Posted on 03/18/2011 9:39:12 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Russian Navy to receive 10 Graney class attack subs by 2020
The Russian Navy is planning to commission up to 10 Graney class nuclear-powered attack submarines by 2020, a high-ranking Navy official said.
"We are expecting to receive about 10 new Yasen [Graney] class attack submarines in the next ten years," the source told RIA Novosti on Friday.
The first Graney class sub, the Severodvinsk, will enter service with the Navy by the end of 2011. The second vessel, the Kazan, is being built at the Sevmash shipyard in the northern Russian city of Severodvinsk.
The construction of the third Graney class submarine will begin in 2011.
Graney class nuclear submarines are designed to launch a variety of long-range cruise missiles (up to 3,100 miles or 5,000 km), with conventional or nuclear warheads, and effectively engage submarines, surface warships and land-based targets.
The submarine's armament includes 24 cruise missiles and eight torpedo launchers, as well as mines and anti-ship missiles.
Are they replacements for the Akula and Sierras or for the Oscars?
replacement for the Akula class
One ping only!
"Andrei, you've lost another submarine?"
I really enjoyed watching that movie again the other day. Still have the book as published by the Naval Press.
The good old days..... :-)
That was a great scene.
I don’t get it. First we hear that Russia is committing slow-motion ethnic suicide with alcoholism, low life expectancy, a plunging birth rate due to abortion and its fecund women seeking foreign spouses, plus a demoralized underpaid military.
Then we hear about their brand new military hardware, both for national use and for export. Weapons, tanks, aircraft, and now it’s up to date submarines, all made in Russia.
What’s next, they’ll soon be a net exporter of wheat?
What gives? I’m a bit confused.
They’ve become capitalist, we’ve become soviet.
I wish they would make “Red Storm Rising” into a movie....it would be a classic.
Ambassador Andrei Lysenko: There is another matter... one I'm reluctant to...
Dr. Jeffrey Pelt: Please.
Ambassador Andrei Lysenko: One of our submarines, an Alfa, was last reported in the area of the Grand Banks. We have not heard from her for some time.
Dr. Jeffrey Pelt: Andrei... you've lost another submarine?
Absolutely in agreement there! One of my best techno thrillers.
Only problem its Red China that is a threat to the world.
The Soviet Union I think is going through a generation phase of restructuring, modernizing and eliminating wasteful programs. Quite frankly I can actually see them in the future say 100 years from now as the number one superpower, they won’t be communists anymore either.
America and China will be empty barren lands after each other fight to the death.
Last time I checked their wheat production is peaking every year. They are exporting more and more every year and won’t import it at all in a few more year.
America and China will be empty barren lands after each other fight to the death.
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Nay. After the present Soviet stage passes, America will take up the French phase, replete with major white flag manufacturing industries using imported laborers who will do the jobs Americans won’t do.
It will be China and Russia who will fight to the death.
IIRC, before 1914 Russia itself was known as the `breadbasket of Europe’. Under communism this shrank to Ukraine being called `the breadbasket of the Soviet Union’.
Then there were all those unfortunate `famines’, beginning with the Ukrainian horror of the 1930’s, and the USSR was importing so much wheat from the U.S. than someone joked that in case of WWIII, move to Kansas `cause they would never bomb the wheat. Guess the answer is,
“The Russians are going capitalist and we’re going communist!”
Red Storm is my favorite Clancy book but I think it is so broad in scope, especially the worldwide locations and technical details, that Hollywood would not be able to do it justice. They are too stupid to get the intricacies correct and seem to always cut out some of the best parts.
Also, I have yet to see one of his books turned into a movie that was not bastardized so much the story was almost unrecognizable.
“And up from the ground came a bubbling crude. Oil that is. Black gold. Texas Tea.”
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