Russia drill simulates "massive nuclear strike"

MOSCOW, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Russia held a training exercise on Tuesday to simulate a "massive nuclear strike" in response to a first strike by an enemy, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said.
President Vladimir Putin kicked off the exercise at a critical point in the Ukraine war. The drill, which Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said was a regular, planned event, involved the launch of ballistic and cruise missiles.

As part of the exercise, a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwest Russia to the Kura test range in Kamchatka in the far east, the defence ministry said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-drill-simulates-massive-response-nuclear-strike-2024-10-29/?origin=serp_auto

 

[Margery]

They are getting ready in case there are repercussions if they launch anything at Ukraine.

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

They are getting ready in case there are repercussions if they launch anything at Ukraine.

It's hard to know whether Putin is taking a leaf out of the Kim Jong un playbook or whether this is actually going to end up as the real deal ?

 

[Tall Timbers]

It's hard to know whether Putin is taking a leaf out of the Kim Jong un playbook or whether this is actually going to end up as the real deal ?

Russia has done something that the West hasn't, they've prepared to survive a nuclear war. In the USA, the only preparation made has been for the political leadership and military command, control, and communicetions.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

All their planning and preparation will be for naught for the vast majority


1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel 39:1-5, KJV

11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
Ezekiel 39:11-16, KJV

 

[1LoverofGod]

Russia Practices ‘Massive Nuclear Strike’ in Air, Sea, and Land Missile Launch Drills​

Russia says it has launched a large scale nuclear exercise, which they claim included flying a land-launched missile over 3,500 miles across the country as well as submarine launches and strategic bombers. The Kremlin has now published video footage of several tests that took place Tuesday, with senior figures making the purpose of the exercises.

Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said the purpose of the launches was practising “a massive nuclear strike by strategic offensive forces in response to a nuclear strike by the enemy”, a clear warning to the West that follows now-years of heightened nuclear talk as Moscow moves to dissuade the U.S. and allies from becoming further involved in its invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile Russian President Vladimir Putin said that although he didn’t want to see the country “involved in a new arms race”, nevertheless “we will maintain nuclear forces at the level of necessary sufficiency” and new launch systems and missiles were being developed. These would sharpen Russia’s response times by being faster to launch, and would have new capabilities to evade missile defence screens, it was asserted, even if nuclear weapons are an “extremely exceptional measure”.

Putin further remarked of the exercising of his Strategic Deterrent Forces: “Given the growing geopolitical tensions and the emergence of new external threats and risks, it is important to have modern and constantly ready-to-use strategic forces.

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[Tall Timbers]

Putin further remarked of the exercising of his Strategic Deterrent Forces: “Given the growing geopolitical tensions and the emergence of new external threats and risks, it is important to have modern and constantly ready-to-use strategic forces.

He's right about that. And if I were a world leader, I wouldn't trust the west at all. Peace through strength.