Russia Preparing for Nuclear Attacks on U.S, Britain (mock battles & war games)

NewsMax.com ^ | May 16, 2003 | NewsMax Wires

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Russia will soon launch a mock nuclear attack against the U.S. and Britain during military exercises over the next week. Moscow's Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports that Russia's strategic bombers and nuclear submarines "will deliver hypothetical nuclear strikes on the U.S. and Britain, while locating and destroying aircraft-carrier groups of the U.S. Navy."

The massive air, sea and land maneuvers are being conducted in the wake of America's stunning victory over Iraq, a longtime client state of Russia.

The paper said the exercises are taking place because "Russian military leaders have learned a lesson from the Iraq war, and intend to show the U.S. and its allies their determination to repel any potential threat coming from the West."

The Russian military, in plans drawn up at the request of President Vladimir Putin, argues that the only way Russia can deal with an escalating regional conflict with the U.S. would be to employ nuclear weapons.

Though Russia's military has been considerably downsized since the end of the Cold War and its conventional forces hold little weight against a modern equipped army, Russia has continued to invest heavily in strategic and tactical nuclear weapons.

Sometime during the '90s, Russia attained nuclear superiority over the U.S. While Russia's large strategic nuclear weapons have remained in parity with the those of the U.S., Russia's tactical nuclear arsenal has been estimated to include 20,000 to 40,000 weapons.

At the same time Russia has continued its nuclear buildup, the U.S. has virtually destroyed its arsenal of tactical nuclear warheads. Under orders from the Bush administration, the U.S. also has been moving to further reduce the U.S. strategic arsenal. Currently, the nation's most modern fleet of ICBM, the MX missiles, is being destroyed.

The Russian military exercises show a desire by the Russian military to deal with the huge technological lead U.S. conventional forces have, demonstrated by Operation Iraqi Freedom.

According to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, the Russian exercises "will be linked with destroying the U.S. satellite group in order to neutralize the NAVSTAR global navigation system, the Keyhole optoelectronic intelligence satellites, and the Lacross radio-locating intelligence satellites."

The paper said about these maneuvers: "Under actual conditions of a war this would 'blind' the Pentagon and does not let the U.S. use high-precision weapons against Russian military groups."

So far, the exercises are to include Four Tu-160 and nine Tu-95MS strategic bombers, 12 Tu-22M3 long-range bombers, and four Il-78 flying tankers will be involved in the maneuvers on May 17-18.

The maneuvers are of a "global scale," the paper said.

Major-General Igor Khvorov, commander of the 37th air army of the High Commander-in-Chief, said that the official objective of the exercise is to polish cooperation between long-range aviation, the navy and other branches of the army in the western, eastern, northern and southern regions of the Russian Federation, and over the world's oceans. This emphasizes the global scale of the impending maneuvers.

Submarines of the Northern and Pacific fleets will launch ballistic missiles. Nuclear strategic and multi-purpose submarines, surface warships of different types, coastal missile and anti-aircraft units, and the missile-carrying, pursuit and anti-submarine aviation will be involved in the exercise.

The paper also noted that Russian warships sent to the Arabian Sea to take part in an exercise with the Indian navy will support strategic units. They will find and destroy U.S. Los Angeles-class submarines and deliver missile strikes at enemy warships.

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The title is purposefully alarmist, but I do think countries like Russia (paranoid and jealous) warrant some concern. The only reference I could find was at Pravda, an article about modernizing the army and Putin wanting a professional combat ready military by 2007, and also said: The president stressed that the army would be substantially re-equipped with state-of-the-art weapons in the future.

Putin announced that work on the creation of a new generation Russian weapon, which specialists have placed in the strategic category, was in the practical implementation stage.

"This weapon will guarantee the defensive capabilities of Russia and its allies in the long-term," the president emphasised.

"A serious component of the reform of the Armed Forces will be the re-inforcement and modernisation of the nuclear deterrent forces," Vladimir Putin said.

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This is the newspaper referenced in the article, but I can't read cyrillic.

http://www.ng.ru/

[optimistically_conservative]

Sometime during the '90s, Russia attained nuclear superiority over the U.S.

I'm saddened, saddened that the last president failed so miserably at national security.

[TheCrusader]

The most accurate way for Russia to simulate a nuclear attack on the United States is for the entire population of Russia to fall on the ground and make believe they have been roasted to death. The surviving 300 Russians in Siberia will have plenty of irradiated vodka to drink.

[Bedford Forrest]

Ooooooh, that little runtman Wadimir Pukin is weally scawy -he is more scawy than a whole bunch of killer bunny wabbits. Scwoo the little Wusky Runtman. He should be vewy careful he don't mess with Texas - the little runtman.

[merak]

The price tag for Kosovo...

[Poohbah]

OK, this sounds like STRATCOM's annual GLOBAL ARCHER and GLOBAL GUARDIAN exercises.

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YEp.



The most interesting article I read seemed to think that Russians never lost their Cold War mentality, which doesn't surprise me.

[yooper]

The first thing Russia needs to do in preparation for these attacks is to figure out where their missing warheads are. They're kind of a necessity in the attack...

[xJones]

Russia might consider defeating Chechnya first. That rebellion has been going on for years.

[fat city]

As long as the Ruskies keep blowing their dough on tactical nuclear programs they will not be players on the world stage-- well, except for their tactical suitcase bombs. But, its also this policy that keeps them from being a viable capitalist nation (like that's genetically possible). Ronald Reagan says, "WAKE UP!". As all good bolsheviks know, its the economy, stupid.

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You mean the Russian counterpart?

[Poohbah]

Yes, this is the Russian counterpart of our GLOBAL GUARDIAN and GLOBAL ARCHER exercises.

[boris]

The Russians are NOT our friends. The Cold War is not over; it merely morphed. These people invented the Potemkin Village.

They invented mines disguised as toys to kill or injure Afghani children.

And they disciplined those involved in the KAL 007 shoot-down...for failing to murder hundreds of innocents rapidly enough.

--Boris

[Iscool]

Gonna shoot down our satellites, eh???
Hope this really is just an exercise...

[LenS]

Oh my. You're so right. We should have gone back to the good old days of Carter and appeasement. Then we'd be much better off.

'eff the Russians. If they keep this up, they might wake up one morning with the 10th Mountain holding all their oil fields in Central Asia and the 82nd doing the same in Siberia. And perhaps a few armored and mechanized divisions driving in from Poland for a friendly visit. Moscow could use a good burning again.

Wake up Putin -- with your population in die back, you really don't want Pax Americana finishing the Cold War the way it should have ended.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Sounds like they have been taking PR lessons from North Korea.

[U S Army EOD]

I wonder how much higher will their casualty rate will be than ours was in Iraq. Last time they had a big exercise they managed to sink only one submarine, theirs.

[RusIvan]

According to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, the Russian exercises "will be linked with destroying the U.S. satellite group in order to neutralize the NAVSTAR global navigation system, the Keyhole optoelectronic intelligence satellites, and the Lacross radio-locating intelligence satellites." +++

If they exercise with swithching off american targeting sattelites iover RUssia's territory then they game to repel attack on Russia of type of on Iraq.
So it is defense prepareness not offense.

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If they keep this up, they might wake up one morning with the 10th Mountain holding all their oil fields in Central Asia and the 82nd doing the same in Siberia. +++

I know you raving but anyway what russian oil fields in Central Asia? As I check the map Central Asia oil fields very small and at least 500 miles south of russian border.

And perhaps a few armored and mechanized divisions driving in from Poland for a friendly visit. Moscow could use a good burning again.++

They know that is a possibility. That is why that exercise:).