This is a thread of threads providing high level but reasonably detailed overview for the Russian NC3. If you have questions please feel free to ask them though I hope you understand if I don’t answer some of them (ie exact geolocation of key nodes) for obvious reasons.

RT @3_bm15: An industrial object, probably belonging to the Kyiv Analytical Instruments Plant (ANALITPRYLAD) was struck in Kyiv on July 10t….

RT @FPGAX_: Disassembly of the circuit board of the US Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile

RT @chaoyinsukandao: 我鳖火箭军的这个原木伪装，既有几分严肃认真但是又透着几分幽默😂

RT @konrad_muzyka: A very important point from the interview:."(. ) Our statistics are also negative. We are losing more than we are bring….

RT @GuyPlopsky: "The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has offered new details about the development and employment of MOP, and how it will g….

Of-course such re-location arc is not novel, US has built a similar network on the East Coast. As always - courtesy of the Underground Moscow team. 4/4.

This infrastructure created a redundant back up for 01-02-03 ring. As a part of this program a number of hardened telephone exchanges have been built around Moscow, you can see a guided tour of site 305 below:. P1.(.P2.(. 3/4.

This lead to a parallel strategy of dispersal, creating a cloud of smaller re-location sites around Moscow. To support this cloud and to enable bypass of coms around Moscow (should Moscow be destroyed) novel infrastructure had to be developed. 2/4

While during the early Cold War Soviet leadership was looking to create large, centralized but hardened command posts for COG/COOP purposes, as the cold war progressed, it became obvious that many such structures were quickly becoming vulnerable with advances in weapons. 1/4

RT @FardadFarahzad: Exclusive: A U.S. military radome was destroyed in Iran’s June 23 strike on Al Udeid. A detail absent from the Pentagon….

RT @KomissarWhipla: With some comments by yours truly.

Still, glad to see that this area is covered :).

Or here, the high data-rate claim seems to be somewhat misleading, in the modern context, due to the intrinsic nature of the VLF-band.

A curious paper, though some parts of it I find puzzling. For example there doesn't seem to be an obvious causal link between how this sentence starts and how it ends.

Apparently a colonel of the SBU has been killed. While it is possible that this was due to an internal conflict, it is also possible that Russia began a symmetric campaign of extra-judicial killings. (.

RT @walberque: BREAKING NEWS! 🇬🇧🇫🇷💥. UK and France will sign a “Lancaster Declaration 2.0” to improve nuclear weapon cooperation, increase….

There is also a non-nuclear challenge, particularly in the light of the Russia LoW posture.

It is difficult to convince the adversary that there is no CF targeting, particularly where rapid (flexible) re-targeting against non planned targets and accurate delivery systems are existing capabilities.

RT @benreuter_IMINT: Iran has 6 sites with "silo launch portals" .I wonder if they were really "loaded" .It seems that none of them were hi….

RT @clary_co: “India is accelerating its nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) programme under Project-77, with two submarines now officia….