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ikalugin · 12-24-16, 06:41 AM

As one could guess the corner stone of the Russian Armed Forces is the nuclear deterent - it assures the physical existance of Russia and precludes attacks by the major foreighn powers. Even in the hard years of the 1990s the nuclear deterent was maintained, despite the expectations that Russia would get rid of it either due to the political pressure or the lack of funds required to maintain it.

That deterent is split into several branches, specifically the Triad and the related supporting forces - the EW means, the ABM/AAW defenses and others.

After the break down of the Soviet Union the deterent has, well, deteriorated somewhat despite our best efforts. We had the following problems:

Loss of EW radar coverage due to the radar sites now being in foreighn countries.
Loss of EW satelites due to their expiration.
Loss of the delivery systems due to their expiration.
Degration of the defensive systems via expiration and obsolesance.

In order to fix them we:

Built a series of the new EW radars - the Voronezh and Container series of radars. Those radars not only allowed us to regain the Soviet era capabilities of detecting inbound ICBMs and SLBMs but gave us new capabilities - specifically detecting low flying cruise missiles and stealth bombers using the new OTH radar - Container.
Began deployment of the new spaceborne EW and command system - the EKS (however this process only just began).
Began construction of the new delivery means - the Borei program, the new Yars ICBMs.
Procured new defensive systems - ie the MiG31 upgrade and the S400 SAMs.

Overall you can see that we are doing some major force modernisation there, but we would maintain it within our commitments to the New-Start arms reduction treaty, primarily because we are already below it's limitations in terms of delivery systems and it would take us a while to reverse it with the introduction of the new systems - Yars-M light ICBM (both silo based and road based), Sarmat heavy ICBM (silo based SS-18 replacement), Borei-A class SSBNs, possibly PAK-DA heavy bombers (but the PAK-DA program is in trouble).

12-24-16, 06:41 AM	#3
ikalugin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 3,212 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	The state of the Russian nuclear deterent or getting the boring things done first As one could guess the corner stone of the Russian Armed Forces is the nuclear deterent - it assures the physical existance of Russia and precludes attacks by the major foreighn powers. Even in the hard years of the 1990s the nuclear deterent was maintained, despite the expectations that Russia would get rid of it either due to the political pressure or the lack of funds required to maintain it. That deterent is split into several branches, specifically the Triad and the related supporting forces - the EW means, the ABM/AAW defenses and others. After the break down of the Soviet Union the deterent has, well, deteriorated somewhat despite our best efforts. We had the following problems: Loss of EW radar coverage due to the radar sites now being in foreighn countries. Loss of EW satelites due to their expiration. Loss of the delivery systems due to their expiration. Degration of the defensive systems via expiration and obsolesance. In order to fix them we: Built a series of the new EW radars - the Voronezh and Container series of radars. Those radars not only allowed us to regain the Soviet era capabilities of detecting inbound ICBMs and SLBMs but gave us new capabilities - specifically detecting low flying cruise missiles and stealth bombers using the new OTH radar - Container. Began deployment of the new spaceborne EW and command system - the EKS (however this process only just began). Began construction of the new delivery means - the Borei program, the new Yars ICBMs. Procured new defensive systems - ie the MiG31 upgrade and the S400 SAMs. Overall you can see that we are doing some major force modernisation there, but we would maintain it within our commitments to the New-Start arms reduction treaty, primarily because we are already below it's limitations in terms of delivery systems and it would take us a while to reverse it with the introduction of the new systems - Yars-M light ICBM (both silo based and road based), Sarmat heavy ICBM (silo based SS-18 replacement), Borei-A class SSBNs, possibly PAK-DA heavy bombers (but the PAK-DA program is in trouble). __________________ Grumpy as always.