Rebuilding The Soviet Union

[Moscow]

February 6, 2009: Russia and Belarus have agreed to create a joint air defense system to protect Belarus (and a chunk of Russia's western border as well). According to the announcement, this will involve anti-aircraft missile units, as well as interceptor aircraft.
This deal has other benefits for Russia. Belarus still operates several of the Soviet Union (pre-1991) era air-defense schools, and many Soviet era air defense installations. Three years ago, Belarus received 24 Russian S-300 missile systems. Roughly equivalent to the U.S. Patriot, S-300 was known as the SA-10 to NATO, when the system first appeared in the early 1980s. S-300 missiles weigh 1.8 tons each and are 26 feet long and about 20 inches in diameter. The missiles have a range of some 200 kilometers and can hit targets as high as 100,000 feet. The missile has a 320 pound warhead.

Belarus and Russia are integrating their air defenses, mainly to give Russia more "depth" in case of an attack from the west. Russia talks a lot about possible attacks from the west. No one in the West is quite sure what the Russians are talking about. Meanwhile, of all the former communist nations in Europe, Belarus is the only one still run by its Soviet era officials. Basically it's a police state, and very tight with Russia. The integrated air defense deal has been under negotiation for years, with the Belorussians demanding more goodies than the Russians were willing to let go of. But now the deal has been done.

 

[paritosh]

gosh...i miss the supepower USSR days(or the evil empire days as the yanks used to term it!)!

 

[Fennecus]

Rebuilding The Soviet Union

That, is indeed Putin's plan. And we are seeing signs of that everywhere.

The man is not afraid to use violence and coercion to get what he wants, and he's not afraid to admit it.

 

[Moscow]

That, is indeed Putin's plan. And we are seeing signs of that everywhere.

The man is not afraid to use violence and coercion to get what he wants, and he's not afraid to admit it.

sir on a more serious note i think thats impossible but an alliance like the sort of nato or maybe EU might be a more practical solution.

 

[Fennecus]

sir on a more serious note i think thats impossible but an alliance like the sort of nato or maybe EU might be a more practical solution.

Obviously we won't see the USSR make a dramatic return in-name. But something similar is starting to form, and it won't stop.

 

[great one]

It is intersting to note Russia`s resurgence but what is more interesting is the come back of the Russian Orthodox Church into Russian life and the election of the new head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill.

 

[inferno]

whole asia is resurging india,china,russia. now I may have to say an asian union is completely necessary

 

[Omar1984]

Who would want Soviet Union back other than Russia and maybe India?

Central Asian Republics are happy being independent countries, I dont think they want to be part of Russia again..I dont even think Ukraine wants to be part of Russia again.

Please be more realistic, Soviet Union is dead!

 

[gambit]

Just another subspecies of the cockroach.

 

[Thomas]

February 6, 2009: Russia and Belarus have agreed to create a joint air defense system to protect Belarus (and a chunk of Russia's western border as well). According to the announcement, this will involve anti-aircraft missile units, as well as interceptor aircraft.
This deal has other benefits for Russia. Belarus still operates several of the Soviet Union (pre-1991) era air-defense schools, and many Soviet era air defense installations. Three years ago, Belarus received 24 Russian S-300 missile systems. Roughly equivalent to the U.S. Patriot, S-300 was known as the SA-10 to NATO, when the system first appeared in the early 1980s. S-300 missiles weigh 1.8 tons each and are 26 feet long and about 20 inches in diameter. The missiles have a range of some 200 kilometers and can hit targets as high as 100,000 feet. The missile has a 320 pound warhead.

Belarus and Russia are integrating their air defenses, mainly to give Russia more "depth" in case of an attack from the west. Russia talks a lot about possible attacks from the west. No one in the West is quite sure what the Russians are talking about. Meanwhile, of all the former communist nations in Europe, Belarus is the only one still run by its Soviet era officials. Basically it's a police state, and very tight with Russia. The integrated air defense deal has been under negotiation for years, with the Belorussians demanding more goodies than the Russians were willing to let go of. But now the deal has been done.

Actually the S300 is probably a little better then the patriot. The Russians have always been good at building antiaircraft missiles. The U.S. is concentrating more on stealth, kinetic, and high energy weapons. Stealth being the main focus since you can't hit what you can't see.

 

[macrocks]

Russia definitely need a union in central Asia as Nato is ready to knock on their door and as we saw last year it could turn preety nasty.The US is taking the opportunity to turn as many nations as possible into Nato so as to make sure that russia cannot have any possible future hegemony of the order of Soviet in Europe and Asia. But to be fair to russia and to make sure that the balance of the world is maintained, it is the need of hour to have an alliance of atleast 4-5 central Asian countries and Russia. However I also read somewhere that the recent visit of Obama to russia was meant to offset China's influence by reseting the US-Russia relationship.

 

[Rajkumar]

first of all its good to see moscow
well i really want to see russia on rise, i haVE FEW QUESTION

russia has world largest reseves of resources still economically they are not dominant, so need to focus oneconomically if they wanna restore the glory of old soviet union.

falling population is big head ache for the russians, what are the solutions they are applying and are they working?