{"id":8882,"date":"2016-08-13T05:30:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T05:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=8882"},"modified":"2016-08-13T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T05:30:53","slug":"bastion-bal-coastal-defense-missile-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/bastion-bal-coastal-defense-missile-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Militarization of Crimea: Bastion and BAL Coastal Defense Missile Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bastion Coastal Defense Missile System <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On August 8, 2016, Russian occupying authorities in Crimea relocated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-today.com\/missiles\/bastion_p.htm\"><strong>Bastion<\/strong> <strong>coastal defense missile systems <\/strong><\/a>to Starokrymsky Training Range in the east of the peninsula<strong>.<\/strong><br \/>\nA video showing the relocation of Russian military equipment was posted on YouTube by Alim Aydamak. The video captured a convoy of Russian military vehicles, including at least five Bastions, moving to Starokrymsky Training Range.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"978\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yjGE6AHpyiw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bastion<\/strong> mobile coastal defense missile system (GRAU index <strong>3K55<\/strong>, NATO classification <strong>SSC-5 Stooge)<\/strong> was developed by the Russian engineering agency NPO Mashinostroyeniya and adopted by the Russian Armed Forces in 2010. The weapon is designed to destroy various surface ships, convoys and landing craft, aircraft carrier battle groups, single ships and surface targets under intense fire and electronic countermeasures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BAL mobile coastal missile system <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let us remind you that in February 2016, the international volunteer community InformNapalm in course of OSINT investigation gathered intelligence about the exact location of another Russian coastal missile system &#8211; BAL. They belonged to the newly formed 15th Missile Brigade of Coastal defense. Weapons and equipment for this Brigade were transferred to Crimea from Dagestan. For the detailed investigation see: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/feb05-crimea-bal\/\">\u00a0<strong>Russian Officer Disclosed Secrets of \u2018BAL\u2019 Surface-to-Ship Missile Complex in Crimea<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/prime.jpg\" width=\"642\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thus, we witness continuing militarization of the peninsula and its transformation into a \u201cfloating aircraft carrier\u201d. These activities aim to threaten the world security, in particular, in the Black Sea region.<\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by Andrii Gryganskyi<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Edited by Sveta Kemblowski<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8306 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" alt=\"InformNapalm_logo_05\" width=\"107\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a>(CC BY) Information specially prepared for\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/\">InformNapalm.org<\/a><em> site, <\/em><strong><em>an active link to the authors and our project is obligatory for any reprint or further use of the material.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bastion Coastal Defense Missile System On August 8, 2016, Russian occupying authorities in Crimea relocated Bastion coastal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":8884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[530,528,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crimea","category-news","category-terrorussians"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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The video captured a convoy of Russian military vehicles, including at least five Bastions, moving to Starokrymsky Training Range.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/yjGE6AHpyiw\r\n\r\n<strong>Bastion<\/strong> mobile coastal defense missile system (GRAU index <strong>3K55<\/strong>, NATO classification <strong>SSC-5 Stooge)<\/strong> was developed by the Russian engineering agency NPO Mashinostroyeniya and adopted by the Russian Armed Forces in 2010. The weapon is designed to destroy various surface ships, convoys and landing craft, aircraft carrier battle groups, single ships and surface targets under intense fire and electronic countermeasures.\r\n\r\n<strong>BAL mobile coastal missile system <\/strong>\r\n\r\nLet us remind you that in February 2016, the international volunteer community InformNapalm in course of OSINT investigation gathered intelligence about the exact location of another Russian coastal missile system - BAL. They belonged to the newly formed 15th Missile Brigade of Coastal defense. Weapons and equipment for this Brigade were transferred to Crimea from Dagestan. For the detailed investigation see: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/feb05-crimea-bal\/\">\u00a0<strong>Russian Officer Disclosed Secrets of \u2018BAL\u2019 Surface-to-Ship Missile Complex in Crimea<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/prime.jpg\" width=\"642\" height=\"336\" \/>\r\n\r\nThus, we witness continuing militarization of the peninsula and its transformation into a \u201cfloating aircraft carrier\u201d. These activities aim to threaten the world security, in particular, in the Black Sea region.\r\n\r\n<em>Translated by Andrii Gryganskyi<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>Edited by Sveta Kemblowski<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-8306 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/04\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" alt=\"InformNapalm_logo_05\" width=\"107\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a>(CC BY) Information specially prepared for\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/\">InformNapalm.org<\/a><em> site, <\/em><strong><em>an active link to the authors and our project is obligatory for any reprint or further use of the material.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8882"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8889,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions\/8889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}