Russia will hold its largest air force exercises since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union next week, while a naval convoy on its way to Venezuela stages a show of strength in the Mediterranean.
Aircraft including supersonic Tu-160 nuclear bombers and strategic Tu-95 bombers will take part in the Oct. 6-12 maneuvers in the Russian Far East bordering China and the U.S. state of Alaska and in the Volga region, the Defense Ministry said on its Web Site [www.mil.ru] today.
Coincidentally Visor Consultants were running an exercise based on a similar scenario to what actually happened, according to Peter Power in a radio interview with BBC Live Five:
Today we were running an exercise for a company - bear in mind now that I'm in the private sector - and we sat everybody down in the city - 1000 people involved in the whole organization - with the crisis team. And the most peculiar thing was it was we based on a scenario of simultaneous attacks on a underground and mainline station. So we had to suddenly switch an exercise from fictional to real. And one of the first things is, get that bureau number, when you have a list of people missing, tell them. And it took a long time -.
BBC Radio - Drills Ran on day of london bombings 7-7-05:
POWER: At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last week called for the country's nuclear deterrent to be upgraded over 12 years, including an improved missile-defense system and the construction of more warships.
Russia will build eight more atomic-powered submarines by 2015 capable of carrying the new Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Interfax news service quoted deputy navy chief Admiral Alexander Tatarinov as saying today.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said Russia can produce missiles capable of piercing any defenses. The military on Sept. 19 successfully tested the Bulava, which has an estimated maximum range of 8,000 kilometers, as the country upgrades its rocket forces to counter a planned U.S. anti-missile shield in eastern Europe.
Russia will boost defense spending 26 percent to a post- Soviet record next year as it adds weapons and raises salaries, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Sept. 11. The 1.1 million-strong Russian armed forces still rely on conscripts and remain plagued by low morale and pay and out-of-date equipment.
Originally posted by bubbapug1985
Seems very strange for all of these certain things to occur at once.
Maybe Deagle was right about October 7th, I wonder what will happen.
I see tommorrow.
- the chances of something happening seem great, and the probability of
something not happening seems low! 
Russian sources report that the Bulava SS-N-30 ballistic missile can carry ten warheads to a range of 8,000km. Other sources suggest that the Bulava might have a range of 10,000 km, and is reportedly features a 550 kT yield nuclear warhead.
FIGHTER jets, infantry troops, destroyers and submarines will converge on Wales next month for one of the largest military exercises of all time.
The two-week exercise – codenamed Joint Warrior – is designed to recreate a scenario in which Britain and other sovereign nations go to war against a “state-sponsored terrorist movement” – using a vast array of lethal modern weapons.
Taking place between October 6 and October 16, it will provide coordinated training for all three UK Armed Services, plus forces from EIGHT allied nations.
The UK military will be running two publicised multi-force exercises around Scotland under the title of Exercise Joint Warrior 2008.
NW 081 will run from April 19, 2008 to May 2, 2008, and NW 082 will follow later in the year, running between October 4, 2008 and October 17, 2008. These are the latest in the series of major regular multi-force exercises previously known as Neptune Warrior.
Neptune Warrior provided joint collective training in a multi-threat environment for UK, NATO and Allied units and their staffs, enabling them to operate together in tactical formations as preparation for employment in a component of a Joint Combined Task Force.
Obliged to class their observations as earthquakes until alternate confirmation could be made, the BGS recorded explosions in the Minch, between the mainland and the Western Isles, three times last week, at magnitudes of 1.1, 1.5 and 1.9.
The major exercise involved numerous simulated bombing runs, and is one of the few remaining where live firing of most weapons available is authorised.
Joint Warrior 2008
Great Britain
HMS Bulwark (L15)
HMS Southampton (D90)
HMS Portland (F79)
HMS Walney (M104)
HMS Tireless (S88)
HMS Torbay (S90)
United States
USS Anzio (CG 68)
USS Donald Cook (DDG 75)
USS Barry (DDG 52)
USS Taylor (FFG 50)
USNS Big Horn (T-AO 198)
Germany
FGS Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (F218)
FGS Karlsruhe (F212)
FGS Nerz (P6124)
FGS Hyane (P6130)
FGS Bad Bevensen (M1063)
FGS Kulmbach (M1091)
FGS Mosel (A512)
FGS Rhon (A1443)
U25 (S174)
Netherlands
HNLMS Rotterdam (L800)
HNLMS Johan de Witt (L801)
HNLMS Van Speijk (F828)
HNLMS Mercuur (A900)
HNLMS Walrus (S802)
Denmark
HDMS Absalon (L16)
HDMS Esbern Snare (L17)
France
FS Andromede (M643)
Poland
ORP General K. Pulaski (272)
Turkey
TCG Gemlik (F492)
SNMG1
SPS Blas de Lezo (F103)
USS Nicholas (FFG 47)
FGS Lubeck (F214)
NRP Vasco de Gama (F330)
SNMCMG1
HMS Roebuck (H130)
HMS Hurworth (M39)
LVS Imanta (M04)
FGS Weilheim (M1059)
BNS Primula (M924)
Joint Warrior is a United Kingdom-led multi-national warfare exercise in the North Atlantic designed to improve interoperability between allied navies as well as to prepare for a role in combined operations during upcoming deployments.
Originally posted by princeofpeace
^ I think they mean upcoming deployements as deployments made in the future? Just a guees but thats what it sounds like.
The United States Military defines the term as follows:
1. In naval usage, the change from a cruising approach or contact disposition to a disposition for battle.
2. The movement of forces within operational areas.
3. The outer positioning of forces into a formation for battle.
4. The relocation of forces and materiel to desired operational areas.
Originally posted by adrenochrome
Originally posted by princeofpeace
^ I think they mean upcoming deployements as deployments made in the future? Just a guees but thats what it sounds like.
well yes, but for what reason??
Military Deployment:
The United States Military defines the term as follows:
1. In naval usage, the change from a cruising approach or contact disposition to a disposition for battle.
2. The movement of forces within operational areas.
3. The outer positioning of forces into a formation for battle.
4. The relocation of forces and materiel to desired operational areas.
what battle's about to begin, that involves eight "allied nations"?!
Originally posted by princeofpeace
Could be for anything. Military deployments occur all the time and in various places of the world. Who knows? Couls be anything from tactical support, troop rotation, disaster relief, humanitarian aid etc. Happens all the time.
The ship will now conduct more specialised training on NATO exercise Joint Warrior in the North Sea, visiting Liverpool towards the end of October and London in November 2008, in order to take part in Remembrance Sunday.
The Neptune Warrior exercise name was itself a re-branding of the earlier Joint Maritime Courses (JMC) which ran up to Summer 2005. In 2006, when there were three exercises per year, the third ("NW 063") took place from 21st October 2006 through 4th November 2006.
From 2007, they have been reduced to two every year and those Neptune Warrior events ("NW 071" and "NW 072") ran from 21st April 2007 through 5th May 2007 and 17th September 2007 through 29th September 2007. The first Joint Warrior exercise ("081") ran from 19th April 2008 through 2nd May 2008. The two 2009 events are scheduled for 9th – 22nd May (Joint Warrior "091") and 21st September – 9th October (Joint Warrior "092").
"The Navy remains a serious deterrent prepared to thwart any threat to Russia's national security, and if necessary provide an adequate response to any act of aggression," Capt. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo said.
...
"The main goal of the Russian Navy is to ensure the national security of the country; those who attempt to find any secret agenda in the upcoming joint naval exercises between Russia and Venezuela are mistaken," Dygalo said.
Tanks were stopped in the street by protesters, and a resulting public inquiry led to defeat for the MoD, which was very rare.
it's nice to hear that some people actually think war is a bad thing! 
