Russian aircraft carrier towed home after break down
Sorry, but the Russian Navy is just as broken down and junky now, as it was in the 1990s, if not more so.
Posted on 03/09/2023 2:59:49 AM PST by EBH
U.S. military commanders and experts are sounding warnings about the buildup of Russian submarines off American coasts.
The Russian buildup of naval assets is more expansive than just the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, and it includes seas surrounding the United States, sources told Newsweek.
"Nuclear-powered submarines have been deploying off the coast of the United States and into the Mediterranean and elsewhere along Europe periphery," Russia Maritime Studies Institute (RMSI) Director Michael Peterson told Newsweek, warning the deployments "mirror Soviet style submarine deployments in the Cold War."
Among the assets off the coasts are nuclear-capable submarines in the Severodvinsk class, which was also has been warned by U.S. Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, who runs the Northern Command and NORAD.
"They just moved subs, their first [Severodvinsk submarine] into the Pacific," VanHerck warned last October. "Another is out in the Mediterranean right now, and another that's out on its way into the Atlantic. That will be a persistent, proximate threat capable of carrying a significant number of land-attack cruise missiles that can threaten our homeland."
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Yep. It sure is nice to know we are on the winning side, despite the fact that the march to victory is often 3 steps forward and 2 steps back.
Briefing to the UN Security Council on the Nord Stream pipeline [excerpt]
https://www.jeffsachs.org/recorded-lectures/f4rsfnzw9rbdx2tz2n38lfgsctsbc8
The destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines required a very high degree of planning, expertise, and technological capacity. The Nord Stream 2 pipelines are a marvel of engineering (see, for example, here and here). Each section of pipe is rolled steel of 4.5 cm thickness, and with a pipeline internal diameter of 1.15 meters. The pipe is encased in concrete of 10.9 cm thickness. The weight of each section of concrete-encased pipe is 24 metric tons. The Nord Stream 2 pipelines, some 1,200 kilometers in length, contain around 200,000 pipes. The pipelines sit on the sea floor.
Destroying a pipeline of heavy rolled steel, encased in concrete, at the depth of 70-90 meters, requires highly advanced technologies for transportation of the explosives, diving to install the explosives, and detonation. To do so undetected, in the exclusive economic zones of Denmark and Sweden, adds greatly to the complexity of the operation. As a number of senior officials have confirmed, an action of this sort must have been carried out by a state-level actor.
Only a handful of state-level actors have both the technical capacity and access to the Baltic Sea to have carried out this action. These include Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, Norway, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, either individually or in some combination. Ukraine lacks the necessary technologies, as well as access to the Baltic Sea.
A recent report by the Washington Post revealed that the intelligence agencies of the NATO countries have privately concluded that there is no evidence whatsoever that Russia carried out this action. This also comports with the fact that Russia had no obvious motive to carry out this act of terrorism on its own critical infrastructure. Indeed, Russia is likely to bear considerable expenses to repair the pipelines.
Three countries have reportedly carried out investigations of the Nord Stream terrorism: Denmark, Germany, and Sweden. These countries presumably know much about the circumstances of the terrorist attack. Sweden, in particular, has perhaps the most to tell the world about the crime scene, which its divers investigated. Yet instead of sharing this information globally, Sweden has kept the results of its investigation secret from the rest of the world. Sweden has refused to share its findings with Russia, and turned down a joint investigation with Denmark and Germany.
Our own FReeper, LS, wrote a book about submarines — one of DH’s favorites.
Russian aircraft carrier towed home after break down
Sorry, but the Russian Navy is just as broken down and junky now, as it was in the 1990s, if not more so.
Ugh, I have a family member who did sub duty for the better part of 6 years. He read a lot and talked like a sailor when he left the navy.
My special loved ones all live near major targets - - and me too. So none of us will even see the flash.
Thank God.
Let’s go Brandon.
I believe we know the truth. I believe we know who the instigators and planners are too. I am guessing the people who carried it out may be of more than one nationality.
This is not a decades-old photo, unlike yours.
Not likely to be of more than one nationality. Too close-held for that. And it required technical divers (not SEALs) with a recompression chamber available. The idea it was done by six non-state SCUBA divers on a chartered yacht is a really lame backup cover story. Might as well say I climbed Mt. Everest barefoot with no oxygen tanks.
Uh, no:
Sailor Found Not Guilty of Setting Fire That Destroyed USS Bonhomme Richard
The Soviets would also include Ukraine.
“Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary - The American Navy.”
Russian Nuke Subs
Nuclear-powered submarines
nuclear-capable submarines
Make up my mind.
I read there was a navy vessel not terribly far from the area that day. Of course they denied that it had anything to with this incident.
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The word on the street is that Russian subs are ineffective death traps more dangerous to their crews than the American Navy
Does that mean all the offshore programmers go bye-bye?
“ The Soviets would also include Ukraine.”
As a conquered area.
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