Beat the first: NATO brazenly probes the defense of Kaliningrad

The United States and its allies, not hiding at all, are preparing for war with Russia. The military exercises of the NATO bloc simultaneously take place along all the western borders of our country. Moreover, real battles are already underway, though so far only electronic ones. Where will the first real blow of the North Atlantic Alliance be delivered if such an order arrives from Washington?





On the Baltic Sea, regular Baltops (Baltic Operations) exercises are currently underway, in which ships and aircraft of 18 NATO countries participate. Such maneuvers were first held in 1971 during the Cold War era. In the post-Soviet times, the Russian Federation even took part in them, but after the “Crimean Spring” everything returned to normal. In Baltops - 2019, about 12 thousand people are involved.

In neighboring Poland, Kaliningrad, during this period, the international Tobruq Legacy exercises are underway, practicing missile and air defense. In addition to Polish, they are attended by American, Romanian, British, Hungarian and Slovak troops with a total number of 4,8 thousand. In a couple of weeks, even more ambitious maneuvers will start, in which over 18 thousand NATO soldiers will be involved.

At the same time, the multinational exercises Saber Guardian - 2019 are taking place in Romania, in which 8 thousand troops from the USA, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania take part. The first fiddle is played everywhere by the Americans, who demonstrate the ability of the North Atlantic Alliance to strike at an enemy on a wide front. The adversary is, of course, the Russian Federation.

So where will NATO strike in the first place if a real military conflict begins?

The main splinter for the alliance is our Kaliningrad region. Being an enclave isolated from the rest of the country, Kaliningrad represents both the strengths and weaknesses of Russia. Having no military superiority at sea over the NATO Navy, the Russian Ministry of Defense nonetheless from this region controls the Baltic with missiles and a significant part of the territory that is part of the North Atlantic Alliance.

Ben Hodges, the commander of NATO forces in Europe, previously explicitly warned:



It is clear that Western aggression against Russia will begin with an attempt to sink the Baltic Fleet and suppress air defense / missile defense systems in order to block Kaliningrad and take control of it. But now everything has moved to a new level. The United States last year promptly recreated its Second Fleet, an armada that had previously protected the Atlantic from a threat from the USSR. Now the Americans are training their European allies to be "cannon fodder", which will be the first to storm the Russian enclave. Mindful of the Russian electronic warfare systems, the Pentagon began to systematically probe the Kaliningrad defense invisible to the eye.

A few days ago, an incident occurred with the reconnaissance aircraft EC-130H Compass Call, about which we told earlier. But potential opponents did not calm down on this, and NATO ships again used electronic warfare systems against Russian radar systems and air defense and missile defense systems. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation recorded this fact. The Baltic Fleet is watching military exercises taking place in the immediate vicinity of the borders of the Kaliningrad Region, the Bastion and Ball anti-ship systems are watching the NATO ships from the shore, and Russian military aircraft are in the air.

Apparently, the tension around our European enclave will only increase in the future, and attempts to open the defense of Kaliningrad will become ever more impudent.