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Russia may revise use of nuclear weapons in new military doctrine | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire

NOVOSIBIRSK, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's new military doctrine will contain some changes to the situations that could trigger the use of nuclear weapons or preventive strikes against potential foes, the secretary of Russia's Security Council said on Thursday.

Russia will soon adopt a new military doctrine that aims to transform the Armed Forces into a more effective and mobile military force. Their structures will be "optimized" through the use of combined arms units performing similar tasks.

"In respect to the possibility of preventive or nuclear strikes we will formulate some provisions that will be somewhat different from those contained in the current doctrine," Nikolai Patrushev said.

The draft doctrine, called "The new face of the Russian Armed Forces until 2030," is still being developed by the General Staff and will be given, according to Patrushev, to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for consideration by the end of 2009.

The current military doctrine was adopted in 2000. It outlines the role of the Russian military in ensuring the defense of the country and, if necessary, preparing for and waging war, although it stresses that the Russian military doctrine is strictly defensive.

The doctrine lists factors that the Russian Federation perceives as potential threats, both internal and external and declares support for a multipolar world, in preference to a unipolar world dominated by a single superpower that is quick to resort to military force.

The current document also emphasizes Russia's commitment to military reform, with continued use of conscription, but a gradual shift towards a professional army.

But the Security Council believes that since 2000, drastic changes have occurred in the geopolitical and military situation in the world and in the nature of threats against national security, which makes it necessary to revise the specific tasks facing the Russian Armed Forces and related security agencies.

"We would like to make this new military doctrine transparent so that people in the country and abroad will know what we have developed and how we want to work. We will set goals and lay out how to achieve them," Patrushev said.

President Dmitry Medvedev announced last year that Russia would make the modernization of its nuclear deterrent and Armed Forces a priority in the decade up to 2020.

 

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Report: Russia grounds planes after accident

Moscow, Oct 8 (AP) A Russian news agency says the military has grounded all its Il-76 cargo planes following an accident in which an engine broke off the wing of one of the aircraft just before take-off.

The RIA Novosti news agency quoted the Defense Ministry as saying today that the ban will be in place until experts determine what caused yesterday's accident.

The ministry said the accident happened at the Severny air base outside the city of Ivanovo, 250 kilometers northeast of Moscow.

The report said one of the plane's four jet engines broke off, but the crew managed to stop the plane and no one was hurt.

The Il-76 has been the mainstay of Soviet and Russian air force since the 1970s. It's capable of carrying 40 metric tonnes of cargo.

 

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Russia to decide on purchase of French warship by October

Russia to decide on purchase of French warship by October

MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - Technical discussions between Russia and France on buying a Mistral class amphibious assault ship should be completed soon, with a decision on the purchase to follow from Moscow, a source close to the negotiations said on Tuesday.


"We are holding technical consultations, which are expected to be completed by the end of September. The results will be reported to Russia's military-industrial commission in order to determine the viability of the purchase," the source said.

He added that a group of Russian naval officers had already inspected a Mistral class ship at a French naval base in Toulon.

"The officers were shown the interior of the ship and provided with technical data," the official said.

The source denied media reports that Russia was considering alternative purchases of the same type of warship from other countries, including the Netherlands and Spain.

"These countries also build amphibious assault ships of a similar class, but we have not considered their offers so far," he said.

A Mistral class ship is capable of transporting and deploying 16 helicopters, four landing barges, up to 70 vehicles including 13 main battle tanks, and 450 soldiers. The vessel is equipped with a 69-bed hospital and can be used as an amphibious command ship.

The ship could cost between 300 and 400 million euros ($430-580 million).

Gen. Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the Russian General Staff, said in August that Russia was negotiating the purchase of one ship at present, and later planning to acquire 3-4 ships of the same class to be jointly built in Russia.

Some Russian military experts have questioned the purchase both from the financial and military standpoint.

Russia to decide on purchase of French warship by October | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire

 

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Further tests of Bulava missile delayed until end of Oct. | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire

MOSCOW, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - The next test-launch of Russia's Bulava missile, scheduled for Thursday, has been postponed until at least the end of October, a defense industry source said on Wednesday.

He said the decision to delay the test-launch of the submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) was due to the fact that a probe into the causes behind a previous failed test was not yet over.

The Russian military expects the Bulava, along with Topol-M land-based ballistic missiles, to become the core of Russia's nuclear triad.

However, the Bulava's development has been dogged by a series of setbacks, which has officially suffered six failures in 11 tests.

But some analysts suggest that in reality the number of failures has been considerably greater. For example, according to Russian military expert Pavel Felgenhauer, of the Bulava's 11 test launches, only one was entirely successful.

The future development of the Bulava has been questioned by some lawmakers and defense industry officials, who have suggested that all efforts should be focused on the existing Sineva SLBM.

But the Russian military has insisted that there is no alternative to the Bulava and pledged to continue testing the missile until it is ready to be put in service with the Navy.

The Bulava (SS-NX-30) SLBM carries up to 10 MIRV warheads and has a range of over 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles). The three-stage ballistic missile is designed for deployment on Borey-class nuclear-powered submarines

 

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Russia To Adopt 1st Strike Nuke Policy: Official

14 Oct 2009

MOSCOW - Russia will revise its military doctrine to allow a "preventative" nuclear strike against would-be aggressors, a top Kremlin policy-maker was quoted as saying Oct. 14.

Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the powerful security council, said the conditions under which Russia could resort to atomic weapons are being reworked in the main strategy document and will be reviewed by President Dmitry Medvedev by the end of the year."The conditions have been revised for the use of nuclear weapons to rebuff an aggression with the use of conventional weapons, not only on a massive-scale but on a regional and even local level," Patrushev told the Izvestia newspaper.

"Variants are under considerations for the use of nuclear weapons depending on the situation and potential of a would-be aggressor," he said.

"In a critical situation for national security, a preventative nuclear strike on an aggressor is not ruled out."

Under its current military doctrine, Russia says it would only carry out a nuclear strike if it were attacked with weapons of mass destruction or if it were the victim of "large-scale aggression" using conventional arms.

Russian and U.S. negotiators are now working furiously to agree on new arms cuts of their nuclear arsenal before a key Cold War-era disarmament treaty expires on December 5.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated the joint drive to achieve new arms reductions by this deadline after talks in Moscow this week.

Since the 1991 Soviet collapse, Russian military planners have relied increasingly on the country's huge nuclear deterrent as the capabilities of its conventional forces have deteriorated.

Patrushev, the former director of Russia's powerful FSB security service, has headed efforts to develop a new military doctrine in recent years to coincide with plans for a radical modernization of Russia's armed forces

Russia To Adopt 1st Strike Nuke Policy: Official - Defense News

 

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what are you mad these have 3d vectoring mki have 2d they have aesa mkis have pesa radars these have more range and new 5th gen weapons with increased range and still mki is better how?
i guess the new mkiblock2 will be better in the future

Well its not ,but with the possible up gradation package for Mki's all these can be incorporated.I have a doubt whether Thrust vectoring is attached to engine as a separate module,if so can this be incorporated with future mki's.What i mean is that can 2D be replaced by new 3D thrust vectoring in mki's.

Hope little discussions are allowed in the Photo session .

 

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Some pictures from the russian arctic fleet

 

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Russia to test-fire 5 ICBMs by end of year

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Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces will launch five intercontinental ballistic missiles by the end of 2009, the SMF commander said Monday.

“The Strategic Missile Forces plan to conduct five missile launches by the end of the year,” Lt. Gen. Andrei Shvaichenko told reporters.
He said new missile systems (Topol-M SS-27 Sickle and RS-24 ICBMs) would account for not less than 80% of the SMF’s arsenal by late 2016.

The general also confirmed that Russia would put the first regiment of new-generation multiple-warhead RS-24 ICBMs into service in December.

The RS-24 ICBM, set to replace the older SS-18 and SS-19 missiles by 2050, is expected to boost the SMF’s capability.

The SMF reportedly has a total of 538 ICBMs, including 306 SS-25 Sickle (Topol) missiles, 88 SS-18 Satan (Voyevoda) and 56 SS-27 Stalin (Topol-M) missiles.

 

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Russia says military cooperation with Iran to continue

Russia has no plans to stop military cooperation with Iran, a federal military cooperation body said on Thursday.

The statement comes amid media reports that Russia could cancel a contract to deliver S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Tehran.
“Russia is resolved to continue military and technical cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran in strict compliance with existing laws and its international obligations,” a spokesman for the Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation told RIA Novosti.

However, he refused to comment on “specific plans or obligations under existing contracts.”

An unnamed defense industry official said on Wednesday that Russia would sustain significant losses if it decides to tear up the contract for S-300 systems.

Russian military analyst Konstantin Makiyenko previously said a decision not to go ahead with the contract would cost Russia about $1 billion in lost profits plus $300-400 million in fines and penalties.

The defense industry official stressed that the S-300 systems were defensive weapons.

Reports of possible deliveries of S-300 missiles to Iran have aroused concerns in the West and in Israel.

Iranian media, citing senior security officials, have reported that Russia has started delivering elements of the advanced version of the S-300 missile under a 2005 contract. However, Russian arms industry officials have invariably denied such reports.

The latest version of the S-300 family is the S-300PMU2 Favorit, which has a range of up to 195 kilometers (about 120 miles) and can intercept aircraft and ballistic missiles at altitudes from 10 meters to 27 kilometers.

It is considered one of the world’s most effective all-altitude regional air defense systems, comparable in performance to the U.S. MIM-104 Patriot system.


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