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Russia Beefs Up Baltic Fleet Amid NATO Tensions

Posted by Michelle Howard October 26, 2016

Russia is sharply upgrading the firepower of its Baltic Fleet in Kaliningrad by adding warships armed with long-range cruise missiles to counter NATO's build-up in the region, Russian media reported on Wednesday.

There was no official confirmation from Moscow, but the reports will raise tensions in the Baltic, already heightened since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, and are likely to cause alarm in Poland and Lithuania which border Kaliningrad.

The reported deployment comes as NATO is planning its biggest military build-up on Russia's borders since the Cold War to deter possible Russian aggression and will be seen as a riposte to that.

Russia's daily Izvestia newspaper cited a military source as saying that the first two of five ships, the Serpukhov and the Zeleny Dol, had already entered the Baltic Sea and would soon become part of a newly formed division in Kaliningrad, Russia's European exclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.

Another source familiar with the situation told the Interfax news agency that the two warships would be joining the Baltic Fleet in the coming days.

"With the appearance of two small missile ships armed with the Kalibr cruise missiles the Fleet's potential targeting range will be significantly expanded in the northern European military theatre," the source told Interfax.

Russia's Defence Ministry, which said earlier this month the two ships were en route to the Mediterranean, did not respond to a request for comment, but NATO and the Swedish military confirmed the two warships had entered the Baltic.

"NATO navies are monitoring this activity near our borders," said Dylan White, the alliance's acting spokesman.

The Buyan-M class corvettes are armed with nuclear-capable Kalibr cruise missiles, known by the NATO code name Sizzler, which the Russian military says have a range of at least 1,500 km (930 miles).

Though variants of the missile are capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the ships are believed to be carrying conventional warheads.

"The addition of Kalibr missiles would increase the strike range not just of the Baltic Fleet, but of Russian forces in the Baltic region, fivefold," said Ben Nimmo, a defence analyst at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, who has been tracking the ships' progress.

"The two small corvettes, with their modern, nuclear-capable missiles, may yet have an impact out of proportion to their size in the Baltic."

Sweden Worried
Izvestia said Russia's Baltic Fleet would probably receive a further three such small warships armed with the same missiles by the end of 2020.

It said the Baltic Fleet's coastal defences would also be beefed up with the Bastion and Bal land-based missile systems. The Bastion is a mobile defence system armed with two anti-ship missiles with a range of up to 300 km (188 miles). The Bal anti-ship missile has a similar range.

Sweden's Defence Minister said his country was worried by the presence of the warships in the Baltic Sea, complaining the move was likely to keep tension in the region high.

"This is ... worrying and is not something that helps to reduce tensions in our region," Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist told Sweden's national TT news agency. "This affects all the countries round the Baltic."

Swedish media said the Kalibr missiles had the range to hit targets across the Nordic region. The Russian Defence Ministry said in August that the two corvettes had been used to fire cruise missiles at militants in Syria.

When asked about the deployment, a Polish government spokesman said Warsaw was not commenting on the situation in the Baltic sea "for the moment."

Earlier this month, Russia moved nuclear-capable Iskander-M missiles into Kaliningrad leading to protests from Lithuania and Poland.

(By Andrew Osborn and Simon Johnson, Additional reporting by Jack Stubbs in Moscow, Justyna Pawlak in Warsaw and Robin Emmott in Brussels)

http://marinelink.com/news/tensions-baltic-russia417446

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a hipocrisia do costume, o facto da NATO estar a planear estacionar mais tropas junto á fronteira russa, isso é "perfeitamente normal"

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Russia's new submarine mothership sets sail

Nicholas de Larrinaga, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
26 October 2016


Podmoskovye leaving the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Centre on 22 October for trials. Source: Zvezdochka Ship Repair Centre
The Russian Navy's new submarine mothership Podmoskovye (Delta IV Stretch) set sail for the first time on sea trials on 22 October after a lengthy conversion.

Podmoskovye was originally the Project 667BDRM-class (Delta IV) nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) K-64, launched in 1986. It has now been converted to act as a mothership for the smaller special purpose Project 10831-class ('Losharik') and Project 1851-class (Paltus) submarines for underwater research and intelligence gathering activities.

Conversion of the submarine began in 1999 at the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Centre under Project 09787. This work included the removal of the submarine's mid-section (containing the prominent missile launch tubes) and its replacement with the mid-section from a previous Russian submarine mothership, the Project 09774 (Yankee Stretch) boat K-411. This work is believed to have increased the length of the boat by 9 m to 175 m.

The Zvezdochka Ship Repair Centre stated on 24 October that repair and modernisation work on the submarine was now complete. The submarine is currently conducting factory sea trials to confirm the design characteristics of the submarine, the shipyard added.



http://www.janes.com/article/64929/russ ... -sets-sail

[Ilya Ehrenburg]

Para se ter uma idéia:

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Para se ter uma idéia:

Valeu Ilya!!!!

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Russian Navy to commission fifth diesel-electric submarine Veliky Novgorod

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More details of the new deadly Russian Navy Project 20386 "corvette". Images by dmirg78 / forums.airbase.ru

[Ilya Ehrenburg]

As corvetas russas tem mais poder de combate que as nossas fragatas. É de dar dó.

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As corvetas russas tem mais poder de combate que as nossas fragatas. É de dar dó.

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Improved Kilo-class submarine «Velikiy Novgorod» on sea trials at Baltic Sea earlier this fall. Kaliber capable, bound for Black Sea

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320º Aniversário da Marinha Russa

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Marshal Ustinov, first modernized Slava class cruiser of the Russian Navy, began 30-day sea trials today.

[Matheus]

Uma dúvida, como o governo russo tem tanta grana pra investir em armas? Que eu me lembre o Pib deles não é grandes coisa...

[Bolovo]

Uma dúvida, como o governo russo tem tanta grana pra investir em armas? Que eu me lembre o Pib deles não é grandes coisa...

Primeiro que eles tem vontade política. Segundo que eles pagam tudo em rublo... que é 1 centavo de dólar.

Classe Gorshkov (Projeto 22350)

[Marechal-do-ar]

Uma dúvida, como o governo russo tem tanta grana pra investir em armas? Que eu me lembre o Pib deles não é grandes coisa...

Esse é um dos principais produtos de exportação deles, e nem sequer pagam dividendos já que quase todas as indústrias do setor são estatais.

É mais ou menos como perguntar como o Brasil, sendo um país tão pobre, desperdiça tanta comida.

[Bolovo]