Russia stakes its hold on the Arctic with military base

[TexasTowelie]

SEVERNY KLEVER MILITARY BASE, Russia (AP) — Missile launchers ply icy roads and air defense systems point menacingly into the sky at this Arctic military outpost, a key vantage point for Russia to project its power over the resource-rich polar region.

The base, dubbed Severny Klever (Northern Clover) for its trefoil shape, is painted in the white, blue and red colors of the Russian national flag. It has been designed so soldiers can reach all of its sprawling facilities without venturing outdoors — a useful precaution in an area where temperatures often plunge to minus 50 Celsius (minus 58 Fahrenheit) during the winter, and even in the short Arctic summer are often freezing at night.

It’s strategically located on Kotelny Island, between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea on the Arctic shipping route, and permanently houses up to 250 military personnel responsible for maintaining air and sea surveillance facilities and coastal defenses like anti-ship missiles.

The Russian base has enough supplies to remain fully autonomous for more than a year.

Read more: https://www.sweetwaterreporter.com/content/russia-stakes-its-hold-arctic-military-base

[empedocles]

1. Someone has to aggressively question traitortrump on the Arctic and Venezuela.

Got to!

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Let's see,

it has taken more than three years for this story to pop.

Spoke to a Tool Pusher working a Shell Oil Platform at the Airport in Anchorage Thanks Giving Weekend of 2015. He and his Crew were fired that day and given their severance pay as well as a one way ticket home.

He and his crew were replace by crews from other Countries because of the tensions that were building as the result of Russia ramping up this Base. The fellow mentioned they could watch the base development in real time from their Platform.

He and I sat next to each other on our return flight. Like I have said before,you want to know the real truth about a Company or any Business,as the Janitor or the folks in the mail room. In this case,the most important Person on a Drill Rig.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. That must have been a different island he was looking at

Kotelny Island is over 1000 miles from anywhere in Alaska:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kotelny+Island/@75.6322068,138.8561981,3z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x5a5429469bc54a37:0x15118b6832e18624!8m2!3d75.632202!4d138.8649531

No oil platform is that far offshore. You'd have to be well inside Russian waters to see this island.

[padah513]

3. Remember that movie Ice Station Zebra?

Here it comes