Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces Start Snap Combat Drills

The drills involved over 160,000 servicemen, 130 aircraft, 5,000 tanks and armored vehicles, 70 Pacific Fleet warships, five Russian armies, the Third Air Force, Air Defense Command and strategic aviation. Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said: “Such exercises have not been held since the Soviet era, or perhaps even during that period.” (Read more)