Russia's response to Israel's missile test from last week and Israel's attack of Syrian weapons depot.
Russia holds biggest war games in decades
July 16, 2013 - 6:35 AM
Russian President Vladimir Putin uses binocular as he watches military exercise near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on Sakhalin Island on Tuesday, July 16, 2013. The maneuvers in Siberia and the far eastern region involved 160,000 troops and about 5,000 tanks - a massive show of force unprecedented since the Soviet times. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu sits at left. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service, Pool)
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday watched Russia's biggest military maneuvers since Soviet times, involving 160,000 troops and about 5,000 tanks across Siberia and the far eastern region in a massive show of the nation's resurgent military might.
Dozens of Russia's Pacific Fleet ships and 130 combat aircraft also took part in the exercise, which began on Friday and continue through this week. Putin watched some of the drills on Sakhalin Island in the Pacific, where thousands of troops were ferried and airlifted from the mainland.
Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov assured foreign military attaches on Monday that the exercise was part of regular combat training and wasn't directed against any particular nation, though some analysts believe the show of force was aimed at the U.S. and Japan.
Konstantin Sivkov, a retired officer of the Russian military's General Staff, told the daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta that the Sakhalin part of the maneuvers was intended to simulate a response to a hypothetical attack by Japanese and U.S. forces.
Russia and Japan have a dispute over a group of Pacific islands, which Russia calls the Kurils and Japan calls the Northern Territories.
The islands off the northeastern tip of Japan's Hokkaido Island were seized by Soviet troops in the closing days of World War II. They are surrounded by rich fishing grounds and are believed to have offshore oil and natural gas reserves and other mineral resources.
Antonov said that Russia had warned its neighbors about the exercise before it started, and provided particularly detailed information to China in line with an agreement that envisages a mutual exchange of data about military activities along the 4,300-kilometer (2,700-mile) border.
The two Cold war-era rivals have forged what they described as a "strategic partnership" after the 1991 Soviet collapse, developing close political, economic and military ties in a shared aspiration to counter U.S. power around the world.
Russia has supplied sophisticated weapons to China, and the neighbors have conducted joint military drills, most recently a naval exercise in the Sea of Japan earlier this month.
But despite close economic ties and military cooperation, many in Russia have felt increasingly uneasy about the growing might of its giant eastern neighbor.
Some fear that Russia's continuing population decline and a relative weakness of its conventional forces compared to the Chinese People's Liberation Army could one day tempt China to grab some territory.
Russia and China had territorial disputes for centuries. Relations between Communist China and the Soviet Union ruptured in the 1960s, and the two giants fought a brief border conflict in 1969.
Moscow and Beijing signed a new border treaty in 2004, which saw Russia yielding control over several islands in the Amur River. Some in Russia's sparsely populated far east feared that the concessions could tease China's appetite.
2ND UPDATE...CHINESE FLEET ON THE MOVE NEAR JAPAN...
ONE DAY AFTER 16 RUSSIAN WARSHIPS MOVED THROUGH THE LA PEROUSE STRAIT, TODAY SEVERAL CHINESE VESSELS WERE SEEN SAILING THROUGH THERE AS WELL. THE RUSSIAN/CHINESE MILITARY HAVE NOT LET IT BE KNOWN TO THE JAPANESE MILITARY WHAT THEY ARE/ARE NOT DOING IN THE REGION.
14 July 2013 - 13H54
http://www.france24.com/en/20130714-china-naval-fleet-seen-off-northern-japan
China naval fleet seen off northern Japan
A Chinese maritime surveillance ship sails near a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea, October 25, 2012. A Chinese naval fleet has been spotted sailing for the first time through an international strait between northern Japan and Russia's far east, according to the Japanese defence ministry.
AFP - A Chinese naval fleet was Sunday spotted sailing for the first time through an international strait between northern Japan and Russia's far east, the Japanese defence ministry said.
1ST UPDATE... PUTIN ORDERS LARGE SCALE MILITARY DRILL.
http://en.rian.ru/military_news/20130714/182225327/Pacific-Fleet-Ships-Deployed-in-Sea-of-Okhotsk-Amid-Snap-Drills.html
"Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Saturday said that up to 160,000 servicemen are involved in the large-scale exercises in the Eastern Military District, double the number initially reported."
http://en.rian.ru/world/20130715/182238865/Israel-Likely-to-Act-Ahead-of-US-in-Regard-to-Iran---PM.html
http://en.rian.ru/military_news/20130714/182230247/Russia-Readies-Strategic-Bombers-in-Snap-Far-East-Military-Drills.html
Russia Readies Strategic Bombers in Snap Far East Military Drills
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/13/313656/israeli-missile-test-mere-saberrattling/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhObUaGtS1Q
ISRAELI TEST
NUCLEAR CAPABLE MISSILE
THIS WEEK AS WARNING TO RUSSIA!?
http://www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/Netanyahu-trying-to-re-focus-worlds-attention-on-Iran-tells-cabinet-sanctions-need-to-be-stepped-up-319763
"Iran Weeks Away from crossing red line." Netanyahu.
ACCORDING TO THE DEBKA FILE ARTICLE THE STRIKE OCCURRED ON JULY 5TH. THEN, JUST TWO DAYS LATER, ACCORDING THE ARTICLE BELOW, ON JULY 7TH, AN ISRAELI F16 CRASHES AT SEA AND GROUNDS THE REST OF ITS F16'S.
OF COURSE NEITHER THE ISRAELIS, NOR THE WESTERN FORCES FOR THAT MATTER, WILL OPENLY ADMIT TO THESE CURRENT ONGOING BATTLES, BUT IT CLEARLY APPEARS THAT ISRAEL, ALONG WITH SYRIA AND RUSSIA WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT THAT F-16 BEING TAKEN DOWN AT SEA.
THE HIDDEN WORLD WAR IS CURRENTLY HAPPENING. IT IS HAPPENING THROUGH SMALL UNSEEN, AND UN REPORTED BATTLES, BUT IT WILL SOON COME OUT INTO THE OPEN FOR ALL TO SEE.
CONTINUE TO PRAY AT ALL TIMES, FOR THE WORLD WAR IS HERE.
ALSO, DAYS AFTER THE DOWNING OF THE ISRAELI WARPLANE, ON JULY 12TH (YESTERDAY), ISRAEL MADE HEADLINES ONCE MORE BY TEST LAUNCHING A NUCLEAR CAPABLE MISSILE. MANY MEDIA REPORTS FROM THE REGION MADE IT A SPECIFIC POINT TO CLEARLY STATE THAT THIS MISSILE IS CAPABLE OF HITTING "RUSSIAN CITIES."
SO IT IS CLEAR THAT AFTER ISRAEL ATTACKED SYRIA, TWO DAYS LATER, RUSSIAN/SYRIAN FORCES BROUGHT DOWN THE ISRAELI WARPLANE. A FEW DAYS AFTER THIS INCIDENT, ISRAEL TEST FIRES THIS MISSILE AS A WARNING TO RUSSIA!
ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT THE STATE OF ISRAEL IS REALLY THE ILLUMINATI/ROTHCHILD'S STATE. SO IN ESSENCE THIS WAS AN ILLUMINATI MISSILE TEST WARNING TO RUSSIA.
ANOTHER INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS NEWS REGARDING THIS TEST FIRING OF THIS MISSILE, IS THAT YOU CANNOT FIND ANY VIDEO OF IT ON YOUTUBE. YOU CAN FIND IT ON GOOGLE, BUT IT APPEARS THAT YOUTUBE HAS TAKEN THESE VIDEOS DOWN.
Israel test-fires nuclear-capable ballistic missile
The Israeli military has test-fired a new long-range ballistic missile reportedly capable of carrying a nuclear, chemical or biological warhead.
The military described Friday’s launch from a base on the Mediterranean coast as the test of the propulsion system of a missile on which it declined to elaborate, AFP reported. “This morning, Israel conducted a launching test from the Palmachim base of a rocket propulsion system," the Israeli ministry for military affairs said in a brief statement.
"The scheduled test was pre-planned… and was carried out as expected," it added.
Israel grounds warplanes after F16 crashes at sea.
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http://debka.com/article/23116/US-to-media-Israel-struck-Latakia-arsenal-last-week-Will-Putin-and-Assad-make-good-on-threats-of-reprisal-
US to media: Israel struck Latakia arsenal last week. Will Putin and Assad make good on threats of reprisal?
DEBKAfile Special Report July 13, 2013, 9:00 AM (IDT)
; "Russian SS-N-26 Yakhont anti-ship missile")
Russian SS-N-26 Yakhont anti-ship missile
US officials early Saturday, July 13 named Israel as responsible for the July 5 air strikes against the big arms depot at a Syrian naval base in the Alawite port city of Latakia. Dispelling conflicting reports, three US officials asserted that Israel had conducted the air strikes for demolishing the advanced Russian-made Yakhont anti-ship missiles stored there.
debkafile’s military sources report that three strategic arsenals were targeted: One consisted of weapons mostly delivered by Russian air freights in the last two months for the Syrian-Hizballah offensive to recapture Aleppo. A second contained the supersonic Yakhont anti-ship missiles (NATO codenamed SS-N-26) plus their radar systems; and the third, the Syrian army’s strategic reserve of missiles and ammunition, stored there for an emergency, such a possible forced Syrian army retreat to the Alawite region - or even Lebanon.
debkafile’s military sources report that three strategic arsenals were targeted: One consisted of weapons mostly delivered by Russian air freights in the last two months for the Syrian-Hizballah offensive to recapture Aleppo. A second contained the supersonic Yakhont anti-ship missiles (NATO codenamed SS-N-26) plus their radar systems; and the third, the Syrian army’s strategic reserve of missiles and ammunition, stored there for an emergency, such a possible forced Syrian army retreat to the Alawite region - or even Lebanon.
It is important to note that, although Moscow was perfectly aware that the advanced Russian weapons supplied to Syria were put in the hands of the Lebanese Hizballah, the consignments were not only not suspended but expanded. Moscow is therefore directly arming HIzballah with advanced weapons.
During the attack, neither Syrian radar nor that of the Russian warships cruising off the Syria coast registered any aircraft or missiles heading for the Latakia depot.
During the attack, neither Syrian radar nor that of the Russian warships cruising off the Syria coast registered any aircraft or missiles heading for the Latakia depot.
They were therefore unable to positively identify the source of the explosions.
Israel and the IDF held their silence – hoping that matters would stay that way, unlike their air strike of May 5 which destroyed Iranian arms shipments for Hizballah stored in the Damascus area, when American sources made haste to finger Israel. This time, too, after a few days’ pause, Washington again broke the story.
This step coincided with US President Barack Obama’s early Saturday phone call to Saudi King Abdullah to discuss the Syrian crisis. They may have discussed a potential Russian or Syrian reprisal for the Israeli air strike.
This step coincided with US President Barack Obama’s early Saturday phone call to Saudi King Abdullah to discuss the Syrian crisis. They may have discussed a potential Russian or Syrian reprisal for the Israeli air strike.
In their rough, acerbic encounter at the Black Sea resort of Sochi on May 14, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned President Vladimir Putin that if Russia sends advanced weaponry to Syria, such as S-300 anti-aircraft missiles or sophisticated radar for upgrading the Yakhont missiles, Israel would destroy them. Putin retorted that if Israel did this, Moscow would hit back.
After Israel’s air strikes over Damascus of May 5, Syrian President Bashar Assad said repeatedly, as did Hizballah and Iranian officials, that another Israeli attack on Syria would elicit an immediate Syrian reprisal.
The theme running through the Syrian and Hizballah warnings was a threat to open a new warfront against Israel from the Golan.
And so, two days after the IDF detected Hizballah movements on the Golan opposite the Israeli border, the army spokesman Monday, July 8, announced the deployment of extra Israeli forces in the divided enclave.
Tuesday, July 9, a car bomb blew up at Hizballah’s office building in the Bir al-Abd quarter of South Beirut. A next-door Shiite mosque and a technical school were also hit. At least 53 people were injured.
Tuesday, July 9, a car bomb blew up at Hizballah’s office building in the Bir al-Abd quarter of South Beirut. A next-door Shiite mosque and a technical school were also hit. At least 53 people were injured.
Hizballah did not admit that the targeted office building housed the intelligence and communications centers for its combat operations in Syria. When no organization took responsibility for the attack, Beirut and Tehran pointed the finger at Israeli intelligence as the culprit.
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