Greetings, and welcome to the World Affairs Board!
The World Affairs Board is the premier forum for the discussion of the pressing geopolitical issues of our time. Topics include military and defense developments, international terrorism, insurgency & COIN doctrine, international security and policing, weapons proliferation, and military technological development.
Our membership includes many from military, defense, academic, and government backgrounds with expert knowledge on a wide range of topics. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so why not register a World Affairs Board account and join our community today?
A good symbol for Muscovy under Putin in general; grubby, polluting, big and bellicose though lacking any great power and probably needs scrapping as it's beyond repair.
Of all people, you should know, that Kuznetsov is being fueled by gays and opposition leaders burned alive in this hideous war machine!
Jokes aside, plumes of black smoke coming from Kuznetsov indicates Putin is yet to decide who will become next US president...
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
I was a little surprised to read the following....
'The ship has a Granit anti-ship missile system equipped with 12 surface-to-surface missile launchers. The Granit missile (Nato codename SS-N-19 Shipwreck) is reported to have a range greater than 400km and is capable of carrying either a nuclear or conventional warhead'
and...
'The Klinok air defence missile system, with 24 vertical launchers and 192 missiles, defends the ship against anti-ship missiles, aircraft and surface ships.
The system has a multichannel electronically steered phased array radar and can achieve a firing rate of one missile every three seconds. Four targets can be engaged simultaneously in a 60°×60° sector. The range of the system is 12km to 15km'
apparently its unknown if it still carries the Granites.... but 192 air defense missiles.... that's a bit more than a handful.... (firing rate and a low simultaneous multiple engagement ability seems pretty limiting and all... still, the sheer number is impressive...)
apparently its unknown if it still carries the Granites.... but 192 air defense missiles.... that's a bit more than a handful.... (firing rate and a low simultaneous multiple engagement ability seems pretty limiting and all... still, the sheer number is impressive...)
The range seems awfully short for anything besides a CIWS role aboard ship. It weighs 300lbs planting it between the RIM-116 and ESSM in size.
I guess instead of the layered defense approach, the Russians prefer to just carry a bunch of the one type of missile. In order for that to be effective, surely they would need to be capable of launching and controlling huge waves simultaneously to counter massed anti-ship missile salvoes though?
The range seems awfully short for anything besides a CIWS role aboard ship. It weighs 300lbs planting it between the RIM-116 and ESSM in size.
I guess instead of the layered defense approach, the Russians prefer to just carry a bunch of the one type of missile. In order for that to be effective, surely they would need to be capable of launching and controlling huge waves simultaneously to counter massed anti-ship missile salvoes though?
yes, you'd think.
4 at a time seems like a big waste of that volume, as well as only being able to fire 1 every three seconds.
Yea was due to dock in the Spanish bit of N. Africa. The Maltese have also said "no thanks" I heard - they refueled in Malta in 2013.
Perhaps I'm overreaching in the thought process .... but when you travel ( i.e. take the fleet to sea...) isn't there a travel officer who arranges such things... ????
What a delusional event this must be for the task force commander of the Russian carrier group...
Perhaps I'm overreaching in the thought process .... but when you travel ( i.e. take the fleet to sea...) isn't there a travel officer who arranges such things... ????
What a delusional event this must be for the task force commander of the Russian carrier group...
I think at this level, you're talking about the Russian Foreign Ministry. That's some serious diplomatic s--t right there, a CVBG* refueling and resupplying on the way to a warzone.
*Or, Environmental Disaster Waiting To Happen, take your pick
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
I think at this level, you're talking about the Russian Foreign Ministry. That's some serious diplomatic s--t right there, a CVBG* refueling and resupplying on the way to a warzone.
*Or, Environmental Disaster Waiting To Happen, take your pick
I'm sensing negative vibes..... very negative !!!!
Tweet
Comment