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The Russian Federation is known to possess or have possessed three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons.It is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and one of the four countries wielding a nuclear triad.
Troops of the Russian 102nd Military Base at Republic Square, Yerevan during the 2016 Armenian Independence Day military parade. This article lists military bases of Russia abroad. The majority of Russia's military bases and facilities are located in former Soviet republics; which in Russian political parlance is termed the "near abroad".
Murmansk-150 (Zaozersk) submarine base Murmansk Oblast Nuclear submarines [26] Gadzhiyevo submarine base Murmansk Oblast Nuclear submarines [27] Polyarny naval base Murmansk Oblast Diesel submarines, corvettes, spy ships, minesweepers, landing ships Murmansk naval base Murmansk Oblast HQ, 14th Army Corps. Support ships Mishukovo naval base
The list includes overseas Russian airbases including those in Russian occupied Crimea. It can be compared with the List of Soviet Air Force bases; virtually no new airbase construction has taken place since 1991. The main air armies are the: 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army which is part of the Southern Military District
Russia, which inherited the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons, has the world's biggest store of nuclear warheads. ... and possibly 200 at heavy bomber bases, FAS said. ...
Russia, which inherited the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons, has the world's biggest store of nuclear warheads. ... and around 200 at heavy bomber bases, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic ...
US and USSR/Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles, 1945–2014. The Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon ("RDS-1") in 1949. This crash project was developed partially with information obtained via the atomic spies at the United States' Manhattan Project during and after World War II. The Soviet Union was the second nation to have developed ...
Amid Russia's deteriorating relations with the West, because of the Russo-Georgian War and of plans to deploy a U.S. missile defense shield in Poland, an unsourced article said that President Bashar al-Assad reportedly agreed to the port's conversion into a permanent Middle East base for Russia's nuclear-armed warships. [14]