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Akula nuke submarine to be delivered to India by May
Times Now ^ | 2/18/2010 | Times Now

Posted on 02/18/2010 7:14:36 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld

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1 posted on 02/18/2010 7:14:37 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: sonofstrangelove

In b4 the gratuitous, largely uninformed wisecracks about the poor quality of Russian engineering!


2 posted on 02/18/2010 7:15:38 PM PST by Dan Middleton
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To: sonofstrangelove

Isn’t Aluka Nuke a brand of ukelele made in Hawaii?


3 posted on 02/18/2010 7:16:51 PM PST by righttackle44
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To: sonofstrangelove

Incidentally, I’m pretty sure that it’s generally considering a bad thing for a submarine to “touch the coast,” Indian or otherwise.


4 posted on 02/18/2010 7:16:59 PM PST by Dan Middleton
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To: righttackle44

I thought it was a drink


5 posted on 02/18/2010 7:18:00 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
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To: Dan Middleton
"In b4 the gratuitous, largely uninformed wisecracks about the poor quality of Russian engineering!"

Why is it a good thing to be in before that occurs ?

6 posted on 02/18/2010 7:18:33 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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To: Dan Middleton
The K-152 Nerpa (Russian: К-152 «Нерпа») is a 8,140-tonne (8,010-long-ton) Project 971 Shchuka-B (NATO: Akula II) type nuclear-powered attack submarine. Construction was started in 1993, but suspended due to lack of funding. K-152 Nerpa was launched in October 2008 and entered service with the Russian Navy in late 2009. The submarine will eventually be leased to the Indian Navy in 2010 as recommissioned INS Chakra.

While K-152 Nerpa was undergoing sea trials in the Sea of Japan on 8 November 2008, an accident caused the deaths of some twenty sailors and injury to twenty-one others. A fire suppression system discharged gas in the bow of the sub, suffocating civilian specialists and navy crew members.

Great engineering at work!
7 posted on 02/18/2010 7:19:23 PM PST by narses ("lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi")
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To: righttackle44

I thought it was some kind of bud the Dog the Bounty Hunter smokes


8 posted on 02/18/2010 7:19:37 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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In 2008 there was an accident of a Nerpa class submarine that killed 20 people


9 posted on 02/18/2010 7:20:16 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
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To: Dan Middleton

“In Its First Trials the Submarine Nerpa Leaked at the Seams”. Komsomolskaya Pravda. 9 November 2008.

Great engineers.


10 posted on 02/18/2010 7:20:37 PM PST by narses ("lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi")
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To: al baby

Given that it usually only takes about 30 seconds, preemption requires highly fortuitous timing.


11 posted on 02/18/2010 7:20:43 PM PST by Dan Middleton
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Alexander Golts: This submarine was under construction for about 15 years. I was told at the Amur shipyard that they started to build it either in 1991 or 1993. The shipyard’s director was on the verge of tears as he told me that they had installed the nuclear reactor on the Nerpa but that he didn’t have the money to power up the reactor plant to anything over standard operating temperature. The boatyard had no finances to take the new submarine to the Russian Navy’s nuclear reactor facility at Bolshoi Kamen to test the full capacity of the reactor.

I am sure that most of the people who worked on building this submarine for 15 years were lacking experience, or had simply lost their skills. In the 1980s, this shipyard turned out submarines one after the other, like pancakes. But over the last 15 years they made just one—the Nerpa. The old specialists had left, the new ones lacked professionalism. I wonder if the crowd of engineers on board at the time of the accident were given oxygen masks at all.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/168382


12 posted on 02/18/2010 7:21:46 PM PST by narses ("lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi")
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Dechaineux_%28SSG_76%29

“On 12 February 2003, Dechaineux was operating near her maximum safe diving depth off the coast of Western Australia when a seawater hose burst.[17] The high-pressure seawater flooded the lower engine room before the hose was sealed off: it was estimated that if the inflow had continued for another twenty seconds, the weight of the water would have prevented Dechaineux from returning to the surface.[17] The RAN recalled the Collins class submarines to base after the incident, and after engineers were unable to determine the flaw in the pipes that caused the incident, instructed that the maximum safe depth of the class be reduced.[17]”

Incompetent Australian engineers, LMAO, amirite?

People post the same type of derisive comments every time there’s a thread that mentions Russian military hardware, its actual capabilities and record notwithstanding.


13 posted on 02/18/2010 7:24:01 PM PST by Dan Middleton
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To: Dan Middleton; narses
Or perhaps you'd like to defame the Swedes' engineering skills for the ongoing gremlins afflicting Dechaineux and her hapless sisters?
14 posted on 02/18/2010 7:28:32 PM PST by Dan Middleton
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How many years was the Dechaineux in shipyard waiting to be completed? Since the Nerpa spent FIFTEEN years in construction, due to poverty on the part of Russia, it suffered. More than HALF of the original Akula class are no longer in service.

You may be impressed by Russian garbage, I am not.


15 posted on 02/18/2010 7:31:07 PM PST by narses ("lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi")
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Why? Unlike the Akula class garbage, all of RAN Collins class are still in service, sortie regularly and are expected to serve for years to come.


16 posted on 02/18/2010 7:34:25 PM PST by narses ("lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi")
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To: sonofstrangelove

I’m just surprised the Russians are exporting the Akula-II. Isn’t that a front-line SSN? They must really be hurting for cash.


17 posted on 02/18/2010 7:35:04 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: Dan Middleton
At least this submarine is in better shape than the old, obsolete Charlie II-class sub that India leased from Russia back in the 1990's.
18 posted on 02/18/2010 7:38:47 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry. - Oliver Cromwell)
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To: narses

Each crew member will be issued a lead jock strap for the shakedown cruise...


19 posted on 02/18/2010 7:45:37 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

No kidding.


20 posted on 02/18/2010 7:46:00 PM PST by narses ("lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi")
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