Russian airlines have launched the mission to defend the Arctic Passage!
December 25th, **iacom reports that a new air force has been formed for the Russian Northern Fleet. The new air force, which is of corps level, consists of the 45th Air Force and the Air Defense Force, and consists of two naval combat aviation regiments - the 279th and the 100th Regiment, equipped with Su-33 and MiG-29KR aircraft. In addition, there is a mixed unit equipped with An-12 and An-26 military transport aircraft, as well as an Il-38N anti-submarine aircraft, a Ka-27 search and anti-submarine aircraft, a MiG-29 transport aircraft, a MiG-8*** and an MTV-5 transport aircraft. In addition, the army has an anti-aircraft missile unit and a radio engineering unit.
The primary mission of Russia's newly formed air power is to defend the Arctic straits, as well as the northern archipelago. The pilots of this unit are now engaged in combat operations to defend the northern route, their air force units are on duty at the Novaya Zemlya Rogachovo airfield, and long-range MiG-31BM interceptors are deployed to the Arctic region.
The report highlights that Russia's announcement at this time of a new air force to defend the Arctic route has a lot to do with the influence of the United States and its allies in the Arctic. Especially recently, the United States suddenly and unilaterally declared its territorial expansion. Bloomberg reported on December 24 that the United States said that the United States had expanded its Arctic continental shelf. This time, the United States announced that it would expand to a continental shelf of one million square kilometers, most of which is in the Arctic and Bering Sea regions, as well as two other countries, namely Russia and Canada.
A continental shelf is a piece of land on the ocean floor of a country. The U.S. declaration of expansion of the Arctic shelf, which is equivalent to expanding its land area to one million square kilometers, has drawn the ire of Russia. On December 25, the Russian news agency Novosti reported that Nikolai, head of the Russian Duma's group on Arctic affairs. Haritonov bluntly said that the unilateral expansion of its continental shelf by the United States in the Arctic region is unacceptable and has the potential to cause an escalation of tensions.
On the same day, Constantin Kaschevev said that claims to the continental shelf in the Arctic should be submitted to the UN Council, and the United States declared that there was no international legal basis, implying that it was the right of the international community not to recognize new demarcation. Grigory Karasin, Chairman of the International Council of the Council of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti that Russia will do everything in its power to protect Russia's interests in the Arctic region.
Head of the Russian military Valery. Gerasimov said the United States is ramping up its military presence in the Arctic while also building its own military. In October, the United States conducted a two-week course in six European countries, including Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Poland, called" autumn w**es"of large-scale military exercises, with a focus on the Arctic, Northern Europe, the Baltic Sea.
The United States does not hesitate to go to war with Russia and expand in the Arctic, and it is not surprising how Russia will react by creating a new air force. Of course, Russia has held similar military exercises aimed at preventing the United States from gaining control of the Arctic.
Last September, the Russian Pacific Fleet conducted a military training in the Arctic waters called "Fin Whale-2023" with the aim of protecting the northern sea lanes, with a total of about 10,000 soldiers, more than 50 sets of combat equipment, including surface ships and support vessels, submarines, naval aviation and helicopters, and more"Prom"with"The Bastion"Coastal missile systems. **The defense ministry said the drills were mainly defensive and aimed at increasing the military activity of Russian forces in the northeastern border region of Russia.
The exercise included a series of combined missile and artillery fire, air defense, anti-submarine, anti-landing, mobile forces, and the Arctic coast. During this time, the Russian army also launched ** "Volcano", "Granite" and "Onyx" cruise missiles in the Bering Sea, each of which successfully destroyed the target, and this Bering Sea is a territory of the United States in this expansion.