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Russia Holds Massive Military Drill: 155,000 Troops, 4,000 Tanks, 632 Aircraft, 84 Ships
At what point is a drill more than just a drill? Maybe when it is so massive it could be confused for an invasion force, involving a mindblowing 155,000 troops, more than the armies of most sovereign nations, 4,000 armoured vehicles, 632 planes and helicopters and 84 vessels. Those are the staggering numbers taking part in the Vostok-2014 strategic exercises, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, and whose main priority is ti "demonstrate that the degree of combat preparedness in Russian troops has risen." One almost wonders why...
Photos via Itar-Tass:
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu praised the troops' combat readiness. Official results, however, will be summed up later
The drills are the final stage of a series of command and staff, and special exercises, drills, and surprise inspections in 2014
The troops drilled anti-landing defence in Primorsky and Kamchatka Territories
Missiles were fierd from the Varyag cruiser during the anti-landing defence operation
Aviation went on operational duty in Russia's Arctic zone
And the commentary from RIA:
The recent large-scale military exercise in Russia's Far East, Vostok-2014, demonstrated that the degree of combat preparedness in Russian troops has risen, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday.
The minister said that although "final conclusions are yet to be made," the troops involved have demonstrated efficient command and "a better degree of combat preparedness."
Shoigu said that the Vostok-2014 exercise is nearly complete. "This large-scale event of operational and combat training of the Eastern Military District was a logical continuation of an unannounced combat readiness check carried out on the orders of the Supreme Commander Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin," the minister said.
Addressing the servicemen who distinguished themselves in battle maneuvers in Cape Skalistii, Shoigu said: "You have actually demonstrated great skill, professionalism and the ability to ensure the military security of the Russian Federation in the eastern region."
The Vostok-2014 strategic military exercise in the Eastern Military District is taking place from September 19 to 25. The exercise was preceded by unannounced combat readiness checks.
One can only hope that the above "combat preparedness" is completely unrelated to what is now an invasion of sovereign territory by "US-led alliances" on a weekly if not daily basis.
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training in their own country without the permission of US - provocative.
How dare the Russians do this without the permission of the US and The EU -- whatever that thing is.
Cold War 2.0. Same shit, different century.
A fucking Foxbat!
Awesome speed, altitude and time to climb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbKAR1dv-_I
Can't turn worth a shit however..
Calling Eastwood.
Calling Eastwood.
Go steal one.
This isn't going to be a fair fight.
Correct,
The Russians have air superiority over the USSA with their POS F22 and F35s.
The Sukhio's will operate day or night, wet or dry and dont require 30 hours of maintenance for every 1 hour of flight time.
SU-27>F-15/F-16
SU-33>F-18
SU-35>F-22/F-35
And dont forget the T-50 PAK FA
We are so screwed.
Russia has been doing military drills these past while now, preparing its citizens for warfare...while we here in the States are more focused on the media drilling wife beaters, child abusers and celebrity nude photos on a weekly basis...
Meh... The Bear is just rolling over from being poked repeatedly by the EU / US stick.
With the Ukraine on the verge of an economic collapse, Putin can just wait it out.
Gotta be a nice show for ISIS, tho....
Military drills are just dress rehearsals. After looking at how things worked out you get to decide whether it's time for the Broadway opening. We have a couple weeks at least while they examine the data.
Obama should think twice about taking out Assad... Syria is not that far from Russia via Turkey...
yes and they think they are going to poke the Russian Bear with no boots on the ground? LOL
Looks like they have at least 155000 boots just for the pregame show.
Obama might ought to plan on investing in a few Red Wingtm factories. Some one please tell those Dumbasses in the pentagon to look at a map sometime. That really big spot above the ______ stans that covers 12 time zones. Yes thats Russia.
I learned something playing Risk as a kid. Never, Never, Ever forget about that single infantry man standing all alone in Kamchatka, He comes back to kick your ass every time.
Actually thats a Mig-31"Foxhound"
Rgs
BT
If a nuclear war breaks out the only superiority that's going to matter will be in coffin and bodybag manufacturing.
Once casualties reach a certain threshold, those niceties fall quickly by the wayside in favor of the mass grave. That is, if there are enough people stilll around to do the job of collection, and they have to give a shit on top of it.
That is why you always capture enough troops for burial detail.
Sorry, you are badly wrong. Trained with most of those types and the US fighters are superior. F22 shoots them all down including F35 (I worked on F35 design). While the russian kit has basic grunt the Us kit has far superior avionics and thus battlespace intelligence. Thats the decider.
They were not made to turn but to catch Valkyries and B-1's, which they can do and then unleash AA-11/13 l.
It's not like you're going to be wanting to turn much at Mach 3.2.
Looks like a fish. Moves like a fish. Steers like a cow.
It's not Foxbat(Mig-25) it's a Foxhound Mig-31
It's a long range Mach-3 fighter interceptor with long range weapons unmatched in the world. Only plane that has a registered air target destruction at 280 km...
has a capability of guiding missiles from other air,land and sea platforms. Regiment of 4 planes covers area of 900 km, basically it's AWACS with long range missiles... One of the specialties is cruise missile hunting.
Nice platform when hunting traditional targets. Almost useless against stealth planes and stealth cruise missles.
You should change your avatar name because the FW 190 was an amazing plane and you have no clue.
Stealth is a scam aka a lie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDSiwqM2nw
The guy in the video helped design the F-16 and A-10. He has said stealth is a scam.
And you have the top-down looking radars, even Iran has them, that can see stealth easily.
Sorry, Stealth works. thats why no F117s were shot down by Iraq in the Gulf War even though they went in from day 1 over Bagdad before the Air defences were taken out. The evidence is there in real use to back up the theoretical capability. If you havent flown fighters and seen these technologies in action you really dont know what you're talking about. Ive flown air combat and stealth works - its a bitch to fight against! Seeing is everything. You can have the longest range missile but if you cant see its useless.
correct.
Stelth works against what? It doesn't work against meter -radars... ragular russian radars... look up "Nebo-M" stealth does work in certain situations, idially it was working against sm radars of SAMs but all of them are feeding data from meter radars... so no use o luck here. New russian planes coming out with sm and dm radars so no luck here eather.
Dude, please lern s.t, in your life... phisics is universal and yeah, "stealth" is russian tchnology.;-)
It's most likely a Mig 31 Foxhound, it looks like a Mig 25 but it's a totally different animal with a top speed better than any other fighter on the planet and the latest state of the art avionics
The SR-71 was retired because of it. It was not as fast but with a few of them - they could get an SR-71.
No.
"Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds... Oh Lord yeah!"
"War Pigs"- Black Sabbath
Here's a great cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZoo8PSC4AM
nice. my personal favorite cover is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOnezdfsFh0
If you really want to go off the beaten path, here is a great, stripped down version by the Dresden Dolls (using just a piano and a drumkit).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WimY82SpGhY
Thanks for all 3 of those links. Great stuff. Hellsongs needs to make a video to go with that cover, not just a still shot -- hey it's the Tube after all!
Please To Meet You,Hope You guess My Name.
"Cold War 2.0. Same shit, different century."
And the degree of fucked-uppedness that implies in the U.S. leadership just cannot be contemplated calmly.
I have a Russian neighbour, she just came back from Russia after visiting her family,
she told me that up until the sanctions, the sentiment toward the US was very friendly,
but after the sanctions she said everybody hates US and they want to go war and fight with US.
Sadly the US has proven itself too dumb to learn from its many mistakes. Perhaps a demonstration of likely consequences will work.....perhaps not.
This is just a test, do not evacuate the building at this time, this is only a test.
Fair question is when is a drill not a drill, a test not a test...hummmmm.
Chinese destroyer in Iranian port; 155,000 Russians massive drill; nuke-ready; etc. Next we may see 500,000 R-C joint exercise?
Cover for collapse...or the headcount reduction event(s).
Didn't they find the missing guidestone ?
How many drones we have?
Gentlemen, start your joysticks!
Meanwhile the 10 million financial hackers are answering Reveille in China, Russia, and the ME.
Fun times ahead, boys and girls.
I would like to avoid war at all costs. Even if that cost is reserve currency status.
I'm pretty sure the "reserve currency" thing is gonna happen either way. War is just a cover so the stupid people (most people) will believe that the War was what caused the problems.
"War is the expedient of every cornered despot"
Ayn Rand
Surely reserve currency status is worth a few million lives?
A few million? Thats so 1960's, Dr. Evil! Today, we don't use the word "millions", we use Billions and even Trillions. How about a few Billion lives for a few Trillion dollars?
That's not flexing their muscles, that's a total gym workout.
I heard some of those Russian planes were acting in a threatening manner. Time to bring them down.
Upon hearing this news obama and biden just sat down to pee!
In all fairness, peeing with an erection is indeed difficult and I know these warmongers are excited right about now.
.........golden shower?? who's pitchin and who's hittin'?
When I read about said 'WWIII' and it's origins as it happens; why do I get feeling like some one is forcing me to jack off with sand paper?
Who in their right fucking minds plays chess like these fucking psycho retards? It's like watching a moose trying to find a mate when he only has one antler and a 3" cock.
If I watched my opponent act like this I'd just shoot him right there. Bang your dead. Game over.
What about Syria? Did they chicken out or are they going to stand behind syria?
Syria needs some new S-300's, I think. Better keep them on base at Tartus till they're needed, lest the Israelis get funny ideas like they did before.
Better yet, buy some 400s and throw in some S-500 prototypes.
WOW! I bet when O-BOMBER and his gang of satanists sociopaths will start WWIII gold will go up a staggering 10 bucks in one single day, and the DOW J. will go down full 12 points! got it...
So?
USA had 170,000+ troops in Iraq for nearly 10 years.
Are you registered??
Yea!
And we still got Stalone, Arnold and Chuck Norris.
Quite; Arnold is about as key to Obummers strategy as his wife is at this point.
Who's wife? Obama's?
Actually, that's a great idea. Give her a bowcaster and send her in!
and what are you accomplished?
Are you a foriegn cunt troll?
foreign from what????
OK, so the cunt troll part is right? You're just confused about the foreign bit?
Did he stutter? Or can you not read?
you need to go to the psychotherapist
Yawn... And the mighty USA's LGBT-infested "diverse" troops got their azz kicked by Muzzies using IED's made of used cell phone parts. And your point is?
Well kids you've got 3-5 years to get that fallout shelter built. Good Luck.
http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/keytopics/threats.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Get away from the major cities, military installations and airports.
They'll vaporize those first.
First has little meaning in a one shot volley of 10,000 nukes cruising over the pole at about 17,500 mph. I'd say a total delay from first to last would be about 5-10 minutes max.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/cryptic-2014-stone-added-monument-calli...
I thought Bears were going into hibernation about now...
The West is being run by criminals, are you fucking kidding me? How many "military operations" is America engaged in outside of it's own borders...
Stupid fucks. Russia and China just need to wait...
Clearly another provocation by the US. Just a proportionate response to the presence of a US destroyer in the Black Sea
Wait till Europe bares its teeth. Or should I say its gums?
Do I spy the NovoRussia flag on the prow of that ship?
it's different flag
Very similar, though. Colors reversed.
Nothing to see here!... Now run along!!!
Look out China.
We should probably bomb the fuck out odf them for holding a military drill in their own country. Who do they think they are?
Next thing you know they will defend their own borders by stationing troops there!
Russia cannot feed and maintain a large military capable or striking worldwide targets simultaneously.
The goal is local:
Eastern Europe
Caucasus
China
Russia and China simply need to wait, period. The stupid fucks in the West are well on their way to self destruction as such "let them eat cake" monetary policies/experiments have been tried before.
Obama cracked under the revolt from generals and removed veto to strike Syria.
Khorasan was attacked also, which is managed by Iran.
Soon, margin call.
Military wants strong USD and continuation of alliance with Saudis, which means no more giving trillions to insolvent oligarchs.
My view, anyway
You are talking in circles man, the Banking/MIC/energy oligarchy are all the same people. Oil has been the reserve currency for quite some time.
No.
They used to be allied
They no longer are, since 2009 when QE started and INSOLVENT bank lobby started getting all the money from QE
If oligarch X gets trillions without owning any real stuff then oligarch Y who owns real stuff gets pissed off.
"If oligarch X gets trillions without owning any real stuff then oligarch Y who owns real stuff gets pissed off." -- Again with such optimisim. Wake us when Y actually kills some X, otherwise, nothing has changed.
It does seem that some of our vets have woken up to the fact that they have been used.
http://polling.reuters.com/#!response/TM350Y14/type/oneshot/filters/SC7A_2:1/dates/20130923-20140923
Please, that's just plain ridiculous. Russia is not invading countries world wide, we are. Russia is showing NATO that they will not roll over and tolerate NATO's encroachment on their territory.
I am simply stating the obvious as far as military supply lines and logistics about Russia
Neutral commentary
Strategy of Interior Lines. Of course this is assuming nukes aren't fired, and I can't see a situation where NATO dares invade Russia, and there isn't some sort of nuclear response.
Yeah, it totally stopped SHERMAN's March through GA, he had to stop and wait until the crops were harvested. Then, wham, he got a brilliant idea, why not fuck over the people of GA and take their food and other shit while out for a leisurely stroll?
"Hey, don't take my tractor!! Shut up or we'll kill and eat you along with your mule!".
Firepower and warm clothing are the most needed items furnished by any backers.
True ekm1. You are right, that is why they wanted those ships from France.
"Russia cannot feed and maintain a large military capable or striking worldwide targets simultaneously."
Any links to substantiate that?
Russia has been explaining for years that simultaneous wars on diverse fronts is one of its key strategic possibilities, precisely. You should read Russian military officials, they're crystal-clear.
I am the link
I pontificate
"Russia cannot feed and maintain a large military capable or striking worldwide targets simultaneously."
They don't need to. The U.S. is the one with the long supply lines and oceans to cross. Russia can just move things from one side of its immense territory to the other.
Shermans army ate their way through the south. Take some ISIS boys with as camp cooks and they will show them how to prepare a vichy french sheperds pie.
and 10,000 cases of vodka
whatever russia
get the fucking drones
or wait two weeks while they starve to death
CHECKMATE PUTIN!!!
OBAMA HAS BEEN TRAINING ALSO ALL SUMMER!!!!
....
we're still talking about golf right?...
...
And checkers. Obama has mastered that.
Yes, he's been playing bears at Chess....and creaming them...just.
oh don't you sweat it, Otardius Maximus like Nero, will burn down the town and blame the evil christians. So, yea, he's got that going for him.
Putin needs to hold those drills in Syria to give peace a chance, He has already been nominated for the Nobel Prize for stopping Obama's drive to war with Syria based on lies about sarin as revealed by Seymour Hersh
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin
sure using alot of gas and oil to do these drills, russia got money to burn, or do they borrow from the FED like our noble armed forces current exercise in ME?? all the waste of war seems to benefit a few - but then war and profit are not strangers..big govs suck for the ave serf.
From my research, Putin has knocked one Rothschild out and jailed another while the other fled the country. Any member of their government is forbiddin to have a Rothschild account.
On 9/11 there were drills...
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You wonder how pissed off the NEOCONS are at the Obummer. Driving Russia, China and Iran closer together much quicker with Ukraine sanctions. Which is going to fuck the little guy in the US by challenging and/or removing the world reserve currency. This is going to be interesting because that is a shitload of people and massive amount of land and economic power combined...
Just imagine if "lets blow up everything NOW" McCain and/or neocon Romney had gotten in... but would they have run up a Trillion + in debt?
Going to get interesting when all their "paper wealth" is no longer accepted by anyone in the world, including "the little guy in the US".
Long lead and brass then...
Hopefully Palin’s kids don’t get drafted.
Mccains fatass daughter first..
Dust off the law books and see if there's a way to recall airman McCain to service. If he wants to start all these bleedin' wars, he ought to go fight in 'em.
i dont get the respect the world gives McCain. He spent the whole Vietnam war in a prison camp. So what? How does that make him a military and geopolitical expert? Hes a total twat and needs a good bitch slapping.
10 years ago they could not mount half that force...and most of that would fall apart.....
Obama will have to play golf in his nuke shelter for a while.
After all the bombs go off, and then all the nuclear reactors around the world melt down, I'd say he better have about 100,000 years of food in his bomb shelter. The environment won't be so nice to anything trying to live on the surface for quite some time.
In Russia, the military drills you!
Yes, those 50 year old planes, and pilots, will surely scare the death of out ... Andorra? Poor try little Putin, try harder next time.
Here is a riddle ...
Ukraine and Russia go to war. Who wins?
West and China.
Depends on the timing and the reasons. If the neo-fascists in Ukraine get all of the power and start doing what neo-fascists do, expect a lot of rhetoric and war propaganda coming out of the US. Once we're pitching the case for interfering in Ukraine, Russia will have a free hand. Either we let it happen, else people here will see how full of shit our politicians are once again with the butthurt and petulant stamping of feet occurs because Russia did it, not the US.
If they go in now, however, yes, they lose.
you probably think the US won in Vietnam dont you?
you probably think the US won in Vietnam dont you?
Time to get your head out of your arse.
Mass Fraud should be a crime against humanity.
Please support this petition at whitehouse.gov.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/mass-financial-fraud-should-be-crime-against-humanity-punishable-death/sggR5HqK
The petition needs 150 signatures to go "live" to the public.
Pass it on.
Why the hell is that a Facebook link?
Mass Fraud should be a crime against humanity.
Please support this petition at whitehouse.gov.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/mass-financial-fraud-should-be-crime-against-humanity-punishable-death/sggR5HqK
The petition needs 150 signatures to go "live" to the public.
Pass it on.
First those conniving rooooskies and that satan Putin dare to fly their planes over international waters in violation of no laws, and now they play in their own backyard!!!!
There is no limit to the evil gall of these people!
Huh, lots of bullets and rockets fired. Money in the bank for Russian MIC. And the band played on.
While the US new jet fighters are sub-par against specific purpose Russian planes.
The US spends billions and get less.
F-22 Raptor Loses $79 Billion Advantage in Dogfights: Report
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/07/f-22-fighter-loses-79-bill...
No limit to the corruption and ineptness. Just produce a plane that cost more money and is less.
Instead of euthanizing the unproductive, old and disabled people, we’re going to grind and maim the young producers of America.
Great planning.
I think if we euthanized a few Rockefellers, Rothchilds, Gateses and their ilk, we'd find no need to euthanize anybody else.
NATO just held a massive latrine exercise....
Ya? Well now let the Leaders of the FREE WORLD send their Children to the front .......they have the most to LOSE.
How dare they prepare to defend themselves!!!
~~~
Put on trial American officials loyal to Israel for treasonPresident Mom Jeans is monitoring the situation from his tactical golf cart.
Nations like Russia are more powerful than Nation States of the NWO.
*BREAKING NEWS - Italy has just surrended
Holy Hell (!) It hasn't even been invaded yet (!)
It's a pre-emptive surrender, it was enivitable anyway :-)
France is triple-pissed. They wanted to be first.
@pupdog1
This kind of ugly disdain and nasty jokes come from the firm refusal of the French to join America in Irak, in 2003.
Since France refused to go to Iraq, American warmongers and neo-cons made French army look like cowards – as a punishment.
But History has proved the French were right, and that the WMD were only a dirty trick to serve as a pretext.
Nevertheless, the hate of american warmongers against France remains still there, well alive, even in ZH.
This stale hate still shows through "innocent good jokes" about the “surrender monkeys” and their white flag … As for the rest, the French can be proud of their Military History which remains despite these stupid jokes the best military record in Europe.
*BREAKING NEWS: France claims victory over Italy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy#Vichy_France.E2.80.94seat_of_the_.C3...
@smacker
As apparently History is not your favorite subject I’ll give you a more complete view:
* Vichy was recognised by the US Government until end of 1942 !
* But apart from the puppet government based in Vichy, there was a free government based in London under the authority of General De Gaulle.
* During the Italian campaign of 1943, 130,000 Free French soldiers fought on the Allied side (under General Juin)
* By the time of the Normandy invasion, Free French forces numbered approximately half a million regulars and more than 100,000 French Forces of the Interior (FFI).
The FFI in Normandy and the Île-de-France region surrounding Paris began to harass German forces intensively, cutting roads and railways, setting ambushes and fighting conventional battles alongside their allies. This caused the death, arrest, or deportation of 90,000 resistance fighters - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance
General Eisenhower estimated the value of the Résistance to have been equal to ten to fifteen divisions at the time of the landings - http://voices.yahoo.com/the-french-resistance-world-war-ii-400073.html
* The Free French 2nd Armored Division, under General Philippe Leclerc, landed in Normandy, and, in the waning days of summer 1944, led the drive toward Paris.
* 3500 French pilots served in the RAF - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force
* 6 Free French divisions did contribute hugely to the Provence landing (under General De Lattre de Tassigny). They held their ground in Alsace during the battle of the Bulge, disobeying Eisenhower’s orders to retreat.
* In 1945 the Allied Forces on the west front consisted in: US: 45 divisions - UK: 12 divisions - France: 9 divisions - Poland: 1 division. In total, not a lot compared with the Soviet forces on the east side, the real winners of WWII.
"But apart from the puppet government based in Vichy..."
Yeahbut ..........................wasn't that the whole point of my link?
{shrug}
One minor kibble. US divisions in ETO by end May 1945 equaled 89. Not 45.
LeClerc's French 2nd Armored rode with Patton early on in Cobra. They proved the Napoleon quote to be true. "Their are no poor soldiers, just poorly led ones." -Napoleon
3rd Army(Patton) did not get the cream of ETO for the COBRA breakout, but Patton made due anyway. Proving good leadership is more important. Almost every division he had was either completely green(5th ID, 4th Ar) or unwanted(90th ID, Fr2nd Ar).
Wish I could give more than 1 upvote for that.
I'm hoping one of our Russia experts might help me with something: our Aggressive Wars of Empire Squashing Only Middle Easterners (Project AWESOME) was clearly a way of processing our old, fat and unsat troops out of the military. This was part of Rumsfeld's New Model Army: evolve to faster, more asynchronous, leaner, meaner and higher-tech .mil. Basically flush out the chaff and remodel our forces.
Didn't Russia do the same makeover to their troops? And if so, doesn't this "drill" seem a bit archaic, in terms of ordnance, men, ships, apc, etc? Could this be a true False Flag, a Russian sandbag?
Russia is doing the maneuver in it's own country.
But ZH seems to miss that the North Atlantic Terror Organization's home seems to be the whole planet...