Lt. Gen. Mikhail Matveevsky, the chief of the military's missile and artillery forces, speaks during a briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry in Kubinka outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019.
11-20-18 All Russian missile formations will be reequipped with Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile systems by 2020, according to the Chief of Missile and Artillery Troops, Mikhail Matveevsky.
The Major General emphasized that the Islander-M “is the best missile system in its class today and it is able to overwhelm any missile defense system.”
According to him, defense industry enterprises in the Russian Federation are working on the modernization of the system in order to improve its combat and operational characteristics. http://www.uawire.org/news/all-russian-missile-forces-to-be-fully-equipped-with-nuclear-capable-iskanders-by-2020#
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4-11-19 Tensions between Russia and Belarus are heating up in the wake of a tax maneuver by Moscow that deprived Minsk of millions in oil resale profits. The situation has been further aggravated by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s refusal to allow Russia to deploy a military airbase in the country, refusal to transition to the Russian ruble, and apparent refusal to let his country become part of Russia, which would have enabled Vladimir Putin to remain in power after 2024.
In response to Minsk’s decision to raise its tariffs for Russian oil transit to Europe by 23%, Moscow has decided to cut off Belarusian fruit producers from the Russian market. http://www.uawire.org/russia-declares-trade-war-on-belarus
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-D. Donskoy, the last of the Typhoon class undersea giants.
4-19-2018 four ballistic missile submarines of the Borei class--these nuclear powered submarines each carry sixteen Bulava submarine launched ballistic missiles, each with a range of 5,800 miles and armed with six 150 kiloton nuclear warheads. Eventually Russia will build eight Borei submarines. Rounding out Russia’s ballistic missile submarine force are seven Delta III/IV submarines carrying Sineva missiles and the last gigantic Typhoon-class submarine, Dmitri Donskoy, currently serving as a missile test boat.
On the diesel electric submarine front, Russia has 21 Kilo-class submarines and one Lada-class submarine. Kilos are meant to operate closer to home, in places like the Black Sea and Mediterranean, and the boats in service range from Cold War-era builds to boats like the Rostov-on-Don, commissioned in 2014. The Lada class was built to replace the Kilos and submarine expert HI Sutton claims Russia is planning at least five boats.
Russia has a comparatively large fleet of special mission submarines. The Russian Navy has two enormous “motherships,” based on the Delta III and Delta IV hulls, for ferrying deep-diving midget submarines. It also has one Losharik, three Nelma, and three Kashalot-class submarines designed for deep ocean ocean engineering work.
One submarine on this list is particularly ominous, the Sarov, a test platform for the Kanyon/Status-6 apocalypse torpedo, a nuclear-powered torpedo designed to attack coastal targets such as ports and cities with an enormous 100 megaton thermonuclear warhead. Status-6 is designed to bypass U.S. missile defenses, destroying entire coastal regions with nuclear blast, tsunamis, and rendering the area uninhabitable with long-lasting nuclear fallout. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a19863945/here-are-all-the-submarines-of-the-russian-navy-in-one-infographic/
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Vice Adm. James G. Foggo III, who at the time was simultaneously commander of the U.S. Navy’s 6th Fleet, Joint Force Maritime Component Commander Europe and NATO’s Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO, told The National Interest last year. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/submarine-strike-why-did-russian-nuclear-submarine-fire-torpedo-another-russian-sub-46792
3-8-19 the Sierra packed just one of the Typhoon-class’ massive OK-650a reactors, generating a whopping 50,000 shaft horsepower. This reactor plant, coupled with a high-efficiency screw, gave the Sierra a world-beating estimated underwater speed of thirty-five knots. Titanium provided the necessary performance to get these hunters faster than anything they might have come across in the world’s oceans. Like the much smaller Alfa, the Sierra (4 builtt) had an entirely titanium hull, being both incredibly light for the size, and incredibly strong. Despite being only ten feet shorter than the steel-hulled Akulas, the Sierras were a whopping two thousand tons, or some four million pounds, lighter. They also had an unrivaled diving depth of almost two thousand feet, where the competing Los Angeles-class boats are publicly stated to be restricted to above a thousand....several are undergoing refit and modernization and have been in active service in recent years. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/best-submarine-you-never-heard-meet-russias-deadly-sierra-class-submarine-46587
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3-17-19 the Borei line introduces a critical, sorely-needed update to Russia’s nuclear triad: the new Bulava missile system. Boasting a 550 kiloton warhead and an effective range of up to 10,000 kilometers, the Russian Navy seeks to make Bulava-equipped Borei vessels the cornerstone of their nuclear submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) deterrent for decades to come.
On the tactical front, the introduction of Kazan marks a serious first step in the revitalization of the Northern Fleet’s decades-old attack submarine lineup. The second Yasen-class vessel, Kazan offers an expanded and markedly more deadly armament suite over its Akula and Oscar-class predecessors. Not only does the Yasen class support the standard submarine-launched variant of the Kalibr land attack cruise missile, but it apparently also accommodates the heavier, larger Kalibr-M missile with roughly double the range, at 4,500 versus 1,500 to 2,500 kilometers. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/naval-muscle-russias-northern-fleet-getting-some-seriously-dangerous-submarines-47827
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3-11-19 “If you look across the design of the Russian Federation Navy, where they have put their resources and their research and development efforts has primarily been in the undersea domain and in the submarine force,”
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223. A rock splits from a detonation, not only from a blow. It is easy to achieve the most difficult if the consciousness is adequate and tranquility is not disturbed. The trouble is in the fact that people regard tranquility as inaction. -Leaves of Morya's Garden 1924
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88. There is a difference between the karma of aggression and that of defense. It can be shown how aggressors suffer the most grievous consequences and how terrible their condition is in the subtle world. People delude themselves by thinking that great conquerors do not reap bad karma during their earthly lives. But karma has its own timely approach and does not show itself immediately. Life is continuous, and the wise ones understand their lives as a single necklace. -Morya: Supermundane 1, 1938
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