Korolev on New Submarines
At today’s launch of Russia’s first proyekt 885M or Yasen-M SSN Kazan, Navy CINC Admiral Vladimir Korolev said the third Yasen-M, Krasnoyarsk, will be launched in 2019. But he didn’t mention the...
View ArticleMore Mobile Strategic Air Defense
Izvestiya reports the Russian MOD plans to increase the mobility of its strategic air defenses. The newly-established 24th Air Defense Brigade is the model. Formed in late 2016, this Abakan-based...
View ArticleShocking
Yesterday RIA Novosti pointed out something easily overlooked. On May 11, the head of the MOD’s Main Directorate of Combat Training (GUBP) announced in Krasnaya zvezda that the Russian Army will...
View Article“Training” for Zapad-2017
In Military-Political Review, Pavel Kovalev takes issue with a contention that Russia will send 4,000 rail cars carrying 30,000 troops and their equipment to Belarus for Zapad-2017. That claim appeared...
View ArticleSteppe and Desert Warriors
In early July, Krasnaya zvezda covered an exercise by Russia’s first light — even “superlight” — brigade. The MOD paper provided insight into the rationale and structure of this new formation. The MOD...
View ArticleMore Airborne
The Russian MOD has announced that the Eastern MD’s 83rd Independent Air-Assault Brigade will conduct the first large-scale parachute drop in its history on October 18. Recall the 83rd transferred from...
View ArticleAnti-Ship Iskander-M?
In late July and early August, the Russian Army conducted two exercises for the first time featuring notional launches of the land-based mobile 9K720 Iskander-M (SS-26 ‘Stone’) short-range ballistic...
View ArticleStrategic Maneuvers
Russian General Staff Chief Valeriy Gerasimov told foreign military attachés this week that Vostok-2018 is not a strategic command-staff exercise (KShU) like other major annual drills of past years. He...
View ArticleAirmobile Groups
The Ground Troops of Russia's Southern MD are resurrecting airmobile groups. Recent Mil.ru press-releases have highlighted them. Though clearly still developing, they are far enough along to advertise...
View ArticleCombat Experience
The Russian MOD is making some remarkable claims about how much combat experience its forces have gained out of the Syrian civil war. Continue reading →
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Grom-2019
A Russian MOD press-release outlined Grom-2019 — Russia’s annual strategic nuclear forces exercise which begins today and runs through Thursday. The MOD officially describes the activity as a...
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Grom-2019
RS-24 Yars ICBM launch from Plesetsk Recall the Russian press reported in advance that Grom-2019 would be a command and control CSX with live activity by RVSN, LRA, VTA, and Northern and Pacific Fleet...
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Toy Soldiers
Tula Suvorov Military School Cadets In NVO, historian Stanislav Ivanov asks how much “cadetization” of Russia’s youth is justified? Even a good thing like military education for the young, he says,...
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Pchela’s Daughter
Order the flowers . . . Russia’s March 8 (and 9) celebration of International Women’s Day has started. On February 27, KZ highlighted Yekaterina Olegovna Pchela who may become Russia’s first female LRA...
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Bears Leaving Hibernation
RAF Typhoon intercepts Bear F Russia’s Tu-142 / Bear F ASW aircraft are waking up at the end of the winter training period. The Russian media highlighted four evolutions recently. We probably haven’t...
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