Posted on 09/06/2013 4:06:51 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Russia will send another warship to the Mediterranean Sea next week, a high-ranking Russian Navy official told RIA Novosti Friday.
The Kashin-class guided missile destroyer Smetlivy from the Black Sea Fleet is due to leave the port of Sevastopol on September 12-14, the official said, adding that it is to join the Mediterranean task force “on a rotational basis.”
A group of warships, including the large amphibious landing ships Novocherkassk and Minsk, as well as the electronic intelligence ship Priazovye joined the Mediterranean fleet earlier on Friday, he said.
He also said the Slava class guided missile cruiser Moskva will reach the Mediterranean Sea, where it will take over from the Admiral Panteleyev destroyer, on September 17, and on September 29 the missile boat Ivanovets and the guided missile ship Sthil will reach an area off the Syrian coast.
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In addition, the Pacific Squadron put to sea for a excersize yesterday.
So, they'll have at least 3 Kashin's, a t least one Slava, and 1, maybe 2 Kirov's in the area, plus other ships, if Obama decides to rogue President.
C’mon, they’re just there as observers. Putin said so. /s
These DC hacks are about to start WW3, when we fire the first cruise missile. Stop this insanity.
Many more ships move into the Med Sea it will look like a Wal-Mart parking lot on pay day!
From Reagan standing astride the globe to this shitbag loser in just 25 years. Who saw this coming?
obama is truly a shitbag. Your post is POST OF THE DAY!
Seems like a work of poor fiction doesn't it.
...and they shall gather in the valleys of Megiddo...
The Kashin is a 1960s design. It has had some upgrades, but it will not add matrially to the military balance there...and that balance is decidedly and completey against the Russians.
There are no Kirovs in the Med. The Russian Pacific Fleet is on scheduled exercises and there are no announcements that they are going to the Med. Even if they did, they are a couple of weeks awway and if anything happens, it will be over long before they get there.
And they have to pass by two complete US Carrier groups in the Arabian Sea and Red Sea to get there. There not coming, Jim.
The Russians, if the Kashin indeed goes there, will have the following combatants:
1 x Slava Cruiser
2 x Udaloy Destrroyers
1 x Kashin Destroyer
1 x Neustrashimyy frigate
1 x Krivak Frigate
And maybe...
2 x Nuclear Attack subs
That’s up to eight combatants, two of them (the Kashi and the Krivak) decades out of date.
The US and French have:
1 x Nuclear Carrier (Charles de Gaulle)
1 x Georges Destroyer
1 x FREMM Frigate
1 x Lafayette Frigate
1 x Forbin Destroyers
5 x Burke AEGIS Destoryers
1 x Rubis SSN
2 x LA/Virginia SSNs
1 X Ohio SSGN
14 combatatnts, all of them very up to date.
In addition, the US has a large base in italy with a lot of aircraft, and the french have their Rafesl and Super Eternards on their carrier. And the US has two complete Carrier groups near by in the Arabian Sea and Red Sea...another 14 modern vessels and probably 120-140 mnore aircraft.
Any major engagement will result in a disaster for the Russians at this point, and so they will avoid it if they possibly can.
PLAIN of Megiddo.
Oops.
The problem with all those ships you listed on “our side” are under the command of sissy, girly Hussein. The Russian ships are under the command of macho Putin. Putin has the advantage.
Possibly a Syria conflict first. Then Ezekiel 38. Then another conflict on the plains of Megiddo- the final battle of Armageddon. IMHO.
The US has the numerical and technological superiority. But, they do not have the moral authority. If the SHTF, US forces might stand down an order from the POS. Why not, the POS didn’t have the ambassador and his force contingent’s back at Benghazi, now it’s time to return the favor.
The one only Christian in all of this seems to be the one commanding the ships with Russian-sounding names.
Well, the sea is certainly a "plain".
Yes, and when it’s stirred up, the waves can seem to be valleys.
NonethelessI *did* misspeak/read/quote/post...,
Putin is not a Christian, no matter what you FR apologists think. He’s a Nationalist who is using the Church.
Not exactly on the scale of Jutland.
If President Dystopia orders an attack by his military, then the guided missile cruiser will shoot back at something.
They aren’t any match for the US battlegroup, and Putin knows that. But that isn’t what they are there for.
They are a TRIP LINE, a “Red Line” that Putin is daring Obama to cross.
All they have to do is withstand the initial wave of US attacks on Syria, and the Strategic mission will be completed. IF Obama is dumb enough to launch.
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