The Russian military has developed detailed plans for a possible military conflict with Japan and South Korea. According to the prepared documents, the list of targets included about 160 objects, including nuclear power plants, infrastructure, as well as key roads, bridges and factories.
The Financial Times reports this.
The publication writes that the documents, obtained from 29 secret Russian military files, mainly contain information about the preparation of officers for a possible conflict on the eastern borders of Russia in the period from 2008 to 2014. These materials are still considered relevant to Russia’s current military strategy.
“Documents shown by Western sources highlight Moscow’s concerns about the state of its eastern flank. The Russian military fears that in the event of a war with NATO, its eastern borders will be vulnerable to attacks from the US and its allies,” the FT reports.
From the list of targets compiled by the Russian military, the first 82 targets are military targets, such as Japanese and South Korean military command posts, radars, air bases and naval bases.
Other targets include important civil infrastructure such as road and rail tunnels such as the Kammon Tunnel connecting the islands of Honshu and Kyushu. Also included are 13 power plants, including nuclear complexes in Tokaj, as well as fuel reprocessing plants.
For South Korea, the targets were mainly bridges and industrial sites, such as the Pohang steel plant and chemical plants in Busan.
Russia carefully selected its targets for attacks. The document also provides details about the forces required to destroy some objects, including power estimates.
According to the information received, the Russian military is confident in its missile systems. One of the documents discusses a hypothetical mission to destroy the Okushirito radar base in Japan, for which it was planned to use 12 Kh-101 missiles launched from a single Tu-160, with an 85% probability of destroying the target.
The second presentation, which is in secret documents, reveals details about how Russia tested the air defense of Japan and South Korea. In 2014, two Russian Tu-95 bombers took off from a base in Ukrainka in the Far East and flew over South Korea and Japan for 17 hours, recording reactions to their actions.
During the flight, 18 interceptions were recorded involving 39 aircraft. The longest was a 70-minute interception by Japanese F4 Phantom fighters, which the Russian pilots said were unarmed. Only in seven cases was the interception using air-to-air missiles.
Let us remind you that “Kursor” wrote that on Tuesday, December 31, on the eve of the New Year, Russia launched missiles into Ukraine. Explosions were heard in Kyiv, and the enemy also struck Shostka in the Sumy region.