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300k troops & thousands of war machines: Russia starts biggest military drill in decades (VIDEO)
The Vostok 2018 exercise is meant to test the capability of the Russian military to rapidly move and deploy large forces over long distances as well as coordinating between several branches during a large-scale engagement.
The war games will include around 300,000 Russian soldiers and officers, including 6,000 airborne troops, over 1,000 warplanes, helicopters and drones, about 36,000 armor, and 80 combat and support ships.
The assets have been sent from all over Russia to several training ranges in the Far East of the country by railroad and military transport planes. Several units of the People’s Liberation Army of China will join the Russians for a drill at the Tsugol range.
Chinese armor arriving in Russia to take part in the Vostok-2018 exercise. © Evgeny Epachintsev / Sputnik
For some participants, Vostok 2018 will be their first chance to show off some new weapon systems. For instance, the Airborne Troops will be deploying their freshly-supplied BMD-4M air-dropped infantry fighting vehicles and Patriot pickup trucks armed with Kornet anti-tank missiles.
Meanwhile, the military engineers will be doing their best to confuse “the enemy” with inflatable mock-ups of Iskander missile launchers and S-300 anti-aircraft batteries.
FILE PHOTO. An inflatable mock-up of an S-300 launcher. © Ilya Pitalev / Sputnik
One of the key elements of the entire exercise, however, will be hard to notice from afar. Russian military communication specialists have deployed a secure network over an area of around 9.8 million square kilometers to ensure the exchange of intelligence and stable communications between the many military units involved in the drill. A broadband link to the General Staff HQ in Moscow 900km away will keep the military chain-of-command in order.
The exercise will be witnessed by monitors from 57 nations as well as NATO and the European Union, according to Deputy Defense Minister Aleksandr Fomin. He added that Russia informed NATO of the planned exercise months ahead of time during a meeting in May.
Dylan P. White@dylanpwhite“Dylan White said @NATO was briefed on #Vostok2018… and would monitor it.”
I added: “Vostok demonstrates Russia’s focus on exercising large-scale conflict. It fits into a pattern… a more assertive Russia significantly increasing its defence budget & its military presence.”
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Russia plans to hold its biggest war games since the Cold War next month, with 300,000 military personnel involved http://bbc.in/2PezlO4
The US-led military bloc routinely voices concern over Russian exercises. The Vostok-2018, however, was not targeted by a wave of suspicion similar to its counterpart last year, the Zapad-2017, which some allies framed as bordering on an act of aggression and a possible ruse to launch an invasion of the Baltics. The fears never materialized, just as Moscow said.
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The Russians or the Chinese (or both) will soundly defeat us in any future war, whether it’s conventional or nuclear. Our military is a paper tiger, because intelligent young American white men don’t want to fight for our Judaized, negrified, homosexualized country, where white people are being rapidly displaced and marginalized in favor of illegal aliens and other non-white “minorities,” as in South Africa and Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) before it. Which means that our military is now filled with the dregs of society – low-IQ whites, blacks, Mexicans, lesbians, homosexuals, transsexuals, etc. Having whiz-bang military technology means nothing if most of the people operating it are low-IQ and degenerate trash. The few quality white men who remain in the U.S. military aren’t going to be enough to save us.
I tend to agree, but the Van Rensburg prophecy says the US will deploy a hideous, special weapon that will horrify the world and annihilate Russia, though America will itself be 90% destroyed, and then be a minor country for decades.
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It has been said for decades that the Slavic genius Nikola Tesla knew how to make a “death ray,” and this at least is a proven fact:
that the FBI invaded his apartment in Manhattan and carted away all his papers as soon as he died, in relative poverty.
And the man who poured over his seized papers was Professor John Trump, of German ancestry, head of research at MIT, and yes, the uncle of the current president.
I am going to blog on this.