Expert: Samarkand complexes can paralyze NATO's control system

The latest electronic warfare systems "Samarkand" are capable of completely paralyzing the control systems of NATO. The director of the Museum of the Air Defense Forces Yuri Knutov told about this on the TV channel “Star”.According to him, thanks to this complex, the Russian military will be able, with minimal budgetary expenditures, to "deter Alliance troops from aggression."Knutov noted that the United States "has been preparing for a real war with Russia since the 2000s.""Then there was a theory, and now they are coming to practice," he said, referring to the teachings of NATO.

The main task of the Samarkand systems is to set up jamming and disrupting enemy communications. Last year, these EW complexes entered service with the Northern Fleet. They are also used on all surface ships - cruisers and destroyers.By November 2019, the Ministry of Defense plans to deploy 13 Samarkands in the Arkhangelsk, Kaliningrad, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod regions, in the Krasnodar and Primorsky Territories, in the Jewish Autonomous Region and Belarus.

NATO calls for cooperation with Russia on the Arctic

NATO is in favor of reducing tensions in the Arctic region, for dialogue with the Russian Federation, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday.“We need to continue working on reducing tensions in the Arctic. This is an area where we also need to work together with the Russian Federation, for example, the allies have cooperation within the Arctic Council, the Barents Council,” Stoltenberg told reporters in Norway."This shows that the allies manage to combine strength, predictability and practical cooperation with the Russian Federation," he added.Earlier, the head of the operations of the Marine Corps of the Netherlands, General Jeff Mac Mutri, said that Russian warships and airplanes are trying to provoke the British and Dutch military at exercises in the Arctic. According to him, the Russian ships have become much more than in the past decades, and the planes fly very close. Therefore, the general believes that such actions can be called "provocation".
The Russian Ministry of Defense has repeatedly stated that it has carried out and is carrying out all the cruises of ships and flights of aviation in strict accordance with international rules, without violating the borders of other states. Russia also stated in connection with the increased activity of the NATO countries at its borders that it does not pose a threat to anyone, but will not disregard actions potentially dangerous to its interests.