Ukraine Crimea build up

[hammarö]

Pictures of delivery of Tigers to the 22 Spetsnaz Brigade. The same vehicle plates as Tigers seen on Crimea.

https://twitter.com/oplatsen/status/441286582793162752

[hammarö]

Kiev: Ukraine media claims that U.S. has sent ships to Black Sea including aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush.

“In response to the Russian invasion of the U.S. sent the aircraft carrier strike group in the direction of the Black Sea, to be able to react to developments on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine”,claimed Ukrainian media

USS accompany seventeen other ships and three submarines, which were held March 3 through the Aegean Sea. It is also alleged that the carrier on board carries 90 aircraft, including helicopters of various types, and a few F-22 fighters Raptor.

Source:
http://www.dispatchnewsdesk.com/nato-sh ... black-sea/

[hammarö]

76. guards Airborne division in Pskov also covered under contingency control. When monitoring commenced assailed the parts of the division transport to concentration airfield. To which begin moving to Leningrad Oblast. Total employed sixty (60) pieces helicopters (MI-8, MI-24, MI-26) and approximately twenty (20) planes of IL-76 to move the joint and its supplies from Pskov to training areas in Leningrad Oblast.

This could be the airborne soldiers in Bryansk area!!

There is a helicopter brigade based in Ostrov (south of Pskov) and another old helicopter base vyborg-Pribylovo (north of St Petersburg) together over 60 new helicopters.

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[wamovements]

Today RAF Lakenheath deployed six extra F-15C/Ds to Lithuania callsign Reaper11-16.

Edit: And a relate article about this movement:
Link

[wamovements]

According to "De Telegraaf" the USAF wil also send 12 F-16s to Poland next week. Homebase is unknown at this moment, but both Aviano and Spangdahlem are not deployed at the moment
link

[william88]

It is also alleged that the carrier on board carries [...] and a few F-22 fighters Raptor.

interesting...

[hammarö]

F-22 on ground of course. The author is not english spoken and make several shortages.

Although you find Bush and a lot of destroyers in different harbors in Aegean, Soudha Bay and Greece as frigates. More destroyers than usual in a DESRON. Several ships went away in the middle of february from US.

Not also the fate of frigate Taylor, now in France. Several of the frigates use UAV.

[hammarö]

Il-20PP reported on Turkish media as intruding Turkish air space. Serial 175011706

Fighters scrambled and showed the plane away.

The plane based on Rostov-on-Don west military airfield. Two types of Il-20 visible. Both with new types of antennas.

https://twitter.com/Missilito/status/43 ... 64/photo/1

[Banter]

According to "De Telegraaf" the USAF wil also send 12 F-16s to Poland next week. Homebase is unknown at this moment, but both Aviano and Spangdahlem are not deployed at the moment
link

From the UK Telegraph

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Poland's defence ministry has confirmed that the US military will send 12 F-16 fighter jets and 300 service personnel to Poland next week for a training exercise whose scope was expanded in response to the crisis in neighbouring Ukraine.

Tomasz Siemoniak said the training exercise, centred on the Lask air force base in central Poland, was originally to have been smaller and involved only transport aircraft. He said Poland requested it be beefed up after Russia's intervention in Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula.

Standing at a news briefing alongside the minister, US ambassador to Poland Stephen Mull said:

''When we face such a dramatic challenge for our security, we need to reassure our allies that our security guarantees are valid ''.
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Apparently there has been a significant increase in Military Movements into Kiliningrad which has added to the Nervousness in the Area .... interesting times......

[hammarö]

New helicopter base are to be formed this year in Alakurtti (Karelia) north of St Petersburg.

Alakurtti is an old army division base, cutdown in the last 15 years.

With the new Putin era is Alakurtti helicopter base formed together with an Motor Rifle Brigade.

A new OSK is also formed.

Russia today have four OSK (former large Military Districts).

Western OSK (St Petersburg) old Leningrad and Moscow Military Districts.
Southern OSK (Rostov-on-Don) ex North Caucasus.
Central OSK (Yekaterinburg)
Eastern OSK (Khabarovsk)

and the new

Arctic OSK.
To the OSK belongs Northern Fleet and the ground units in area together with 61 Marine Rifle Regiment in Sputnik and 200 MS Brigade in Pechenga. All air units in area are also to be subordinated.

The North Pole are to be protected together with the oil and gas production in area.

In my United States Naval Proceedings from 1973 is the area described as a very important.

[hammarö]

USS DDG-103 Truxton 2014.03.03 Soudha Bay 2014.03.07 Into Black Sea since 5 hours. Have two SH-60 helicopters.



FFG-50 Taylor 2014.03.07 Samsun change commander(Turkey harbor in Black Sea). Broken screw. Repair in Soudha Bay?

FFG-50 Taylor together with 6th Fleet command ship shadowed the Olympic Games outside Sochi in Black Sea.

The 6th Fleet command ship left the Black Sea.

[hammarö]

Truxton leaves Soudha Bay for Black Sea. Performing training exercises with Bulgarian and Rumanian navies.

http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=79498

[hammarö]

VP-9 with 8 P-3C operate with 6th Fleet in area. Coordination with Turkey from Incirlik 24 Feb.

[hammarö]

As earlier sad.

Polish Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak confirms that 12 American F16s and 300 troops will be sent to Poland next week for practice, according to Reuters.

It will be a more extensive practice than what was initially the plan, which should be viewed in light of the increasing tension in Ukraine. The two countries have a 40 mil long common border.

According Siemoniak was the exercise, that are located in Lask base in central Poland, initially thought to only involve transport aircraft. The Minister stated that the decision on the increased scale taken after a request from Poland, when it became clear that Russia had intervened on the Crimean peninsula.

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/amerik ... or-ovning/

[hammarö]

op News
Turkey scrambles jets after Russian plane again flies near coast
Fri, Mar 07 10:32 AM EST

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish Air Force scrambled six F-16 fighter jets after a Russian surveillance plane flew parallel along its Black Sea coast, the military said on Friday, amid increased tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine.

The incident, the second of its kind reported this week, occurred on Thursday. The Russian plane remained in international airspace, according to a statement on the website of the military General Staff.

Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, which juts into the north of the Black Sea, is at the center of the current standoff between Russia and Ukraine's new pro-Western government. NATO member Turkey forms the southern coastline of the Black Sea.

On Friday, a U.S. navy guided-missile destroyer, the USS Tuxton, passed through Turkey's Bosphorus straits bisecting Istanbul on its way to the Black Sea in what the U.S. military described as a "routine" deployment scheduled well before the Ukraine crisis.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSB ... S&irpc=932