Russia Holds Large-scale Naval Exercise in Far East

People's Daily ^ | 08-18-03

[TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa]

Is the show for North Korea, South Korea, USA, or the chicoms?

[ClearCase_guy]

A major naval exercise -- and it involves 20 aircraft? Methinks the US navy dominates the water even more than our air force dominates the sky.

[WestPacSailor]

GAME ON! I bet the bubbas at 7th Fleet and JICPAC are sporting a chubby over this one.

[xrp]

Russia sold off most of their (few) carriers, didn't they?

[The Pheonix]

ping

[Severa]

*eyes the calendar as the date for husband's 6 month deployment approaches within a few months* Hmmm. Interesting...

[WestPacSailor]

They only finished one, Kuznetsov, and it's in the Northern Fleet. Second one was sold to China for use as a "floating attraction".

[The Pheonix]

Pres PUTIN's vision is for Russia to regain her former glories as a Superpower,........

[WestPacSailor]

Methinks the US navy dominates the water even more than our air force dominates the sky.

Thou speakest much truth. Verily I say unto you there ist not a naval force on the planet, or even two or three combined, that can even pretend to challenge the U.S. Navy.

[TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa]

Then give them a raise and buy them a few more ships and a few more bombs. If we're going to win let's win big.

[AlextheWise1]

it will be interesting to see how many make it out of port....

[xrp]

Weren't a pair of Kiev class sold to India? India has been buying some decent carriers the past couple of decades. They got the old Hermes from Great Britain, too, I think.

[Seydlitz]

You mean that they got their tug boats working?

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[Seydlitz]

We dominate the high seas. The problem will be operating in the Straits of Taiwan under a hail of Chinese anti-ship missiles. There's a high likelihood of Iron Bottom Sound II.

[OPS4]

This is to show N. Korea a bit of solidarity between
Japan, S. Korea, Russia, and the United States,
note China is not mentioned.
Ops4 God Bless America!

[OPS4]

Correction, China is there too.
I guess everyone has decide to observe.
Ops4 God Bless America!

[WestPacSailor]

Weren't a pair of Kiev class sold to India?

The Kiev's were not true aircraft carriers but more like helicopter equipped cruisers with big flight decks. They did operate Yak-38s VTOL fighters, but those were never considered a serious threat to anyone except the pilot.

[WestPacSailor]

Problem? Yes...but not an insurmountable one. Remember, in order for these assets to pose a substantial threat they require over the horizon targeting (OTHT) imputs from either aircraft/helos or surface units. Neither of these assets will last long once the shooting war starts. Also, keep in mind that the AEGIS equipped cruisers and destroyers were built specifically to counter mass cruise missile attacks, and we've recently seen how capable the Army's Patriot PAC III system is against missiles.