Russia is building a giant 'war cloud' to serve as a back-up internet so country can survive exile..

[sunonmars]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5822355/Russian-military-building-giant-cloud-internet-survive-future-WARS.html

The Russian military is building a giant cloud that will function as a back-up internet, a new report has revealed.

The cloud, which is set to be completed by 2020, will connect to the military's vast internal network and would allow wartime Russia to survive even if it was disconnected from the internet.

The country could run commercial traffic using its own internal network, according to the source, which revealed the so-called 'war cloud' is a significant part of the country's 'ongoing modernisation drive'.

The first one has purportedly already been completed in the military's Southern District.

This is an area that includes the illegally annexed Crimean peninsula as well as parts of eastern Ukraine, according to a report by Defence One.

The creation of this first centre makes Russian presence in the region even stronger.

President Vladimir Putin's top IT adviser Herman Klimenko has previously stated that during wartime the country could run on the military's pre-existing internal network - called the Closed Transfer Segment.

'Technically, we are ready for any action now,' he told Russian TV station NTV back in March.

At the end of last year, it was first revealed the country was creating an 'independent internet' which would operate separately from the Domain Name System (DNS) used worldwide.

During a meeting of the Russian Security Council, officials discussed an initiative to create an alternative to the DNS, claiming the move could protect Russia and a handful of other nations in the event of a large-scale cyberattack.

But, some suspect it could be a way for Russia to launch its own malicious operations, DefenseOne reported at the time.

The independent internet would cover the 'BRICS' nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

According to Russian news site RT, Russian President Vladimir Putin is targeting August 1 for its completion.

The alternative DNS is designed to protect the BRICS nations 'in the event of global internet malfunctions.'

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They are up to something, build an alternative internet then deliberately collapse international connections. I don't understand a lot of this, but i guess its possible.

I would not trust Putin as far as I could throw him.

I don't like where this world is heading.

[roamer65]

1. I wonder how it would fare against an EMP.

They try any funny biz and that’s what it should get.

[jberryhill]

3. How would they feel about a nuclear attack?

Because outside of movies, that’s the sole mechanism for doing that.

[lapfog_1]

2. The internet (Arpanet) was envisioned as a military communications network

that would survive a war... even a nuclear war.