Look Inside Putin's Massive New Military Command And Control Center

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Look Inside Putin's Massive New Military Command And Control Center
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Filed to: Command Centers11/19/15 7:20pm

Look Inside Putin's Massive New Military Command And Control Center
 
Seemingly pulled right from a James Bond movie, we got a glimpse this week of Russia’s new super military nerve center in action, called the National Defense Control Center (NDCC), as Russian heavy bombers made their combat debut in the Syrian conflict. This was also the first time the venerable Tu-95 Bears or the Tu-160 Blackjacks would see combat.

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The video above was released by the Russian government and media apparatus showing the center supposedly at work, with a montage of the heavy bomber’s mission being displayed on a massive screen. The video may have also inadvertently shown that Russia has ground artillery units far outside of its forward operating outpost south of the Syrian port city of Latakia, something that the Russian Ministry of Defense still denies.

Look Inside Putin's Massive New Military Command And Control Center

This immense military command and control headquarters was built incredibly fast, in under two years, out of an existing Ministry of Defense complex located along the Moskva River, just a mile and a half south of the Kremlin. Claimed by the Russian press to be “more powerful than the Pentagon,” this facility houses multiple new command and control assembly areas, all supposedly hardened from external attacks.

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Additionally, a labyrinth of underground tunnels, transportation routes and facilities are said to exist below the sprawling compound. Three helicopter pads, one of which is floating, are used to move Russia’s military and political elite to and from the series of buildings. The centerpiece of this updated complex is a truly impressive and giant central atrium built out of glass and steel.

Look Inside Putin's Massive New Military Command And Control Center

The decision to re-build the facility into the National Defense Command Center was made by Vladimir Putin himself in May of 2013 out of a need to modernize, consolidate and physically expand the size of Russia’s command and control and information fusion capabilities for a new “wartime government.” The complex’s three major auditorium-like control areas include the Control Center of Strategic Nuclear Forces, the Combat Control Center that analyses threats, and the Daily Activities Control Center which is said to deal with procurement and general military activities.

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu described the facility when it opened:

“The establishment of the center is an important step towards forming a single information space for solving tasks in the interests of the country’s defense,” he continued “it will allow conducting a continuous analysis of the environment and developing means of responding towards changes and rapidly coordinating the activity of federal bodies of the executive power in the defense sphere.”

Look Inside Putin's Massive New Military Command And Control Center
 

One of the command and control rooms looks like a more futuristic and much brighter version of the one featured in the Cold War classic film Dr. Strangelove. It features a ringed central seating area and a 180 degree wall of seamless video projection. There is even a theater-like seating area for onlookers. Tablet computers can be seen at every seating station.

Look Inside Putin's Massive New Military Command And Control Center
 

The command and control hall that we saw Putin preside over this week is gigantic with rows and rows of officers sitting at identical computer stations, and three levels of seating. On its second level, right in the center, sitting behind a frosted glass railing with a five pointed star emblazoned on it were Putin and his generals.

Look Inside Putin's Massive New Military Command And Control Center
 

During the video, it appears that the room was being used more as a giant briefing room than anything else, with the biggest question being what the heck were all those officers doing at those computer terminals and very clean desks? Maybe during a potential nuclear exchange these officers would all have a role, but it seemed like for the purposes of that day, and for the camera, the facility was being used as a giant movie theater.

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Not everything is what it seems. Shouldn't put too much faith in this article.

This is what I see, for what it was worth.

No one would advertise exactly where their central command is located, complete with aerial photos. That would be crazy. Don't get me wrong. I believe it is there, and that it does what they say it does. What I do not believe is that it is the only central command, or that it is the primary command center.

The primary center is in a mountain somewhere or miles underground, or both.

Also, this is like trying to describe a tree when the only view you have is from directly above it looking down.

What I mean is that this center and the others like it can view the end result of all available intelligence, whereas everyone else involved would only have access to their specific piece of the puzzle.

The information these guys are looking at, would be compiled from thousands of local and satellite sources which are processed at regional command center which has regional experts and expertise about an area of the globe.

Their output is then sent to a hemispheric (north, south, east, west) center where it is compiled and correlated into a more comprehensive product.

This is then sent to the central commands where the final big-picture compilation can be constructed.

This is what Putin will use to move forces, , assign money, make or break alliances, and all the rest.

On a side note,  this is the information that Obama is ignoring or refuses to even look at, because he thinks he is so superior that he doesn't need it. He is convinced that he knows better.

All the articles and reports that Obama is skipping, or even refuses to hear, his intelligence briefings, are referring to what I have described.

Back to the article, it is nice, and it is probably true. But it is nothing to get excited about. It is only one small part of a vastly larger structure.