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Russian Helicopters displays its latest developments in military helicopters in Army-2015

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(Defensa.com) Russian Helicopters, the Rostec State Corporation, are taking part in the 2015 Army-event which began on June 16 and runs until February 19 in Kubinka in the Moscow region. Event organized by the Russian Defense Ministry, seeks to identify promising technologies, applications engineering and other solutions that can be incorporated into the development of weapons systems and military technology.

Russian Helicopters has come with copies of their latest developments, including the attack helicopter Ka-52K board, the upgraded version of the Mi-18N (E) Night Hunter with dual controls, transport helicopters Mi-8AMTSh-V, Mi- 17V-5 and Ka-226T and commercial Mi-38 and Mi-171A2. The Ka-52K, is derived from the naval helicopter reconnaissance and combat Ka-52 Alligator, developed for the Russian Navy, for which it is installed folding rotors and implemented a more potent anti-corrosion treatment, among other improvements as Avionics, which has been modified for naval use. This helicopter is currently conducting test flights.

The military transport helicopter Mi-8AMTSh-V designed for the Russian Air Force, has been designed for the replacement of imported components. Employs the most powerful engines Klimov VK-2500-03, has replaced the Ukrainian auxiliary power unit AI-9V SPE Russian Aerosila TA-14, which provides more power, longer operating in the generator mode and higher indicators starting and operating altitude (6,000 m. compared to 4,000 previously). Communications systems has the same origin, weather radar system that offers 3D images of cloud formations and objects, whose information, along with the navigation equipment, are presented in a large multi-function display that improves flight safety .

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The Mi-8AMTSh-VA has been developed for the operations of the Russian Defense Ministry in arctic conditions. Party has modernized helicopter Mi-8AMTSh-V, which will be installed Klimov VK-2500-03 engines, auxiliary power unit TA-14 and a modified avionics to conduct operations in extreme cold and low visibility .

The Mi-28N (E) Night Hunter is a version of the popular combat helicopter equipped with dual controls designed to train pilots but can act as a gunship. For its part, the light multirole Ka-226T helicopter is in service with the Russian Armed Forces, using coaxial rotor technology that gives greater maneuverability. It is able to land in small spaces, making it ideal for urban operations. It has the latest technologies in areas such as avionics and noise reduction.

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Likewise, commercial helicopter Mi-38 and Mi-171A2 are conducting test flights. The Mi-171A2 is provided with a modified rotor system components, new composite blades and tail rotor polymers in X. assembly has integrated digital avionics KBO-17 Ulyanovsk Instrument Design Bureau (subsidiary Technologies Radioelectronic ), which allows a reduced two members and day and night flights in difficult weather crew. Meets the latest requirements for communications, navigation and control.

The Mi-38 helicopter is a multipurpose cargo or militare personnel or civilian operations. It can be used in different weather conditions or naval missions and is equipped with two engines Klimov TV7-117V and auxiliary power unit. It was originally designed to replace the veteran family Mil Mi-8/17 operating in half the world.

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ST. PETERSBURG, June 18. /TASS/. Russia has not received the technology for the Mistral class helicopter carriers’ construction from France, Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov told journalists on Thursday.

"What technology we have received? - none as of today," he said, adding that "we already had the hull modular design technology, we just had no orders, and we supplied the stern section and the fore-body."

A number of media reports said previously that Russia received from France the technology for the construction of the Mistral class helicopter carrying warships.

The €1.12-billion contract to build the Mistral amphibious assault ships for the Russian Navy was signed in June 2011. In case it is not implemented, France will have to pay Russia a penalty fee. The first Mistral, the Vladivostok, was floated in October 2013. It was expected to be handed over to Russia by the French side in autumn 2014, but the handover did not take place due to the situation in Ukraine.

The second Mistral, the Sevastopol, was to be delivered to Russia in October 2015, but the deal was suspended too.

France suspended the delivery of Mistrals to Russia as part of a package of sanctions the European countries imposed on Moscow for what they claimed was its alleged role in destabilisation of east Ukraine. Russia has constantly dismissed allegations that Moscow could in any way be involved in hostilities in Ukraine’s east. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin said on May 9 that France can’t make decisions on the sale of Mistral helicopter carriers without Russia’s consent as the Russian Federation has the end user certificate.

Previous reports suggested that the French side was ready to pay compensation to Russia if the helicopter carriers are not delivered. Moscow has repeatedly said that it wold be satisfied with any variant - either the ships or money. In early June, Russian presidential aide for military-technical cooperation

Vladimir Kozhin said that he hoped that the situation with the Mistral warships would be resolved during the summer. Russia wants to have all expenses related to production of the ships to be covered, he said. "Money or ships," Kozhin said. "Money means money. We do not lose a lot if we don’t get these ships."

On May 15, Russia’s Kommersant business daily reported with reference to "sources in the sphere of military-technical cooperation" that France has drafted and sent Moscow proposals on termination of a French-Russian agreement on construction of Mistral helicopter carriers for Russia.

These proposals "imply that about €785 million will be returned to Russia, which the country will only be able to obtain after its government issues a written permission to sell the vessels to any third party without any reservations," the newspaper said.

It said "Moscow does not agree with such an approach," assesses its "expenditures and losses in connection with the broken contract at €1.163 billion and does not intend to issue any permits for re-export until the money is returned."

"The option with the return of the sum mentioned in the French proposal does not suit us at all, and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin already informed French Defense and National Security Secretary General Louis Gautier, authorized to hold talks on their part, of that. They are now preparing their arguments," a source said.

According to assessments of the French weekly Le Point, annulment of the deal to supply Mistrals to Russia may cost France from €2 billion to €5 billion.


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Project 22160 patrol ship:

The specs that are visible on the chart mention a displacement of 1700 T, a length of 91 m and an armament that includes:

76 mm gun
Igla-S SAM
12.7 mm machine guns
DP 64 and 65 anti diver grenade launchers
Option of a "container" launched system
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Brazilian authorities in Moscow discussed space agreements, including new stations Glonass and monitoring in the north and southeast of the country

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(Defensa.com) The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Aldo Rebelo, and the president of the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB), José Raimundo Braga Coelho, are since Monday in Moscow with the aim of expanding cooperation between Brazil and Russia in the fields of Science, Technology and Innovation (CTI).

The dialogue between Brazil and Russia in these areas occurs within the framework of the Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation signed between the two countries in November 1997. It includes partnerships prospects in space areas, nanotechnology, biotechnology and information and communication technologies ( ICT). Also guidelines for cooperation between institutes of science parks and innovation, with reference, in Russia, Skolkovo Innovation Center. The minister and the president of the AEB participated in a meeting with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), represented by its director, Igor Komarov. On the Brazilian side also he attended the meeting the head of the International Bureau of MCTI, Ambassador Carlos Henrique Cardim.

The meeting aimed to review existing cooperation in space with a view to its expansion. One of the possible measures is to increase the participation of Brazil in the Russian calibration stations positioning and navigation system, Glonass. The calibration station is used to improve the accuracy of global positioning satellites. On the Brazilian side, since the units are installed in academia, they are used in the training of local human resources in the space area. There are already two such stations installed at the University of Brasilia (UNB). Two more will be installed in the Technological Institute of Pernambuco (ITP), in Recife, and Santa Maria.

The alliance with Russia to establish a monitoring station of space debris was also another issue on the agenda. Its implementation has started in the National Astrophysics Laboratory (LNA), in Itajubá. For Brazil, this cooperation is also very important for the development of human resources in the space sector. The delegation also visited the Skolkovo Foundation, the new technology park under construction in Russia.

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Russia has developed super-high-frequency gun capable of deactivating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and the warheads of precision weapons at an impact range of ten kilometers which ensures 360 degrees of perimeter defense.

Russia’s United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (UIMC), part of Rostec Corporation, has announced that it developed a super-high-frequency gun for BUK missile systems.

The newly-developed equipment is capable of deactivating the radio electronics of UAVs and the warheads of precision weapons, according to a representative of the corporation.

The equipment, informally named the microwave gun, has been developed for the needs of Russia’s Defense Ministry and will be demonstrated during the closed part of Army-2015, an international event organized by the Russian Defense Ministry, the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and state technology corporation Rostec, which will be held on June 16-19.

The UIMC representative has not revealed all the technical characteristics of the equipment but has mentioned that the impact range of the equipment is ten kilometers and that its defense perimeter is 360 degrees.

“The new system is equipped with a high-power relativistic generator and reflector antenna, management and control system, and a transmission system which is fixed on the chassis of BUK surface-to-air missile systems. When mounted on a special platform, the ‘microwave gun’ is capable of ensuring perimeter defense at 360 degrees,” the representative said.

The system is capable of out-of-band suppression of the radio electronic equipment of low-altitude aircraft and the assault elements of precision weapons. The gun is able to deactivate the equipment of aircraft and UAVs, and neutralize precision weapons.

There are currently also plans to use the system for testing Russian military radio electronic systems against the impact of powerful super-high-frequency emission.
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Now There is hype for this but here are the facts EMP And Microwaves can damage or disable sensitive electronics. That said the effects are often over emphasized in fiction the So called "Coldmaker". Unlike in 007 Goldeneye if a EMP bomb went off chances are your PC would not explode the amount of energy released into it would be enough to boil you alive. A Real EMP or microwave attack would likely crash your PC. once the attack was over it would be annoying as you restart. The threat for a large scale being mostly due to older computer systems at the heart of services. All That said systems can be hardened and protected by use of materials to create shielding. For example Satellites and space craft often use Microchips and electronics designed to resist damage form radiation common in space such as that radiated from the sun.
When considering this it seems likely that the effects of a Microwave Buk would differ from case to case. lower end drones like those more common to infantry or lesser states would drop like stones well higher end drones and fighters like RQ180 or GlobalHawk or F35 would only suffer loss of some communications.
There is also the Double Edge.
As time as gone by much of Russian Electronics became more and more reliant on commercial off the Shelf and foreign sources recently the Head of Roscosmo said that 75% of the electronics used in the Modern Russian Space program was of American Origin. New Russian systems like PAKFA and Armada are likely also using high degrees of susceptible circuitry.
 
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Russia is pouring troops and weapons into its European enclave

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Russia is pouring troops and weapons -- including missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads -- into its western exclave of Kaliningrad at such a rate that the region is now one of Europe's most militarized places.

A NATO official, writing to RFE/RL on condition of anonymity, said that Moscow is stationing "thousands of troops, including mechanized and naval infantry brigades, military aircraft, modern long-range air defense units and hundreds of armored vehicles in the territory."

The military activity in Kaliningrad, which has no land connection to Russia and which borders EU members Lithuania and Poland, has raised alarms in Vilnius and Warsaw that can be clearly heard in Brussels and Washington.

"They're making quite big military exercises in the Kaliningrad district [which is] very, very close to our neighborhood," says Andrius Kubilius, a former Lithuanian prime minister. "So of course we are worried about such military developments very close to our borders."

In part due to such concerns, NATO this month is
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in Poland and the Baltic States, a U.S. military convoy recently travelled across Eastern and Central Europe in a show of the defense alliance's commitment to protect the region, and Washington is reportedly debating whether to store heavy military equipment in several Baltic and Eastern European countries bordering Russia.

The Kaliningrad region, which lies along the Baltic Sea in what was once East Prussia, has long held strategic value.

'Forward-Operating Base'
Annexed from Germany in 1945, Kaliningrad was a closed military zone during the Soviet era, meaning only someone with special permission could get in.

It is now home to Russia's Baltic Sea Fleet, as well as the Chernyakhovsk and Donskoye air bases, with thousands of Russian troops stationed there.

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As the confrontation with the West heats up, Russia is finding Kaliningrad the "obvious place" to deploy more military hardware, explains Dmitry Gorenburg, a Russian military expert at the
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in Arlington, Virginia.

Kaliningrad also serves as the likely starting point for the numerous reports of Russian military activity over Baltic airspace and in the Baltic Sea, Gorenburg tells RFE/RL.

"From Kaliningrad you can just go right out and you're there; there's Sweden, Poland, Germany's not that far away," Gorenburg explains. "So, it's almost like you can set it up as a forward-operating base without leaving your own country's territory."

Gorenburg says the growing military role of the Baltic Fleet contrasts with its more peaceful past.

"It's right near where all the main shipyards are. It was a place where they tested a lot of the new ships," Gorenburg says. "Its main mission prior to the crisis was mostly focused on sort of coastal protection kind of stuff. There really wasn't a lot of military activity in the Baltic Sea until quite recently."

According to NATO and regional analysts, one of the main worries for the West is whether Moscow has permanently stationed Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad.

Iskanders are capable of carrying conventional and nuclear warheads and have a range of 400 kilometers -- meaning if they were stationed in Kaliningrad many European cities, including Berlin and Warsaw, would be in their range.

In the past, the Kremlin has used the threat of deploying Iskanders in Kaliningrad as a sort of bargaining chip.

In 2008, Moscow said it would station the missiles there if Washington went ahead with plans to build components of a U.S. missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.

In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama scrapped those plans.

The Iskander missiles were reported to have been deployed, at least temporarily, when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered "snap" -- meaning with no prior notification to the West -- military drills in Kaliningrad in December 2014 and March 2015.

The size of the drills has been nothing short of impressive, with some 9,000 troops and 55 naval ships taking part in the December 5-10 exercises.

In Poland, the potential threat posed by the Iskander missiles in part prompted Warsaw to decide to upgrade its air-defense system, according to Pavel Fleischer, a research fellow at Warsaw's Casimir Pulaski Foundation.

"Recently, we just finished the procurement process for a new air-defense system, and we chose the [U.S.] Patriot [Air and Missile Defense] System," Fleischer tells RFE/RL. "So, we think our capabilities will be increased during the next couple of years."

In March, Poland said it was seeking to obtain Tomahawk missiles for submarines that Poland is planning to purchase by 2030.

Fears Of 'Provocation'
In Lithuania, the main rail link between Kaliningrad and Russia proper, leaders are concerned the Kremlin may orchestrate a "provocation" in the exclave to escalate tensions, according to Kubilius.

"We are afraid of any kind of possible provocations on transit routes, both railways, or gas pipeline, or electricity transit routes, which can be organized in order to have some type of pretext from Moscow's side, for Russia's side, to begin some aggressive actions," explains Kubilius, the leader of Lithuania's Homeland Union center-right party.

In May, Lithuania joined Latvia and Estonia in announcing they were seeking a permanent NATO presence on their soil to counter increased Russian military action.

All three countries have significant Russian minorities and fear Kremlin moves to inflame tensions there after the pro-Russian uprising in eastern Ukraine.

NATO said it would study the proposal.

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Vladimir Chizhov, Russia's ambassador to the EU, said the request to NATO was motivated by "local politics rather than a genuine security situation."

Amid growing Baltic unease, The New York Times reported on June 13 that Washington was "poised to station battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 American troops in several Baltic and Eastern European countries."

Russia in part justifies its actions in Kaliningrad by painting the West as the aggressor, pointing to NATO expansion to former Soviet satellite states, and to the deployment of NATO troops and hardware closer to Russian borders.

The New York Times report on the planned U.S. stationing of heavy military equipment in the Baltics and Eastern Ukraine set off alarms at the Kremlin.

A Russian Defense Ministry official said the planned U.S. action would amount to "the most aggressive step by the Pentagon and NATO" since the Cold War.

Although he did not mention Kaliningrad, General Yuri Yakubov said on June 15 that "Russia would be left with no other option but to boost its troops and forces on the western flank."

In a sign that it was not an idle threat, Putin announced the next day that Russia would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year.



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Russia is pouring troops and weapons -- including missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads -- into its western exclave of Kaliningrad at such a rate that the region is now one of Europe's most militarized places.

A NATO official, writing to RFE/RL on condition of anonymity, said that Moscow is stationing "thousands of troops, including mechanized and naval infantry brigades, military aircraft, modern long-range air defense units and hundreds of armored vehicles in the territory."

The military activity in Kaliningrad, which has no land connection to Russia and which borders EU members Lithuania and Poland, has raised alarms in Vilnius and Warsaw that can be clearly heard in Brussels and Washington.

"They're making quite big military exercises in the Kaliningrad district [which is] very, very close to our neighborhood," says Andrius Kubilius, a former Lithuanian prime minister. "So of course we are worried about such military developments very close to our borders."

In part due to such concerns, NATO this month is
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in Poland and the Baltic States, a U.S. military convoy recently travelled across Eastern and Central Europe in a show of the defense alliance's commitment to protect the region, and Washington is reportedly debating whether to store heavy military equipment in several Baltic and Eastern European countries bordering Russia.

The Kaliningrad region, which lies along the Baltic Sea in what was once East Prussia, has long held strategic value.

'Forward-Operating Base'
Annexed from Germany in 1945, Kaliningrad was a closed military zone during the Soviet era, meaning only someone with special permission could get in.

It is now home to Russia's Baltic Sea Fleet, as well as the Chernyakhovsk and Donskoye air bases, with thousands of Russian troops stationed there.

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As the confrontation with the West heats up, Russia is finding Kaliningrad the "obvious place" to deploy more military hardware, explains Dmitry Gorenburg, a Russian military expert at the
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in Arlington, Virginia.

Kaliningrad also serves as the likely starting point for the numerous reports of Russian military activity over Baltic airspace and in the Baltic Sea, Gorenburg tells RFE/RL.

"From Kaliningrad you can just go right out and you're there; there's Sweden, Poland, Germany's not that far away," Gorenburg explains. "So, it's almost like you can set it up as a forward-operating base without leaving your own country's territory."

Gorenburg says the growing military role of the Baltic Fleet contrasts with its more peaceful past.

"It's right near where all the main shipyards are. It was a place where they tested a lot of the new ships," Gorenburg says. "Its main mission prior to the crisis was mostly focused on sort of coastal protection kind of stuff. There really wasn't a lot of military activity in the Baltic Sea until quite recently."

According to NATO and regional analysts, one of the main worries for the West is whether Moscow has permanently stationed Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad.

Iskanders are capable of carrying conventional and nuclear warheads and have a range of 400 kilometers -- meaning if they were stationed in Kaliningrad many European cities, including Berlin and Warsaw, would be in their range.

In the past, the Kremlin has used the threat of deploying Iskanders in Kaliningrad as a sort of bargaining chip.

In 2008, Moscow said it would station the missiles there if Washington went ahead with plans to build components of a U.S. missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.

In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama scrapped those plans.

The Iskander missiles were reported to have been deployed, at least temporarily, when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered "snap" -- meaning with no prior notification to the West -- military drills in Kaliningrad in December 2014 and March 2015.

The size of the drills has been nothing short of impressive, with some 9,000 troops and 55 naval ships taking part in the December 5-10 exercises.

In Poland, the potential threat posed by the Iskander missiles in part prompted Warsaw to decide to upgrade its air-defense system, according to Pavel Fleischer, a research fellow at Warsaw's Casimir Pulaski Foundation.

"Recently, we just finished the procurement process for a new air-defense system, and we chose the [U.S.] Patriot [Air and Missile Defense] System," Fleischer tells RFE/RL. "So, we think our capabilities will be increased during the next couple of years."

In March, Poland said it was seeking to obtain Tomahawk missiles for submarines that Poland is planning to purchase by 2030.

Fears Of 'Provocation'
In Lithuania, the main rail link between Kaliningrad and Russia proper, leaders are concerned the Kremlin may orchestrate a "provocation" in the exclave to escalate tensions, according to Kubilius.

"We are afraid of any kind of possible provocations on transit routes, both railways, or gas pipeline, or electricity transit routes, which can be organized in order to have some type of pretext from Moscow's side, for Russia's side, to begin some aggressive actions," explains Kubilius, the leader of Lithuania's Homeland Union center-right party.

In May, Lithuania joined Latvia and Estonia in announcing they were seeking a permanent NATO presence on their soil to counter increased Russian military action.

All three countries have significant Russian minorities and fear Kremlin moves to inflame tensions there after the pro-Russian uprising in eastern Ukraine.

NATO said it would study the proposal.

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Vladimir Chizhov, Russia's ambassador to the EU, said the request to NATO was motivated by "local politics rather than a genuine security situation."

Amid growing Baltic unease, The New York Times reported on June 13 that Washington was "poised to station battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 American troops in several Baltic and Eastern European countries."

Russia in part justifies its actions in Kaliningrad by painting the West as the aggressor, pointing to NATO expansion to former Soviet satellite states, and to the deployment of NATO troops and hardware closer to Russian borders.

The New York Times report on the planned U.S. stationing of heavy military equipment in the Baltics and Eastern Ukraine set off alarms at the Kremlin.

A Russian Defense Ministry official said the planned U.S. action would amount to "the most aggressive step by the Pentagon and NATO" since the Cold War.

Although he did not mention Kaliningrad, General Yuri Yakubov said on June 15 that "Russia would be left with no other option but to boost its troops and forces on the western flank."

In a sign that it was not an idle threat, Putin announced the next day that Russia would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year.



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Looks like the kold-war is heating up, and Senior Obama is well behind the eight ball in this realm, hopefully he will seek some sage advice from people who understand when to pull it back, and when to put it all out front. Mr. Putin is a long time player, who banks on folks thinking he is a little "whacked", rather kold, kruel, kalkulating dude, who is really only a little whacked, but like Bro Obama has a very large EGO to match that of Senior Obama?

Mr. Bush on the other hand liked and respected Mr. Putin, and seemed to bring out the best in him, when Mr. Bush looked him in the eye with that little twinkle and smiled at Vlad, he knew he was dealing with someone he could trust to keep his word, and someone who genuinely liked and respected him and his people. Mr. Putin knew Mr. Bush had limits that if crossed would bring about XYZ if pushed. Mr. Obama is a novice, he is on the defensive, he does not command respect, and he is in fact the "variable", Mr. Putin knows that he cannot trust Mr. Obama or Mr. Obama's instincts as he is a political animal, rather than a statesman?
 
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Russia is deploying advanced aerial weapon systems to the Arctic

In continuation of a militarizing trend, Russia will deploy advanced aerial weapons systems to the Arctic, according to the deputy commander of Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces.

Speaking on June 20, Deputy Commander Kirill Makarov told RIA Novosti that the Kremlin will deploy fighter aircraft, surface-to-air missile systems, and radar systems to islands off the Russian coast in the Arctic.

"This is all done to the Russian Federation to defend its interests around the perimeter of our state, but also the interests in the Arctic," Makarov
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The deployment of advanced aerospace technology to the Arctic is in keeping with a Russian drive to militarize the region as part of a
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that was signed into place by the Kremlin in December 2014. In addition to the Arctic, Russia has placed particular emphasis on militarizing the Crimean peninsula and the Russian Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad.

Since the new military doctrine has gone into effect, Moscow has undertaken a militarization and construction blitz throughout the Arctic. Russia is constructing ten Arctic search-and-rescue stations, 16 deepwater ports, 13 airfields, and ten air-defense radar stations across its Arctic coast.

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Once completed, this construction will "permit the use of larger and more modern bombers," Mark Galeotti, a New York University professor specializing on Russia,
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for The Moscow Times. "By 2025, the Arctic waters are to be patrolled by a squadron of next-generation stealthy PAK DA bombers."

Simultaneously, Moscow has
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Joint Strategic Command North (JSCN) from components of the Northern Fleet in order to maintain a permanent military presence in the region. It is likely that this command will become a fifth Russian military district.

The command will
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an air-defense division, two Arctic mechanized brigades, a naval infantry brigade, a coastal defense missile system, and the placement of missile regiments in outlying archipelagos in the Arctic Ocean.

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Russia warns of deeper rifts with West as Europe extends sanctions

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MOSCOW— The Kremlin denounced the European Union for what it called “Russophobic” policies and warned of possible further retaliation of its own after European officials extended sanctions for an additional six months Monday over Russia’s involvement in Ukraine.

The extension until Jan. 31 will keep the European measures in place through the year-end deadline for implementing all parts of a cease-fire agreement to settle the conflict between Ukraine’s
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and pro-Moscow rebels. Western leaders have repeatedly said that Russia must support implementation of the agreement before sanctions can start to be rolled back.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposed answering the E.U. move by also extending Moscow’s restrictive measures — such as import bans — against the West for six more months, according to the Russian news service Interfax.

European and U.S. sanctions have limited or banned the export of key technology to Russia’s defense and energy sectors and severely restricted financing for the Russian banking sector.

In turn, Russia has banned the import of almost all produce, meat, dairy and fish from the European Union and the United States. Both sides have
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of individuals subject to asset freezes and travel bans.

Extending the sanctions against Russia was seen as a way to maintain pressure on Moscow to continue with cease-fire efforts, even as escalating clashes in Ukraine dim hopes of a lasting truce.

But in Moscow, leaders complained that keeping the sanctions in place would undermine progress toward normalization of relations between Russia and the West.

“Even partial softening of the sanctions would have created a positive dynamic,” Alexei Pushkov, the head of the Russian Duma’s international relations committee, told Interfax. “Even though the prolongation of the sanctions does not immediately sharply worsen the situation — it remains as it was — it creates a negative tone for at least another half a year in the relations between Russia and the European Union.”

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it was “very disappointed” that the E.U. had sided with the “Russophobic lobby, which pushed the decision to extend the illegal restrictions.”

Until several weeks ago, it was unclear whether the E.U. would be able to muster the necessary unanimous support to keep the current sanctions regime going.

In recent months, Russia made concerted efforts to court sympathetic governments and foster pro-Russian political support around Europe — especially in debt-saddled Greece, whose leaders have suggested they might look to Moscow for financial aid.

Russia has stopped short of offering Greece anything more than promises and plans to develop various sectors of its economy.

Greece did not stand in the way of the sanctions extension, which came just hours before an emergency summit in Brussels seeking to reach a deal to keep Greece from a default that could push it from the euro zone.

Even with Europe taking the lead on sanctions, some in Russia turned their dismay toward Washington.

“The Americans declare their interest in the provision of sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. But they have absolutely no interest in Ukraine. They are interested in Russia,” said Nikolai Patrushev, chair of the Russian Security Council and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview with the Russian newspaper Kommersant published Monday.

“The United States wants Russia to cease to exist as a country,” Patrushev said.

In Berlin, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said the United States will contribute Special Operations forces, surveillance aircraft and weaponry to a new NATO task force designed to respond to crises in Eastern Europe and North Africa.

“We do not seek a cold, let alone a hot war with Russia,” Carter said in a speech earlier Monday. “But make no mistake: We will defend our allies.. . .We will stand up to Russia’s actions and their attempts to reestablish a Soviet-era sphere of influence.”

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