Samudera@WORKs-Beijing berminat dalam pembiayaan landasan kereta api kelajuan tinggi Rusia pertama antara Moscow dan Kazan. China akan melabur sejumlah $ 5.2 bilion (300 bilion Rubles) dalam projek itu.
Sebahagian besar pelaburan, $4.3 billion pada kadar pertukaran semasa (250 bilion Rubles) akan datang dalam bentuk pinjaman 20-tahun dari bank-bank Cina, dan satu lagi $860 Juta akan datang sebagai pembayaran ekuiti daripada syarikat Cina yang bertanggungjawab bagi projek, RIA Novosti dilaporkan Ahad, memetik sumber-sumber biasa dengan cadangan itu.
Perjalanan kereta api dari Moscow ke Kazan, ibu negara republik Tatarstan, akan terpintas kepada hanya 3 jam ½ dan bukannya yang lebih daripada 14 jam yang diperlukan sekarang. Kereta api itu akan dapat mencapai kelajuan 400 kilometer sejam. Ia juga akan mengurangkan masa perjalanan antara Kazan dan Nizhny Novgorod, bandar yang ke-3 terbesar di Rusia, hanya 90 minit daripada 10 ½ kini dari jam lebih banyak ianya mengambil masa.
China may invest $5.2bn in Russia’s first
high speed railway . . .
Beijing is interested in funding Russia’s first high-speed rail line between Moscow and Kazan. China would invest a total of $5.2 billion (300 billion rubles) in the project.
The bulk of the investment, $4.3 billion at current exchange rates (250 billion rubles) will come in the form of 20-year loans from Chinese banks, and the other $860 million would come as an equity payment from the Chinese company in charge of the project, RIA Novosti reported Sunday, citing sources familiar with the proposal.
Train travel from Moscow to Kazan, the capital of the Tatarstan republic, will be shorted to just 3 and a half hours instead of the more than 14 hours it takes now. The train will be able to reach speeds of 400 kilometers per hour. It will also reduce the travel time between Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s third largest city, to just ninety minutes from the more than 10 and a half hours it currently takes.
Map showing route from Moscow to Kazan (Peta menunjukkan laluan dari Moscow ke Kazan)
Source: Russian Railways
Pelan ini telah dibangunkan untuk pautan pertengahan saiz lebih baik bandar-bandar di Rusia dengan meningkatkan pengangkutan, dan dengan itu mobiliti, rakyat.
China telah memulakan satu program bercita-cita tinggi untuk mengembangkan sambungan kereta api, dengan rancangan untuk meletakkan beribu-ribu batu trek baru pada tahun-tahun yang akan datang.
Kereta api penumpang paling laju di DUNIA juga di China, Shanghai Maglev Train boleh mencapai kelajuan lebih 430 kilometer sejam.
Hentian seterusnya, China?
Selain Kazan, keretapi TranSiberian sudah menghubungkan Beijing dan bandar-bandar lain di China dengan Rusia dan Eropah, dan China dilaporkan baru-baru ini mencadangkan idea untuk membina kereta api 2 hari dari Moscow ke Beijing melalui Kazakhstan.
"Pelabur China bersedia untuk melabur dalam projek kereta api berkelajuan tinggi antara Moscow dan Kazan, dan pembina Cina boleh menawarkan teknologi kereta api kelajuan tinggi yang paling maju. Mereka sedang menunggu keputusan daripada kerajaan Rusia, "seorang wakil daripada Speed Rail Lines, anak syarikat Keretapi Rusia, berkata pada mesyuarat itu di Sochi.
Menurut wakil, projek Moscow-Kazan bukan sahaja pelaburan bagi China, tetapi satu cara untuk meningkatkan komunikasi dan perdagangan dengan Rusia dan Eropah.
Keretapi Rusia juga sedang menimbang koridor pengangkutan yang akan menghubungkan timur Rusia dengan negara-negara Amerika, melalui Alaska. Projek ini telah lama dibincangkan dan dipanggil pautan kelajuan tinggi Trans-Eurasia Pembangunan Belt, tetapi tiada maklumat rasmi telah dikeluarkan oleh pengangkutan gergasi Rusia.
Dalam Oktober 2014 Rusia dan China menandatangani memorandum persefahaman melalui sambungan kereta api kelajuan tinggi.
The plan was developed to better link mid-size Russian cities by improving transport, and therefore the mobility, of people.
China has embarked on an ambitious program to expand its rail connections, with plans to lay thousands of miles of new track in the coming years.
The world’s fastest passenger train is also in China, the Shanghai Maglev Train can reach speeds of over 430 kilometers per hour.
In addition to Kazan, the TranSiberian railway already connects Beijing and other Chinese cities with Russia and Europe, and the Chinese reportedly recently proposed an idea to build a 2-day train from Moscow to Beijing via Kazakhstan.
“Chinese investors are willing to invest in the high-speed rail project between Moscow and Kazan, and Chinese builders can offer the most advanced high-speed railway technology. They are waiting for a decision from the Russian government,” a representative from the High Speed Rail Lines, a subsidiary of Russian Railways, said at the meeting in Sochi.
According to the representative, the Moscow-Kazan project isn’t just an investment for China, but a means to improve communication and trade with Russia and Europe.
Russian Railways is also considering a transport corridor that would link eastern Russia with the United states, via Alaska. This project has long been discussed and is called the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development high-speed link, but no official details have been released by the Russian transport giant.
In October 2014 Russia and China signed a memorandum of understanding over a high-speed railway connection.
Samudera@WORKs-Kuasa2 Arab Saudi, disertai oleh 9 negara2 lain, telah melancarkan operasi tentera di Yaman terhadap pemberontak Syiah Houthi, Duta Arab Saudi ke Amerika Syarikat berkata. Serangan yang bermula dengan serangan udara, juga akan melibatkan "aset tentera yang lain."
Menurut Duta Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, operasi ketenteraan di Yaman bermula pada 19:00 EST (23:00 GMT).
Obama mengarahkan sokongan kepada op Arab yang dipimpin, PBB 'butiran masih memeriksanya'
Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Obama telah diberi kuasa peruntukan sokongan logistik dan perisikan kepada Majlis Kerjasama Teluk (GCC) led operasi tentera di Yaman, White House berkata dalam satu kenyataan, yang mengesahkan bahawa Washington mempunyai komunikasi yang rapat dengan Hadi, Arab Saudi dan negara-negara GCC lain sebelum pelancaran operasi ketenteraan.
"Walaupun tentera Amerika Syarikat tidak mengambil tindakan ketenteraan secara langsung di Yemen untuk menyokong usaha ini, kita mewujudkan Cell Perancangan Bersama dengan Arab Saudi untuk menyelaraskan sokongan Amerika Syarikat tentera dan perisikan," kata kenyataan itu.
Selain itu, White House menggesa Houthis untuk segera menghentikan "tindakan ketenteraan tidak stabil" dan kembali semula ke dialog politik dengan kerajaan Yaman yang digulingkan.
Al Arabiya melaporkan bahawa pesawat perang daripada Arab Tentera Udara Diraja mengebom kedudukan militia Yemen Houthi, menyasarkan pertahanan udara mereka.
Gabungan Arab diketuai telah mengisytiharkan ruang udara Yaman yang "zon terhad." Kapal di rantau ini juga telah menggesa untuk tidak mendekati pelabuhan Yaman kerana operasi tentera yang sedang berjalan.
Lebih daripada 20 orang telah dilaporkan mati dan lebih 30 lagi yang cedera berikut serangan udara Arab Saudi yang dipimpin di Yaman, agensi berita Sputnik yang dinamakan keselamatan tempatan dan sumber perubatan sebagai berkata.
Majoriti mogok sekitar Sanaa melanda kawasan kediaman yang terletak berhampiran lapangan terbang antarabangsa di ibu negara. Bangunan kerajaan dan lapangan terbang juga telah melanda semasa serangan.
Laporan dari tanah menunjukkan bahawa kuasa-kuasa Arab telah mengebom sebuah pejabat milik pemberontak Houthi di kawasan Jiraf Sana'a ini. Saluran TV Houthi yang dikendalikan dilaporkan berpuluh-puluh mangsa serangan udara awam berikut utara Sanaa.
Penduduk berkata pesawat perang disasarkan lapangan terbang di ibu negara, menurut Reuters.
Houthis digunakan berat api anti-pesawat untuk bertindak balas kepada pengeboman.
Satu lagi serangan kapal terbang perang telah dikatakan telah dilancarkan pada Dulaimi pangkalan udara tentera Sana'a ini. Al-Jubair berkata kepada Al-Jazeera bahawa pejuang Houthi berada dalam kawalan senjata balistik dan berat Yaman dan boleh mengambil alih tentera udara negara.
Laporan memetik perkhidmatan keselamatan Yaman berkata, 4 jet Sukhoi ditempatkan di pangkalan udara tentera Dulaimi musnah dalam serangan udara. Sementara itu, satu laporan Al Arabiya mendakwa serangan Arab yang dipimpin memusnahkan pangkalan udara bersama-sama dengan beberapa senjata, serta mengambil kebanyakan pertahanan udara pemberontak '.
Sementara itu, Arab Saudi, Emiriah Arab Bersatu, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait dan mengeluarkan kenyataan bersama mengatakan bahawa mereka "memutuskan untuk menolak militia Houthi, Al-Qaeda dan ISIS (Negara Islam) di negara ini." Negara-negara Teluk berkata mereka bertindak balas kepada "ancaman besar" kepada kestabilan rantau ini, dengan mengatakan bahawa perjuangan mereka adalah untuk "menolak pencerobohan Houthi" di Yaman.
Al-Jubeir berkata gabungan 10 negara telah melancarkan kempen "untuk melindungi dan mempertahankan kerajaan yang sah" Presiden Yaman Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi selepas rayuannya untuk campur tangan.
Pembantu Hadi telah mendedahkan bahawa presiden adalah "dalam semangat yang tinggi" dan kekal di pangkalan Aden di selatan Yaman. "Presiden . . . berterima kasih negara-negara Teluk, Mesir, Jordan, dan Sudan, dan semua negara-negara di rantau ini," pengarah pejabat Hadi, Mohammed Marem, kepada Reuters. Serangan itu telah "dipulihkan penentuan rakyat" untuk memerangi Houthis, katanya.
Arab Saudi merancang untuk melakukan 100 pesawat perang dan 150,000 tentera untuk serangan Yaman itu, menurut Al Arabiya. Emiriah Arab Bersatu, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan dan juga bersedia untuk menyumbang pesawat, manakala Mesir, Pakistan, Jordan, Sudan dan ingin menyumbang kepada operasi darat.
Mesir menyediakan sokongan politik dan ketenteraan untuk menjalani pembedahan, kata media kerajaan negara itu. Kaherah bersedia untuk mengambil bahagian dalam operasi udara, laut dan darat jika perlu, Kementerian Luar Mesir telah diumumkan.
Laporan media berkata, Jordan, Sudan, Maghribi dan Pakistan juga merupakan sebahagian daripada gabungan itu dan telah menawarkan sokongan mereka untuk operasi tentera di Yaman.
Walaupun duta Arab Saudi menegaskan Washington hanya "berunding" Riyadh, seorang pegawai Amerika Syarikat memberitahu Reuters dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan bahawa Amerika telah menyokong operasi ketenteraan dengan cara yang tidak ditentukan.
Pemimpin Houthi telah seterusnya berjenama serangan Arab sebagai "pencerobohan" dan memberi amaran bahawa ia akan seret kawasan Teluk keseluruhan ke dalam konflik.
"Terdapat satu pencerobohan dijalankan di Yaman dan kita akan menghadapinya dengan berani," ahli jawatan politik Houthi, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, memberitahu Al Jazeera. "Operasi Tentera akan seret kawasan yang berperang yang luas."
Sementara itu, timbalan jurucakap PBB Farhan Haq kepada TASS bahawa PBB sedar Arab Saudi melancarkan operasi tentera di Yaman dan sedang mencari maklumat lanjut. Hanya beberapa jam sebelum pembedahan, Haq kepada wartawan bahawa PBB tidak percaya dalam tindakan tentera untuk menyelesaikan konflik di Yaman.
Sebelum pelancaran serangan di Yaman, militan Houthi mendakwa telah menawan pelabuhan selatan Aden, kubu kuat Presiden Hadi. Para pejuang berkata bandar adalah di bawah kawalan mereka dan penyokong presiden telah ditangkap.
Para pemberontak telah mengumumkan 20 juta riyal (US $ 100,000) ganjaran untuk menangkap Hadi, selepas mendakwa bahawa dia lari dari negara itu, yang berpangkalan di Lebanon Al-Manar TV melaporkan.
Pada bulan Ogos 2014, pemberontak Houthi bergerak dari utara dan menuntut pembaharuan ekonomi dan politik. Pada bulan September, mereka merampas pemasangan negeri utama di Sanaa.
Sebagai Houthis mengambil arahan daripada ibu kota bulan lalu, kedutaan Amerika Syarikat menutup operasi di Sana'a, manakala kedua-dua kerajaan saingan di utara dan selatan telah terus bersaing untuk kuasa. Hujung minggu lalu, pemberontak Syiah merampas bandar yang ke-3 terbesarTaiz Yaman.
SAUDI Arabia bombs Yemen, Launches Coalition
Op Against Houthi REBELS . . .
Saudi Arabian forces, joined by nine other countries, have launched a military operation in Yemen against Shiite Houthi rebels, the Saudi ambassador to the US said. The offensive, which started with airstrikes, will also involve “other military assets.”
According to Ambassador Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, the military operation in Yemen started at 7 p.m. EST (11 p.m. GMT).
Obama ordered support to Saudi-led op, UN still ‘checking details’
US President Obama has authorized the provision of logistical and intelligence support to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-led military operations in Yemen, the White House said in a statement, confirming that Washington had close communication with Hadi, the Saudis and other GCC states prior to the launch of the military operation.
“While US forces are not taking direct military action in Yemen in support of this effort, we are establishing a Joint Planning Cell with Saudi Arabia to coordinate US military and intelligence support,” the statement said.
Moreover, the White House urged the Houthis to immediately halt “destabilizing military actions” and to return to political dialogue with the deposed Yemeni government.
Al Arabiya reported that warplanes of the Royal Saudi Air Force bombed positions of Yemen’s Houthi militia, targeting their air defenses.
The Saudi-led coalition has declared Yemeni airspace a “restricted zone.” Ships in the region have also been urged not to approach Yemen’s ports due to the ongoing military operation.
More than 20 people have reportedly died and over 30 others were injured following Saudi Arabia-led airstrikes in Yemen, Sputnik news agency cited local security and medical sources as saying.
The majority of the strikes around Sanaa hit residential areas located near the capital’s international airport. Government buildings and the airport were also hit during the offensive.
Reports from the ground indicate that Saudi forces have bombed an office belonging to Houthi rebels in Sanaa’s Jiraf area. A Houthi-run TV channel reported dozens of civilian casualties following airstrikes north of Sanaa.
Residents said that warplanes targeted the capital’s airport, according to Reuters.
Houthis used heavy anti-aircraft fire to respond to the bombing.
Another warplane attack was said to have been launched on Sanaa’s Dulaimi military airbase. Al-Jubair told Al Jazeera that Houthi fighters are in control of Yemeni’s ballistic and heavy weaponry and could be taking over the country’s air force.
Reports citing Yemeni security services said four Sukhoi jets stationed at the Dulaimi military airbase were destroyed in airstrikes. Meanwhile, an Al Arabiya report claimed that Saudi-led strikes destroyed the airbase along with several arsenals, as well as taking out most of the rebels’ air defenses.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait issued a joint statement saying that they “decided to repel Houthi militias, Al-Qaeda and ISIS (Islamic State) in the country.” The Gulf states said they were responding to a “major threat” to the stability of the region, saying that their cause is to “repel Houthi aggression” in Yemen.
Al-Jubeir said the 10-country coalition launched the campaign “to protect and defend the legitimate government” of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after his appeal to intervene.
Hadi’s aide has revealed that the president is “in high spirits” and has remained at his Aden base in the south of Yemen. “The president...thanks Gulf countries, Egypt, Jordan, and Sudan, and all countries in the region,” the director of Hadi's office, Mohammed Marem, told Reuters. The offensive has “restored people's determination” to fight against the Houthis, he said.
Saudi Arabia is planning to commit 100 warplanes and 150,000 soldiers to the Yemen offensive, according to Al Arabiya. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan are also willing to contribute aircrafts, while Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, and Sudan want to contribute to ground operations.
Egypt is providing political and military support for the operation, the country’s state media said. Cairo is prepared to take part in air, naval and ground operations if necessary, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry has announced.
Media reports said that Jordan, Sudan, Morocco and Pakistan are also part of the coalition and have offered their support for military operation in Yemen.
While the Saudi envoy insisted Washington only “consulted” Riyadh, a US official told Reuters on condition of anonymity that America has been supporting the military operation in an unspecified way.
Houthi leaders have in turn branded the Saudi offensive as “aggression” and warned that it will drag the entire Gulf region into conflict.
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“There is an aggression underway on Yemen and we will confront it valiantly,” a member of the Houthi political office, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, told Al Jazeera. “Military operations will drag the region to a wide war.”
Meanwhile, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told TASS that the UN is aware of Saudi Arabia launching a military operation in Yemen and is looking into more details. Just a few hours before the operation, Haq told journalists that the UN does not believe in military actions to resolve the conflict in Yemen.
Before the launch of the offensive in Yemen, Houthi militants claimed to have captured the southern seaport of Aden, President Hadi’s stronghold. The fighters said the city was under their control and the president’s supporters were being arrested.
The rebels have announced a 20 million riyal (US$100,000) reward for Hadi’s capture, after alleging that he fled the country, Lebanon-based Al-Manar TV reported.
In August 2014, Houthi rebels moved in from the north and demanded economic and political reforms. In September, they seized key state installations in Sanaa.
As Houthis took command of the capital last month, the US embassy closed its operations in Sanaa, while the two rival governments in the north and south have continued to compete for power. Last weekend, Shiite rebels seized Yemen’s third largest city Taiz.
Samudera@WORKs-Walaupun cepat untuk mengutuk manoeuvers tentera Rusia, NATO sedang menjalankan permainan perang besar-besaran di negeri-negeri Baltik dan mewujudkan "garis tentera" di seluruh Eropah Timur. Amerika Syarikat menafikan double standard, tetapi rekod dan transkrip mencadangkan sebaliknya.
Beribu-ribu tentera Amerika Syarikat dan beratus-ratus kereta kebal telah dituangkan ke Estonia, Latvia dan Lithuania pada dua bulan lalu sebagai sebahagian daripada operasi yang digelar "Menyelesaikan Atlantik." Pada bulan Februari, 140 kenderaan NATO dan 1.400 tentera melanda Narva, hanya 300 meter dari sempadan Rusia.
Drills for me but not for thee: NATO launches war games near Russian border
Despite being quick to condemn Russian military manoeuvers, NATO is conducting wide-scale war games in the Baltic states and creating a “line of troops” across Eastern Europe. The US denies a double standard, but records and transcripts suggest otherwise.
Thousands of US troops and hundreds of tanks havepoured intoEstonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the past two months as part of an operation dubbed “Atlantic Resolve.” In February, 140 NATO vehicles and 1400 troops swept through Narva, a mere 300 meters from the Russian border.
"Seperti yang anda menyambung negara, hampir garis askar Amerika Syarikat," Pertahanan Berita dipetik Kol Michael Foster daripada Airborne Briged 173 pada 2 Mac sebagai berkata. Tentera Amerika Syarikat sebelum ini telah diadakan permainan perang bersama dengan negara-negara Baltik, dengan nama-nama seperti "Saber Strike," "Spring
“As you connect countries, there is almost a line of US troops,” Defense News quoted Col. Michael Foster of the 173rd Airborne Brigade on March 2 as saying. US forces have previously held joint war games with Baltic nations, with names such as “Saber Strike,” “Spring Storm” and “Flaming Sword.”
Apabila ditanya mengapa Amerika Syarikat telah mengutuk latihan Rusia dalam Rusia, Jabatan Negara akhbar rasmi Jeff Rathke kepada RT tiada pernyataan sedemikian yang pernah dibuat.
When asked why the US was condemning Russian exercises inside Russia, State Department press official Jeff Rathke told RT no such statement had ever been made.
Minggu lepas, Washington menolak Vietnam untuk mengelakkan pesawat Rusia dari mengisi minyak di sana.
"Kami menggesa pegawai Vietnam untuk memastikan bahawa Rusia tidak dapat menggunakan akses ke Cam Ranh Bay untuk menjalankan aktiviti-aktiviti yang boleh meningkatkan ketegangan di rantau ini," kata seorang pegawai Jabatan Negara kepada Reuters, pada keadaan tidak mahu namanya disiarkan.
Sementara itu, dalam tempoh 3 minggu pertama bulan Februari, Tentera Laut Amerika Syarikat terbang pesawat pengawasan terbarunya dari pangkalan di Filipina ke atas pulau yang dipertikaikan di Laut China Selatan. P-8 Poseidon dilengkapi dengan sensor terbaru dan elektronik dalam senjata Tentera Laut Amerika Syarikat, dan boleh "bungkus punch serius," menurut satu penganalisis ketenteraanAmerika Syarikat.
Walaupun Amerika Syarikat telah tidak mengkritik setiap latihan ketenteraan yang dijalankan oleh Kremlin, lalu jurucakap Jabatan Negara Jen Psaki Ogos, senaman penerbangan Rusia adalah "provokatif dan hanya berkhidmat untuk menyebabkan ketegangan."
Just last week, WashingtonpushedVietnam to prevent Russian aircraft from refueling there.
“We have urged Vietnamese officials to ensure that Russia is not able to use its access to Cam Ranh Bay to conduct activities that could raise tensions in the region,” one State Department official told Reuters, on the condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, in the first three weeks of February, the US Navy flew its latest surveillance aircraft from bases in the Philippines over disputed islands in the South China Sea. The P-8 Poseidon is equipped with the latest sensors and electronics in the US Navy arsenal, and can “pack a serious punch,” according to one US military analyst.
While the US has not criticized every military drill conducted by the Kremlin, last August State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Russia’s aviation exercises are “provocative and only serve to escalate tensions.”
"Tidakkah Amerika Syarikat dan NATO manuver di sempadan Rusia, pada masa apabila Barat dan Rusia yang berselisih atas krisis di Ukraine, juga" menimbulkan ketegangan? "Tanya wartawan diplomatik AP Matt Lee.
"Kami akan tidak setuju," jawab Rathke.
Sesetengah, bagaimanapun, mendapati dakwaan tidak meyakinkan.
"Ia adalah tahap yang mengejutkan daripada kemunafikan, pilih kasih, Doublespeak," Brian Becker gabungan JAWAPAN (Akta Sekarang Hentikan Perang dan End Perkauman) kepada RT.
Rusia mengumumkan satu latihan ketenteraan kejutan besar-besaran awal minggu ini, meletakkan tentera di seluruh negara pada keadaan berjaga-jaga dan menjalankan latihan di Laut Baltik, Laut Hitam, Artik dan Timur Jauh. Berterusan cek snap tentera melibatkan kira-kira 76,000 tentera, lebih 10,000 kenderaan, 65 buah kapal perang, 16 kapal sokongan, 15 kapal selam, 200 pesawat perang dan helikopter.
“Wouldn’t US and NATO maneuvers on Russian borders, at a time when the West and Russia are at odds over the crisis in Ukraine, also “raise tensions?” asked AP diplomatic correspondent Matt Lee.
“We would disagree with that,” replied Rathke.
Some, however, found the assertion unconvincing.
“It’s a shocking level of hypocrisy, double standards, doublespeak,” Brian Becker of the ANSWER coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) told RT.
Russia announced a massive surprise military drill earlier this week, putting forces all over the country on high alert and conducting exercises in the Baltic Sea, Black Sea, the Arctic and the Far East. The ongoing snap check of the military involves about 76,000 troops, over 10,000 vehicles, 65 warships, 16 support vessels, 15 submarines, 200 warplanes and helicopters.