Posted on 04/06/2009 1:09:20 PM PDT by pobeda1945
MOSCOW, April 6 (RIA Novosti) - Large-scale military exercises involving naval infantry and live artillery support have been launched in Russia's Far East, the Pacific Fleet press service said on Monday.
It said 300 personnel were involved in the initial stage of the exercise which would later be increased to 1,000.
"Marine infantry units will rehearse defense action to counter the landing of an enemy amphibious assault force with the use of all artillery systems available to them (the Akatsia self-propelled howitzer, the Gvozdika and Fialka self-propelled artillery guns, and the Tyulpan self-propelled mortar)," the press service said.
It added that the exercises were challenging, "realistic" and involved "extreme" conditions.
After they have practiced defense missions, the naval infantry units will rehearse offensive operations, the press service said.
1. 1000 personnel isn’t all that large scale in the scheme of things.
2. Who do they expect to be having to repel? The US is the only country with a legitimate amphibious capability, and even the most paranoid Russian nationalist can’t be so deluded as to think we’d invade the Siberian mainland.
in other news obama and the Govt are reducing our military ,scrapping the new generation of weapons including the F22.
also obama and his wife are going around Europe acting like media whores, doing town hall meetings in France etc and then telling us we have to reach out to muslims every day
1000 might be a large scale exercise for the Russian Naval Infantry - I dont think they have but a few regiments of those troops.
China ... amphibious leapfrog into Vladivostok and Petropavlask to cut the supply/reinforcement lines from overseas sources.
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