New Russian Nuclear Sub Catches U.S. By Surprise...

Geostrategy-direct.com ^ | Bill Gretz

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[Don Joe]

"The deployment of the Gepard surprised U.S. intelligence agencies which had not expected to see the new submarine launched for several years."

This is inexcusable. There is no acceptable explanation for unawareness of a ship like this, given the overwhelming drive for publicity that accompanies every Daschle-class creation.

[Don Myers]

"The sub, in the log run, may not be all it's cracked up to be. Plus, can they deploy these in any great number within the next 10 years??"

Ah, the eternal optimist. My congratulations to you.

[Stavka2]

So, is the US the only nation allowed to develop new weapons? If not, then a lot of Freepers need to end their hypocracy...yes, I know, it's a pipe dream.

[JasonC]

What I want someone to ask Putin and company is why they are still selling nuclear reactors to Iran. As though they don't have enough oil to generate electricity. Obviously the only reason the Iranians want them is to further their nuke development program (research, learning neutron-slowing techniques, and also enriching uranium with the free neutrons given off by the reactors probably). Putin pretends he wants to work with us against Muslim terrorism, but then he proliferates nuclear technology to the paymasters of Hezbollah.

He makes trouble with his left hand, and then basks in cooperative glow for shaking ours with his right. We are oh so happy that he helps instead of making trouble. But to get rewarded for changing to helping, over and over, it is obviously necessary to keep making trouble - also over and over. This seems to be a sort of perennial disease in how Russians view political power. They view it as a means to make trouble, and then bargain over how much they will get to stop. A little, and only for a while. It is a fool's game, and we should not play it with them. If they want to be treated as allies over terrorism, they should drop the "favorite Mullah" troublemaking.