USS Blue Ridge class
Posted on 11/28/2014 11:20:50 AM PST by yldstrk
A squadron of ships from Russia's Northern Fleet is currently conducting drills in the English Channel, according to Russian media.
The squadron, lead by the Udaloy-class destroyer Severomorsk and including the Alexander Otrakovsky amphibious ship and a tanker, are conducting exercises such as assisting a vessel in distress, communication training and transferring fuel in international waters. The ships are crewed by a total of 250 Russian marines.
Russian media reports that the ships were also conducting drills to "repel air attack".
According to the Russian navy's press service:
"Today, a squadron of ships and support vessels from the Northern Fleet have passed the narrowest part of the English Channel in the Strait of Dover and have entered a bay near the mouth of the Seine River."
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“Yup, the community organizer will wag his finger and may even send a strongly worded letter to the Kremlin.”
It will be worth what? Two or three red lines in the sand.
Some of them will be upstairs with the lasses.
Where’s the tugboat to tow them home if they break down?
Their much-ballyhooed “deployment” to Venezuela a couple years back (nuclear battle cruiser and a destroyer), and the few near-home forays of their 1 “aviation cruiser” Kuznetsov, always have one in company, since they are such pieces of junk.
As someone said, would imagine a couple of Her Majesty’s Perisher graduates are keeping an eye on things.
WHY?... must be afraid of the Lithuanian NAvy threat.. or Latvia..
They are prepareing for “something”.. WHAT!,,
If their Northern Fleet’s flagship is a destroyer, well, that’s just sad.
Wake me when he does.
Were the Brits notified beforehand?
Incomplete, sketchy reporting,.
Leni
Only for 12 nautical miles from the shore.
So while the article makes it seem like the Russian navy is doing something nefarious, they can by international law be in the English channel like British ships can be of the coast of Russia, as long as they stay past the limit.
EL=electronic, pronounced e’Lint
Not in either of our lifetimes.
The US Seventh Fleet's command ship looks like a transport freighter that carries around a bunch of antennae.
Heck, I think it IS a freighter carrying around antennae.
bump
USS Blue Ridge class
Probably just the ‘flagship’ of the battlegroup. This article reads like a bad translation. 250 marines embarked? Uh, I think they mean sailors? But a lot of translators use the term ‘marines’ when that has a very specific definition in the English language.
Calling Lord Nelson...
Calling Admiral Horatio Nelson...
Your navy needs you now.
Telling the muzzie loving Brits in your face.
That is more than enough Russian marines to take the French over.
I guess that is why you are called “OldNavyVet!”
Just in the Lord’s army myself, but thank God for you.
Putin would never dare enter the Chesapeake Bay, if he did Obama would issue him an executive order to leave within six months or whenever is suits him.
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