Watching Russian Air & Sea Activity

[davidbfpo]

There is a big difference between what the article refers to as:

..the Admiral Kuznetsov, passed through the Netherlands' exclusive economic zone...as it passed through their territorial waters..

EEZ are not territorial waters, so this ship was in international waters and heading for the even more constricted English Channel.

[AdamG]

SEVASTOPOL: Russia announced Wednesday (July 23) that it had begun expanding and modernising its Black Sea fleet based in Crimea with new ships and submarines, just months after annexing the peninsula from Ukraine.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/...g/1278370.html

[AdamG]

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Northern Fleet's anti-submarine force has detected a foreign submarine in the country's boundary waters and "expelled" it, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed spokesman for the Russian Navy Main Staff.

A foreign submarine, presumed to be a U.S. Navy Virginia-class vessel, was detected by Northern Fleet forces on duty in the Barents Sea on Aug. 7, the spokesman said.

http://news.yahoo.com/russia-detects...155013008.html

[AdamG]

Moscow (AFP) - Russia announced plans Tuesday to bolster its navy with more advanced weapons in response to NATO's vow to halt the Kremlin's push into Ukraine and feared expansion into eastern Europe. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told a general security meeting that he expected to hear a detailed report from Russia's navy commander about how this could be achieved efficiently over the coming six years.

http://news.yahoo.com/russia-vows-st...175736243.html

[AdamG]

Two Russian strategic bombers conducted practice cruise missile attacks on the United States during a training mission last week that defense officials say appeared timed to the NATO summit in Wales.

The Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers were tracked flying a route across the northern Atlantic near Iceland, Greenland, and Canada’s northeast.

Analysis of the flight indicated the aircraft were conducting practice runs to a pre-determined “launch box”—an optimum point for firing nuclear-armed cruise missiles at U.S. targets, said defense officials familiar with intelligence reports

http://freebeacon.com/national-secur...strikes-on-us/

[davidbfpo]

Adam and other readers,

Don't the USAF, USN and other allied military components also practice such missions? I am aware of ELINT probing, such as the recent incident in the Baltic.

[AdamG]

No clue what NATO/USAF/USN does for fun, but the Russians picked up the old Soviet 'exercises' habit when they reestablished their fuel bankrolls.

The recent exercises (off California and the one above) seem to be outside of their usual boxes.

Meanwhile,

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia carried out a successful test of its new Bulava intercontinental nuclear missile on Wednesday and will perform two more test launches in October and November, the head of its naval forces said.
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Naval Commander-in-Chief Admiral Viktor Chirkov said the test launch had been carried out from the White Sea and that the test missile had hit its target in Russia's far east.

"In October and November of this year, the naval fleet will carry out two more launches with two rocket cruisers equipped with ballistic missiles," Interfax quoted Chirkov as saying.

http://news.yahoo.com/russia-success...122134995.html