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I'm not posting this because I think Russia is great, but because WE should be doing it, FIRST AND BEST.

Our Nation is not fading, it's being willfully slaughtered!

1 posted on 02/10/2016 5:46:11 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
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Built in Helsinki, so if anyone’s deserving of kudos it’s the Finns. It is an impressive video.


2 posted on 02/10/2016 5:53:33 AM PST by katana (Just my opinion)
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With global warming who needs it.


3 posted on 02/10/2016 5:56:10 AM PST by artichokegrower
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She rolls like a mofo in open water, much like the USCG buoy tender I was on. That will be a puker boat for sure. Good luck tot he uninitiated!


4 posted on 02/10/2016 5:56:19 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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Impressive piece of engineering. Using propulsion other than Propellers I would guess?


5 posted on 02/10/2016 5:57:24 AM PST by Leto
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We could one-up them with “Variable Geometry Hull” technology. Not that it actually exists but we could at least float the idea.


6 posted on 02/10/2016 5:57:43 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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Wow, that was fascinating........The great lakes coast guard could use a couple of those


7 posted on 02/10/2016 5:58:36 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Dear Santa: Please find a home for every homeless and unwanted cat and dog that is suffering)
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The only thing Russia had to do with this icebreaker is to write the check to pay for it. It was developed and is being built by a company in Finland called Aker Artic.


9 posted on 02/10/2016 5:59:59 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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On a "side" note (!), if you click on the link, you'll see an ad for "The Finest Hours," a new movie about a Coast Guard rescue in 1952. I saw it this weekend and can highly recommend it. It is an uplifting, soul-validating study in courage, ingenuity, and steadfastness. Nothing anti-American, sexual, or foul about it.

If you like exciting movies, especially with maritime themes, you'll love it. Too intense for kids. Think of it as "The Perfect Storm," without Clooney and with a happy ending.

12 posted on 02/10/2016 6:12:55 AM PST by IronJack
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Neat vessel.


14 posted on 02/10/2016 6:14:27 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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I'm not posting this because I think Russia is great, but because WE should be doing it, FIRST AND BEST.

Why? What do we really need icebreakers for? From what I understand the ones we've had spend most of their time in Antarctica. Any Alaskan ports that get iced in are also accessible by road.

18 posted on 02/10/2016 6:17:08 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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Brrrrrrr, that’s cold.


21 posted on 02/10/2016 6:18:45 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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A lesson in thinking outside the box.


22 posted on 02/10/2016 6:20:57 AM PST by Battle Axe (Repent: for the coming of the Lord is soon.)
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***WE should be doing it***

WHY? The Arctic is supposed to be ICE FREE by now! Glo-bull warming you know!


24 posted on 02/10/2016 8:02:05 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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