New maneuvers follow largest military exercise since cold war
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Just days after it concluded the biggest military
exercise since the cold war, Russia has ordered its missile forces to
conduct a snap drill in order to ascertain the readiness of putting
intercontinental ballistic missiles on “high-alert” within a short time
frame.
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“The headquarters and two missile divisions of the
Orenburg Missile Army in Russia’s Urals region have been put on
high-alert as part of snap combat readiness drills,” reports RIA Novosti.
The drills, which will run until Saturday, involve the
redeployment of missile units which include those armed with
nuclear-capable Topol (SS-25 Sickle) intercontinental ballistic missiles
and RS-20V Voyevoda (SS-18 Satan) ballistic missile systems.
“The goal of this snap check is to assess the ability of
missile units to go on high-alert in required time and to evaluate
their readiness to perform the designated tasks,” said Col. Igor
Yegorov, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry.
The missile drills follow in the footsteps of a similar
“snap order” given by Vladimir Putin which tasked the Russian military
to achieve full “combat readiness” as quickly as possible. Last week’s
exercise involved 130 combat aircraft, 70 ships, 5,000 tanks, 160,000
troops and 320 tons of equipment, making it the biggest such drill since
the Soviet era.
According to Konstantin Sivkov,
a retired officer of the Russian military’s General Staff, last week’s
exercise “was intended to simulate a response to a hypothetical attack
by Japanese and US forces,” although the drill received little attention
from the US media.
Russia has dramatically stepped up its military spending, with arms industry expenditure expected to soar nearly 60% over the next two years while the US military budget is cut by 15 per cent.
Back in May, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called on the nation’s defense industry to provide “state-of-the-art weapons superior to their Western analogs.”
Russia is currently engaged in the largest military
build-up since the cold war, including the development of a new missile
defense radar in southern Russia designed to counter missiles launched
from Europe, as part of maneuvers which pose, “a strategic threat to the
United States and NATO allies,” according to US military officials.
Russia is also working on a new generation of nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles called the Yars-M which “Russian officials say will be able to penetrate U.S. missile defenses.”
With two snap drills taking place in the space of little
over a week, some are concerned that Russia is gearing up for conflict
following the announcement that Israel had bombed Russian-made weapons in Syria earlier this month.
With Barack Obama getting the green light from the House and Senate Intelligence Committees
to arm jihadist rebels in Syria, a proxy war is developing as a result
of Russia’s staunch support for President Bashar Al-Assad.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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