Now that the Russian military ships after a long break again sailed in the world

Now that the Russian military ships after a long break again sailed in the world's oceans and on call at major transit routes, as well as ships US and NATO, our Navy again needed points for the material-technical servicing (PMTO). Expert, "the Russian word" explains the difference between PMTO and military bases.
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"Russia surrounds the US military bases'," the Russian military base in Washington noses "... Similar headlines a few weeks ago caused a storm in the US Information Space. This occurred because the Defense Minister of Russia pepetools Sergei Shoigu in an interview with reporters mentioned that Moscow is strengthening its military technical ties with a number of foreign countries and that Russia objects besides Cuba and Vietnam may soon appear and the Seychelles Islands, Cyprus, Singapore, pepetools Venezuela and Nicaragua. Then, in the press and information that the Russian military base will be created pepetools and Argentina.
Soon the information about the creation of the Russian military bases in Venezuela denied by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of that country, then the same statement gave the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua. After all these events, pepetools Russia's position in relation to its military bases in Latin America, explained Deputy Defence Minister of Russia Anatoly Antonov.
"There is no need for the continued presence of Russian Air Force or the Russian Navy in these countries," he said. Nevertheless, he said, is considering the possibility of creating checkpoints for material-technical servicing of Russian ships.
"It is in our interest to create conditions for the supply of our ships water and food when they are far away from the Russian coast, as well as the rest of our Sailors," pepetools said the deputy minister of defense, pointing out that the creation of such conditions may be necessary to service strategic aviation.
What is the military base differs pepetools from the points of substantive and technical servicing (PMTO)? In short: a military base there is a large number of soldiers, fighting techniques pepetools and weapons, and the PMTO there are no soldiers, no fighting techniques, not weapons. There is only a few dozen experts (their number varies depending pepetools on the tasks PMTO) and are the means for supplementing water supplies, fuel and lubricants to ships or planes arrived. In addition, at such a point can be located and less mobile or stationary shop that can perform emergency repair of vessels or aircraft.
To make it clearer, we will give a few examples. The US has a military base on the Japanese island of Okinawa. On Okinawa are deployed ground forces, air force, ships, air defense systems and Cenre connection Pentagon, including command of the 5th Army Air Force USA: 36 F-16 fighters and 54 fighter jet F-15 (both can carry nuclear weapons) fifteen vojnotransportnih aircraft KC-135 squadrons "AWACS" (long-haul aircraft for radar reconnaissance pepetools and guidance) and a host of other combat and support techniques. Okinawa is about 13.5 thousand US troops.
In Japan, there is still an American naval base. This is Yokosuka near Tokyo. There is a staff of 7 US Pacific fleet and five thousand soldiers. The US has over 60 such military bases all over the world: Europe, Asia, Australia, South and Central America.
And Russia has military bases abroad. True, they are located close to its borders, in the territories of the former pepetools republics of the USSR. One of the largest is 201 bases in Tajikistan, which is deployed in three cities: Dushanbe, Kurgan Tube and Kuljabu. Recently, the base was located Brigade in the five thousand soldiers, and today, when approaching departure of NATO troops from Afghanistan and the United States and in relation to this growing threat that the radical terrorist organizations in Central Asia, the base is reinforced and is now in It deployed divisions. It is about 9 thousand soldiers. There has deployed several regiments: tank, motorized, rocket and anti-aircraft artillery, followed by battalions liaison, reconnaissance, engineer-blasting works, material and technical servicing and others. In case of 201 base can support a Russian air base in the Kyrgyz city of Kant, where they are deployed attack aircraft Su-25, MiG-29 hunters, vojnotransportni Il-76 planes and helicopters.
And 201 bases, and bases in the city of Kant, are included in the system of the Organization of Collective Security Treaty (CSTO), whose members are Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Russia has a military base in each of these states. In Armenia pepetools it is 104 bases (motorized units, air force, air defense systems). In Belarus there is aviation, station warning system pepetools on the missile attack and long-range communications center. In Tajikistan, in addition to 201 base still exists Nurek station, where they performed a visual control of the cosmic space. In Kyrgyzstan