Posted on 08/17/2006 8:02:59 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Russian Military To Practice Repelling Invasion From East
by Staff Writers
Moscow (AFP) Aug 15, 2006
Russia's military will practice repelling a foreign invasion during exercises this month in the country's far east, the newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta said Tuesday. The exercises will take place on the Kamchatka peninsula some time in the second half of August and will be presided over by President Vladimir Putin, the newspaper said, citing unnamed sources on the military's general staff.
The aim is to improve cooperation between different arms of the military in "defending the coast from possible armed invasion," the newspaper said.
"The 'conditional opponents' are not abstract terrorists but the armed forces of real states," the paper said.
Taking part will be 5,000 servicemen, 20 ships, nuclear submarines, artillery and air defence forces, the newspaper said.
The exercises will be a continuation of staff-level exercises that took place last month, the paper said.
The military will practice "repelling a coastal landing by foreign forces, cutting the naval communications of the conditional opponents and fighting submarines and airborne enemies," the newspaper said.
Russia fires on Japanese boat, one dead^
"defending the coast from possible armed invasion,"
China would not invade Kamchatka Coast. They have to travel around Korea to do that. If China has to, it will cross overland border. So that would leave Japan.
Russia must be reacting to the rise of Japanese military profile as much as China is.
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Thanks for the news even though it is not good.
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Let's have the Russian military practice on our Southern border? I'd be glad to welcome them!
Vlad the Vampire strikes Far East.:)
If I was paranoid, I would think that Putin has foreknowledge of an impending major war in the Middle East.
Sounds like makework for some unruly soldiers.
Kamchatka is a little out of the way militarily. The center of the real area of interest, where Japan, China, Korea, and Russia meet or focus is close to Vladivostok, and from there it is a train ride to Moscow.
You might give it a second thought. If they do, they are more likely to have joint exercise with Mexican Army for shooting down U.S. jets with S-300 system.
Better they should consider their southwestern borders. The day is coming when Putin, or whoever is incharge then, will have great regrets over the assistance given to the mullahs.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)
Of course, that is what this exercise is really for. It is just that doing it in Kamchatka is safer.
"There WERE 600 million screaming Chinese ..... "
Actually they are holding another exercise (now or are about to) in Central Asia to repel enemy warplanes with S-300. Yeah, an exercise to shoot down invading U.S. warplanes.:)
Apparently, Iran is not a problem for them.
Russia has to stay as strong as possible. The world instability resulting from the fall of the USSR and the pullback from the ME led directly to the increase of islamofascism. Power vacuum. If Russia were not able to defend the East and the oil/gas fields, islamofascism would be a picnic by comparison.
It depends on the nature of training. And the political emphasis given to such an event.
"...and 600 million screamin' Chinese."
"I thought there were a billion screamin' Chinese."
"There were!"
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