World War III

[Pagan]

Russia, Belarus expand program of military drills due to new threats — defense minister

MINSK, October 29. /TASS/. Russia and Belarus are expanding the program of military exercises in 2015 due to new threats posed to the Union State, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Wednesday.

“The expansion of the program is linked to the changing situation near our borders and in the world as a whole,” Shoigu said after a session of the ministerial collegium.

“We would like to drill actions due to new threats to the Union State,” he said, adding that both parties had summed up the results of joint events to ensure the operation of the regional group of forces.

Belarusian Defense Minister Yuri Zhadobin said his ministry was expanding the format of Union Shield 2015 drills on the proposal of his Russian counterpart.

“The Union Shield 2015 joint drills will be the key event of combat training in the 2015 plan. They will take place at firing ranges of Russia and Belarus,” Zhadobin said.

“On the proposal of Sergei Kuzhugetovich [Shoigu] we’ve made certain changes and expanded training points due to be drilled at the exercises themselves and before them,” he said.
Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet   

On Tuesday Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Russia will actively keep developing its military bases abroad.

“We keep developing our bases abroad: in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia. We are developing them rather actively,” Shoigu said at a meeting of the Public Council under the Defense Ministry.

He recalled that recently a Russian squadron went on combat duty in Belarus.

“We have settled there and started combat duty,” Shoigu said.

http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/757142

[Mccoy818]

So are they striking the US really? Are they doing it with North Korea?

But Kim Jong Un is sick! I mean literally, he is not in his best of health.

[Cortex7]

Most people in the English-speaking parts of the world missed Putin's speech at the Valdai conference in Sochi a few days ago:

russian source:
http://chipstone.livejournal.com/1219546.html

translation:

1. Russia will no longer play games and engage in back-room negotiations over trifles. But Russia is prepared for serious conversations and agreements, if these are conducive to collective security, are based on fairness and take into account the interests of each side.

2. All systems of global collective security now lie in ruins. There are no longer any international security guarantees at all. And the entity that destroyed them has a name: The United States of America.

3. The builders of the New World Order have failed, having built a sand castle. Whether or not a new world order of any sort is to be built is not just Russia's decision, but it is a decision that will not be made without Russia.

4. Russia favors a conservative approach to introducing innovations into the social order, but is not opposed to investigating and discussing such innovations, to see if introducing any of them might be justified.

5. Russia has no intention of going fishing in the murky waters created by America's ever-expanding “empire of chaos,” and has no interest in building a new empire of her own (this is unnecessary; Russia's challenges lie in developing her already vast territory). Neither is Russia willing to act as a savior of the world, as she had in the past.

6. Russia will not attempt to reformat the world in her own image, but neither will she allow anyone to reformat her in their image. Russia will not close herself off from the world, but anyone who tries to close her off from the world will be sure to reap a whirlwind.

7. Russia does not wish for the chaos to spread, does not want war, and has no intention of starting one. However, today Russia sees the outbreak of global war as almost inevitable, is prepared for it, and is continuing to prepare for it. Russia does not want war—nor does she fear it.

8. Russia does not intend to take an active role in thwarting those who are still attempting to construct their New World Order—until their efforts start to impinge on Russia's key interests. Russia would prefer to stand by and watch them give themselves as many lumps as their poor heads can take. But those who manage to drag Russia into this process, through disregard for her interests, will be taught the true meaning of pain.

9. In her external, and, even more so, internal politics, Russia's power will rely not on the elites and their back-room dealing, but on the will of the people.

[Pagan]

^  crocodile tears 

[Pagan]

Russia has test fired yet another ICBM, per Interfax. This time a Topol-M. Aimed at test site in Kamchatka

[Pagan]

Portugal usually doesn't care much about far away Russia. That was before they had strategic bombers on state visit.

http://www.matthewaid.com/post/101442135556/portuguese-f-16-fighters-intercept-russian-bombers-over


Poland Is Preparing For A Potential Russian Invasion

http://www.businessinsider.com/poland-is-preparing-for-a-russian-invasion-2014-10

[samaricanin]

Poland Is Preparing For A Potential Russian Invasion

What they can do, prepare peanuts?

[Pagan]

Russia has over the last 72 hours tested its entire nuclear triad consisting of strategic bombers; submarines and this ICBM launched Saturday morning.


This Topol-M ballistic missile was launched from Plesetsk in Arkhangelsk region Saturday morning. (Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense)

At 09:20 am (Moscow time), this silo-based Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from Plesetsk in Arkhangelsk Oblast. A few minutes later, the dummy nuclear warhead hits its target on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far eastern corner, the Ministry of Defense reports.

The Ministry adds that the Topol-M missile has an “extremely high accuracy of target destruction.”

Strategic bombers
On Friday, Norwegian F-16s were scrambled from Bodø airbase for the second time this week as a group of four Tu-95 strategic bombers were approaching from the northeast, Norway’s TV2 reports.

The bombers, flying out over the Barents Sea from Russia’s Kola Peninsula, were accompanied by four Il-78 tankers.

On Wednesday, a similar group of four strategic bombers and four tanker aircrafts were flying southbound along Norway’s northern coast. Six of the aircrafts turned around and flew north again over the Norwegian- and Barents Seas before heading home to Russia. The two last flew all the way south to outside Portuguese airspace before heading north again.

After scrambling fighter jets from Norway and Great Britian, NATO said in a statement that the Russian bombers pose a risk to civilian air traffic.

“The bomber and tanker aircraft from Russia did not file flight plans or maintain radio contact with civilian air traffic control authorities and they were not using on-board transponders. This poses a potential risk to civil aviation as civilian air traffic control cannot detect these aircraft or ensure there is no interference with civilian air traffic,” NATO said.

Tu-95 is a turboprop aircraft built during the Cold War to carry nuclear weapons and is because of its long range included in the strategic nuclear forces.

Strategic submarines
The third arm of Russia’s nuclear triad, the submarine based ballistic missiles (SLBM), were tested on Wednesday, when “Yury Dolgoruky” launhced a Bulava missile from submerged position in the Barents Sea. 

This was the first operational test launch of Bulava in line with the program of combat training. All previous launches were part of development testing of the new weapon.

It is also the first time a Borey-class submarine had a full set of missiles on board when the launch was conducted. The Borey-class submarines carries 16 missiles that each may hold as many as 10 nuclear warheads. “Yury Dolgoruky” got her full set of Bulava missiles in June this year.

http://barentsobserver.com/en/security/2014/11/russia-plays-nuclear-war-games-barents-region-01-11

[yraskk]

I think that a next world war is always more near us. Because with this economic crisis, it is a good way to make a reboot and restart from the begin. Country that will begin the next war will be Russia, i think this..

[Cortex7]

I think that a next world war is always more near us. Because with this economic crisis, it is a good way to make a reboot and restart from the begin. Country that will begin the next war will be Russia, i think this..

History will be written by the victor, it always is.

[Cortex7]

Russia has a very capable military, and is a nuclear superpower if not THE HARDEST nuclear super power on the planet.

To treat Russia like a 3rd world developing nation (imposing sanctions) seems completely crazy to me.

[BADecker]

If somebody starts a nuclear war, everyone will join in. That means that there will be radiation all over the place anyway. So, why don't some of these countries develop a nuclear fueled rocket? Once in the air, it wouldn't need shielding. And with all the war radiation coming anyway, who would really care about the little bit of radiation coming from a nuclear rocket?

The advantage would be a much smaller fuel cell (if not shielded). That means a much larger payload. I mean, if we're going to soak the earth with radiation anyway, why not win the war?

I wonder which country has the best technology for building an unshielded, nuclear-powered rocket, anyway?

[DarkForces]

We already got one,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

Russia can find out how good it is.

[BADecker]

We already got one,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

Russia can find out how good it is.

I'm glad one of these countries is thinking! 

[Pagan]

Russia has a very capable military, and is a nuclear superpower if not THE HARDEST nuclear super power on the planet.

To treat Russia like a 3rd world developing nation (imposing sanctions) seems completely crazy to me.

Russia can't compete with Nato or China with conventional forces, so trying to compensate it with nuclear weapons. A failed state, which  want to revise defeat of cold war.

[Cortex7]

We already got one,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

Russia can find out how good it is.

I'm glad one of these countries is thinking! 

Project Pluto is a ramjet, needs air to function. Only benefit over conventional hydrocarbon fueled engine/ramjet is greatly increased loiter time.

To my knowledge the only proposed "nuclear rocket" idea capable of achieving orbit or beyond would be project Orion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29

It throws out coke can sized nuclear bombs underneath itself in quick succession, that thing would win any dick waving competition hands down!

[DarkForces]

We already got one,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

Russia can find out how good it is.

I'm glad one of these countries is thinking!  

Project Pluto is a ramjet, needs air to function. Only benefit over conventional hydrocarbon fueled engine/ramjet is greatly increased loiter time.

To my knowledge the only proposed "nuclear rocket" idea capable of achieving orbit or beyond would be project Orion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29

It throws out coke can sized nuclear bombs underneath itself in quick succession, that thing would win any dick waving competition hands down!

The wikipedia article was polite and non-alarmist. Project Pluto was a doomsday device,

made to be in the air for a LONG time before target identification, all the while flying low

and spreading deadly radiation in its path. Have a hundred of those circling the earth for

a few days, and you see what I mean.

You really think we made the world's first nuclear ramjet and "shelved" it?

Theres probably hundreds of these things in secret operational bunkers since the 1970's.

Sounds paranoid, but it isn't. Its just how we do things since OP Paperclip.

[Pagan]

Russia test-fires intercontinental missile from submerged submarine in Barents Sea

Test comes after Russia informed the United States on Tuesday that it will boycott the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit.


A Russian Tula submarine. / Photo by RIANbot / Wikimedia

 By Timothy Heritage, George Jahn and Deb Riechmann   
Published 15:21 05.11.14

REUTERS AND AP - Russia test-fired a Sineva intercontinental missile from a submerged submarine in the Barents Sea on Wednesday as part of a check on the reliability of the navy's strategic forces, the Defense Ministry said.

The liquid-fueled missile, which can carry nuclear warheads, was fired from the Tula submarine to the Kura Test Range in the far eastern region of Kamchatka, RIA news agency quoted the ministry as saying. It gave no other details.

The Sineva, which has a range of about 12,000 km (7,500 miles), entered service in 2007 and is part of efforts to prevent the weakening of Russia's nuclear deterrent.

President Vladimir Putin has underlined the importance of the nuclear deterrent during the standoff with the West over the crisis in Ukraine, and Russia has held several military exercises during the crisis that have alarmed Western powers.

Russia informed the United States on Tuesday that it will boycott the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit, diplomats told The Associated Press on Tuesday, potentially stripping the meeting of one of its key participants and hurting efforts initiated by President Barack Obama to reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism.

Officials already had told the AP on Monday that Moscow was absent from last week's initial summit planning session in Washington but had left it unclear whether Russia planned to attend the summit itself.

http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/1.624803?v=A32FDD7AFE5A728F0C727C1DA0D9A7B2

[hdbuck]

ok im now quite sure you are a paid western troll.
who do you work for? UNO? NATO? EU?

[Balthazar]

It seems that he has been hired by United Russia party for discreditation of US backed position. And he does this work quite well.