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24 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Patrushev held talks with Sullivan in Geneva today. "Important step towards Presidential Summit".
Fun fact: Yang Jiechi is in Moscow for the 16th round of RU-CN "Strategic Security" talks tomorrow. tass.ru/politika/11451…
Official release on Patrushev-Sullivan "consultations" in Geneva today: scrf.gov.ru/news/allnews/2…
- a "logical continuation" of Lavrov-Blinken talks on May 19
- important milestone toward Presidential Summit
- "constructive", disagreements remain, but...
...the sides better understand each other's positions
- wide range of topics of mutual interest, priority-strategic stability; expressed confidence that mutually acceptable solutions can be found on a range of issues
- normalization of RU-US relations good for everyone

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25 May
We have a new 3-day series of defense-focused meetings held by Putin in Sochi. Today the focus is long-term development, and we learned that:
- Nuclear triad capabilities have been enhanced
- S-500 tests nearing completion
- armed forces carried out everything planned for 2020
We have a readout: kremlin.ru/events/preside…

- Kalibr-armed ships contribute to the expansion of the Navy capabilities
- Tsirkon mentioned as explicitly ship-based system, final stages of state trials
- 70+% of Air-Space Forces Air Defense rgts re-armed w/ S-400

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- S-500 trials are being succesfully completed, deliveries to the forces to start soon
- risks and military threats are present, so refinement. development and re-armament of the armed forces will continue
- military industry and design bureaues will receive support

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24 May
Unbelievable, we have #NewSTART figures on the MFA website: mid.ru/web/guest/maps…

...as well as traditional concerns on 56 Trident-II launch tubes, 41 'non-nuclear' B-52H heavy bombers and 4 MM-III "training silos". So +101 deployed and non-deployed launchers.
I hope that over the next five years we'll see such releases on a regular basis, and those will become more Russia-focused.
And, of course, the US should be proactive regarding Russian concerns with #NewSTART implementation.
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23 May
Some of you might have noticed a claim by Almaz-Antey head Yan Novikov that X-37B can carry up to 3 ("smaller one") or 6 ("bigger one") nuclear warheads: ria.ru/20210522/x-37-…

I've decided to watch a full speech...and now I have mixed feelings.

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It can be found here: marathon.znanierussia.ru
(but the interface is not very intuitive).

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I've made some screenshots with his slides (sorry for the quality). HTV-2 and X-51A remain quite popular within the Russian military industry...but X-37B hype is unmatched, unexpectedly.

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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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19 Apr
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
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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)

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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).

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