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Week 15: Russia Flashcards

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What is Russia’s foreign policy focused on?

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  • Post Soviet region - The West
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Trade that Russia is involved in

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  • Leading oil and gas exporter
  • Second largest major weapons exporter. With clients such as: India, China, and Vietnam
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Countries involved in the color-revolutions

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  • Ukraine
  • Georgia
  • Kyrgyzstan
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What was the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission?

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Consisted of 21 working groups designed to address a broad spectrum of issues with Russia and the U.S.

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Describe “hybrid warfare”

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Centered on the use of irregular “separatist” forces that uses information and propaganda campaigns

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How has Russia been constructing new facilities in the Arctic?

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  1. Reactivating Soviet bases
  2. Arctic Joint Strategic Command
  3. Two new brigades specializing in Arctic warfare
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What does SAP stand for?

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State Armaments Program

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What is the SAP?

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10-year program calling for 20 trillion rubles in new weapons procurement

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What are the goals of the SAP?

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  1. Russia armed forces will be provided 400 land and sea-based inter-continental missiles
  2. 8 strategic ballistic missile subs and 20 multi-purpose subs
  3. 50 surface ships
  4. 100 military spacecraft
  5. 600 modern aircraft; 1,000 helos
  6. 28 regimental kits of S-400 systems; 38 battalion kits of Vityaz; 10 brigade kits of Iskander-M missile systems
  7. 2,300 tanks; 2,000 self-propelled artillery systems and vehicles and 17,000 vehicles.
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Number of Russian Fleets

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4

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Admiral Kuznetsov Class Aircraft Carrier

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Visual ID of the Kuznetsov Aircraft Carrier

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  • Ski- jump catapult
  • 1,001 ft in length
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Mission of the Kuznetsov Aircraft Carrier

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Intended to support and defend strategic missile-carrying subs, ships, and naval missile-carrying aircraft.

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Weapons of the Kuznetsov Aircraft Carrier

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  • 12 x SS-N-19 SSM
  • 4 x SA-N-9 SAM (24 missiles)
  • 8 x twin 30mm Guns
  • 2 x RBU 12,000 anti-submarines mortars
  • Air/surface RADAR, SONAR, and ECMs
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Aircraft of the Kuznetsov Aircraft Carrier

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  • 18 x SU-33 fighters
  • 6 x MiG-29K fighters
  • 4 x KA-31 helos
  • 2 x KA-27 helos
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Sovremenny Class Destroyer

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Visual ID of the Sovremenny Destroyer

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  • Two four-cell anti-ship missile launchers installed on the port and stbd part of the forward island
  • Angled at 15°
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Mission of the Sovremenny Destroyer

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  • Project 956
  • Primarily tasked with
    • Anti-ship warfare
    • Sea and air defense
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Weapons of the Sovremenny Destroyer

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  • 8 x SS-N-22 SSM
  • 2 x SA-N-7 SAM (44 missiles)
  • 4 x 130 mm Guns
  • 4 x Torpedo Tubes
  • 2 x RBU 1000 anti-sub mortars
  • Air/search RADAR, SONAR, and ECMs
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Aircraft of the Sovremenny Destroyer

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  • 1 x Ka-27 series helicopter
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Admiral Grigorovich Class Frigate

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Visual ID of the Grigorovich Class Frigate

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  • Black search RADAR located behind the main super structure
  • 409 ft in length
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Mission of the Grigorovich Frigate

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  • Air Defense
  • Escorting
  • Anti-submarine warfare
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Weapons of the Grigorovich Frigate

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  • 8 x SS-N-27 SSM
  • 24 x SA-N-7C SAM
  • 1 x 100mm Gun
  • 2 x 6-barrel 30 mm surface-to-air Guns
  • 4 x Torpedo tubes
  • 1 x RBU 6000 anti-sub mortar
  • Advanced Air/search RADAR, SONAR, and ECMs
25
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Role of Submarines in the Russian Navy

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Backbone of the Russian Navy

  • 75% of the 65 submarines are 20+ years old
  • Fourth-generation DOLGORKUY-class subs will be in production through 2020
  • Fifth- gen strategic missile SSBN will be in production between 2031-2050
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Borei Class Strategic Missile Submarine

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Stats about the Borei class sub

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Project 955

  • Scheduled to replace the Delta III, Delta IV and Typhoon class subs
  • 107 crew
  • Propulsion
    • Nuclear
  • Armament
    • 16 x Bulava Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles
    • 4 x 533mm torpedo tubes
    • Possible SSM and/ or SAM capability
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Yasen Class Attack Submarine

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Stats about the Yasen Class sub

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Project 855

  • Part of the newest Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile subs
    • Replacing Soviet-era nuclear attack subs
  • Crew
    • 64
  • Propulsion
    • Nuclear
  • Armament
    • 8 x VLS Launchers holding a combo of 32 SS-N-27 and/or SS-N-20 missiles
    • 8 x Torpedo tubes
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Akula Class Attack Submarine

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Stats about the Akula Class sub

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Project 971

  • Double hull system compsed of an inner pressure hull and an outer “light” hull
    • Allows for more reserve buoyancy
  • Distinct “bulb” or “can” on top of the sub’s rudder houses
  • Crew
    • 73
  • Propulsion
    • Nuclear
  • Armament
    • 4 x 533 mm torpedo tubes (28 torpedos)
    • 4 x 650 mm torpedo tubes (12 torpedos)
    • 1-3 x surface-to-air portable missile launcher fired from sail (18 missles per launcher)
    • 12 x SS-N-21 or SS-N-27 missiles
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Varshavyanka Class Patrol Submarine

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Stats about the Varshavyanka Class sub

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Project 636

  • Improved version of the Kilo class sub
  • Designed for shallow waters
  • Displaces 3,100 tons
  • 20+ knots
  • 300m dive
  • Anti-shipping and anti-sub operations
  • Crew
    • 52
  • Propulsion
    • Diesel-electric
  • Armament
    • 6 x 533mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (18 torpedos)
    • 8 x SS-N-27 SSM or SS-N-30 LACM
    • 24 x mines (in lieu of torpedos)
    • 6-8 SA-N-5/8 SAM
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Su-35 Flanker E

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Stats about the Su-35 Flanker E

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  • Single-seat, twin-engine, supermanueverable aircraft
  • Top Russian air-superiority
  • Electronics and weapons similar to the F-15 Eagle
  • Most common Russian fighter to conduct intercepts
36
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Two Russian missiles we’re analyzing

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  • SS-N-26 Strobile
  • SS-N-27 Sizzler
37
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Stats about the SS-N-26 Strobile

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Soviet/Russian supersonic anti-ship missile

  • Advantages
    • Over-the-horizon firing range
    • Full autonomy of combat use (“fire and forget”)
    • “low-profile sea-skimming,” “high low” trajectories
    • High supersonic speed in all phases of flight
    • Harmonization with land, and sea vehicles
    • Possible use of the missile in electronic countermeasures environment and under enemy fire
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Stats about the SS-N-27 Sizzler

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  • Surface ship, submarine-launched and airborne anti-ship and coastal antiship missile (AShM)
  • Land Attack Cruise Missiles (LACM)
  • Anti-sub missiles
  • Can be launched from a VLS
    • Thrust vectoring capability
  • Can be launched from a torpedo tube
    • Conventional booster
  • Air Launched version is held in a containter that is dropped as the missile launches
39
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Agreement in the early 70’s that addressed the issues of U.S. and Russian aircraft and ships

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Agreement On the Prevention of incidents On and Over the High Seas

40
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Event that occured in April 2016

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Pair of Russian Su-24 jets that passed by the USS Donald Cook while the ship was conducting exercies with a Polish helicopter in the Baltic Sea 70 nm off Kaliningrad.

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Event that occured in February 2017

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Su-24 “Fencer” fighter jets as well as a Il-38 sub-hunting quad engine buzzed the USS Porter in the Black Sea

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Event that occured in January 2018

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A Russian Sukhoi SU-27 “Flanker” came close to an EP-3 Aries causing the Aries to fly in the Flanker’s flight wash.

43
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Event that occured in November 2018

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Another Russian SU-27 fighter came close to an EP-3E Aries II and the interaction lasted about 25 minutes.

44
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Event that occured in June 2019

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Russian Sukhoi SU-35 fighter jet harrassed a P-8A Poseidon patrol plane over the Mediterranean Sea.

45
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Event that occured in June 2019 (ship)

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USS Chancellorville (CG-62) came close to colliding with the Russian destroyer Admiral Vinogradov.

The Russian destroyer came within 50-100ft of the Chancellorville and did not adhere to the “Rules of the Road”

46
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Russian Navy Organization

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47
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How did President Clinton conduct U.S.-Russian relations?

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“Strategic partnership”

Efforts made by Clinton and Boris Yeltsin in the early 1990s that was overtaken by increasing tensions and disagreeemnts on Russia increasing their sphere of influence.

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How did President Bush conduct U.S.-Russian relations?

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  • Temporarily worked together during the terrorist attacks of 9/11
  • Tensions rose during
    • Iraq War
    • Color revolutions in Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan
    • Russian energy and security pressure on neighbors
    • U.S. and NATO plans for missile defense
    • August 2008 Russian-Georgian conflict
49
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How did President Obama conduct U.S.-Russian relations?

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  • President Obama worked with President Dmitry Medvedev
  • The two presidents established the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission
50
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What countries are in BRICS

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