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To: Joisey

http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3593827,00.html

“Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Monday that the naval mission to Venezuela would include the nuclear-powered battle cruiser “Peter the Great,” one of the world’s largest combat warships.
Moscow’s most modern destroyer, the “Admiral Chabanenko,” will also steam to the Caribbean, along with other ships, including a fuel tanker, he added.”

ICBW, but I think these two are quite a bit above the present standards of the Russian navy.


189 posted on 09/12/2008 10:06:13 AM PDT by Roccus (Some day it'll all make sense.......................maybe.)
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To: Roccus
"ICBW, but I think these two are quite a bit above the present standards of the Russian navy."

Yeah, they are actually sea worthy.

202 posted on 09/12/2008 10:12:24 AM PDT by Joisey (Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!)
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