This was to be NATO's response to the gigantic real-world exercises recently carried out by Russia and its allies, notably during Vostok 2018, but also the most ...
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The Great Russian Reentry Exercise will bring together 128.000 men and 7 countries
At the beginning of September, as every year, the Russian armies organize a large-scale joint exercise, intended to assess and improve the overall performance of the forces, and their capacities to react ...
Read the articleSino-Russian couple to prevail over Western forces according to Pentagon simulations
The sentence is final: during the simulations carried out by the Pentagon at the beginning of 2019, based on a major conflict between the West and Chinese and Russian forces ...
Read the articleThe availability of Russian air forces rising sharply
There is an idea that has died hard in the West, according to which Russian fighter planes were singularly lacking in reliability. This idea was the consequence of very bad ...
Read the articleRussian forces strengthen their operational readiness
While the emerging crisis concerning the exit of the United States from the INF treaty is focusing the attention of the specialized media, the Russian forces are significantly strengthening their operational preparation. The…
Read the articleReforms of the Russian army bear fruit
Following the war against Georgia in August 2008, having seen the Russian and Georgian forces clash for the control of the secessionist oblasts of Abkhazia and Ossetia of…
Read the articleNATO holds largest exercise since "first" cold war
After the Russian exercises ZAPAD2017 having gathered more than 100.000 h in Russia and Belarus, and the exercise VOSTOK 2018 in Eastern Serbia having gathered, according to the authorities, almost 300.000 men, NATO had to react and show that it was also able to gather in a drill a large number of countries and soldiers
Read the articleSuccessful demonstration of strength by Russia during Exercise Vostok 2018
General Sergei Choïgou had announced that Exercise Vostok 2018, which took place in the eastern Siberian plains of 11 at 15 in September, was a massive exercise, gathering near Russian military 300.000 and their 36000 vehicles and 1000 aircraft and helicopters, the largest exercise since 1981 for Russian or Soviet forces.
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