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Russian MoD claims that today at 10:40 MSK a Virginia-class SSN was detected IN Russian territorial waters near Urup island (one of the Kurils), near the zoned of Pacific Fleet exercise. Marsh.Shaposhnikov frigate found it, communicated the demand to surface immediately.
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Demand was ignored, RU frigate used "special instruments" (probably counter-saboteur grenades?), SSN deployed a self-propelled imitator and left territorial waters at max speed.
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This is the most unexpected part of the Putin's address yesterday (which itself was way too long):
"...the United States is developing the Standard-6 universal missile, which, along with solving the problems of air defense and anti-missile defense...
To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time the Basic Principles of State Policy in the field of Nuclear Deterrence are made public in Russia.
Stay tuned for a thread!
Everything old is new again!
"Typical hypersonic missile flight trajectories: A - ballistic missile; B - ricocheting (skip-glide) missile; C - gliding missile".
Who will guess the year?..
New joint RU/CN aerial patrol over Sea of Japan and East China Sea. Tu-95MS, H-6K, 8 hours, supported by Su-35S and Su-30SM. Foreign fighter jets also appeared.
Tried my best to find something credible and citeable about that "special [osobyy] mode of combat readiness of the deterrence forces" (or per Kremlin translation, "high combat alert", ), but failed to do so. So only guesses and scraps of information.
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Kinda niche, but personally this was one of the most interesting things I've seen at the
#ARMY2022
: Monolith-B radar for coastal defense systems (Bastion, Bal, Rubezh-M) on commercial 3-axle chassis.
The most dramatic missile is the ARRW, which screws up, then the project is shut down, then it is successfully tested, and maybe it will come back again.
Just in case, Valentina Matviyenko, head of the Federation Council and the third highest ranking Russian official, just said that any talk about nuclear war possibility is unacceptable, it would mean the end of human civilization.
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Serious Ground Forces Air Defense action at Kapustin Yar: layered joint AD based on S-300V4/Buk-M3/Tor-M2 from Southern, Western and Eastern MDs, five units total.
S-300V4 vs "aeroballistic missiles"
Buk-M3+Tor-M2 vs "cruise missiles" and "strike aircraft"
Tor-M2 vs UAV swarm
And another video of Yars (SS-27 Mod 2) road-mobile ICBM launch from Plesetsk today.
Credit where credit is due, MoD learned to produce awesome ICBM launch footage.
"...a second missile production line in Norway which will be ready in 2024...the new factory is expected to have an annual capacity of 400 NSM. In the near future, there will be two production lines in Norway, one in the United States and one in Australia."
Oh fuck.
To make things clear: I will support our troops, but I still consider this a big mistake, and my support of the Russian government will further decrease.
The most unkillable missile is the U.S. nuclear-capable sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N) project, which they can't bury (and may now even stop trying).
@alxgraef
I will laugh so hard when Putin's successor will pursue more agressive policies in the near abroad (and beyond), without any Soviet nostalgia and dreams about "Europe from Lisboa to Vladivostok". With even broader public support.
Today is Forgiveness Sunday.
Not going to apologize for my country, armed forces or my ancestors - this is a very strange and pointless exercise.
But there is smth I want to ask for forgiveness: the insufficient quality of my work as an expert.
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Belgorod special purpose nuclear submarine (first Poseidon multi-purpose nuclear-powered UUV carrier, among other things), delivered to the Navy today.
Furious 🇫🇷 foreign minister Le Drian this morning on the 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇦🇺 deal: a "knife in the back", "betrayal of confidence", "allies don't do this to each other". Rare to hear quite this sort of language. France (which had its own conventional submarine contract with 🇦🇺) is very angry
...can hit both ground and sea surface targets. That is, the supposedly defensive US missile defense system is expanding and new offensive capabilities are emerging."
Probably the highest official ever mentioning SM-6!
Yet another counter-UAV "experiment" by the Russian military, now in the Central MD. Three episodes of the exercise:
1) Electronic warfare, detection of control frequencies and jamming preventing take-off the drones
2) detection, targeting and imitated strikes by Tor-M1
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Given current volume of comments, my educated guess would be that this story about Russian destabilizing space nuclear capability might be related to the so-called Zeus nuclear-powered "space tug" and possible similar projects.
Possible ASAT mission reported by media in 2021.
Not that I was asked, but I have some prepared points on Russian missile defense and can't keep myself silent.
Mega-thread incoming!
(Also expect some crazy schemes)
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Interesting piece in Russian about Aegis Ashore capabilities.
Bottom line - not very good against Iranian missiles, and even worse against Russian. Waiting for the third part...
Part 1:
Part 2:
Big and interesting interview on Moscow Missile Defense published today:
Lots of tasty details, stay tuned for a thread. In the meantime, enjoy a rare photo by Evgeniy Kel'. 53T6xx missile interceptor in launch canister leaving...somewhere.
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12 engines ready for UA Grom-2 SRBM (300 km export version for KSA, 500 km domestic, claimed possibility of 1500 km extended range). First flight tests of KSA version rumored this Autumn.
18.03.2022: first battle use of a hypersonic weapon. Kinzhal against underground munitions storage in the Ivano-Frankovsk region. Might very well be a former nuclear storage near Delyatin, Ivano-Frankovsk-16.
PS not that I am in any way happy about it.
Ran across epic 1959 video about Burya strategic cruise missile. What a beast!..
Was a big fan ever since first heard about it on a lectur on air-space tech. Atompunk incarnate.
Part I:
Part II:
"The South Korean military assesses that North Korea might seek to transport a trio of newly developed SRBMs to Russia. These missiles include the KN-23, the KN-24 and the "super-large caliber" multiple-rocket launcher known as the KN-25"
Grim, if unsurprising; suspect we should have Western intel corroboration soon enough: S. Korean military detects signs of NK supplying ballistic missiles to Russia
Firat ever public Tsirkon launch shot. The thing that starts is definitely something new, while the next angle might be showing smth old (Oniks?).
Against naval surface target, 450 km, 8M.
#hyperhype
Stay tuned.
Some photos from the aerial parade over Moscow today, by
#vatfor
friend. MiG-31K (hypersonic missiles look good), Tu-160 (fresh from minor modernization) , Tu-22M3.
Alarm! Alarm!
@mfa_russia
released English translation of new Russian nuclear deterrence document! Behold, "Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence":
To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time the Basic Principles of State Policy in the field of Nuclear Deterrence are made public in Russia.
Stay tuned for a thread!
Well, it is real: I have a piece published in
@TheNonproReview
:
Many thanks to
@tjaplant
and
@Joshua_Pollack
for providing this opportunity, and Rhianna Kreger for making it happen. And to the reviewers, of course!
Will make a thread later.
Sources claim that Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missile was succesfuly tested in the Arctic mind-November. MiG-31K took off from Olenegorsk, the missile succesfully hit a land target at Pemboy training range.
#hyperhype
Probably some people are wondering what do I think about the most recent
#hyperhype
a la Russe, I mean TASS source claiming test of some hypersonic missile from Tu-22M3 long-range bomber for its future modenized Tu-22M3M version. (). Let's make a thread!
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