Above Photo: Russian armored vehicles are loaded onto railway platforms after the end of military drills in South Russia on Tuesday. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service / AP). The Russian Defense Ministry said the troops are returning to their permanent bases as drills conclude. Amid the hype around a potential Russian invasion, Moscow announced Tuesday that it is withdrawing troops from areas near Ukraine as military drills in the region conclude. Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for Russia’s Defense Ministry, said troops in Russia’s southern and western military districts have concluded drills and “have already begun loading onto rail and road transport and will […]
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On April. 7, France conducted massive drills of its strategic nuclear forces that mobilized as many as 50 military aircraft including WC-135 Constant Phoenix atmospheric sampling aircraft. The French Air and Space Force said in a statement that the maneuvers included a mock nuclear air raid carried out over French territory under the Poker exercises. Poker drills are conducted several times per year without much publicity. Exercises include air-to-air refueling of fighters, low altitude penetration by fighter bombers and the simulated shooting down of a missile (once the nuclear charge has been deactivated). – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – Under […]
Russian Black Sea and Baltic fleets are involved in massive Navy drills running at their naval bases, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation’s press office reported on Thursday. On 3 December, all of the Black Sea Fleet ships have kicked off drills at sea or naval bases to practice naval battles and emergency clean-up efforts, the Fleet’s press office reported on Thursday. “A part of the ships is staying at combat training naval ranges and holding comprehensive shipborne drills for conducting a naval battle, air and anti-saboteur defense, eliminating sea and coastal targets, defending a ship during its anchorage […]
Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers launched cruise missiles and conducted mid-air refueling during drills in Russia’s Far East, the press office of the Aerospace Force reported on Monday. During the drills, long-range aviation pilots practiced employing airborne weapons against ground targets at the training range and also performed mid-air refueling while accomplishing flight assignments, the statement says. “The strategic missile-carrying bomber Tu-95MS of the Aerospace Forces carried out practical launches of air-launched cruise missiles at ground targets at the range in the Komi Republic. All cruise missiles successfully hit the assigned targets, which was recorded by means of objective control,” the military […]
The Ruska 20 drill will involve some 5,000 personnel and 60 aircraft, as well as traditional guests from Sweden. Thousands of military personnel will take part in the Finnish Air Force’s Ruska 20 drill, which is seen as the highlight of this year. The week-long drill, which ends on 6 October, is meant to test and enhance the Air Force’s preparedness, provide training for active duty members, conscripts as well as reservists. “Ruska 20 will demonstrate the high readiness of the Air Force in protecting the integrity of Finnish airspace, and securing the functions vital to our society on a 24/7 […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105578/91/1055789100_0:48:4193:2406_1200x675_80_0_0_158a8c26a532b92fc36fb4c826ac441a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Morgan Artyukhina . Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009281080603023-china-begins-massive-new-military-drills-in-four-neighboring-seas—report/ For the second time in two months, China is holding massive military drills in all four seas on its eastern border. This week, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is hosting five military drills at sea: two in the South China Sea, one in the East China Sea and two in the Yellow Sea, one of which is in the Bohai Sea, the waterway’s innermost gulf, Reuters reported. According to the report, many of the drills will feature live-fire exercises. Just last month, the PLA held similarly large drills, which the Chinese […]
A Su-30 fighter jet that crashed in central Russia might have been accidentally shot down by another jet during military drills, local media has reported. Both pilots managed to eject safely, but the aircraft was destroyed. The $42 million plane came down in a wooded area in Russia’s central Tver Region on Tuesday. The two pilots survived the crash and were evacuated. They were in a “satisfactory” condition after the incident, the press service for Russia’s Western Military District explained. While the military remained tight-lipped on the causes of the crash, multiple media reports suggested on Tuesday that the jet was likely […]
The Islamic Republic’s armed forces kicked off three days’ worth of military drills in the Strait of Hormuz, the Sea of Oman, the Makran coast and the northern Indian Ocean on Thursday, with the exercises, dubbed ‘Zolfaqar-99’ stretching across some 2 million square km of sea and land area. The United States military has heeded a warning from their Iranian counterparts to withdraw reconnaissance drones from the airspace over an area being used in Iran’s massive military drills, Rear Admiral Shahram Irani, a spokesman for the exercises, has said. “Following the announcement of the start of the Zolfaqar-99 military drills, the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105750/71/1057507174_0:163:3061:1885_1200x675_80_0_0_cecfcb5b119bad64afd06c2ff2d3c45b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202009081080396415-belarusian-russian-serbian-military-to-hold-counter-terrorism-drills-defence-ministry-says/ MINSK, (Sputnik) – Belarusian, Russian and Serbian troops will practice counter-terrorism tasks during the Slavic Fraternity military exercise, which Belarus will host later in September, the Belarusian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. “The Brest firing ground of the 38th air assault brigade will host the annual multinational Belarusian-Russian-Serbian tactical drills Slavic Fraternity-2020 under the guidance of the Belarusian armed forces’ special operations forces chief. Unit of the Belarusian, Russian and Serbian armed forces will take part in the exercise, a multinational tactical group will be formed,” the Belarusian Defence Ministry said in a statement. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/07/1080384900_0:0:3104:1746_1200x675_80_0_0_3d0a350105518da8c7a1619d73b6f230.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009071080384930-noble-partner-2020-multinational-military-drills-begin-in-georgia/ TBILISI (Sputnik) – The 2020 edition of the annual Noble Partner military exercise, co-led by Georgia and the United States, is scheduled to begin on Monday and continue through 18 September in the Georgian town of Vaziani, the Georgian Defence Ministry said. “US infantry vehicles continue marching to Vaziani, where multinational exercise NoblePartner20 kicks off tomorrow [Monday, 7 September]”, the ministry said on Twitter. Georgia is hosting the Noble Partner drills for the fifth time. Some 2,700 troops from France, Georgia, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States are expected to attend this […]
Eight schoolteachers from Meadowlawn Elementary School in Indiana have sued the local sheriff’s department after a traumatizing course of “active shooter” training allegedly left them physically and psychologically scarred. Active shooter training with the White County Sheriff’s Department was “one of the most terrifying experiences of [their lives],” the educators alleged in a lawsuit filed last week, claiming they were shot at point-blank range with airsoft guns and otherwise terrorized above and beyond the normal active-shooter drill procedure. They have demanded a jury trial, with some saying the experience forced them into early retirement. Also on rt.com This is America: Teacher’s ‘bullet […]
On August 20, the U.S. Marine Corps announced that 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade Marines conducted a Joint Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team rapid deployment drill in support of continued Alert Contingency Marine Air Ground Task Force training here. According to a recent service news release, the Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB) continues to conduct essential, realistic training while adhering to strict COVID-19 safety protocols to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and are prepared to deploy in support of our allies and partners throughout the region. The MEB executed the drill with support from two MV-22 Ospreys from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265, 1st […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106529/37/1065293712_0:156:3000:1844_1200x675_80_0_0_e61c8c49e04d87460821079e39df3937.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202008181080208948-us-conducts-air-drills-with-japan-other-partners-in-indo-pacific-region/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US bombers and F-15 fighter jets conducted drills with Japanese and other allied partners in the Indo-Pacific, the Defence Department said on Tuesday. “Pacific Air Forces launched four B-1 Lancers, two B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers, and four F-15C Eagles and conducted Bomber Task Force missions simultaneously with joint and allied partners within the Indo-Pacific region over the course of 24 hours”, the release read. These simultaneous air-power missions, the release added, demonstrated US capacity to quickly deploy forces to defend the Indo-Pacific theater. Two B-1s from Guam joined two B-1s deployed […]
US and Chinese warships both conducted drills in the South China Sea over the weekend, with a corvette from the Hong Kong garrison engaging in live-fire target practice while a US aircraft carrier carried out flight operations. On Sunday, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) corvette Huizhou practiced shooting at a variety of targets in the South China Sea, and the Hong Kong garrison’s Sina Weibo account posted a video of the drills. A Type 056 Jiangdao-class corvette, the 295-foot, 1,500-ton warship is dwarfed even by destroyers and commonly used for escort duties and coastal defense. The Chinese Type 056 corvette […]
Russia is holding a massive military exercise in Kaliningrad, a sensitive exclave of Russian territory sandwiched between Poland and the Baltics. Kaliningrad is a tiny Russian enclave sitting between Poland and Lithuania, a Russia’s strategic outpost on NATO’s doorstep. Missile formations of Russia’s Baltic Fleet have held drills in the Kaliningrad Region for eliminating a notional enemy’s subversive groups and stealthily deploying Iskander tactical missile systems, the Fleet’s press office reported on Monday. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The exercise on destruction of the command posts and other objects of the mock enemy started with the crews of mobile-tactical […]
The People’s Liberation Army forces reportedly hold massive landing drills amid U.S. recent increased military activities in the South China Sea region. Ministry of the National Defense People’s Republic of China said that Ground and naval forces have been on concentrated schedules in amphibious landing and maritime exercises in the past weeks and will continue to do so in the weeks to come, at a time when the US has been frequently conducting provocative military activities near the island of Taiwan and in the South China Sea. “The PLA drills are a show of capability and determination, and the US should […]
An old photo of a French warship was used by Egypt’s Defense Ministry to report on joint drills with France, while an Egyptian corvette was photoshopped into the image, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency said. The statement on the exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, in which Egyptian corvette Tahya Misr and its French counterpart, F713 Aconit participated was posted on the Defense Ministry’s website and social media on Saturday. The joint training with France focused on “cooperation in conducting combat missions on the sea against naval forces of the enemy using live fire.” The drills showed that both Cairo and Paris were […]
The U.S. Army has deployed Abrams main battle tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles to Poland as part of the final phase of training linked to massive military drills called the DEFENDER-Europe 20. The exercise is taking place at Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area, Poland, with approximately 6,000 U.S. and Polish Soldiers. According to a recent service news release, DEFENDER-Europe 20 was designed as a deployment exercise to build strategic readiness in support of the U.S. National Defense Strategy and NATO deterrence objectives. But Russian military officials and politicks says there’s reason to be concerned about the large-scale U.S. exercises being conducted in […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The United States’ guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78) is headed to the Black Sea to participate in joint naval exercises with Ukraine, the 6th Fleet of the US Naval Forces Europe-Africa said in a statement on Sunday. “The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) began its northbound transit to the Black Sea, July 19, 2020, to enhance regional maritime stability by participating in the 20th iteration of U.S.-Ukrainian cohosted exercise Sea Breeze 2020,” the statement read. It added that this was the fifth US warship that entered the waters of the Black Sea since the beginning […]
…from SouthFront Turkey and Egypt are flexing their military muscles off the Libyan shores as chances of a potential war in the eastern Mediterranean continue growing. First, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced that soon it will hold large-scale naval exercises off the Libyan coast. The official statement said that the drills, called “Naftex”, will take place in three different regions: Barbaros, Turgutreis and Chaka Bey. Turkey says that the exercises will involve 17 warplanes and 8 ships proving “Turkey’s ability to control the region by air and sea”. The current stalemate on the frontline between pro-Turkish forces and the […]
India’s military activity on China’s border is related to the domestic political situation while China’s military drills in the northwest are a response to the situation in the Himalayas, including attempts by extremist forces to rely on US support, according to analysts. Chinese and Indian senior military officials agreed to peacefully resolve the situation in the border zone following consultations on 13 June. The move comes after tensions escalated in May, resulting in several skirmishes and the deployment of additional forces to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that roughly acts as the border between the two countries. India’s Foreign Ministry […]
Women make up about seven percent of the Russian military’s total strength, and have historically played a crucial role in ensuring victory during the Second World War II. For most of the country’s history, however, the navy has remained a man’s domain. P-834, a Raptor-class high-speed patrol boat in the Russian Black Sea Fleet, has received its first-ever all-female crew, who are now engaged in advanced training exercises. The crew of three’s initial preparation began earlier this year at the Navy’s joint training center in St. Petersburg, with trainees engaging in studies and using a simulator to practice going out to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107620/62/1076206264_0:160:3072:1888_1200x675_80_0_0_6450dfa8d2b36698a87d365ed08d853c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006151079614113-moscow-cairo-to-hold-joint-air-defense-drills-next-year-russian-military-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia and Egypt will hold joint air defense drills in 2021, the chief of the Russian air defence forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Leonov, said. “Within the framework of our continuing cooperation with specialists from Egypt’s air defence forces, work is being done to organize a joint exercise in 2021 on the territory of the Russian Federation”, Leonov said in an interview with the Natsionalnaya Oborona (National Defence) magazine. The chief of the Russian air defence forces highlighted good communication between Russian and Egyptian servicemen during the 2019 drills, explaining it with […]
Russia 22:35 GMT 31.05.2020Get short URL MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia’s Northern Fleet will carry out major drills in the Barents and Norwegian Seas this month, with more than 30 ships planned to be involved, Commander of the Northern Fleet, Vice Admiral Alexander Moiseyev, has announced. “In June, a large-scale campaign will take place, during which a set of tasks will be worked out, solved by various groups of land and naval forces. It will involve more than 30 surface ships, submarines and support vessels, more than 20 aircraft of various types”, Moiseyev said in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda, the official […]
Europe 19:15 GMT 06.05.2020Get short URL Two of the US Air Force’s B-1B Lancer supersonic bombers flew from South Dakota to the Baltics to participate in NATO drills earlier this week, including live-fire drills just miles from the Russian border. It was just the latest globetrotting flight by the heavily overworked planes in recent weeks. ‘No Target is Too Far Away’ Earlier this week, two Lancers flying from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota paid a visit to the Baltic Sea for drills with several NATO partners, according to a Wednesday news release by US Air Forces in Europe and […]