Ukraine Crimea build up

[hammarö]

Russian IL-20M spy plane captured at Rostov on Thursday. Tasked for #Ukraine? ©ErikRostovSpotter pic.twitter.com/m5cZd6cgPU

With picture

https://twitter.com/Missilito/status/44 ... 04/photo/1

[hammarö]

VVS "army" units in Southern OSK (earlier North Caucasus MD and Trans Caucasus MD)

The helicopter units are used in operations over Crimea and support of the Spetsnaz gangs. Further helicopter units are used by the MVD and Border Troops. The MVD and Border Troops helicopter units have 6 helicopters, spred out over Russia.

Southern OSK 387 AvB AA (387 АвБ АА) – Budennovsk (в/ч 12910) Mi-8 (12) Mi-24/35 (12) Mi-26 (2) Mi-28 (12)
Southern OSK 393 AvB AA (393 АвБ АА) – Korenovsk (в/ч 35666) Mi-8AMTSh (12) Mi-24/35 (12) Mi-28 (12) Ka-52 (12)
Southern OSK 546 AvB AA (546 АвБ АА) – Rostov (в/ч 62978) Mi-8 (12) Mi-24/35 (12) Mi-26 (6) Mi-28 (12) transfer from Yegorlykskaya. Helicopters possible mixed with MVD aircraft regiment on same ase.
Southern OSK – Mozdok () helicopter staging base (and aircraft) MVD OVE unit
Southern OSK – Grozny () helicopter staging base (and aircraft)

The toe for the Russian units are not known. Delivery of new helicopters are ongoing to 2020.

Further unit formed for the 7 VDD based in Novorossiysk. The helicopter units in the airborne brigades and divisions has been taken over by the VVS. Possibly has a new helicopter brigade been formed for support of airborne units. (see Ostrov) In February exercises used 76 VVD in Pskov over 80 helicopters for transport to Kamenka exercise field. Planned parachuting were replaced in a simulated helicopter landing attack in support with the 138 OMS Brigade.

[hammarö]

VVS "Army" units in Western OSK (earlier Leningrad MD and Moscow MD)

Western OSK 15 Brigade AA (15 бр АА) - Ostrov () Hcp (45) Mi-8 (12) Mi-24 (12) Mi-26 (9) Ka-52 (12)
Western OSK 378 AvB AA (378 AFB AA) – Vyazma (в/ч 41687) Mi-8 (12) Mi-28 (12) Mi-8PP (12) Mi-28 from 2013 ex 440 OVP BU, 490 OVP BU, 6965 AvB
Western OSK 549 AvB AA (549 АвБ АА) – Pribylovo (в/ч 12633)
Western OSK 549 AvB AA (549 АвБ АА) – Pribylovo (в/ч 12633-2) Mi-8 (12) Mi-24PN (12)
Western OSK 549 AvB AA (549 АвБ АА) – Monchegorsk (в/ч 12633-?) Mi-8 (12) Mi-24PN (12)
Western OSK new unit – Alakurtti () formed before 2014 end together with army OMSBr or and Arctic Brigade.

[hammarö]

Several types of Il-20M are used as sigint planes in wholeRussia. Last times in Black Sea sea and Baltic.

Il-20M.

I have identified 2 Il-20RT and 13 Il-20M used last time, each with several pictures as identification. Newly scrambled six F-16 then the planes came to near the border areas. Several planes are research planes for new typed ofsigint planes. Someplanes comes from Moscow Zhukovsky. Several operate out of Rostov-on-Don over the Black Sea.


173011501 Il-20M 2005 RA-75923 PSr
173011502 20 red Il-20M Kubinka 2013 P
173011503 Il-20RT Ostafyevo 2013 RF-75344 ex RA-75481 P
173011504 21 red Il-20M Kubinka 2012
RF-93610 P
173011505 Il-20RT RF-75315
174011602 Il-20M Khabarovsk 2010 P
174011603 Il-20M
174011604 Il-20M Rostov 2013
174011605 Il-20M Pushkin 2012 P
175011701 Il-20M Rostov 2012 P
175011702 Il-20M 2012 P
175011706 Il-20M Chkalovskij 2012 P
176011707 Il-20M Voronezh 2013.06 Shagol RF-75931 P
176011708 Il-20M Ulan-Ude 2009/2013 RF-91819 P
176011709 Il-20M

[hammarö]

USAF could have jammed the GPS in Sweden.

A boat owner in Karlstad, Sweden got fire in the butt when GPS is alerted that his boat was in the middle of the woods on Friday. But the boat remained on the site as usual.

The reason for the failed GPS transmitter may have been the U.S. Air Force, writes
Nya Wermlands-Tidningen.

The Karlstadsfellow has a GPS transmitter in his boat that send messages to the cell phone and the e-mails as soon as the boat moved. Last Friday was alerted him that the boat was four kilometers from home in the woods.

He thought at first that the boat was stolen.

- In full panic, I went from work. I contacted the police immediately who sent patrol cars, he tells New Wermlands-Gazette.

On the neighbor's yard

The boat would be parked in a neighbor's yard and when the man after several attempts, finally got a hold of her, she could announce that the boat was where it should. When Karlstadbon contacted the manufacturer in US of the dialer, he learned that the same thing occurred on several occasions during Friday morning across whole Sweden.

US Air Force

– They suspected that what happened was that the U.S. Air Force was on its way to Poland for an exercise. They can ask if the satellites so that the positions will be wrong and that it was what happened, he tells New Wermlands-Gazette.

The newspaper had Defence Radio Establishment, FRA, on Sunday evening, no knowledge of any satellite interference.

Jammed by Russia?

One more possible solution is that Russia jammed the GPS satellites in area. Certain telephone lines have had disturances last week in Sweden. Russia has REB units in Ostrov south of Pskov and in St Petersburg. In southern St Petersburg is a large FSB REB station, as new INMARSAT listening station close to Pskov. (lookes like the US Morestown).

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http://www.expressen.se/gt/usas-flygvap ... -hans-gps/

[hammarö]

6 March 2014

There is also talks of a US Navy ship in Black Sea. One ship is allowed through Bosporus. Someone said CVN Bush, but is to big for the Bosporus!!

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18486704.ab

The USS CVN Bush are in Greece with escort ships in other harbors.

According other info is following Russian troops on Crimea:
810 Naval Infantry Brigade based in Simferopol
31 guards Airborne Brigade from Ulyanovsk.
22 Spetsnaz Brigade from Aksaj, near Rostov
18 Motor Rifle Brigade from Khankala, Grozny
All units used during several years in Afghanistan and Chechnya.

Helicopter army bases are in Rostov-on-Don, Budyonnovsk and Kornevo. Plus MVD and border troops helicopters and units.

All units is recognized with special equipment such as Kevlar helmets (only special units have these) and rifle special pointing equipment. Special Forces wear typical berrets. Several typical cossacks are visible on Crimea. Also part of 810 Naval Brigade.

Following units are near Ukrainan border:

Bryansk
several airborne units

Belgorod
15 Motor Rifle Brigade from Samara Rochinskiy
23 Motor Rifle Brigade from Samara

9 Motor Rifle Brigade from Nizhny Novgorod is loaded on train to unknown
Brigade in Mulino Dzerzhinsk are another possible.

Air units in area Western and Central OSK have performed exercises and air tanking, and are ready.

[hammarö]

NATO AWACS plains based over Poland and Rumania.

Cover up the Russian threat area.

On You tube is videos of tank transports on railway in Rostov-on-Don area.

[F17_114PM]

The visit of the USS George H. W. Bush in Greece has nothing to do with the crisis in Crimea. It was planned already months a go. Not every military movement is related to Crimea ...

[hammarö]

The US navy and US Marines has been on the same duty since at least the 1900 century, with a special duty.

One of the reasons are now happening in Crimea.

[Nilson]

The US navy and US Marines has been on the same duty since at least the 1900 century, with a special duty.

One of the reasons are now happening in Crimea.

Can you explain?

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[hammarö]

NAPLES, Italy — A U.S. guided-missile destroyer is bound for the Black Sea in what the Navy calls a routine visit unrelated to events in Ukraine.

The USS Truxtun, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer with about 300 sailors on board, departed Greece early Thursday, said a spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa in Naples.

The ship is scheduled to train with Romanian and Bulgarian naval forces for an unspecified period of time, conducting joint maneuvers and landing aircraft on ships. The spokesman, Lt. Shawn Eklund, said the visit is unrelated to Russia’s recent incursion into Ukraine.

“Truxtun’s operations in the Black Sea were scheduled well in advance of her departure from the U.S.,” he said.

The Truxtun is part of the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group, which recently entered the Mediterranean and is training with regional navies before continuing to the Middle East. The group also includes Carrier Air Wing 8, the destroyer USS Roosevelt and the cruiser USS Philippine Sea.

The destroyer will join the USS Taylor as the only two U.S. vessels inside the Black Sea during a period of heightened tensions. The Taylor, a guided-missile frigate, remains moored in Samsun, Turkey, after it ran aground in February.

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is at the center of the country’s operations in Ukraine, where Russian soldiers continue to surround Ukrainian military bases.

Other U.S. warships remain in the region on scheduled deployments. A group of amphibious ships with an embarked Marine expeditionary unit also recently entered European waters. The Bataan Amphibious Ready Group, which counts roughly 4,000 sailors and Marines, is training with regional navies before continuing to the Middle East.

http://www.stripes.com/news/destroyer-u ... a-1.271401

[hammarö]

U.S. Will Respond if Russian Actions Trigger NATO Obligations, General Says

The Moscow Times
Mar. 11 2014 00:00
Last edited 11:33

Russia's dispatch of troops to Crimea is a threat to ethnic enclaves across Eastern Europe, and the U.S. military will be forced to intervene if its NATO obligations are triggered, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has said.

"If Russia is allowed to do this, which is to say move into a sovereign country under the guise of protecting ethnic Russians in Ukraine, it exposes Eastern Europe to some significant risk because there are ethnic enclaves all over Eastern Europe and the Balkans," General Martin Dempsey said in an interview to PBS television.

There are currently 400,000 Romanians living in Ukraine, Dempsey said, citing the example of Romania, which has been a member of NATO since 2004.

"We do have treaty obligations with our NATO allies. And I have assured them that, if that treaty obligation is triggered, we would respond," he said in the interview on Friday night.

In particular, the obligation Dempsey cited is Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which states “that an armed attack against one or more [NATO members] shall be considered an attack against them all.” In such a case the alliance is entitled to mobilize in collective self defense. Although, Article 5 has only been invoked once in NATO’s history — in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

In response to Russia's deployment in Crimea, the U.S. has sent additional forces to Eastern Europe, including F-15 fighter jets to join air patrols over the Baltic states, and plans to dispatch another dozen of F-16s to Poland this week.

The U.S. has been urging Russia "not to escalate this thing further into Eastern Ukraine and allow the conditions to be set for some kind of resolution in the Crimea," Dempsey said. "But the message we are sending militarily is to our NATO allies."

After Ukraine's pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted from power at the end of February, Russia dispatched troops to Crimea, ostensibly to protect the peninsula's large Russian-speaking population.

Concerns have been mounting that Russian involvement may spread into eastern Ukraine, which is also home to many ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking Ukrainians, some of whom have been calling for closer ties with Moscow.

Moscow Times on Internet

[Flyboy]

Can you explain?

I think what hammarö ment:
"The mission of the (US) Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and maintaining freedom of the seas."
On their website reference is made to the long history back to the American Revolution... " The U.S. Navy has a 237-year heritage of defending freedom and projecting and protecting U.S. interests around the globe."

The 6th fleet is now dispersed into small parts, each making (scheduled) port calls USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) is in Antalya, Turkey, USS Roosevelt Arrives In Split for Port Visit, USS Truxtun (DDG 103) Arrives in Constanta, Romania, The guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58), attached to the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group (GHWBCSG), arrived in Aksaz, Turkey March 9, for a scheduled port call.

Fact remains that CAG8 is in the area at a distance of 500 nautical miles from Sebastopol, while the sailors are relaxing on shore. This may well be the signal that is ment to be given. NATO is around, however remains relaxed for the time being.
Despite retorics: the F-15 tot the Baltics are part of a long going operation en the F-16's to Lask are more a relocation from a European airbase to an other European pre-planned airbase.
I start worrying when Conus planes are deployed to Turkey...

[Arjan]

For the record, this Roosevelt is the DDG80 destroyer. Not another carrier!

[hammarö]

Sweden flies a OSSE Open Skies flight over Ukraine on Thursday.

Participating inspectors from Norway, UK and Belgium on the plane.

They use a TP100 plane from Uppsala, Sweden. A common, unbiased picture of what is happening in Ukraine should be able to help stabilize the tense situation in the country.

Observation flights are within the Open Skies cooperation aims to create transparency and trust between the countries in the area of ​​security policy. A total of 34 participating countries, including Russia. They have agreed to allow a certain number of observation flights over its territory. During the flights taken photos all over the area that the flying country wants to observe. The photos are then shared with other countries.