Posted on 01/13/2006 10:21:41 AM PST by jb6
MOSCOW, January 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Japan will hold a joint naval exercise in October 2006, Russia's defense minister said Friday.
Sergei Ivanov, who is also a deputy prime minister, said: "A major unit of the Pacific Fleet's ships will arrive in October 2006 at the Japanese port of Maizuru to practice rescue and other operations."
He was speaking after talks with Japan's Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga.
Although Russia and Japan are still involved in a territorial dispute that dates back to World War II and are yet to sign an official peace treaty, Ivanov said Japanese and Russian military delegations would exchange visits in February and April-May 2006.
The minister said he and Nukaga had agreed to boost regular military exchanges, including in the environmental sphere.
"On the whole, we agreed to make contacts between our land and naval forces closer, and more regular," Ivanov said.
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I believe their last naval "exercise" ended up in Japan's favor.
Too bad - They're a little late for a 100th Anniversary of the Russo-Japanese War.
I've hears of WWI, WWII and especially Civil War reenactors.
But who woulda thunk there was a market for Russo_Japanese reenactors?
What happened last year? That was their last exercise, along with S.Korea.
An interesting article..I wonder what ships each side will be using. Japan will probably use its Kongo-class destroyers and modern diesel subs, and Russia, I would guess would send the Kuznetsov and maybe a few Sovremenyys.
I wonder which strategies and scenarios they will use...I'm guessing China will be the intended enemy.
Russia will bring destroyers and battleships, Japan PT boats. Centennial re-enactment.
:0) the difference is, unlike then, there are now small caliber guns and machineguns on ships....back then Japan could have sunk any European or American fleet....since the presiding theory was only BIG BIG BIG guns. Gotta wonder about these lemming admirals.
Modern warships are porcupines rather than turtles. It is the unexpected attack that may be successful; even a kamikaze would have trouble getting through unless by total sneak attack.
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