Posted on 02/11/2015 5:27:03 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Is Rooshin, must be beegger.
That worked so well during the USSR years.
Lease one of ours, we’re not using ‘em...
There will be a protracted study, design, and engineering phase, with schedule delays, bloated budgets, and mysteriously missing funds. Eventually, the project will be revised for a new concept with a new round of funding. The chance of a major Russian naval aircraft carrier ever being deployed is nil.
Jack or block planes?
Any investment in huge surface warships is foolish. These ships are very vulnerable to flocks of “seagull drones” each packed with 1 kg of C4 plastique, launched by a submarine hundreds of miles away and directed to target via satellite. These big ships simply cannot survive.
Holds true for anything you read these days. Didn't Brian Williams do a report on this.
Coming to you in the year 2077!
Well, if it fails they can always sell it off to India then charge them out the butt to refit it.
That will be a mighty big target.
It’s no accident that the concept of a Potemkin Village is Russian too. I remember the MiG 25 Foxbat at the best aircraft of its time until we got our hands on it. Rust on the body, engines that burned out at full throttle, junk.
Considering that the carriers Russia has/had were built in Ukraine, the question is where will Russia built a new one. That area in Ukraine is still controlled by Kiev.
nice bannister,, or is that balusters??
That Japs had one huge battleship during WWII that the U.S. sunk before it could do any damage. I could be wrong when it was sunk but I think it happened about the same time as the battle of Midway. Can’t remember the name of it but I think Yamamoto was on board at the time it went down.
OK WWII historians, lets hear it.
Looking back, it's hard to believe we ever used to worry about these folks.
There were two- the Yamato and the Musashi. Torpedos and aerial bombing did them both in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato-class_battleship
Lol.
Am wondering this piece for starters..
Oh, they plan to do something about US satellites too. Never mind all the hacking going on by their buddies in Red China.
I’m just wondering about the ship’s propulsion. Unless it’s nuclear, how will it be able to hold enough fuel to get halfway across the Pacific?
Yamamoto was killed when his Betty bomber was shot down by P-38’s while he was visiting islands in the Pacific.
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