Russia's National Defense Strategy issues

Putting more troops on the border with China is completely unnecessary because unlike HATO and the west China is not a threat or danger to Russia at all.

This person is rather smarter than the average 5th columnist and realises pushing better relations with the west and rejecting China and the rest of the world is not going to happen, so they just talk up the threat of China not just to Russia but to the whole world, which is like the threat to the whole world from Russia... it is made up.

World control is a western goal... no one else is even applying for the job.

Russia is cooperating with China just like it would be cooperating with the EU and the US if they weren't so rabidly Russophobic.

Russia is not integrating itself into China or becoming Chinas bitch... they are just cooperating where it is mutually useful and selling things and buying things... just normal commerce.

Russia has invested in and developed some very capable new weapons and other technology and China will likely want to buy some... the west certainly wont.

If China wanted to attack Russia they would be investing way more in the ground forces.
Instead they are putting nearly all their money on the air force and navy.

If you want to remain or become a global power then you need a decent navy... which is hilarious because the once great global power of Britain is disappearing despite them having two fixed wing aircraft carriers... because they are pissing money away on billions of pounds more Trident missiles that do nothing for their day to day security, or income or world wide presence, so there is no money for ships to support their carriers... making their carriers useless.

A carrier on its own is vulnerable... like any ship on its own.

What they should have done was develop a cruiser based on a shortened carrier hull and instead of building two carriers, they should have built four carrier hull bases and made one a carrier and the other three shortened Cruiser hulls.

In many situations a cruiser might just be enough to get a job done with a few smaller ships in support, but for more difficult jobs two cruisers and a carrier plus other smaller ships is a powerful naval grouping that would be potent and capable of taking on 80% of the non HATO and not Russia or China navies or land based air forces on the planet.

Of course the Royal Navys biggest problem is that they don't really have SAMs and land attack cruise missiles and anti ship and anti sub weapons of their own to properly arm such ships anyway.

Russia to host SCO anti-terror drills in September

The SCO maneuvers were scheduled to take place in Russia in 2020 but were postponed to 2021 over the coronavirus pandemic

YEKATERINBURG, June 1. /TASS/. The Peace Mission 2021 anti-terror command and staff drills of member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will run on the territory of Russia’s Central Military District in September, Central Military District Commander Colonel General Aleksandr Lapin said on Tuesday.

"In the summer training period, we will hold nine joint international drills on the territory of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The Peace Mission 2021 anti-terror exercise that will take place in September will be the main event of the troop’s joint training," the commander said.

The SCO maneuvers were scheduled to take place in Russia in 2020 but were postponed to 2021 over the coronavirus pandemic.

"Overall, more than 100 tactical-level exercises will take place in the troops of the Central Military District in the course of the summer training period or 20% more compared to the same period of 2020," the general added.

The SCO member states have been holding regular anti-terror bilateral and multilateral drills since 2002 as part of cooperation in the security sphere. Peace Mission drills are the largest and are held every two years.

https://tass.com/defense/1296507

Preparations in full swing for Russia-Belarus strategic drills, says defense chief

The Zapad-2021 maneuvers are a scheduled exercise and will be held by decision of the presidents of Russia and Belarus and are solely of defensive nature, Sergey Shoigu stressed

MOSCOW, May 31. /TASS/. The preparations for the Zapad-2021 (West-2021) joint Russia-Belarus strategic military exercise scheduled for September have entered the active phase, Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergey Shoigu said at the ministry’s board meeting on Monday.

"The preparations for the Russian-Belarusian joint strategic exercise Zapad-2021 that will run at practice ranges of Belarus and the Western Military District have entered the active phase. A series of command and staff drills involving the staffs of various levels have already been held," the defense chief said.

Beginning from June, the Defense Ministries of Russia and Belarus will start "accomplishing a set of tasks as part of the joint drills of special operations forces," Shoigu said.

The Zapad-2021 maneuvers are a scheduled exercise and will be held by decision of the presidents of Russia and Belarus and are solely of defensive nature, the Russian defense minister stressed.

"Our partners will be informed within the time limits stipulated in international treaties about the parameters of the exercise while international observers and journalists will be able to attend it," Shoigu said.

https://tass.com/defense/1296093

Military servicemen from seven countries arrive in Russia for Zapad-2021 drills

The Russian Aerospace Forces’ military cargo planes delivered about 500 troops from Armenia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to a training camp in the Western Military District

https://tass.com/defense/1334645

More on ZAPAD

Rob Lee
@RALee85
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Zapad has begun at the Kirilovsky, Strugi Krasnye, Mulino, Pogonovo, Khmelevka, Pravdinsky, Dobrovolsky, Dorogobuzh, and Volsky ranges in Russia; in the Baltic Sea; and Obuz-Lesnovsky, Brestsky, Chepelevo, Domanovsky, and Ruzhansky ranges in Belarus.




Rob Lee
@RALee85
· 10h
Russian officials have said that ~200k servicemen will take part in Zapad but only 12,800 in Belarus (including 2.5k Russian servicemen). They claim that <6,400 troops will take part in Russia under a single operational command subject to the OSCE 2011 Vienna Document.




Rob Lee
@RALee85
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For the 1st time, Russia will air drop a full BMD-4M battalion from the VDV’s 137th Airborne Regiment with >30 BMD-4M and 300 paratroopers from 15 Il-76 aircraft at the Zhitovo LZ. They are being loaded at the Dyagilevo airfield.33/



Video at link https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1436242292109717508

Konrad Muzyka - Rochan Consulting
@konrad_muzyka
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Yesterday situational maps of the defensive phase of Zapad was released by the Belarusian press. In his guest post, @Obronny2
was kind enough to analyse them on the blog. https://rochan-consulting.com/zapad-2021-str

This video gave a good overview about the ZAPAD-2021 exercise.

Just ignore that heavily clickbait title, and expect a mild anti-russian tone since the "analysis" in this video came from a Polish company (Rochan Consulting).





Am I posting in the right thread. Is Belarus really a foreign country to Russia.

The far eastern district is more focused on South Korea and Japan and other US controlled puppet states than against China, with which Russia has fairly good and stable relations.

Amusing that they conclude that the chances of this exercise turning into an actual war are low... the level of brilliance is amazing...

They did manage to show the video footage of the T-14 being stalled during a parade... that has nothing to do with this exercise... is it an accident that that video is the screen shot for the video?

Russia just finished up a pipeline for Germany. The f*ck are they going to war when that thing's not even paid off yet.

I will be surprised if they don't show the stalled T-14 on Red Square in any footage!

You guys should have witnessed the scale of absurd build around that here in Eastern Europe.
An audience is treated daily basis for a week now with following :
There is a possibility, that Russian/Belarusian forces will try to infiltrate the borders of Baltic states and/or Poland/Ukraine, for several kilometers only.
The maneuvers can be used as a starting platform for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
There can be "little green men" infiltrating the borders, with unknown targets.
All all the crap with the same narration, daily basis, 24/7.
The level of idiocy is mind-blowing.

More on Zapid-21, this time on ZH.

Some good videos, especially the paras at the link

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-alarmed-staggering-size-joint-russia-belarus-war-games

Would be amusing to put on an RT flak vest and ask the defence ministers in the region what they intend to do to counter this huge threat from Russia...

Not much they really could do to be honest.

JohninMK wrote:More on Zapid-21, this time on ZH.

Some good videos, especially the paras at the link

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-alarmed-staggering-size-joint-russia-belarus-war-games

Special emphasis being put on fighting during the night.

Yes, it has only been with the introduction of Ratnik and Ratnik 2 that they have deployed the sort of night vision equipment to the general troops.

Some say thermal sights are too expensive to issue large scale to the troops, but actually they are less fragile than II scopes that can be damaged by bright light sources... like using them during the day... and the newest model Image Intensification scopes of the 3rd and 4th gen are not that much cheaper than 3rd gen thermals anyway.

I suspect for Ratnik 3 also called Sotnik, they might have digital night vision devices as standard... much cheaper than image intensification and thermals but can be used day and night and their performance is actually pretty good.

It means you can have a bit of processing like moving target detection and face recognition and the image quality is much better than most current thermals which makes identification of people difficult.

There are short wave range IR that can see through glass and water, that are much cheaper because they can use glass lenses and don't need Germanium crystals for lenses and optics.

The work of the headquarters of the coalition group of forces of seven countries within the framework of the "West-2021"

Russian military presence in the Kuril Islands

Due to the fact that Japan does not stop challenging the results of World War II and makes claims to the southern part of the Kuril ridge - the Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan islands and the Habomai group, our country is forced to spend a lot of money on their defense.

Russia is vitally interested in maintaining its position in the North Pacific. Due to the fact that the Kuriles are under our jurisdiction, the Sea of ​​Okhotsk is an internal sea of ​​Russia, which ensures control over the production of marine biological resources and the unhindered exit of warships and submarines into the ocean.

Full article: https://topwar-ru.translate.goog/187052-rossijskoe-voennoe-prisutstvie-na-kurilskih-ostrovah.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=ajax,elem

While they are an occupied country there is no sense in Russia handing over any of those islands because if they did the US would likely put a military base there...

The new constitution makes it illegal for them to give up territory so the window of opportunity has passed.