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nicky said:

Maneuvers Vostok 2018

The active phase of the maneuvers will be held on September 11-17 at five combined-arms training grounds, four training grounds of Air Force and Air Defence Force, in the waters of the Japan, Bering and Okhotsk seas. It was announced by Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu during a teleconference with leadership of the Russian Defence Ministry.

The head of the military department also noted that Vostok 2018 maneuvers are the largest event of the Russian Armed Forces combat training. It involves about 300,000 servicemen, over 1,000 aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles, 80 ships, and 36,000 tanks and other vehicles.

The military contingent of the People's Liberation Army of China up to 3,500 people strong will take part in the main episode, which will take place at the Tsugol training ground of the Eastern Military District.

PLA - over 600 pieces of equipment including tanks and other vehicles, 5 aircraft, 24 helicopters.

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Klon said:

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• One Army weapon, not yet officially named, would be a high-performance
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  , tearing through missile defenses at Mach 5-plus to kill critical hardened targets such as command bunkers.
• The other, the Strategic Long-Range Cannon (SLRC), would use a
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  to launch cheaper, slower missiles at larger numbers of softer targets like radars, missile launchers and mobile command posts.

That’s why the Strategic Long-Range Cannon will fire larger numbers of more affordable projectiles. As the name says, it’ll launch missiles from a cannon barrel – probably a new design, not the standard 155 mm howitzer – which allows a smaller and cheaper rocket motor on the projectile itself. It’s still a supersonic, maneuverable precision weapon that has to survive an explosive launch with its electronics intact, but it’s not as hard as hypersonics.

“It’s evolutionary in some ways,” Rafferty told me. “We have rocket-assisted projectiles right now that are cannon-launched. “So it’s not that big a leap to imagine you could do that at longer ranges with a larger cannon.” How much larger? It won’t be huge like John Bull’s infamous supergun, he said, but something that can fit on a road-mobile vehicle, both to deploy and to take cover from enemy fire.

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Hmmmm....? New paint scheme? Haven't seen this camo before.

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