"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."
--- Admiral Josh Painter - (Fred Dalton Thompson) Hunt for Red October - 1990
Posted on 11/07/2012 10:40:09 AM PST by raptor22
Defense: The fruit of unilateral disarmament, appeasement and promised "flexibility" patrols our East Coast near one of our largest ballistic missile submarine bases. Defense cuts and Russian subs — a double whammy.
'On June 1 or a bit later, we will resume constant patrolling of the world's oceans by strategic nuclear submarines," Russian Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky said in February. Keeping that promise, a Russian Sierra-2 class nuclear attack submarine cruised within 200 miles of our East Coast on the eve of a U.S. presidential election in which defense spending and priorities were a key issue.
This is the first time a Russian Sierra-2 class sub, believed to be based with Russia's Northern Fleet and armed with SSN anti-submarine warfare missiles and torpedoes, has been detected near the U.S. coast, reports Bill Gertz of the Washington Free Beacon.
"As was their primary mission during the Cold War, Russian SSNs nuclear attack submarines would likely be trying to track U.S. nuclear missile submarines deploying from Kings Bay, Ga., and to monitor U.S. naval deployments from Norfolk, Va.," according to Richard Fisher, a military analyst with the International Assessment and Strategy Center. Two guided missile submarines and six nuclear missile submarines are docked at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base.
The Sierra-2 is comparable to the U.S. Los Angeles-class attack submarine. Russia is building a new class of attack submarines said to be comparable to the latest U.S. Virginia-class subs, Fisher says. The attack sub was accompanied by a nearby Russian electronic intelligence-gathering vessel that was granted safe harbor during Hurricane Sandy in the commercial port of Jacksonville, Fla., within listening range of Kings Bay.
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In case comrade 0bama needs help.
Weakness invites war.
But, maybe the Russians could also send another boat for those seeking to escape the US for a more capitalitic country, like Russia.
Plenty of gays, illegals, and birth control popping skanks available to protect the north-east because I certainly hope they dont think people with guns are going to die for them.
Wolverines!!!
Our Lady - “Do not take lightly the reports of ships out on the sea and submarines. They are there, My child and My children, and they are not out for a joy ride. It is all part of the master plan for the takeover of the United States and Canada.”
Romney said the biggest threat to the U.S.is Russia
Obamalateral disarmament ping
America will crumble if attacked. Most Americans are soft undereducated fools that never had a real problem of the magnitude we will be faced with within the next 4 years. King Obama has already remove funding for our military and he wants an agreement with Russia to disarm nukes.
Obamalateral disarmament ping
“America will crumble if attacked.”
American CITIES will implode. The rest of us will do just fine.
America will crumble if attacked. Most Americans are soft undereducated fools that never had a real problem of the magnitude we will be faced with within the next 4 years. King Obama has already remove funding for our military and he wants an agreement with Russia to disarm nukes.
Skip Tyler: When I was twelve, I helped my Daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement, because some damn fool parked a dozen warheads ninety miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a coupla’ hundred warheads off Washington or New York and no-one would know anything about it until it was all over. (The Hunt For Red October)
or - Obama gets a 2nd term and we float by on the surface...
So goes the cities, so goes the Country. There is no way "the rest of us" can survive without the whole.
“There is no way “the rest of us” can survive without the whole.”
What exactly do the cities provide for us that we cannot do without?
Can’t they come around to the left coast and claim the coastal cities of California? Let them deal with the perversion, debauchery, corruption and earthquakes for awhile.
unless you live a stone age existence, pretty much everything.
Russian subs near our shores while the Chinese begin making a play for Lajes Field, Azores.
Yep, some really heady days for Amerika... yessirree.
was it venting fumes and awaiting a tow?
"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."
--- Admiral Josh Painter - (Fred Dalton Thompson) Hunt for Red October - 1990
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