Sweden and Finland have announced a joint procurement of torpedoes of the type New Lightweight Torpedo (NLT). This torpedo is produced by Saab Dynamics and is also known by the Swedish name of Torpedsystem 47 or Tp 47. The hope is that the coordinated purchase will lower the costs of sustaining and further developing the […]
Archives for January 2018
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Is there an epidemic of pneumonia among soldiers in Leningrad Oblast?
Almost 1000 draftees from Leningrad Oblast have been hospitalized in less than two months, reports Ekho Moskvy. According to the radio station, most of the soldiers have been diagnosed with pneumonia. There are no official statements about the apparent epidemic. Ekho Moskvy says that the sick soldiers are brought to the hospital in Saint Petersburg […]
Russian military moves from Windows to Linux
The Russian military has decided to move away from Microsoft Windows on all computers. The decision is grounded in security concerns connected with using an operating system that is produced abroad. That reports Izvestia. Instead there will be installed a version of Astra Linux on all computers in the Russian Armed Forces. LibreOffice will be […]
Knowledge increases support for women soldiers, says Estonian study
Andres Siplane in an ICDS report about Women in the Estonian Defense Forces: “As an important observation, it has to be pointed out that support for women serving in the [Estonian Defense Forces] is much higher among active service personnel than in society in general.[…] While in society in general almost half of the respondents […]
The Baltic nations would be hard to beat
One of the things that I didn’t touch on in my description about how a war between Russia and the West will play out was the resistance that the populations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania would muster after a Russian occupation. That was a deliberate omission because you just can’t fit everything into one piece, […]
What to expect for Russian Baltic Fleet in 2018
The press service of the Russian Western Military District has announce a few things to expect from the Baltic Fleet in 2018, reports RIA Novosti. Most notably there will be established another air defense unit with S-400 missiles. The fleet will also receive a new missile corvette. In addition to these things the general modernization […]
More dire predictions following US sale of Javelin missiles to Ukraine
Michael Kimmage for War on the Rocks in connection with the American decision to provide anti-tank missiles to Ukraine: Both sides interpret their own actions as defensive. The greater the need to defend from the other’s aggression, the more an expansion of military assets makes sense — hence, the provision of “defensive lethal weapons.” Hence, […]
Proxy wars seem to be a thing again
Sébastien Roblin for War on the Rocks in connection with the American decision to provide Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine: Michael Kofman, an analyst with extensive knowledge of Russian military affairs, was skeptical that a “few missiles” would be of any serious military benefit in a New York Times column in August. He wrote that […]
Introducing summary posts – and a military scenario
As an experiment, I am introducing summary posts to the site. These are longer posts that I will update from time to time. I have felt a need for such reference posts where some basic concepts are explained. These can serve as a kind of “declaration of assumptions” for the blog, and they can be […]
How would a war between Russia and the West play out?
There is a specific military scenario connected with the possibility of a war between Russia and the West in the Baltic area. This summary explains how the war can develop from a limited insurgency to a nuclear exchange.