Global Engagement
What Countries are a part of BRICS
Brazil, India, China, Russia, and South Africa
Pacific Fleet
What is the most recognizable visual recognition of the Kuznetsov?
ski-jump catapult
In June of 2019, A Russian Sukhoi SU-35 fighter jet harassed a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon patrol plane over what body of water?
Mediterranean Sea
Which leaders of Russia and the US believed they could restore US - Russian relations following the 9/11 attacks
Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin
Russia is the leading ___ and ___ exporter and second largest major ___ exporter in the world
oil, gas, weapons
What command did Russia launch in December of 2014?
New Arctic Joint Strategic Command
How many submarines does Russia currently have and what percent are over 20 years old?
What year and month did this occur?
Multiple Russian SU-24 “Fencer” fighter jets and an Il-38 sub-hunting quad-engine aircraft buzzed the U.S. Navy destroyer USS PORTER (DDG 78) in the Black Sea.
February 2017
What did Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin Presidents forge in the early 1990s that was gradually overtaken by increasing tension and mutual recrimination?
strategic partnership
What month and year did Russia invade Ukraine
February 2022
Russia's State Armaments Program has a goal of how many strategic ballistic submarines?
8
Kilo Class
in April 2016, a pair of Russian Su-24 fighter jets performed several low-altitude passes on the _____ _____ _______.
USS Donald Cook
The U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission established by Presidents Obama and Medvedev consisted of how many working groups?
21
What two countries applied to join the NATO alliance following Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
Sweden and Finland
The subsequent Russian involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine highlighted the practice of what type of warfare?
hybrid warfare
What angle are the two four-cell anti-ship missile launchers on the Sovremenny set at?
15 degrees
In January 2018, A Russian Sukhoi SU-27 Flanker came within how many feet of an EP-3 Aries?
5 feet
Since 2014, The US has imposed sanctions on more than how many individuals and entities in response to Russia's aggressive actions in and toward Ukraine?
520
In the Middle East, which regional governments does Russia have fruitful relations with?
Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Sudan
What air defense capabilities did the operation in Syria demonstrate?
Area Denial/ Bubble of Overlapping Advanced Missile Systems
Name three advantages of the SS-N-26 Strobile
- Over-the-horizon (OTH) firing range
- Full autonomy of combat use ("fire and forget")
- A set of flexible ("low-profile sea-skimming", "high-low") trajectories
- High supersonic speed in all phases of flight
- Full harmonization for a wide range of platforms (surface ships, submarines and land-based launchers)
- Possible use of the missile in electronic countermeasures environment and under enemy fire
In June 2019, What reason did the United States Seventh Fleet give for the reason the Russian destroyed almost ran into the USS Chancellorsville.
They did not adhere to proper rules of the road
On January 6, 2017, the ODNI released a declassified report on Russian activities and intentions related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Putin “ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election” in order to what?
“undermine public faith in the US democratic process.”