The Russian Navy collapsed 25 years ago.
Navy is very expensive.
I always thought that their submarine fleet was the backbone of their navy and their primary means of projecting seapower in oceans far from home. So my question is, of the 270 ships the Russian Navy has how many are submarines and how many of those are actually operational?
We followed the newest Russian cruiser out of the Black Sea into the Med Sea in 1978. We screwed with them by playing Black Sabbath tapes over the under water phone and tossed Playboy magazines on their decks when they tried to scare us off while we were having a steak cookout on the fantail up wind of them. Give me a break. The Japanese Kicked the Russian fleets ass in World War Two. Bite Me Putin!