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Here Are Amazing Photos Of Russia Dismantling An Outdated Nuclear Submarine
Business Insider (Australia) ^ | Oct 10 2014, 3:29 PM | Pierre Bienaimé

Posted on 10/14/2014 12:11:09 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

Russia is currently in the process of expanding and modernizing its navy. This might have something to do with Moscow’s apparent appetite for military conquest — although Russia also has a few nuclear submarines that are dangerously past their prime, considering the fissile materials that are still stored onboard.

In 2009, one rusted behemoth was transported to a factory in the far eastern port city of Vladivostok, close to the Korean peninsula, for decommissioning.

With the vessel fully out of water, the pictures offer an amazing perspective on how massive and complex even an outdated class of nuclear submarine really is.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com.au ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: navy; nuclearpower; submarine; ussr
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1 posted on 10/14/2014 12:11:09 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

In Russia, it is "Wessels"...

"Can you tell me where I can find te nuclear wessels?"

2 posted on 10/14/2014 12:32:29 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
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To: Pan_Yan

Must sat in the water a lot time before they pulled it out for demo.


3 posted on 10/14/2014 12:37:28 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: freedumb2003
"Can you tell me where I can find te nuclear wessels?"

In Star Trek it's "Can you tell me vhere I can find te nuclear wessels?"

For Chekov, V is W and W is V. It makes no sense.

4 posted on 10/14/2014 12:38:43 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The queen is their slave.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

>>In Star Trek it’s “Can you tell me vhere I can find te nuclear wessels?”<<

Vov, you remember his woice vell...


5 posted on 10/14/2014 12:42:07 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
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To: Pan_Yan

Ping me when they scrap a Delta III/IV, or Typhoon. I’d love to see the guts of those titans. The Kursk was sad, but facinating being dismantled.


6 posted on 10/14/2014 12:56:52 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I went to school with a guy from Germany....He drank Wadka and drove a Wolksvagen!!!


7 posted on 10/14/2014 12:57:31 PM PDT by ontap
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To: Pan_Yan

I think they could have sold that on Ebay!!


8 posted on 10/14/2014 12:58:38 PM PDT by ontap
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To: Pan_Yan

Looks like a Victor III boat.


9 posted on 10/14/2014 1:00:54 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Pan_Yan

Based on some of those funny pics I’ve seen about the way corners get cut, I expected to see some Russian guys whacking away with axes and sawzalls ;-)


10 posted on 10/14/2014 1:01:04 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: ontap

Many years back on ebay there was a Russian sub for sale in Florida I think. Stripped of everything. Marketed as a floating conference area.


11 posted on 10/14/2014 1:13:32 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: ontap

I was room-mates with a German. He took walium when nervous.


12 posted on 10/14/2014 1:16:30 PM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: Pan_Yan

It’s amazing to think that something that massive can move. Underwater. With very little trace.

Leviathan 2.0


13 posted on 10/14/2014 1:35:10 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack

US boats are actually more cramped than that. Lots of room there.


14 posted on 10/14/2014 1:44:23 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Pan_Yan

ping


15 posted on 10/14/2014 2:06:29 PM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: Pan_Yan

Documentary of dismantling a Typhoon. It’s in Russian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGhxGgQ-Cd4

I watched a similar one last year that’s in English, can’t find it at the moment.


16 posted on 10/14/2014 2:20:21 PM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: freedumb2003
Vov, you remember his woice vell...

By Jove I think he's got it!

17 posted on 10/14/2014 2:28:39 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The queen is their slave.)
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To: ontap
He drank Wadka and drove a Wolksvagen!!!

Which is odd. Since Volkswagen is German.

18 posted on 10/14/2014 2:30:47 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The queen is their slave.)
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To: ontap

In German a “V” is pronounced as a “F” and a “V” pronounced as a “W” so it would be, “Folksvagon”.


19 posted on 10/14/2014 3:09:53 PM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: driftdiver

They were probably waiting for to rust away.


20 posted on 10/14/2014 3:56:56 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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