Posted on 10/25/2016 1:06:43 AM PDT by rickmichaels
I admit, I read a bit of this hogwash but let me tell you, it is the Russians who are taking the fight to the bad guys. At this time, I’m not sure what side we are on. Do you
Not with the current administration.
And people are laughing at the Russian effort?
unfortunately, Hillary backed Isis and armed them through Benghazi, so now we back enemies ..and attack our friends, obamma is the liar in chief, pure evil..
The Kusnetsov produces smoke.
This is because the Russians not only don’t believe in the bizarre fantasy of ‘moderate jihadists’ - they also don’t believe in the equally bizarre fantasy of Global Warming.
In any case their planes are modern enough.
What a pathetic little brony this guy is.
On the other hand, we've spent untold billions on a carrier that can't launch aircraft, littoral combat ships that are headed to the scrapyard after a single deployment, and a fighter aircraft that is outmatched by everything except cost.
But we've got transgender troops! Ivan is definitely lagging behind us in this category.
Pics of the carrier show 4 fixed wing aircraft on the flight deck. Nonetheless, Russia is becoming a player as we continue to be the world’s drunken abuser.
In the good old Soviet days, they had to man their capital ships (such as they are) with officers when they did foreign port visits. Couldn’t depend on the enlisted to 1. Look sharp, 2. Stay on the ship.
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“the smoke is normal for a 30 year old ship, that runs on diesel fuel”. BS, was snipe on a 30 year old tin can, we make smoke like that was f**k up. Fuel/air ration wrong, Captain starts chewing ass. Only smoke that should be visible from her stack is a slight brown wisp, we called an economy haze. She uses pressure fired boiler, with super chargers, sort like our Garcia class in the 60s/70s. Super chargers were constant source of problems for us then and I suspect that is source of the Ruskies problems now.
Laugh all they want. Russia is all in for her allies. Americans haven’t been all in for theirs since they found out they were massacring Christians.
This election doesn’t decide *if* there will be war, it decides which side we are on.
Things like this illustrate how American leaders have betrayed us for the sake of get-a-long globalism. Literally all we had to do to maintain ourselves as the sole superpower of the world was keep our own 30+-year-old tech and not screw it up. Our carriers from the 70s would eat this thing for breakfast. Our tanks from the 80s still eat the world’s armor all day long. Our planes from the 80s and 90s, properly updated, are still cock of the roost. However, we’ve sunk countless trillions into military boondogles (both ops and equipment) that did nothing for us, and our diplomacy has been lacking since forever. Now it is the Russians flexing muscle while we trace construction blueprints for more expensive planes and ships. And SOME in America are happy that we’ve lost our supremacy in the world. Frankly it is easier not being the leader...so mission accomplished. We are now leading from behind, eating the smoke of this antiquated ship.
amen
Yeah...2 points for Russia:
1. Flat 13% income tax
2. Bigly against radical islamic terrorism.
The method of propulsion does not matter. It could be coal and still be an effective warship.
I disagree. I doubt it could be effective. Engineering does matter, particularly in naval operations and warfare where critical functions like damage control make the difference between dead in the water taking on water, or continuing the mission.
There are some things the Soviets/Russians are good at, but naval aviation is not one of them. If propulsion is a flaw in this vessel, it is a gigantic flaw.
And if that major, most important aspect is flawed, how many other things, like firefighting infrastructure, ventilation, or just plain quality of work are critically flawed, just waiting to rear their heads at an inopportune time?
My guess is a lot. Doesn’t mean the US vessels are perfect, but they do work.
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