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[KC_Lion]

Very Interesting, Ping for your interest.

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[DoughtyOne]

I always enjoy your military hardware posts sukhoi-30mki...

[BenLurkin]

A dangerous potential adversary , no doubt. But happily for the West, the heritage of the Russian Navy is lackluster at best.

[Mariner]

Back in the olden days we were taught to fear these ships.

High respect.

[doorgunner69]

That ship class has been stunning for a long time. Have to be hideously expensive to keep running, as often as they are in the yard.

[allendale]

Actually while these rockets are dangerous they are not stealthy and are outdated. A supercarrier has much more to fear from innovative technology such as stealthy flocks of “seagull” drones. Each less than a foot long, armed with C4 explosive, launched far from target and directed to target from a console far away. Sorry but in the era of modern technology big surface ships are obsolete and vulnerable death traps for their crews.

[SaveFerris]

[ 1,650 high explosive charge or a 500kt thermonuclear warhead. In the case of the former, a near miss is still a certain kill, although it’s very unlikely that the Russians still deploy these missiles loaded with nuclear warheads. ]

In the case of the latter.

[Paladin2]

Looks like the Rooskies need some high temp marine paint.

What ever happened to the supersonic torpedos?

[DesertRhino]

Big looking ship, beautiful lines and powerful. But an Iowa battleship is over twice the size.

[Steely Tom]

Yeah, I'm sure Phalanx CIWS could never hit an incoming platform moving on a nearly constant radial with a frontal area that appears to be about the size of a semi, moving at less than Mach 2.

[prophetic]

I’m sure that ship will always have at least 1 of our nuclear attack subs watching her 24x7 silently.

[Mashood]

The Russians have more to fear from a ramming by the US Navy than our carriers.

[central_va]

SS-N-19 has a range of 338 miles. At mach 2 that is a 15 minute TOF. Two things about that. Getting a large enemy combatant within 400NM of a CVBG is going to be tough in wartime-for them. If fired from maximum range 15 minutes is a long heads up time. In wartime satellites will tell us the moment this attack begins.