What will cover the northern bastions of Russia
In the coming years, the Russian Ministry of Defense will focus on the development of military infrastructure in the Arctic zone and the Kuril Islands. This was repeatedly stated by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. In particular, it is planned to deploy two new coastal defense compounds in the coastal areas of the Northern Sea Route.
According to Izvestia, their task is to ensure the safety of sections of the route and the coast adjacent to it. It is assumed that new military units are planned to be created on the Kola Peninsula on the basis of the coastal forces of the North fleet.
Geographical difference
According to Tass military observer Viktor Litovkin, coastal defense formations created in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation may have a different composition depending on the place of their deployment and the tasks assigned to them.
It’s one thing - the coastal defense division in the Crimea, where the weather is relatively warm even in winter, can be composed of tank, motorized rifle, artillery (self-propelled and towed guns), anti-aircraft missile units and subunits, as well as reconnaissance, communications, engineering and sapper, defense against weapons mass destruction ... And of course, the divisions of anti-ship complexes "Ball" and "Bastion"
Viktor Litovkin
TASS military commentator
One of the tasks of the Crimean coastal defense brigade is to protect the Black Sea Fleet bases and the coast from amphibious assault forces and the possible attack of the "enemy" from land. In 2016, it became known about the creation of the same compound in the north of the country.
Another thing (in comparison with the Crimea. - Approx. TASS) - a similar division in Chukotka. It is difficult to imagine that such a compound should have tanks that will be covered with multimeter snow in the winter and immobilized, and in the summer they will sink in the mossy tundra. Similarly, self-propelled or towed artillery guns and mobile long-range anti-aircraft missile systems. They also need to create serious conditions for movement on local roads, or rather, on the road
Viktor Litovkin
TASS military commentator
The expert believes that, perhaps, the anti-landing, anti-sabotage units, combined into battalions and companies, will move across the tundra in the winter and summer on quad bikes, articulated snowmobiles or light armored multi-purpose armored personnel carriers, reinforced with heavy machine guns, grenade launchers and flamethrowers.
Short-range air defense systems should also be placed on articulated snowmobiles or their analogs - both the Tor-М2 and Pantsir-С1 complexes are manufactured in modular versions and can be placed on any transport base, including articulated snowmobiles.
Another thing - the C-400 anti-aircraft missile systems. They need stationary platforms, as, indeed, for the Ball and Bastion complexes. Their task is to block the firing capabilities of the Bering Strait so that foreign warships with missile defense systems and long-range cruise missiles do not pass through it towards the West. It seems that such a task is on the shoulder
Viktor Litovkin
TASS military commentator
Cover Siberia
According to Litovkin, approximately the same tasks will be performed by parts of the coastal defense on the Kola Peninsula and the adjacent archipelagoes of the Arctic and on the individual islands of the Kuril Ridge.
Again, depending on the location and the tasks assigned to them, they can be of very different composition. But the main thing is to ensure the protection of Russian territory and our national interests in the western, arctic and far eastern (pacific) direction, by the way, the Syrian coast too, from uninvited “guests” with their rocket systems threatening the Russian deterrent systems of the likely aggressor.
Viktor Litovkin
TASS military commentator
The expert also believes that the matter is not only in ensuring the safety of the Northern Sea Route, which for our country can become “something like the Suez Canal for Egypt”, passing through caravans of ships with cargo from Asia, Australia and the west coast of North America for Europe, maintenance and the protection of this beneficial route from all sides, but also to protect the natural resources in the waters of the Arctic Ocean.
The main thing is to secure the combat positions of our strategic missile forces from the north in Siberia. Solving this problem will not only be part of the coastal defense, but also pilots, border guards, sailors - on surface ships and submarines, EW and radar units, optical and technical reconnaissance, others, as well as airborne units on duty, Rosgvardia ... In short, work, which should be comprehensive, multi-layered and versatile, enough for everyone
Viktor Litovkin
TASS military commentator
In 2016, it became known that the Ball and Bastion anti-ship missile systems were deployed on the Iturup and Kunashir islands in the Kuril Islands. These units are part of the 2014 coastal missile brigade of the Pacific Fleet formed in 72 year. In Kamchatka, the calculations of the Pantsir-С1 complex were taken up for combat duty.
The coastal missile system "Bastion" is equipped with supersonic P-800 "Onyx" missiles ("Yakhont" is an export version. - Approx. TASS). He is able to destroy surface ships of various classes and types. One complex, the ammunition of which can include up to 36 missiles, is able to protect more than 600 km of the coast.
The Ball, armed with subsonic low-altitude X-35 anti-ship missiles, is capable of eliminating enemy’s ground and surface targets at a distance of about 130 km. X-35 is able to destroy ships with a displacement of up to 5000 tons. The rocket can be used in simple and complex weather conditions, day and night, in the conditions of fire and electronic countermeasures of the enemy.
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