Russian Navy Blog

VPK quotes a Chinese blog that the ex-Soviet almost carrier Varyag is going to be commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy as a training carrier, giving the People's Liberation Army a People's Liberation Army Naval Airforce with fixed wing capability:  VPK:According to the Chinese source blog.sina.com, the leadership of the...

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The Black Sea Fleet flagship, the missile cruiser Moskva has  a couple of international exercises planned for the spring of 2010. The ship will sail for the Mediterranean to participate in PASSEXes with ships from Italy and France. The cruiser also plans to take part in bilateral naval exercises with...

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For finding this clip and featuring it on your show this week:...

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Allegedly.USS Kitty Hawk, 17 October 2000, Sea of JapanWhat I'd like to know is why Russian film stock for their recon photos sucks so bad....

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While surfing through some photos of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov at the pier, I ran across these photographs:What is that in the upper right corner, behind the kingpost on that red ship moored nearby?Why it appears to be the former Golf class diesel powered ballistic missile submarine K-118, later...

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Livejournalist igor113 has an excellent series of photos of the weird and wonderful Caspian Sea Monster. There are photos of the flight deck (bridge? flight deck? I have no idea what to call it!), the crew quarters (the ekranoplan could stay at sea for five days), the galley, the anchor...

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The head of Murmansk Oblast Dmitriy Dmitrienko gifted his apartment to the commander of BPK Severomorsk...According to the official press release, the governor gave the apartment to the CO "during the fleet wide formation held in honor of Armed Forces Day. Captain First Rank Andrey Klimenko, captain of the Severomorsk,...

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Because anyone who owns a CRESCENT wrench, an obvious symbol of Islamic Jihad if I've ever seen one, clearly wants Sharia law in the United States:The Obama administration’s determined effort to reduce America’s missile defense capabilities initially seemed to be just standard Leftist fare — of a piece with the...

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Don't know when this was filmed, but it doesn't look good to my black shoe clad eye. Make sure you check out the tailhook....

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 Via Vladimir Pelevin's blog:Gist: A task force left Vladivostok for the Indian Ocean today consisting of the large anti-submarine warfare ship (BPK) Marshall Shaposhnikov, the ocean going tug and the tanker Pechenga. The sailors will ensure the security of vessels in the Horn of Africa area. This will be the fourth...

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An undated photo of an SS-N-18 being loaded into/removed from an unidentified Delta III with the Marshal Krylov missile range ship in the background....

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American Porno Model Adopts a Child From Russia.Model and Lesbian Tila Tequila Adopts Child From Russia.What ever you do Russia, you don't EVEN want to know what we would retaliate with if you send up Ksenia Sobchak...Mutually Assured Cultural Destruction, Bitchez!...

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All I have to do is consult a lawyer first. If that lawyer gives me bad legal advice which causes me to commit all manner of sordid and horrible crimes, I'm covered, since "lawyers can make really really crazy arguments and still avoid professional sanction" and they can have honest...

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Its pretty disgraceful and historically ignorant to say that homosexuals can't be warriors (ever hear of the ancient Greeks?). And Tony Perkins, who never served a day in the military, lecturing people about "conditions in the barracks" is amusing.But comparing honorably serving homosexuals to drug dealers and thieves is pretty...

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Chill Descends Over Russia as Olympic Medals Prove ElusiveAfter Australian aboriginal groups accused a Russian ice dancing pair of mocking aborigines, Valentin Piseev, president of the Russian Figure Skating Federation, suggested that they were the target of an international plot to force them to alter their performance.“I think that this...

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When did moustaches go out of style in rock?...

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 Photo: K-480 being rolled out of the building hall at SevMash, 16 April 1988. Source: military.tomsk.ru and TV program Udarnaya SilaArkhangel'sk - The efforts to extinguish a fire on a submarine awaiting disposal at the Zvezdochka Shipyard in Severodvinsk has been continuing for seven hours according to a source. The...

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One of these days, when the evil boys they come, where you gonna run to?...

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 Moskva in drydock recently, though she's out as of 05 Feb and apparently preparing to deploy to the Far East and never return. Or return by Navy Day in late July, one of the two. I mean the future Azov-Black Sea Flotilla.The "Moskva" wont return to the Black Sea Fleet...

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An' go to your Gawd...no, wait a minute, that can't be right...back to your socialist paradise in a zinc box marked груз 200 like a fighter in support of international socialist solidarity.In commemoration of the Reds getting their asses kicked back across the Panj and returning to a country that...

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"Space is a battlefield. 'Mass culture' has been preparing the American public for this long before Reagan's plan to militarize space. The cast of the film 'Battlestar Galactica'. The hateful gaze, the laser pistols..."Yep. We're gonna smoke your ass from MARS BITCHES! In mini-skirts! With turd looking robot dogs! To...

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 America! Fuck Yeah!Republicans! (murmur) Books! (crickets). ...

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 The former Bezzavetnyy, shown in typical Ukrainian colorsTwo different views (with my very rough translation of Russian report):Twenty years ago, an attempt to enter Soviet territorial waters ended with the US Navy learning a lesson. Here is a unique view of the two powers in the Black Sea. They came...

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An SS-18 Satan ICBM gets removed from its silo.I need a cigarette......

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