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26 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Admiral Nikolai Evmenov said that, for the first time in VMF history, 3 Russian ballistic missile submarines (likely Project 667BDRM) surfaced through the ice in the Arctic within 300 meters of one another. This is part of the Umka-21 Arctic expedition.
tvzvezda.ru/news/202132617…
Screenshot of the three Russian ballistic missile submarines breaking through the ice together in the Arctic. 2/ ImageImage
More from the Umka-2021 Arctic exercise, which also involved MiG-31 interceptors refueling from an Il-78 tanker near the North Pole, firing torpedoes under the ice, and exercises with one of the Northern Fleet's arctic motorized rifle brigades. 3/
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17 Mar
Meanwhile, in Nizhnevartovsk, Russia.
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Another video of the bear wandering around Nizhnevartovsk this morning. He was safely tranquilized and the guy from the other video managed to get away.
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Dmitry Kiselyov's program had a long segment about Russian UAVs and UCAVs, starting with a close look at the S-70 Okhotnik UCAV.
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Rostec's Bekkhan Ozdoev said that Russia has successfully tested its loitering munitions in combat conditions in Syria, and noted that they are "very effective tools on the battlefield" that are cheaper than missiles and nearly invisible to radar.
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This is a misreading of Russian use-of-force decision-making. Domestic opinion influences how and when Russia goes to war, but Putin's approval rating has never been the primary driver. The conflicts with Georgia, Ukraine, and Syria were all driven by more proximate causes.
The 2008 war began when Georgia decided to retake South Ossetia. Russia did a variety of things that led to this, but Saakashvili chose the timing (Putin was in China at the Olympics and the Ru MoD's Main Operational Directorate was moving buildings and was between leaders). 2/
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3 Feb
Thread: Vladimir Drozhzhov, the Deputy Director of Russia’s Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation (FSVTS), did a Q&A with reporters at India's Aero India 2021 international aerospace show regarding Russian-Indian defense cooperation.
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A view from Vladivostok of the first of Saturday's protests that will take place across Russia.
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