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19 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Nice Kh-555(?) footage from recent Tu-160 and Tu-95MS exercise with practical launches: ImageImageImage
Also, a reminder that salvo from Engels bombers against targets in Europe will be much more impressive and devastating than any fictional 9M729s from "West of Urals".
On a second thought, those are rather inert Kh-55SM, as there are no "nose wings" which are used in conventional Kh-555, presumably to compensate weight difference between nuclear and non-nuclear payloads. Image
Actually, it is an ER-version of KTS-120 trainer. Sorry for the mistake. Image

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21 Apr
Re-upping this, stay tuned.
First Sarmat regiment by the end of 2022.
Number of Kinzhal and Kalibr carriers being increased, Tsirkon will complete tests very soon.
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21 Mar
Not that I was asked, but I have some prepared points on Russian missile defense and can't keep myself silent.

Mega-thread incoming!

(Also expect some crazy schemes)

1/
A disclaimer: unlike the US we do not have a Missile Defense Agency, but what we have is a concept of joint Air-Space defense, which includes air defense, missile defense, space forces, early warning, and Moscow ABM system, among others.

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In terms of strike systems we have upgraded interceptor for the Moscow ABM system, and future S-500 and Nudol’ mobile surface-to-air missiles, with the latter, per some sources, having a rather serious ASAT capability as well (which is not that surprising).

3/
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24 Feb
Some thoughts on B-1B deployed to Norway (dvidshub.net/news/389516/hi…)

1) Just in case: those are non-nuclear, and it is complicated to reverse thing.
2) Even w/ conventional weapons those are quite capable to give a hard time...

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...because - JASSM family, incl -ER and anti-ship LRASM. So sensitive targets on the territory of Russia and in adjacent waters are under threat.

In the future, the Lancers might get equipped with even more unpleasant things, incl. ARRW and conv. LRSO.

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3) Such a deployment is not limited by anything. I hope that transparency for such operations to reduce escalation risks will be a part of the work plans for RU/US strategic stability discussions, which were recently mentioned (again) by A.Blinken.

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15 Feb
Interview with SPRN com. Col.A.Revenok: redstar.ru/preduprezhdyon…

Plans for ground echelon:
- dual-band radar in Vorkuta
- high-potential radar in Murmansk
- radar in Sevastopol'
- by 2030 - modernization of Krasnodar and Irkutsk radars, new construction in Leningrad and Far East.
Space echelon: EKS to be completed by 2024.

There is information integration and sharing between EW, MD and Space Control systems.
Detection:
EKS controls possible launch regions in the Northern Hemisphere by HEO satellites which detect the launch flame from ~40000 km; data from sat is transmitted to ground control post, which, after validation, sends data to EW ("ATTENTION") and MD ("ALARM").
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14 Feb
Voyennaya Priyemka about Early Warning:

As usual, awesome footage, sad narration.
Nice explanation of Irkutsk Voronezh-M sectors: "Chukotka-Alaska and China ("due to understandable considerations"). Peculiar detail: blurred India:) ImageImageImageImage
Misc stills ImageImageImageImage
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12 Jan
Behold, the instrument of #NewSTART extension overcoming the ratification in Russia timeframe issues : docs.cntd.ru/document/57319…

An "'international protocol" extending the Agreement on ballistic missile and space launch vehicles launch notifications between Russia and China. Image
"This Protocol shall be temporarily applied from December 15, 2020 and shall enter into force on the day of receipt through diplomatic channels of the last written notification of the implementation by the Parties of the domestic procedures necessary for its entry into force."
BTW so far I haven't managed to find the relevant ratification documents on the Duma website.
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