Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Russia To Hold Three-Day Strategic Nuclear Drill This Week

A Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile test-launched from a missile silo at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in September. Russian will be launching three days of further tests

Daily Mail: Russia to hold three-day strategic nuclear drills involving 12,000 troops and the launch of two intercontinental ballistic missiles

* Three days of military drills at Kura testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula
* Russian nuclear forces will take part in strategic drills involving 12,000 troops
* Up to 213 missile launchers, 105 planes, 15 surface warships and five submarines to be used in latest Russian war games amid rising tensions with the West

Russia's military will this week undertake a sweeping drill of its strategic nuclear forces in its latest show of strength.

The Kremlin Defence Ministry said the three-day exercise will begin tomorrow and involve 12,000 troops, 213 missile launchers, 105 aircraft, 15 surface warships and five submarines.

It said in a statement today that the war games will feature practice launches of missiles.

Russia will test-fire 16 cruise and ballistic missiles, including Yars and Sineva intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) during its Strategic Missile Force's drills.

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More News On Russia Holding A Three-Day Strategic Nuclear Drill This Week

Russia to conduct sweeping drills of its nuclear forces -- AP
Russia Will Hold Major Test of Its Strategic Missile Forces -- Moscow Times/Reuters
Russia Readies Major Strategic-Missile-Forces Drills -- RFE
Russia to hold major test of its strategic missile forces -- Al Jazeera

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So Russian officers are not failing like Americans.


"US nuclear missile unit fails safety check"

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1296694/us-nuclear-missile-unit-fails-safety-check

During the era of President BamBam, the boy king.

Anonymous said...

TBF the rot in the missile units is a problem of the overall USAF is a structural problem of the whole organization. All it takes is one exchange of words to confirm it, but you have to ask the right question. Will The Foundation look at the problem and ask the question. They are suppose to be the educated and intelligent ones.