The Pacific Fleet has an airfield on Matua

The military airfield on the island of the Kurile Ridge of Matua, capable of receiving light military transport aircraft and helicopters, guards and serves the Pacific unit fleet, commander of the Pacific Fleet Admiral Sergey Avakyants said

At the moment, on the island of Matua there is a military airfield, which is capable of receiving light military transport planes and helicopters. For the functioning of the airfield, the corresponding infrastructure has been created, which is protected and maintained by the Pacific Fleet division. The staff is provided with all necessary

- Avakyants said in an interview with the newspaper of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Red Star", published on the website of the publication on Monday.

Matua Island is located in the middle part of the Kuril Ridge and is of strategic importance - it locks the entrance to the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. During World War II, a Japanese airfield was located on the island, whose runway was heated by water from hot springs, and a heavy artillery battery. The approach to the island is protected by a system of pillboxes and underground passages, built so soundly that fortifications are suitable for use even now.

At the Potsdam Conference 1945, US President Truman turned to Stalin with a request to provide Matua for the US Air Force base. He agreed on the condition that the Soviet Union would be able to build an airfield on one of the Aleutian Islands. The question was no longer raised.

After the decision was made to establish the base of the Pacific Fleet, Matua was thoroughly examined by expeditions of the Ministry of Defense and the Russian Geographical Society. An airfield was built, the first aircraft landed on it at the end of 2017.

In the autumn of 2016, it was officially announced that Russia had deployed the latest coastal missile systems, the Ball and Bastion, on the Kuril Islands. Combat duty with reinforced batteries is carried by the division of the Bastion complex on Iturup Island and the division of the Bal complex on Kunashir Island, the Pacific Fleet newspaper Fighting Watch reported.

A machine-gun and artillery division is deployed on the islands of the Kuril ridge. In May 2017, the press service of the Eastern Military District reported that the division was receiving new models of weapons and military equipment, including Drones. It was reported that infrastructure was being developed for the military in the Kuriles.

Comments

[Hunter 2]

No wonder the expeditions carried out! Great news! Japan mom - will cry!

[St Petrov]

Because sovereignty. And these are our islands =]

Now we are reading the version of our opposition about why the tyrant is pretending to strengthen defense capability, and he himself transfers the money to treasury bonds of the US government although now we'll see what they’ll write, maybe they’ve come up with something new

such little things as an airfield on an island near Japan do not cause them pleasure. It would be better if they handed out to pensioners, as they say

[Nasrat]

Say the opposition ... we know such ... there are plenty of milk-suckers, with brainwashed - that’s the whole opposition ...

[aikon1974]

From the face you can see that this child is not in poverty. And the fact that in the brains there is no gyrus is the problem of society. Today, all the ** th on them. Schools can only provide services, not teach and educate.

[Victor Lozovsky]

Mitrofanushka with an ass instead of a head

[tv70]

Respected! And this is what you set for the picture, I thought natural selection of such nonsense, has long led. Straight upset.

[Monos]

Quote: s-t Petrov

It would be better if they handed out to pensioners, as they say

What pensioners! Homeless dogs need to be fed! Gay Pride in Moscow has not yet been held! The geniuses of artistic fucking are repressed on stage! Belarusian hamon does not reach the shelves. Deeper problems need to be opened! And you are "Senior Citizens ..."

[Zhelezyakin]

Quote: Hunter 2

Japan mom - will cry!

Do not cry, but sob with combustible crocodile tears! Not enough water around them ?!)))

[Andrey K]

Quote: Hunter 2

... Japanese mom - will cry! ...

Japanese mother will go ashore - he will look through binoculars and express his protest.
We are cultured, polite people - we will sympathize with them that they don’t have a Matua like ours

[bouncyhunter]

Andrey, hello be!

Quote: Andrey K

they don’t have a Matua like ours

And will not be!

At the Potsdam Conference 1945, US President Truman turned to Stalin with a request to provide Matua for the US Air Force base. He agreed on the condition that the Soviet Union would be able to build an airfield on one of the Aleutian Islands. The question was no longer raised.

I applaud while standing!

[Andrey K]

bouncyhunter
Greetings Pash
Regarding the Stalinist way of resolving issues - there is something to learn

[Captain45]

Quote: Andrey K

Regarding the Stalinist way of resolving issues - there is something to learn

Today is 65 years since the death of the outstanding head of the Soviet state, Comrade Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich. Silent and standing.

[standan]

Standing silently applaud

[tv70]

Support, with both hands!

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: Hunter 2

No wonder the expeditions carried out! Great news! Japan mom - will cry!

What a nightmare! Harakiri still in fashion?

[siberalt]

Now there remains to plant potatoes and build a fish factory. All the soldiers will come in handy.

[antivirus]

the main thing - dad will cry

[cats]

Why is it always written, Ball and Bastion?
Bastion and Ball .. sounds better ..

[Hunter 2]

Quote: Kotovsky

Why is it always written, Ball and Bastion?
Bastion and Ball .. sounds better ..

Hussars - girls dance (so that there are new Hussars), and when it is NECESSARY - they stand and die for the Motherland!
Ball and Bastion - the best fit in the sense!

[tv70]

Much better and more sonorous, even sobering up ...

[Vladimir 5]

It is not necessary that the neighbors cry, it is better that they rejoice, and therefore politics should be thought out. (quotas for fishing seafood, tourist ...) We can’t give the Kuril Islands, because then the world post-war distribution of territories will sprinkle (how to release gin from a bottle). Regarding Matua, in the photo the cove needs to be expanded and deepened, earthwork with powerful equipment is not very expensive, and a decent pier and harbor are necessary. (China even poured into the shallow airfield)

[Vard]

"At the Potsdam Conference of 1945, US President Truman asked Stalin to provide Matua with the US Air Force base. He agreed to the condition that the Soviet Union could build an airfield on one of the Aleutian Islands. The question was no longer raised." Here's how to talk to them ... And he did not refuse, and even agreed ...

[Andrey K]

Quote: Vard

... Here's how to talk to them ... And he did not refuse, and even agreed ...

Test-trolling of comrade Stalin

[CentDo]

What delighted you so much? In my opinion, the Americans made a huge mistake by not agreeing to such conditions. Having a base on Matua, they would control the entire Sea of ​​Okhotsk, and the distance to Sakhalin and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (and Vilyuchinsk is also nearby) does not exceed 700 km. And what advantages could the USSR have gained by having an airfield somewhere on Attu Island?

[faiver]

what nafig Vilyuchinsk in 45 a year? who then needed him?

[CentDo]

Ok, Vilyuchinsk you can throw. Is everything else normal?

[faiver]

in the 45 year, Sakhalin and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky were not strategically important

[CentDo]

Yeah, in general in the Far East there was nothing strategically important. What is wrong with the American base, which, in fact, is on our territory, and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, turned into a passage yard?
And where does the 45th year come from? Do you think the head of state should not think about the future? Or did Stalin think that the USSR did not need the Far East?

[faiver]

the point is that the ITT could not in 45 predict what the Sea of ​​Okhotsk will turn into and what it will matter, and the Americans are pissed off in life

[CentDo]

The salt is that IVS should was suggesting it. Comrade Stalin was not a fool. If he did not understand the importance of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, he would not have taken all the Kuril Islands from the Japanese. So I repeat: I do not understand the admiration for such a proposal by Stalin. If the United States were not afraid, now we would have a bunch of unnecessary problems.

[faiver]

Yeah, the IVS in the 45 year suggested that our 667 BDRMs would be on duty in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk? funny

[CentDo]

Read the appeal of Stalin from 02.09.1945/XNUMX/XNUMX. Unlike you, he perfectly understood the importance of the Kuril Islands.

[faiver]

we initially spoke about the possibility of finding American military outposts off our coasts and vice versa, as well as the possibility of delivering nuclear strikes on each other’s territories, and not in terms of restoring historical justice ...

[DenZ]

Quote: CentDo

If the United States weren’t afraid, now we would have a bunch of unnecessary problems

If they had not been frightened then (in the 45th), they would have been frightened now if our base were now on the Aleutian Islands.

[CentDo]

Would it be? 90s remember. Yes, even if they saved (which is very unlikely), then what would she give? See where Attu Island, which I already mentioned, is located. Well, we have a half-dead airfield there, what's next?

[DenZ]

Reasonings like "what if" can be continued forever. Now we have what we have.

[Tarasios]

Well, Americans don’t like symmetrical answers for some reason :)

[ul_vitalii]

Yeah ... we don’t have enough Stalinist humor, Eun and that one, covered with sanctions, like a dog with fleas, dare in any tonalities.

[Alexander 3]

Military servicemen on the island are probably changing on a rotational basis. If you sit on the island, whatever infrastructure you conquer from happiness.

[max702]

Quote: Alexander 3

Military servicemen on the island are probably changing on a rotational basis. If you sit on the island, whatever infrastructure you conquer from happiness.

And when you work on a shift for 12-16 hours a day without days off and for three or four months you probably dance from happiness? Everyone has their own work!

[Alex-a832]

Quote: max702

And when you work on a shift for 12-16 hours a day without days off and for three or four months you probably dance from happiness? Everyone has their own work!

Please enlighten - this is where in the state structures, incl. Sun such conditions for 16 hours. 12 norm for a watch. But if we are discussing the sun, then we must talk about the daily allowance. For a long time everywhere everything has been brought back to normal, not like it was in the 90s.

[max702]

Stroytransgaz, for example, and many others .. for in words 10-12 hours in real life it’s 12-16, or even more .. And about the army, there’s another story .. I’m just saying that the army is by no means a nightmare compared to the current civilian bourgeois sector, that’s where all the juices squeeze Duc it is there ..

[woron333444]

My son has a friend on Iturup. Already served a pension and still serves. Not going to leave. The kid is 34 years old.

[KVU-NSVD]

I wonder if they found something interesting there during the expedition ... And to supply what there the airfield was restored ...

[Orionvit]

Quote: KVU-NSVD

I wonder if they found something interesting during the expedition.

They found nothing interesting. And if they did, they didn’t say it. And in general, what can be found at the old military base, on an island lost in the ocean? I myself am a lover of the unusual, but some lovers sculpt mysticism where, in general, it should not.

[Mountain shooter]

Good news. The Kuril Islands, of course, are far away, and serving there is not honey, but it is our land.

[Evil 55]

Iskander there ... in the Far Eastern Kaliningrad ..

[svp67]

The military airfield on the island of Kuril Ridge Matua, capable of receiving light military transport planes and helicopters, guards and serves the Pacific Fleet division, said the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Sergei Avakyants

That's when the VTOL is not enough ...

[Vasyan1971]

"At the Potsdam Conference of 1945, US President Truman asked Stalin to provide Matua with the US Air Force base. He agreed to the condition that the Soviet Union would be able to build an airfield on one of the Aleutian Islands. The question was no longer raised."
It seems that a similar story was in Italy under Mussolini. He agreed to build a mosque in Rome with the condition of the simultaneous construction of a Catholic temple in Mecca. How things are now, I don’t know. Not interesting somehow ...

[Snail N9]

Well, since there is a unique runway heated by thermal waters, built by the Japanese, it’s a sin not to use it.

[faiver]

it turned out to be a fairy tale, did not find thermal springs

[Xscorpion]

Quote: Alexander 3

Military servicemen on the island are probably changing on a rotational basis. If you sit on the island, whatever infrastructure you conquer from happiness.

Sit, don’t worry. Only on vacation once a year. And so on the islands everything is constant.

[Simon]

At the Potsdam Conference 1945, US President Truman turned to Stalin with a request to provide Matua for the US Air Force base. He agreed on the condition that the Soviet Union would be able to build an airfield on one of the Aleutian Islands. The question was no longer raised. --- I think that soon the Americans themselves will give us the Aleutian Islands. Already our time is coming! But Stalin did well, quickly put Truman in his place.

[midshipman]

Was on it. They even flew in with a delegation of the US military. It was the year 1983. I have the honor.

[faiver]

Excuse me, what was the American delegation doing in 83 there?

[midshipman]

The US military delegation arrived in the USSR with the goal of creating a single radio navigation field on the basis of our Tropic RSDN stations (US prototype Loran) in the Far East. We had a field, they do not. They persuaded us for a long time, examined the positions, consulted at the USSR Ministry of Defense, the US Embassy in Moscow and refused them. I took a position such that it is impossible to negotiate with the United States, these are our enemies. I have the honor.

[Hurricane70]

Quote: CentDo

What delighted you so much? In my opinion, the Americans made a huge mistake by not agreeing to such conditions. Having a base on Matua, they would control the entire Sea of ​​Okhotsk, and the distance to Sakhalin and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (and Vilyuchinsk is also nearby) does not exceed 700 km. And what advantages could the USSR have gained by having an airfield somewhere on Attu Island?

We were delighted that you do not know geography and are lazy to use the search before comparing the Matua and Aleutian islands, in the sense that this is supposedly an unequal version of Stalin!
And by the way, for example:
"Shemya Island - an outpost of avionics.
The U.S. Army arrived on the island of Shemya * in landing barges on May 25, 1943 during operations against Japanese troops in the Pacific Ocean. On the island they were met by the remnants of the camp of the Japanese geodetic party and two graves of Russian sailors (most likely from the expedition of 1762). There was no more evidence of life on the island. In the fight against weather conditions more than with the Japanese troops, by the end of June an 3 km long unpaved runway was built on the island, and a bit later, by autumn, a hard-coated airfield with two 1,4 km long GDPs.
B-25 bombers stationed on the island caused significant damage to the fleet and Japanese territory, and for the Japanese, the fact of basing planes on Shemya Island remained unsolved - they understood that they were being bombed from a base somewhere in the Aleutian Islands, but could not know specifically about the airfield on Chemier. Until the end of the war, they believed that the Americans were based on the neighboring island of Agattu. It is interesting that the aircraft based on the island lost 23 bombers in the battles and there was not a single incident, not a single accident at the airbase itself. It should be added that the long runway was built for the B-29 bombers, but they did not appear on this island in large numbers.
During the Korean War, the air base also played a role related to transportation. Since 1956, Northwest Airlines used the airfield to refuel on its trans-Pacific routes. "
Notice, from there the USA and Japan and even Korea are controlled ... And this is so, offhand ...

[Orionvit]

deployed machine gun and artillery division.

Too shy to ask, are heavy machine guns? So they would have written, a division of heavy machine guns.

[Hiller]

18 Pulad (machine gun and artillery division) consisting of 51 OA. It is deployed on the islands: Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan. The only member of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

[earloop]

Flew to the "ball" to Matua, received a bastion on the "teeth".

[Wolka]

just great

[Old military officer]

How interesting, how great! Strengthening the line. I really liked the answer of Stalin to Truman. Look, lips rolled out. In the 50s and 60s, Pacific Fleet in these places organized exercises during the red fish spawning campaign and closed all the straits between the islands of the Kuril Ridge so that strangers would not climb and ruin or rob national wealth. And now the stationary base and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk are the inland sea of ​​Russia and are in great need of protection.

[PVL176]

The place is strategically good, the business is useful. The main thing is to wash off in time, too dangerous volcano! Well, then again, on duty!

[Toxa bochik]

need to expand and get settled

[Jingibi]

To the question of the "northern territories" of our yellow brothers. Compare the population density of the main Japanese islands and Hokkaido. For service in Hokkaido in Japan there is a premium "for harsh conditions of service"

[Ivanov IV]

This is not an airfield, but a bicycle path. That's when they will take off for (at least) the SU-22, then ........

[CentDo]

faiver,
And where is historical justice? There are three words about her.
"This means that South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands will depart to the Soviet Union and from now on they will serve not as a means of tearing the Soviet Union from the ocean and the base of the Japanese attack on our Far East, but as a means of direct communication of the Soviet Union with the ocean and the base of our country's defense from the Japanese aggression. "
There was nothing strategically important, and no one could have imagined what would appear? So you said? And Comrade Stalin, whom you are trying to defend (although no one attacked him), did not agree with you. And in the middle of this base of defense could appear an outpost of a potential enemy, if he had the courage.

[Volga073]

Let's appoint Hakamada as the head of the island of Hokkaido!