The Russian navy and aerospace forces are preparing to carry out missile
launches and bombing near Great Britain and Ireland. This was reported on
january 22nd by the irish portal the journal. The online publication notes
that dublin received a notification of a major exercise of the fleet and
aviation of the russian federation in the Atlantic.
It appears that the russian navy and aerospace forces are preparing to
conduct missile launches and bombing operations in the vicinity of great
Britain and northern Ireland. The journal an irish news site broke the story
on january 22nd. The Russian federation's fleet and aviation are conducting
a major exercise in the Atlantic.
According to the online publication shooting is scheduled in early february
with a location 240 kilometers southwest of the coast of county cork. The
exact details of exactly what forces and means moscow will use are still
unknown, but the Irish aviation authority has already confirmed that it must
reroute commercial flights and issue an appropriate airspace closure
warning.
The specified area is a section of the international or neutral water area,
located within the exclusive economic zone of Ireland which is patrolled by
irish warships and aircraft. But with the limited capabilities of our patrol
aircraft and fleet it is very difficult to track anything on this
scale, a security source told the media.
Russia has announced that it is starting large-scale exercises around the
world with all the fleets at its disposal, more than 140 ships will be
involved.
the russian defense ministry informed that the maneuvers of the navy will
begin at the end of january. they will pass in all oceans and many seas
including the mediterranean and black sea.
Former defense forces officer Cattle Berry, an irish lower house mp said in
an interview that this is not unprecedented but unusual as the shooting will
take place very close to ireland. "This is what great powers do, but these
exercises are more possible in nature and represent an exchange of
courtesies of russia with european countries," Barry said.
He pointed out that the russians could have fired anywhere, but they
specifically chose this particular place. He therefore sees the exercises as
a potential threat to ireland's sovereignty. From a military point of view
the problem is that exercises are a very simple way to gather a large number
of military forces and assets in the right area under false pretenses and
become a harbinger of other actions, Barry concluded.
Russia deflects mussels with navy drills involving all its fleets. The
sweeping set of january to february exercises comes during a standoff with
the west over nato enlargement. The latest in a flurry of military activity
during a standoff with the west, Russia's navy has announced a series of
exercises involving all of its fleets from the pacific to the Atlantic.
This month and next we'll see military exercises in the seas directly
adjacent to russia, as well as operations in the mediterranean, north sea,
Ocozic sea northeast atlantic ocean and pacific, according to a statement
from the defense ministry on thursday.
They will draw on 140 warships and support vessels, 60 planes, 1,000 units
of military hardware and about 10,000 servicemen, according to the
statement.
In a video posted on facebook the ministry showed its pacific fleet's newest
diesel electric submarine test firing a caliber cruise missile at a
land-based target from an underwater position. "The missile struck a coastal
target in russia's far eastern khabarovsk region from a range of more than
1,000 kilometers (620 miles)," it said.
Russian military moves are being closely scrutinized as a troop buildup near
ukraine in a volley of hawkish rhetoric have rattled the west and sparked
fears of a looming war. Moscow insists it has no plans to invade, but has at
the same time laid down a series of demands including a ban on ukraine and
georgia joining nato, in exchange for de-escalation.
The United States has rejected moscow's demands as non-starters and NATO
Chief Yen Stoltenberg this week insisted that the alliance will not
compromise on core principles such as the right for each nation to choose
its own path.
