Week 15: Russia Flashcards
What is Russia’s foreign policy focused on?
- Post Soviet region - The West
Trade that Russia is involved in
- Leading oil and gas exporter
- Second largest major weapons exporter. With clients such as: India, China, and Vietnam
Countries involved in the color-revolutions
- Ukraine
- Georgia
- Kyrgyzstan
What was the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission?
Consisted of 21 working groups designed to address a broad spectrum of issues with Russia and the U.S.
Describe “hybrid warfare”
Centered on the use of irregular “separatist” forces that uses information and propaganda campaigns
How has Russia been constructing new facilities in the Arctic?
- Reactivating Soviet bases
- Arctic Joint Strategic Command
- Two new brigades specializing in Arctic warfare
What does SAP stand for?
State Armaments Program
What is the SAP?
10-year program calling for 20 trillion rubles in new weapons procurement
What are the goals of the SAP?
- Russia armed forces will be provided 400 land and sea-based inter-continental missiles
- 8 strategic ballistic missile subs and 20 multi-purpose subs
- 50 surface ships
- 100 military spacecraft
- 600 modern aircraft; 1,000 helos
- 28 regimental kits of S-400 systems; 38 battalion kits of Vityaz; 10 brigade kits of Iskander-M missile systems
- 2,300 tanks; 2,000 self-propelled artillery systems and vehicles and 17,000 vehicles.
Number of Russian Fleets
4
Admiral Kuznetsov Class Aircraft Carrier
Visual ID of the Kuznetsov Aircraft Carrier
- Ski- jump catapult
- 1,001 ft in length
Mission of the Kuznetsov Aircraft Carrier
Intended to support and defend strategic missile-carrying subs, ships, and naval missile-carrying aircraft.
Weapons of the Kuznetsov Aircraft Carrier
- 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
Aircraft of the Kuznetsov Aircraft Carrier
- 18 x SU-33 fighters
- 6 x MiG-29K fighters
- 4 x KA-31 helos
- 2 x KA-27 helos
Sovremenny Class Destroyer
Visual ID of the Sovremenny Destroyer
- Two four-cell anti-ship missile launchers installed on the port and stbd part of the forward island
- Angled at 15°
Mission of the Sovremenny Destroyer
- Project 956
- Primarily tasked with
- Anti-ship warfare
- Sea and air defense
Weapons of the Sovremenny Destroyer
- 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
Aircraft of the Sovremenny Destroyer
- 1 x Ka-27 series helicopter
Admiral Grigorovich Class Frigate
Visual ID of the Grigorovich Class Frigate
- Black search RADAR located behind the main super structure
- 409 ft in length
Mission of the Grigorovich Frigate
- Air Defense
- Escorting
- Anti-submarine warfare
Weapons of the Grigorovich Frigate
- 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
Role of Submarines in the Russian Navy
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
Borei Class Strategic Missile Submarine
Stats about the Borei class sub
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
Yasen Class Attack Submarine
Stats about the Yasen Class sub
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
Akula Class Attack Submarine
Stats about the Akula Class sub
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
Varshavyanka Class Patrol Submarine
Stats about the Varshavyanka Class sub
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
Su-35 Flanker E
Stats about the Su-35 Flanker E
- 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
Two Russian missiles we’re analyzing
- SS-N-26 Strobile
- SS-N-27 Sizzler
Stats about the SS-N-26 Strobile
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
Stats about the SS-N-27 Sizzler
- 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
Agreement in the early 70’s that addressed the issues of U.S. and Russian aircraft and ships
Agreement On the Prevention of incidents On and Over the High Seas
Event that occured in April 2016
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.
Event that occured in February 2017
Su-24 “Fencer” fighter jets as well as a Il-38 sub-hunting quad engine buzzed the USS Porter in the Black Sea
Event that occured in January 2018
A Russian Sukhoi SU-27 “Flanker” came close to an EP-3 Aries causing the Aries to fly in the Flanker’s flight wash.
Event that occured in November 2018
Another Russian SU-27 fighter came close to an EP-3E Aries II and the interaction lasted about 25 minutes.
Event that occured in June 2019
Russian Sukhoi SU-35 fighter jet harrassed a P-8A Poseidon patrol plane over the Mediterranean Sea.
Event that occured in June 2019 (ship)
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”
Russian Navy Organization
How did President Clinton conduct U.S.-Russian relations?
“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.
How did President Bush conduct U.S.-Russian relations?
- 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
How did President Obama conduct U.S.-Russian relations?
- President Obama worked with President Dmitry Medvedev
- The two presidents established the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission
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