Russia gets ready to avoid WW3

In recent weeks, Russia’s nuclear-capable forces practiced missile launches and flyovers in apparent offensive measures for a conflict scenario.

Russian troops near the Black Sea coast have carried out drills for an scenario in which Russia was attacked by a chemical or nuclear weapon, the country's military has revealed.

Spread across three Russian regions between the Black and Caspian seas, the drills involved more than 5,000 troops, the Ministry of Defense announced in a statement.

Units specializing in chemical weapons were deployed in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions, while at least 100 personnel in the neighboring Rostov region launched a parallel decontamination drill.

Russia to upgrade MAWS

It came to light recently that the last geostationary satellite of the Oko-1 ballistic missile early detection system had gone out of commission. The loss of the satellite weakened the outer space segment of the Missile Attack Warning System (MAWS), which is one of the main elements of the country's strategic defense system.

According to a source close to the Ministry of Defense, the lack of geostationary satellites is being compensated for by new horizon radar systems known as Voronezh-M and Voronezh-DM. Located in the Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Irkutsk, and Krasnodar regions, these stations operate in two frequency ranges: the meter range (Voronezh-M) and the decimeter range (Voronezh-DM). They create a radar field, which makes it possible to easily detect space objects and effectively prevent missile attacks. The new system will perform at a higher level, and will track not only ballistic missiles, but tactical ones as well.

Russia ‘Welcomes’ the US Destroyer Truxtun

Unconfirmed news reports claim the Russian Navy is deploying land-based ‘Bastion’ anti-ship missile systems as a response to the recent U.S. move entering two naval vessels to the Black Sea. The Bastion anti-ship missile system was deployed last night (8-9 March) to Sevastopol from the Russian town of Anapa, Krasnodar, about 250 miles to the East. (Read more)

Rusia: Nuevo radar antimisiles

Rusia ha comenzado hoy martes la construcción de un nuevo radar avanzado de alerta temprana antimisiles, al objeto de mejorar las capacidades de su sistema de defensa antimisiles.

El nuevo radar será del tipo Voronezh y se ubicará cerca de la ciudad de Orsk en la región de Orenburgo como parte de la red de alerta temprana antimisiles que se completará para el año 2020. Se prevé que el radar entre en servicio a mediados de 2015 ya que será ensamblado mediante una novedosa técnica de ultima generación que permite completar el proceso en cuestión de 18 meses como máximo, en lugar de los 5 a 9 años que hasta ahora se necesitaban para este tipo de radares.

Actualmente se encuentran en servicio un radar Voronezh-DM en el territorio de Krasnodar y un radar Voronezh-M en la región de Leningrado. También hay sendos radares Voronezh-DM en las regiones de Kaliningrado e Irkutsk, pero se encuentran en fase de pruebas por el momento.