Far from being a powerful fleet, it seems to be anything but that. And that Aircraft carrier looks to be burning coal. Amazing.
The aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is said to be nuclear powered, why is it huffing smoke in every picture like she was coal fired? Just curious.
"Romanian intelligence defector Ion Mihai Pacepa alleged that an operation for the removal of chemical weapons was prepared by the Soviet Union for Libya, and that he was told over thirty years ago by Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, KGB chairman Yury Andropov, and later, Yevgeny Primakov, about the existence of a similar plan for Iraq.
It is 'perfectly obvious', wrote Pacepa, that the Russian GRU agency helped Saddam Hussein to destroy, hide, or transfer his chemical weapons prior to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. 'After all, Russia helped Saddam get his hands on them in the first place.'[13]
John Loftus, director of The Intelligence Summit, said in the November 16, 2007 issue of FrontPage Magazine that many documents from Iraq point to WMD being transferred to other countries such as Syria: 'As stated in more detail in my full report, the British, Ukrainian and American secret services all believed that the Russians had organized a last minute evacuation of CW [chemical] and BW [biological] stockpiles from Baghdad to Syria.'
His researchers allegedly found a document ordering the concealment of nuclear weapons equipment in storage facilities under the Euphrates River a few weeks before the invasion.[14]"
Just imagine what the hells going on under the surface.
A note to Putin, Obama, and NATO- Why are these ships not sailing as part of a joint task force to restore order in Syria? ISIS and Iran are the enemies of the west. If we fight among ourselves we will die.
The level of reckless brinkmanship and misplaced warmongering we see today is terrifying.
By parading this “seapower” I have a notion Russia sending a redline message. They have stated as policy they will go to tactical nukes very quickly due to the imbalance and condition of their conventional forces. I think we could be close to a limited tactical nuclear war.
The Russian fleet has just that one carrier, which from the looks of it needs a paint job and would be a sitting duck for any NATO country that wanted to sink it. Not sure why the redeployment is being hyped. If anything it is a sign that Russia doesn’t expect conflict with the US Navy in the Med.
Russian squadron heading to the Syrian coast.
"Watch out Russians - a firebreathing Dragon is coming to get you! State-of-the-art Royal Navy destroyer is on its way to make sure Putin's attack fleet leave English Channel " please...
Not really. The Kuznetsov Task Force has been through the English Channel on several occasions. The most recent was May 2014.
There was a time when Russian vessels such as these would end up on the bottom of the North Sea rather than parading triumphantly through the Straits of Dover.