Tuesday 10 June 2014

RUSIA Melancarkan bermain PERANG Baltic bersama NATO . . .

RIA Novosti/Igor Zarembo

Srikandi גבורה Laut Baltik dan langit semakin sesak seperti Rusia melancarkan latihan ketenteraan kuasa-kuasa serangan dalam exclave Kaliningrad bagi menjawab perang permainan 2 sedang dijalankan oleh kuasa-kuasa NATO bersama di wilayah 3 ‘negeri2 Baltic’.

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Keputusan NATO untuk mengendalikan perlawanan perang dual sebelah sempadan Rusia di Baltik tidak meninggalkan belum diatasi oleh Kementerian Pertahanan Rusia, yang menyediakan latihan kejutan kuasa-kuasa Serangan pertama - Tentera marin, pasukan payung dan meriam - yang benar2 di halaman belakang daripada manuver tentera NATO.

"Kami menjalankan latihan ketenteraan pada masa yg sama dengan permainan perang antarabangsa yang telah bermula di Eropah, Saber Strike-2014 dan BALTOPS-2014," kata perkhidmatan akhbar kementerian itu.

RUSSIA launches Baltic War Games Alongside NATO’s

The Baltic Sea and skies are getting crowded as Russia launches military training of its assault forces in the exclave of Kaliningrad in answer to the double war-games being conducted by joint NATO forces on the territory of the three Baltic States.


NATO’s decision to conduct dual war games next to Russian borders in the Baltic has not been left unaddressed by Russia’s Defense Ministry, which prepared a surprise training of first strike forces – marines, paratroopers and long-range bombers - right in the backyard of the NATO military maneuvers.

“We conduct military training simultaneously with the international war games that have started in Europe, Saber Strike-2014 and BALTOPS-2014,” said the ministry’s press service.

Zubr kapal pendarat  diimbangi udara (Zubr air-cushioned landing craft (RIA Novosti/Igor Chuprin)

Kementerian Pertahanan berkata kekuatan ketenteraan yang terlibat dalam latihan di Wilayah Kaliningrad adalah dengan segala cara yang setanding dengan kuasa-kuasa NATO ini tertumpu di wilayah berhampiran di Estonia, Latvia dan Lithuania, di mana Saber Strike 2014 dijalankan pada 09-20 Jun dan laut-berdasarkan latihan BALTOPS 2014 diadakan di Baltik pada 06-21 Jun.

Manuver Russia melibatkan penggunaan kumpulan tentera laut, marin, operasi penda-ratan tentera udara, latihan pertahanan udara dan menembak latihan penerbangan barisan hadapan.

"Semua-senjata kumpulan tentera laut akan mengekalkan sempadan dan pertahanan komunikasi laut, dan akan melakukan latihan untuk mencari dan memusnahkan kapal selam penyerang yang dibayangkan & kapal-kapal tempur," komen kementerian untuk saluran berita RBC.

Defense Ministry noted that the military might engaged in training in the Kaliningrad Region is by all means comparable with the NATO’s forces concentrated on the nearby territory of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, where Saber Strike-2014 is conducted on June 9-20 and sea-based BALTOPS-2014 training held in the Baltic on June 6-21.

The Russian maneuvers involve the use of naval groups, marines, landing operations of airborne forces, air defense training and firing exercise of front-line aviation.

“All-arms naval groups will maintain border and sea communication defense, and will perform training to search and destroy hypothetical aggressor’s submarines and combat ships,” the ministry commented to RBC news outlet.

Kapal tentera Rusia amfibia RFS Kaliningrad pendekatan dok (Russian army amphibious ship RFS Kaliningrad approaches the dock (Reuters/Agencja Gazeta)

Bahagian parasutis dari Pskov akan melatih penempatan operasi untuk Kaliningrad, manakala marin akan melatih mempertahankan garis pantai daripada mungkin pen-daratan laut yang dibawa dan juga akan melaksanakan pengasingan dan penghapusan kumpulan bersenjata haram.

Tentera Udara adalah untuk menyediakan sokongan api dengan Su-34 pejuang-pengebom dan helikopter Mi-24 serangan.

The paratrooper division from Pskov will be training operational deployment to Kaliningrad, whereas marines will be training defending the coastal line from possible sea-borne landing and will also perform isolation and elimination of illegal armed groups.

The Air Force is to provide fire support with Su-34 fighter-bombers and Mi-24 assault helicopters.

Su-34 (RIA Novosti/Vladimir Astapkovich)

Penempatan supersonik Tu-22M3 jarak jauh strategik serangan pengebom maritim, ada yang mempunyai hanya hari latihan sebelum selesai di Laut Hitam, juga telah diumumkan. Bersama-sama dengan angkatan pertahanan udara mereka akan mem-buat rondaan kawasan utk memastikan ruang udara latihan dengan selamat ditutup.

Latihan NATO di kawasan Baltik adalah acara tahunan namun masa ini jumlah pasukan yang mengambil bahagian telah ditambah dengan ketara. Pada tahun 2013 terdapat 1,800 tentera yang terlibat, manakala Saber Strike 2014 telah menjadi yang terbesar pernah, dengan 4,700 tentera dan lebih 800 kenderaan tentera, seperti M2 Bradley, M1126 Stryker, dan pelbagai APC: XA-180, XA-202 dan M113 mengambil bahagian dalam latihan.

Selain kedua-dua NATO permainan perang, Amerika Baltik memegang Baltic Host 2014 latihan kerjasama ketenteraan mereka sendiri berhampiran Riga.

Deployment of supersonic Tu-22M3 long-range strategic maritime strike bombers, some of which have just the day before finished training in the Black Sea, has also been announced. Together with the air defense forces they will patrol the area to make sure the airspace of the training is securely sealed off.

NATO’s training in the Baltic is an annual event yet this time the number of troops taking part has been augmented considerably. In 2013 there were 1,800 troops involved, while Saber Strike 2014 has become the largest-ever, with 4,700 troops and over 800 military vehicles, such as M2 Bradley, M1126 Stryker, and various APCs: XA-180, XA-202 and M113 taking part in the training.

Besides the two NATO war-games, the Baltic States are holding Baltic Host 2014 military cooperation training of their own near Riga.

Mi-24 (RIA Novosti/Pavel Lisitsyn)

Kekuasaan tentera ‘Serangan’ 2014 telah menjadi tuan rumah pasukan dari Kanada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Inggeris, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway dan Amerika Syarikat.

Menteri Luar Rusia Sergey Lavrov telah digelar walaupun tentera putaran pembinaan berdekatan sempadan Rusia sebagai tindakan permusuhan secara langsung melanggar Akta Pengasas NATO-Rusia 1997, Lavrov Pertama Timbalan Vladimir Titov memberi-tahu Interfax.

Dengan latar belakang perkembangan dalam Ukraine, daging lembu sebanyak ‘the beef up’ kehadiran tentera NATO berhampiran sempadan Rusia, "seperti semasa 08.08.08 perang di Caucasus Utara, ia bukan mencipta masalah tambahan bukan membantu untuk menyelesaikannya, kata Titov.

Pada Isnin Rusia Menteri Luar Sergey Lavrov berkata 'said' selepas pertemuan dengan rakan beliau Finland Erkki Tuomioja itu, "Percubaan tiruan untuk meneruskan pengem-bangan NATO ke arah timur, perkembangan infrastruktur tentera ke timur, dekat dengan sempadan Rusia, adalah produktif."

Saber Strike 2014 has hosted troops from Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and the US.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has already dubbed even the rotational military build-up near the Russian borders as an act of hostility directly violating the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997, Lavrov’s First Deputy Vladimir Titov told Interfax.

With the background of developments in Ukraine, the beef-up of NATO’s military presence near Russian borders, “just like during the 08.08.08 war in the North Caucasus, it rather creates additional problems instead of helping to solve them, Titov said.

On Monday Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after meeting his Finnish counterpart Erkki Tuomioja that, “The artificial attempt to continue NATO's eastward expansion, progression of the military infrastructure to the east, closer to Russia's borders, is counterproductive.”