Anonymous ID: a96ea4 Sept. 8, 2018, 11:23 p.m. No.2943254   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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A defense official told The Washington Free Beacon that the bombers may have been practicing for a cruise-missile strike on US missile-defense sites and radars in Alaska — which may be a feature of the Russia's upcoming massive Vostok-18 exercise that Russian officials have said will be the largest such drill since the Cold War.

 

Russian troops have already undergone "snap inspections" in preparation for the exercise, the active portion of which will take place between September 11 to September 17, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said this week, according to Russian state-media outlet Tass.

 

"Aircraft have been flying maximum range sorties with refueling in flight and practicing landings at tactical airfields. Naval ships have been performing combat maneuvering and firing practices," Shoigu said, according to Tass.

 

Shoigu said in late August that about 300,000 Russian personnel and 1,000 aircraft, including drones, would take part, adding this week that "up to 80 combat and logistics ships and up to 36,000 tanks, armored personnel carriers and other vehicles" will be involved.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-vostok-18-military-war-games-2018-9