting words in his mouth.   The Avangaard is the logical response to keep nuclear balance by defeating the US ABM scheme.   The
"invincible ABM supershield" dreamed of by the USA has failed as a project to neutralize Russia's defense.    

According to Professor Hiski Haukkala, reflected in the new book "The Big Game Returns", the Russian military doctrine pays great attention to information impact, since it can be used to influence the situation and make decisions. Even with a simple declaration of its military superiority, Moscow frees its hands. Therefore, the Russians in every possible way emphasize their military power, since this is important in solving foreign policy problems.

Drivel.   How is Russia supposed to defend itself without "information impact" on its self-asserted enemies.   If Russia did not announce hypersonic
missile tests, then the retard politicians who run NATzO would assume it was a soft pushover and would launch a war.    Russia has 1000 years
of history as proof that the west never stops its drang nach osten, so Russia is fully justified in developing its defense and making sure its enemies
know.   The style of writing of this author reminds me of the drivel common in during the Cold War.   The same cookie cutter smear.

Every year in Russia, Victory Day is celebrated more and more solemnly and more monuments appear. The St. George ribbon became a symbol of Russian pride, and patriotic symbols began to be used everywhere. The state does everything it can to ensure that citizens admire the military power of their country. This is reflected in opinion polls, according to which Russians trust the army, Putin and the special services the most.

More smear and this time aimed at the Russian people.   Victory Day is for remembrance like is common for the Holocaust.   Those two events
are linked you Nazi loving Finnish asswipe.  It makes sense for you to denigrate Russians remembering the genocidal invasion of the Nazis since
you were Nazi allies and ran death camps in Karelia.   Russian Victory Day is not a national pride in the military day, liar.   And the quoting of
polls supporting Putin are a total non sequitur for the claim being laid out in this paragraph.  

Russia has only two allies - its army and navy  - Emperor Alexander III once said.

As the Finnish media write, these words for Russians have not lost their relevance now. But given technical progress, the Russians now trust, in addition to the Ground Forces and the Navy, also the Aerospace Forces and the hypersonic missile component, calling them a third ally.

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Russia's new defense plan will ensure a guaranteed deterrence of NATO aggression

Safety first

The state defense plan for 2021-2025 will help the Russian Federation to effectively build up its military potential in the face of the NATO threat, a military political scientist, associate professor of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the Russian University of Economics , told FBA "Economy Today" GV Plekhanova, member of the Expert Council of the public organization "Officers of Russia" Alexander Perendzhiev .

The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, signed a decree that put into effect the national defense plan for the period from 2021 to 2025.
“Such a document began to appear in Russia not so long ago. It is signed for a certain period and was recently adopted - in 2016 until 2020.
When a new cell in the form of the National Center for Defense Management appeared in the military structure, the urgency of the presidential plan increased, ”commented Alexander Perendzhiev.

In a corresponding document published on the official Internet portal of legal information, the Russian leader ordered "to put into effect a plan from January 1, 2021," the development of which he had previously entrusted to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The department was ordered to analyze and take into account the changes in the military-political situation in the world, thereby paying attention to potential military threats.
The order was given by the head of state against the background of growing concern over the annual NATO exercises and the system of control over nuclear missile weapons hanging in the balance.
“First, we really need to devote time to analyzing the situation in the world and around the Russian Federation. Next, you need to take care of strengthening the existing military structures and organizing their material and technical support.

The new plan should include such mandatory tasks as improving the country's defense management system, improving weapons and equipment, increasing the mobilization and organizational readiness of the Russian troops, "the agency's interlocutor suggested.

The North Atlantic Alliance has increased the frequency of annual military preparatory events in European countries to 40. In addition, intelligence activity has increased near the Russian borders. Compared to 2018 and 2019, the increase amounted to several tens of percentage points: the intensity of aviation flights increased by 33%, and foreign warships began to sail 24% more often.

The NATO command, said earlier Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, operates according to the "four by 30" principle. That is, in order to implement anti-Russian initiatives, the organization seeks to achieve a 30-day readiness for the use of 30 aviation squadrons, 30 warships, as well as 30 mechanized battalions.

Recall that the Russian side, expressing concern about the actions of the North Atlantic Alliance, provided the transfer of new weapons and equipment to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation this year.

Improving efficiency

According to the Ministry of Defense of Russia, the troops will receive 106 aircraft, 565 armored vehicles and 436 models of missile and artillery weapons. Also, regimental kits of anti-aircraft missile system, two divisional complexes "Buk-M3", as well as six divisional complexes of the "Pantsir" system will be sent to the army.

At present, the share of modern weapons in the army is 68.2%. In order to increase it to 70% in the near future, the navy will receive 18 boats and support vessels, submarines, 14 ships and combat boats, and one Bal coastal missile system.

Six modernized strategic bombers Tu-95MS will go to the strategic nuclear forces. Together with them will arrive 22 launchers with ballistic missiles "Yars", complexes "Avangard", the first serial nuclear-powered submarine of project 955A "Borey-A" "Prince Oleg".

“The defense plan should be aimed at solving the issues that the General Staff deals with. They usually relate to theaters of military operations in different parts of the world, as well as the alleged steps of the Russian Federation in the development of negative scenarios or the emergence of various real threats.

To work out the scenarios qualitatively, the Russian side must attend to increasing the effectiveness of military education, the military sphere and infrastructure in general. We are talking about educational institutions, roads, bases, warehouses, strategic forces, airfields, lines of communication and communications and much more, ”said Perendzhiev.

The military political scientist stressed that the defense plan is not about preparing for hostilities, but about working out the actions of the state, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, and the Minister of Defense, capable of preventing armed conflicts and the participation of the Russian Federation in them.

Author: Alexandra Melnik

NOTE: Information vague as usual, however part of the new process similar to that of Equipment purchases in which there is a review and revision of the present plan every 5 years. This is an update of the 2016 plan for Strategic goals and development plans.

The role of new strategic weapons systems in ensuring strategic deterrence

The official military-theoretical journal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "Voennaya Mysl" (No. 12 for 2020 - issue ) published an interesting article by well-known Russian military theorists Colonel A.V. Evsyukov and retired lieutenant colonel A.L. Khryapin "The Role of New Strategic Arms Systems in Ensuring Strategic Deterrence" , which examines the peculiarities of using the Kinzhal air missile system with a hypersonic missile and the Peresvet laser combat complex in the interests of strategic deterrence, and primarily in the context of the concept of strategic non-nuclear deterrence.

CONTAINING aggression is an integral element of the national policy of any state throughout the centuries-old stage of the existence of the system of interstate relations. As a consequence, the threat of war, overt or implied, became a diplomatic tool with which one state held back the other from unwanted military-political moves. At the same time, the policy of strategic deterrence as the most important component of the national policy of the state received official recognition only with the advent of nuclear weapons (NW), which became the main deterrent tool for many decades. Until recently, strategic deterrence was perceived as nuclear deterrence. Moreover, as the troops (forces) are equipped with strategic non-nuclear weapons (SNNW) systems,capable of ensuring the implementation of a number of strategic tasks in military conflicts
of various scales and intensity, the role of non-nuclear deterrence is increasing in strategic deterrence. On this basis, strategic deterrence should be considered two of its components: nuclear and non-nuclear.

At present and for the foreseeable future, Russia is forced to deter the world's leading states from unleashing aggression against it and its allies by intimidation, which is based on a military threat, openly declared and communicated to a potential aggressor. In relation to other states, in addition to intimidation,
be applied deterrent actions associated with restrictions and coercion. Intimidation, restriction and coercion actions are carried out within the framework of the strategic deterrence mechanism.

Strategic deterrence is based on the combat capabilities of the RF Armed Forces (AF) to inflict damage on any aggressor incommensurate with the military-political and economic goals of the war - the so-called “deterrent” damage. Its upper limit is "unacceptable" damage, that is, damage that is absolutely unacceptable for the aggressor, when the aggressor state (aggressor states) ceases to function as a socio-political system.

In general, strategic deterrence measures are carried out continuously both in peacetime, including the period of an imminent threat of aggression, and in wartime up to the stage of massive use of nuclear weapons.

Strategic deterrence is ensured if the following conditions are met:

• the presence in the RF Armed Forces of combat-ready strategic deterrent forces, including nuclear and strategic non-nuclear forces with combat capabilities that ensure the infliction of unacceptable damage to any aggressor, including the coalition composition, in any development of the military-political and strategic furnishings;

• the determination and readiness of the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation to use these forces, if necessary, in accordance with Russian legislation.

The military policy pursued by the United States and its allies is aimed at reducing the combat capabilities of the RF Armed Forces, including the creation of a global missile defense system (ABM) and means of "instant global strike". In data
Under the conditions, the creation of modern domestic highly effective systems of strategic (nuclear and non-nuclear) weapons with equipping troops (forces) with them, as well as determining their role in ensuring strategic deterrence, are of paramount importance.

In his annual messages to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in 2018, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin stated and in 2019 confirmed the armament of the Russian Armed Forces with new types of strategic weapons:

• the Sarmat missile system with a heavy intercontinental ballistic missile;

• missile system "Avangard" with a gliding cruise warhead;

• combat laser complex (BLK) "Peresvet";

• Aviation missile system (ARC) "Dagger" with a hypersonic cruise missile;

• strategic complex "Burevestnik";

• unmanned underwater vehicle "Poseidon".

The adoption of these models into service will increase the flexibility and multivariance of the functioning of the strategic deterrent mechanism, as well as expand the possibilities of using weapons in existing and future strategic actions of the RF Armed Forces.

If the Sarmat and Avangard missile systems are assigned a role similar to the existing missile systems of the Strategic Missile Forces, then the role of directed energy weapons (ONE) and hypersonic weapons (GZO) is determined based on their unique characteristics and capabilities to influence various targets.

In modern conditions, the most important are the tasks of ensuring the combat stability of domestic strategic nuclear forces and reducing the effectiveness of the US missile defense system to a level that allows the Russian Federation to inflict unacceptable damage in retaliation. The successful fulfillment of these tasks can largely be achieved on the basis of the introduction of promising technologies and the proactive implementation of asymmetric countermeasures related to the comprehensive implementation of aerospace defense tasks, including anti-satellite warfare.

Combat laser complex "Peresvet"can be used to perform a wide range of tasks, including to combat the enemy's optical-electronic reconnaissance space assets by means of their functional defeat (suppression) by laser radiation. At present and in the medium term, it will be used to cover the positional areas of missile divisions with mobile missile systems.

The role of the strategic ONE in general and BLK "Peresvet" in particular in the system of strategic deterrence is determined by:

• an increase in the share of tasks to reduce the stability and efficiency of information, reconnaissance, combat and control systems of the enemy (primarily aerospace-based), which can be performed with the use of ONE;

• the need for highly effective selective destruction (suppression) of objects (their elements) with minimization of negative consequences for the population and the environment in the areas of strikes;

• the possibility of using the ONE both independently and together with traditional types of weapons, while ensuring an increase in their combat effectiveness;

• the possibility of using the ONE as a universal means of engaging the enemy in military conflicts of any scale and intensity;

• the ability to selectively, accurately and timely hit targets (primarily aerospace attack weapons) of the enemy;

• the ability to effectively perform cover missions against destruction of the most important groupings of troops (forces) and objects of state and military control;

• the possibility of hitting targets at a significant distance, contributing to the creation of an echeloned system of heterogeneous destruction of the enemy.

Aviation missile system "Dagger" is a GZO complex designed to perform strategic tasks in the pre-nuclear phase of a military conflict. The ARC's impact on the enemy's critical objects (CEP), including objects of the state and military command system, military-economic and combat potentials, as well as infrastructure, can decisively change the course of a military conflict and provide a significant increase in the effectiveness of the use of nuclear forces.

The possibilities of the multi-variant application of the ARC "Dagger" make it possible to exert influence on the adversary state (both the military-political leadership and the population) in order to deter it from unleashing military aggression or escalating hostilities during a military conflict.

The role of the ARC "Dagger" in the system of strategic deterrence is determined by:

• the growing importance of the factor of power in interstate relations, the aggravation of the competition between the world economic and military-political centers of power for expanding their spheres of influence, as well as the possibility of achieving the goals of political and armed confrontation by means of influence (threats impact) on various critical enemy targets using modern conventional (non-nuclear) weapons;

• improving the strategic containment mechanism and expanding the range of tasks assigned to the ARC "Dagger";

• an increase in the spatial and reduction of the temporal indicators of military operations in combination with the widespread use of "non-contact" forms of employment of troops (forces);

• increasing the combat capabilities of the ARC "Dagger" in terms of selective destructive effect on air defense systems, including the enemy's air defense-missile defense system in conditions of its opposition.

The use of this complex in military conflicts can suspend or prevent hostile actions of the enemy, limit the escalation of the conflict and will allow taking forceful actions in conditions when the use of other types of weapons is unacceptable for political, ethical or other reasons.

The advantage of a hypersonic missile in comparison with subsonic low-altitude cruise missiles is a significantly lower vulnerability when overcoming air defense and missile defense systems due to high speeds and flight altitudes. The high degree of vulnerability of subsonic low-altitude cruise missiles was confirmed by the results of the US military operations in the war against Yugoslavia, when a significant part of the American Tomahawk-class cruise missiles in that war were shot down by portable anti-aircraft missile systems.

Based on the characteristics of the ARC "Dagger" and BLK "Peresvet", it is possible to concretize the procedure for using these complexes in the general system of strategic deterrence in different periods of the origin and unleashing of a military conflict.

In peacetime- carrying out combat duty by forces equipped with the ARC "Dagger" and BLK "Peresvet", with the implementation of the following measures:

• operational training with the conduct of training and combat launches of hypersonic missiles;

• improving the structure and composition of forces, as well as the planning and control system;

• comprehensive preparation for use, etc.

During the period of immediate threat of aggression - by demonstration actions with the use of ARC "Dagger" and BLK "Peresvet" in order to prevent the development of the military phase of the conflict and force the enemy to renounce aggression. These actions may include:

transferring forces to the highest levels of combat readiness;

building up ready-to-use products;

carrying out measures to preserve their survivability;

conducting demonstration launches with hypersonic missiles, etc.

In wartime - the limited use of forces equipped with ARC and BKL (including the application of single strikes for demonstration purposes), their massive use (all or most of them with combat-ready complexes).

The effectiveness of the use of ARC and BKL depends on their combat capabilities, which are determined by the military-strategic requirements, including:

• the possibility of operational (in time) multivariate use of the complexes in strategic operations in the entire range of launch ranges;

• high accuracy of shooting;

• guaranteed performance of combat missions;

• functioning in a difficult jamming environment, including with organized counteraction by a potential enemy;

• the ability to quickly retarget;

• ensuring noise immunity of equipment and imitation resistance of control, communication and weapon guidance systems;

• reliability of detection, reliability of recognition and classification of targets in difficult weather conditions and jamming conditions;

• secrecy of the use of complexes;

• agreements in the field of strategic arms.

Thus, the adoption of the ARC "Dagger" and the BLK "Peresvet" (in the future, the "Burevestnik" complex and the unmanned underwater vehicle "Poseidon") and putting them on experimental combat, and then on combat duty, expands the capabilities of the military-political leadership The Russian Federation to implement strategic deterrence measures based on SNNW through its flexible and multivariate use in the pre-nuclear phase of a military conflict without switching to the use of nuclear weapons.

In response to the endless NATzO provocations aimed at Kaliningrad, Russia will deploy a new motor-rifle division
in Kaliningrad. This is a response to the twats who sabre rattle and demand to "negotiate" with the Russia
form a position of strength. Russia can match any "strength" that NATzO pulls.

miketheterrible wrote:more iskander missiles would be a good idea too.

Have read they are looking at increasing the Iskander brigades from 3 to 4 battalions (12 to 16 units)