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    Psychological Warfare: Russia flexes its military muscles in Siberia | StratRisks
    5000 tanks? Russia military exercise deemed a 'response to a hypothetical attack by Japanese and U.S. forces.' - Washington Times
    Russia flexes its military muscles in Siberia - International - Scotsman.com
    On the march across Siberia: 160,000 troops accompanied by 5,000 tanks and 320 tons of equipment. And in the Pacific, there are 70 ships at sea, and 130 combat aircraft overhead, including nuclear bombers.

    Mobile radiation, chemical, and biological defense units plus amphibious units have also been deployed in the surprise readiness exercise, which continues until Saturday.
    Alexander Khramchikhin, an independent Moscow-based military analyst, said the massive exercise held in the areas along the border with China was clearly aimed at Beijing. He said: “It’s quite obvious that the land part of the exercise is directed at China, while the sea and island part of it is aimed at Japan.”

    Mr Khramchikhin, who recently posted an article online painting a grim picture of Russia being quickly routed in a surprise Chinese attack, said that the war games were intended to discourage China from harbouring expansionist plots.

    “China may now think that Russia has finally become more aware of what could happen,” he commented.

    The manoeuvres are part of recent efforts to boost the military’s mobility and combat readiness after years of post-Soviet decline, but they have far exceeded previous drills in both numbers and territorial scope.

    As part of the war games, held across several time zones, some army units deployed to areas thousands of miles away from their bases. Paratroopers were flown across Russia in long-range transport planes, and some units were ferried to Sakhalin under escort of navy ships and fighter jets.
    160,000 troops and 5000 tanks seems like a lot for an exercise. Very psychological I think. Considering past exercises where there were tens of thousands or a few thousand troops this is really up there magnitude wise.
    The psychological aim at China on land and Japan in sea is somewhat interesting very "independence" oriented in subtext.

    Expansion of SCO and the neutralization of external factors that it would entail.
    Ergo conflict in NATO between NATO states implies somewhat impartiality by the other members and intervention is prevented from the outside. Perhaps all these maneuvers is to say we can always go our own way.
    Originally from Sochi, Russia.

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    The Russian navy has 70 sea worthy ships? All the in the Far East?
    "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by cyppok View Post
      The psychological aim at China on land and Japan in sea is somewhat interesting very "independence" oriented in subtext.
      Do you seriously think that anyone in Beijing or Tokyo has lost sleep over this?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Skywatcher View Post
        Do you seriously think that anyone in Beijing or Tokyo has lost sleep over this?
        I think there is a re-assessment of potential military power. In a sense its' simply stating that the military is functional in the broader sense.

        My guess is this was done for a clear subtext of 'functional' 'independence' and self-reliance.
        Its very low key in a sense.
        Originally from Sochi, Russia.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by cyppok View Post
          I think there is a re-assessment of potential military power. In a sense its' simply stating that the military is functional in the broader sense.

          My guess is this was done for a clear subtext of 'functional' 'independence' and self-reliance.
          Its very low key in a sense.
          And why should either China or Japan care?

          The Russian Army was already in decent enough shape before (see 2008) and the Far Eastern naval forces would have to be insane to take on the JSDMF.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Skywatcher View Post
            And why should either China or Japan care?

            The Russian Army was already in decent enough shape before (see 2008) and the Far Eastern naval forces would have to be insane to take on the JSDMF.
            I think this has more to do with international dynamics than the actual military dynamics, granted those are interrelated.

            My feeling is there was a sense that they are being 'expected' to perform in-line with either China or other interests in the region due to a weak hand, the exercises in my view sort of say that they are still 'independent' in long term freedom of action.

            Both exercises in sea where they conducted them with China and on Land by themselves are sort pushing the needle in the freedom of action column association and independent wise.
            Ergo freedom of action in the Pacific theater of operations.
            Originally from Sochi, Russia.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by gunnut View Post
              The Russian navy has 70 sea worthy ships? All the in the Far East?
              Yeah, I kinda doubt they have 70 seaworthy ships in their entire navy.
              “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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              • #8
                Originally posted by TopHatter View Post
                Yeah, I kinda doubt they have 70 seaworthy ships in their entire navy.
                The Navy of the Russian Federation has a total surface/submarine register of 300 vessels.

                Many of these ships are decades old and how many they can muster at any one time is problematic.

                RusNavy.com - In Service Ships
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by TopHatter View Post
                  Yeah, I kinda doubt they have 70 seaworthy ships in their entire navy.
                  I think the navy portion was with China not just themselves.
                  Originally from Sochi, Russia.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by cyppok View Post

                    My feeling is there was a sense that they are being 'expected' to perform in-line with either China or other interests in the region due to a weak hand, the exercises in my view sort of say that they are still 'independent' in long term freedom of action.
                    Well, if you're talking about the Asia Pacific, then Russia really doesn't have any sort of advantage over the other players (except maybe North Korea) to set the economic or security environment in a significant way.

                    That doesn't mean they have to perform in line with China or anyone else in region, though.

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