As reported, Russian strategic bombers Tu-95, endowed by the NATO codename Bear, circled the north of Norway and flew towards Scotland. At their meeting Typhoon fighter jets scrambled and tanker aircraft from a base in Lossiemouth, which recently visited the Russian observers fortnightly Worrior joint NATO maneuvers.
Command RAF identified this event as a “normal business”. Last year, the intercept Russian bombers Typhoony 8 times and the same in the first months of this year.
Meanwhile, British navy escorted the Russian destroyer “Severomorsk” and two accompanying support units – tug and tanker, which affected the water Channel. They have the right to use the Channel on a par with commercial entities. The Russian Ministry of Defence announced that the convoy heads to the exercise in the North Atlantic.
At the same basin held Joint NATO maneuvers already Worrior involving 55 ships and 70 aircraft exercisers among others detect submarines. Russian destroyer is also designed to combat them.
Russian army sent to polygons
Russian army passed the test of combat readiness. As reported by “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, in all military districts began maneuvers, combined with a test of skill soldiers.
The polygons in addition to infantry, motorized and armored forces were also derived rocket complexes, including the “Topol” possessing nuclear warheads. According to the Russian daily exercises held on the territory – “from the Baltic to the Pacific ocean and from the Arctic to the Crimea”. The newspaper notes that the Baltic ship “Bojkij” in a simulated battle destroyed the submarine “Varsovia”.
Governmental log does not give the number of troops in training and equipment, who left the barracks. With random information shows that only in the context of the strategic rocket forces polygons came out about 10 thousand soldiers.
(JM)
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