These Are The Weapon Systems To Watch For At The Vostok 2018 War Games

SCMP: 5 weapons to watch for as Russia and China begin their massive war games

* Russian troops, together with Chinese and Mongolian forces, will participate in the largest Russian military exercise in decades.
* The drills will include hundreds of thousands of troops, as well as thousands of pieces of military hardware, including ships, aircraft, and tanks.

Russia's biggest military exercise in nearly four decades will get under way on Tuesday in a five-day show of its power in the Far East.

President Vladimir Putin is expected to inspect the Vostok 2018 war games involving 300,000 troops from Russia's Eastern and Central military districts, the biggest of their kind since the Zapad 81 exercise in 1981.

Both China and Mongolia are sending troops to Vostok 2018, also known as East 2018, while Turkey, a Nato member, said it was still "evaluating the offer" from Russia.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoygu said Moscow would engage in tri-service mock-operations involving 36,000 military vehicles, 1,000 military aircraft, two of Russia's naval fleets and all its airborne units.

Read more ....

WNU Editor: The Vostok 2018 military exercises have begun .... Vostok 2018: Russia lets the war games with China begin (DW).