Sudan Intel (part 2)

 On November 11, Interfax reported that a draft proposal was worked out between Russia and Sudan for creating a logistic support base at Port Sudan. Though both countries have yet to make an official decision on this mater, talks about a Russian naval base, or at least a support base, have been ongoing since 2017. Should this logistic support base become a reality, Russia would be able to support a permanent naval presence in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and possibly project power into the Indian Ocean as well.

As for security, Sudan will be responsible for securing the exterior of the logistic support base but Russia will allegedly also be allowed to set up temporary military posts in Sudan to guard its support base. Russia will be also responsible for protecting the base from the seaside, provide air defense and maintain internal security inside the base. With Russia being responsible for the air defense of the support base, it seems that the free delivery of air defenses is taken out of context. Rather, Russia will deploy air defense systems that protects it support base and that this protection is also extended to the Sudanese naval base north of Port Sudan.

As for the type of deployments the Russian Navy could undertake from the logistic support base in Sudan, a lot remains open to speculations and will depend the final draft of the agreement. Needless to say, the support base a Port Sudan could function in the same manner as the Russian naval base at Tartus, Syria, functions but to a lesser scale. Tartus allows Russia to keep a small surface action group permanent deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Special attention is to be given to the phrase that nuclear powered vessels can dock in Port Sudan. Should Sudan agree to this, then the Kirov class battle cruisers and nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy could, in theory, dock at and deploy from Port Sudan. Using Port Sudan in order to supply and sustain the deployment of nuclear submarines into the Indian Ocean

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