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All translations by me.Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.comBlogger293125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-30397559880452182222012-05-25T20:19:00.004-04:002012-05-25T20:19:21.470-04:00The Russian Navy<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sf.press">Now on Facebook. </a>Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-4024618654037238952011-11-01T06:13:00.000-04:002011-11-01T06:13:14.107-04:00Leviathans stirLeviathans <a href="http://navy-rus.livejournal.com/412597.html">stir from the depths</a>...of the shipyard.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What purports to be Project 885 Severodvinsk K-329 gets underway from Sevmash for sea trials on 23 October 2011. <a href="http://kuleshovoleg.livejournal.com/18559.html">More pics here</a>. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The day before, what purports to be Project 985 Borey-class Aleksandr Nevsky K-550 gets underway for the first time. </td></tr>
</tbody></table>Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-26815470115684760172011-10-24T18:37:00.000-04:002011-10-24T18:37:07.628-04:00Way down in the hole.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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The Strategic Rocket Forces must be on some sort of PR blitz, since <a href="http://voutsen-cv.livejournal.com/220519.html">one of the bloggers</a> that visited the Strategic Rocket Forces HQ in Vlasikha (highlighted in the previous post) also visited the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Guards_Rocket_Division">28th Guards Missile Division</a> in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=kozelsk&ll=54.031167,35.79071&spn=0.479119,1.451569&client=safari&oe=UTF-8&hnear=Kozelsk,+Kozel'skiy+rayon,+Kaluga+Oblast,+Russia&gl=us&t=h&z=10&vpsrc=6">Kozelzk</a>, armed with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-19_Stiletto">SS-19 ICBM</a>. Some highlights:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwWzt7WAlnqsLPqKH4G86et86z7rTm2NizTKZLWdK0DfpH26S6N4Z1YxM-eCSCjYbbsqnohoqCQGRUwjQFUC2g1B76l_EbXat_FOdkhnTTCMgxyCIdNgDJHLGlGz0B5S_feBoX5HT5FyH2/s1600/0_a5ecc_398b9a20_XXL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The SRF - Guaranteeing the peace and security of Russia!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quick check of the barracks. Yup, being a conscript still kinda sucks.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Let's eat! "A satiated soldier is the Motherland's shield!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not the worst chow hall I've seen.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I wonder if that's a kosher dog.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Hope the bloggers brought gift bags for the lunch ladies!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So where in the 168th Missile Regiment are we going?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fortunately the truck has a combined <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS">GLONASS</a>/GPS unit so we are TWICE as likely to find the right hole!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We're on a road to nowhere...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I see fence line...must be close.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little building is connected to the guard shack by an underground passage.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The guard shack.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A close up of the device, described by the blogger as as a "firing point", on top of the guard shack.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Finally, the hole!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good shot to get an idea just how big the silo cover is. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm pretty sure there isn't any ICBM, or first stage of an ICBM, in this silo...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">....but let's go down and find out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wait a second...THAT guy is going to hold ME if I slip and fall? Yeah, right!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watch your step getting on the elevator.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What is the proper elevator etiquette in a lift this small?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">"The <a href="http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80">launch canister</a> containing the missile in the the silo launcher is secured with a highly effective mitigation system which provides additional protection to the missile against the destructive effects of a nuclear explosion."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well, now I'm down here and I'm really, really sure there isn't a missile in here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's a long way up...'bout 30 meters<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What do you mean we have to climb the ladder?!?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Let's look at some of the division's special vehicles. Standing in front of what one of the bloggers speculates to be two types of emplacement equipment, one for the missile and one for the front section.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the two emplacers that are in the garage. Although the escorts didn't say why there were two different types, one of the bloggers speculates that this emplacer is used to extract the front section of the missile containing the things that go "boom" and places it into the warhead transport vehicle.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front view of the first emplacer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One blogger speculates that the middle vehicle under canvas is a front section transport van. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The front section and canister emplacers together.<br />
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Taken from <a href="http://voutsen-cv.livejournal.com/220519.html">here</a>, <a href="http://dervishv.livejournal.com/270468.html">here</a>, and<a href="http://russos.livejournal.com/879338.html"> here</a>.</td></tr>
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</div>Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-34139951264174117962011-10-23T16:36:00.000-04:002011-10-23T16:36:59.823-04:00"But they'll see the big board!"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJCfZmMt7An-qrWI4MA4NtR9eRi7oZ1qJE3UqUKpZV3NH9XApDySc-5NdVYicYgyiBJ-vrEjx6IUEtYhEfKdj_oXsb-YK7LMixWcLmKkZ7ThV4HRh-nJYzrjiDrEiqmE9hRNu4v6J7pPQV/s1600/26170096_383b6358db_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJCfZmMt7An-qrWI4MA4NtR9eRi7oZ1qJE3UqUKpZV3NH9XApDySc-5NdVYicYgyiBJ-vrEjx6IUEtYhEfKdj_oXsb-YK7LMixWcLmKkZ7ThV4HRh-nJYzrjiDrEiqmE9hRNu4v6J7pPQV/s640/26170096_383b6358db_o.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><br />
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Apparently the Russian Ministry of Defense Press Club and Strategic Rocket Forces press secretary Vadim Anatolyevich Koval invited a bunch of Russian bloggers into the holiest of holies - the Strategic Rocket Forces Central Command Post and Strategic Rocket Forces Museum (Open 1000-1700 daily, appointments only) in Vlasikha (Odintsevo-10), just outside of Moscow. Let's take a look:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiii8AvQTowuBwJtbVXpK7Ohfh8QaqzTh_fUOtYJ1O3fxNYtDHTRIGpNyegh1P89L-2fIlg2paHMcjxZ6xarG0U_TOYmbEupll3llJK9NRT7P19OIB3yGAYntc0gnsVXnX8LUND_OP8t5Qv/s1600/muzeyrvsn07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiii8AvQTowuBwJtbVXpK7Ohfh8QaqzTh_fUOtYJ1O3fxNYtDHTRIGpNyegh1P89L-2fIlg2paHMcjxZ6xarG0U_TOYmbEupll3llJK9NRT7P19OIB3yGAYntc0gnsVXnX8LUND_OP8t5Qv/s640/muzeyrvsn07.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">You see all sorts of strange playground equipment in Russia, but this is one of the strangest. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_xcZZccO-xU__-_zG98BLTefX7PtI9fHldmE3LqLMJrH0LxUCqfmVsR-A2_VNQKfKWaGnmsqzfF4-W2jyPn4wmcCZMRk7NUxFwqV8r9CVy6kY2DILJXrJb1QopVuTLxoRWL209CsSF0zN/s1600/0_a9a93_e01af6ef_XXL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_xcZZccO-xU__-_zG98BLTefX7PtI9fHldmE3LqLMJrH0LxUCqfmVsR-A2_VNQKfKWaGnmsqzfF4-W2jyPn4wmcCZMRk7NUxFwqV8r9CVy6kY2DILJXrJb1QopVuTLxoRWL209CsSF0zN/s640/0_a9a93_e01af6ef_XXL.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-2_(missile)">SS-2</a> combustion chamber</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-36_(missile)">SS-9 mod 3</a> ICBM instrumentation section</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjllYsbM-BkgeuSMx3HHRi7iT73QU8V-iTdou933jZNuOZi97Q_fy5MikRmo6FVweav_FnPa2ksMNeXP3QE3glShhQljlCLSdgfC_-Wj2N1RjnvPMOS7DO_ETC9qXz1UVdKQYuzZB32nD8U/s1600/125919461.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjllYsbM-BkgeuSMx3HHRi7iT73QU8V-iTdou933jZNuOZi97Q_fy5MikRmo6FVweav_FnPa2ksMNeXP3QE3glShhQljlCLSdgfC_-Wj2N1RjnvPMOS7DO_ETC9qXz1UVdKQYuzZB32nD8U/s640/125919461.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Interesting how it appears from the museum exhibit that the missile shelters were originally designed to look like a farm house, or how the missiles were designed to be hidden in ordinary tractor trailers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUFAeXC0T7q5UuoWme7zC2SmCpjSyiiJuRkUidlTBcSHXZL_TGktQfPBAo9Ts1lK-7b7HwHY-bW5gAVsq1U73V1g4OoMWGDrgNu0Jzrzzl_UxgqLFOAj_24e8YuGff1KHU7C97AKqa234/s1600/0_5d96b_8f37e9ed_orig.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUFAeXC0T7q5UuoWme7zC2SmCpjSyiiJuRkUidlTBcSHXZL_TGktQfPBAo9Ts1lK-7b7HwHY-bW5gAVsq1U73V1g4OoMWGDrgNu0Jzrzzl_UxgqLFOAj_24e8YuGff1KHU7C97AKqa234/s640/0_5d96b_8f37e9ed_orig.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Honey? Did you leave the garage open again? You know those kids will get in and steal the truck again!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVR9xj7n5nqZeUg7Dz2YuclSll4C4FtYMYO5NUFO9nyyMTmFfP7zcD17tdmci4KgboIVHDA2mOa3l_ZKMbTieY1E7YNPd7t5oaKHU9mTV-R1VvkNt_pb0uqkzYBPJ3t5bRTXLWcxifxh5c/s1600/muzeyrvsn37.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVR9xj7n5nqZeUg7Dz2YuclSll4C4FtYMYO5NUFO9nyyMTmFfP7zcD17tdmci4KgboIVHDA2mOa3l_ZKMbTieY1E7YNPd7t5oaKHU9mTV-R1VvkNt_pb0uqkzYBPJ3t5bRTXLWcxifxh5c/s640/muzeyrvsn37.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">You can hide a silo in your uncle's barn, too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh180ffw0ej2Qkopph50iSxG0MECS6k36hzLPRZc6BTuEYF7e_JdJR4FLjUbi72J5_i1VUUOrzfeHDIwKT_2fSVeLUTL684nUsYfFT2lqg6NR0pQTnntLRY72KYpdwHPYDu0Kdvnp-gwE0D/s1600/muzeyrvsn41.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh180ffw0ej2Qkopph50iSxG0MECS6k36hzLPRZc6BTuEYF7e_JdJR4FLjUbi72J5_i1VUUOrzfeHDIwKT_2fSVeLUTL684nUsYfFT2lqg6NR0pQTnntLRY72KYpdwHPYDu0Kdvnp-gwE0D/s640/muzeyrvsn41.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Interesting re-entry vehicle configuration here. Four go up, four go down.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Taken from <a href="http://voutsen-cv.livejournal.com/222150.html#cutid1">here</a>, <a href="http://mmet.livejournal.com/69973.html">here</a>,<a href="http://alexnab.livejournal.com/155731.html"> here</a>, <a href="http://kirill-kaluga.livejournal.com/186918.html">here</a>, and<a href="http://maks-spiker.livejournal.com/24856.html"> here</a>.</div>Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-78892526857187597512011-10-21T18:50:00.000-04:002011-10-21T18:50:51.714-04:00Separated at birth?The Parrot AR drone?<br />
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<a href="http://pilot.strizhi.info/2011/09/22/9706#more-9706">And a Spetsnaz reconnaissance drone? </a><br />
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<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The submarine launched ballistic missile experimental design (OKR) "Layner". Developed by the Makeyev Design Bureau (was SKB-385, Miass). The development of the OKR Layner theme was begun after a decision by the Ministry of Defense and the Military-Industrial Complex in 2008. The design phase of the project was probably prepared in the middle of 2009 and in June 2009 there was a designers conference in which the work schedule was approved. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Vibration testing of the 1Eh1.50.00.000 OKR Layner mock-up was undertaken. The first launch of the flight testing program occurred on 20 May 2011 from Delta IV class K-84 "Ekaterinburg" (Program number 380) from the Barents Sea to the Kura Test Range on Kamchatka. The launch was successful. As a result of these tests, an interagency commission adopted the design and technical documentation to allow serial production and employment. The second launch of the Layner occurred on 29 September 2011 from the Barents Sea with the target at the Kura Test Range on Kamchatka, the launch taking place from the Delta IV K-114 "Tula". On 06 October 2011, the mass media reported the end of the R-29RMU2.1 flight test program. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The production of the missile was ordered from the OAO "Krasnoyarsk Machine Building Factory" and has entered series production…The missile, created as part of the OKR Layner theme, is an improvement of the R-29RMU2 Sineva/RSM-54 armed with more warheads and, probably, a new guidance system. After the Delta IV SSBN is armed with the Layner SLBM, they can remain in service until 2025 or 2030. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV6FBB1o_bPdZHOPeWdbQUgLk4feLzI-sPz6BcABd5Eqi_5hneJc6kWgRISu6VGg4Cffo6WoLi2qzHlNy0umauynY8X3YfvpxtslIYU0-0JNDlD0lCpVF-D-L3o36qVqS8l8FstBFpWB7h/s1600/Cbyyp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV6FBB1o_bPdZHOPeWdbQUgLk4feLzI-sPz6BcABd5Eqi_5hneJc6kWgRISu6VGg4Cffo6WoLi2qzHlNy0umauynY8X3YfvpxtslIYU0-0JNDlD0lCpVF-D-L3o36qVqS8l8FstBFpWB7h/s320/Cbyyp.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: center;">Layner test launcher, K-114 Tula in drydock, 2004.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Launch system - launchers on the Delta IV SLBM. The modernized digital computer system "Arbat-U2.1" will support the operation and combat readiness of the SSBN and it's missile. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Guidance system - Inertial autonomous guidance system, probably with astro correction. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Engines - Liquid in all stages. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Warheads - </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">12 low yield warheads (data not confirmed);</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">10 low yield warheads with ABM penetration aids;</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">8 low yield warheads with strengthened penetration aids;</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">4 medium yield warheads with penetration aids;</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">or, a mixture of low and medium yield warheads with and without penetration aids.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">A new type of low yield re-entry vehicle was developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology together with a nuclear warhead design facility - the All-Russia Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics (Snezhinsk) - and will equip the Topol-M, the Yars, and the Bulava. The new physics package will be employed on the R-29RMU2.1 Layner without any sort of designer modifications by using cables and adapters and also specially designed individual mounting platforms. …</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Sources: Yearly Report of OAO "Makeyev Design Bureau" for 2010</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Konstruktor No.16/2008, No.6/2009, No.5/2011</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Lenta.ru</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Maritime Strategic Missile Systems - Moscow: "Voyennyy Parad", "Makeyev Design Bureau", 2011. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Pretty much what you would expect. Not that I expected it to be something as silly as a conversion of the Sineva from a liquid fueled missile to a solid fueled missile, or that it would be launched from the sea by specially converted Narwhals and from the land from specially converted Unicorns. </div>Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-12738534724971217552010-08-10T17:30:00.001-04:002010-08-10T17:32:37.088-04:00Ballad of the BDRMIf the <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/12/iron-eagle-russian-missileers-and-their-awesomely-bad-anthem/">Strategic Rocket Forces can have their own anthem</a>, and <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/06/awesomely-bad-corporate-video-lets-drink-to-the-russian-gas/">you can drink to Russian gas</a>, why not get out your guitar for the SS-N-23 Sineva?<br />
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I'm at PD passing very close astern....Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-1741285822365080772010-05-25T20:02:00.000-04:002010-05-25T20:02:09.124-04:00Pic of the day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQq1iJCdDB2veOuj_llX6TVzL36-hWzriKXMKXr3g7b6_CaSBZktXYG4qxlylaO8BVzsBD4fm-05LuVZcfjd2jpnhaZ7qmhyphenhyphenuXU9pTk1LTnic4-tuoggLGdNF7I0wfU6vVzuU9oVnRBeL9/s1600/moskva-petr+velikiy+shotline.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQq1iJCdDB2veOuj_llX6TVzL36-hWzriKXMKXr3g7b6_CaSBZktXYG4qxlylaO8BVzsBD4fm-05LuVZcfjd2jpnhaZ7qmhyphenhyphenuXU9pTk1LTnic4-tuoggLGdNF7I0wfU6vVzuU9oVnRBeL9/s640/moskva-petr+velikiy+shotline.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Moskva takes a shot line from the Petr Velikiy, <a href="http://sysoi.livejournal.com/">somewhere in the Indian Ocean</a> a couple of weeks ago.Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-45256261174468126062010-05-24T20:23:00.000-04:002010-05-24T20:23:26.817-04:00I don't think the Russians are going to reconstitute their rail mobile ICBM force anytime this century<blockquote><a href="http://russianforces.org/blog/2010/04/new_start_on_rail-mobile_icbms.shtml">Questions about rail-mobile missiles started to pop up</a> a few days ago. I haven't heard about "reloads", though, until I saw a piece by Christopher Ford, currently a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. Entitled "Does 'New START' Fumble Reloads and Rail-mobile ICBMs" the piece conveniently summarizes the arguments and "frets about" scenarios in which<br />
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"SS-25-style treaty-accountable deployed ICBM launcher could be accompanied by one or more nuclear-armed reload missiles and any necessary reload vehicles,"<br />
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"unlimited numbers of rail-mobile launchers deployed with nuclear-armed missiles."<br />
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All this, of course, is just plain crazy. </blockquote><br />
I think its worth noting what an insane amount of very expensive infrastructure and rolling stock and trials and testing it takes to make a rail mobile ICBM system which you can see for yourself in this video:<br />
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Best part of the video is at about 4:30 where, somewhere on the test range in Plesetsk, they set 900 tons of high explosive 650 meters from an SS-24 rail car set and blew it up for shits and giggles or testing or something. And yet, the narrator of the video claims that that very rail car set survived the explosion and successfully launched an SS-24.Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-51569778221830332962010-05-17T17:44:00.002-04:002010-05-17T18:11:52.596-04:00Watch what you put on Facebook kiddies!It will stay with you forever!<br />
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<a href="http://youropenbook.org/?q=%22fuck+the+navy%22&x=40&y=19&gender=male&gender=female">Although it CAN be almost like poetry (nsfw).</a><br />
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It's also slightly amusing that sailors seem to be disproportionately more dissatisfied with their service than their <a href="http://youropenbook.org/?q=%22fuck+the+army%22&x=0&y=0&gender=male&gender=female">soldier</a>, <a href="http://youropenbook.org/?q=%22fuck+the+airforce%22&x=44&y=13&gender=male&gender=female">airmen</a> and <a href="http://youropenbook.org/?q=%22fuck+the+marines%22&x=24&y=19&gender=male&gender=female">Marine</a> counterparts, although to be fair to the jarheads, only one of them is a Marine and saying FTM. <br />
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But the sailors seem to be very unhappy.Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-48813222094317083792010-05-14T17:58:00.005-04:002010-05-14T18:14:32.648-04:00Panteleyev sailors conduct a ship boarding - video<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/258IaqOEqAY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=ru_RU&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/258IaqOEqAY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=ru_RU&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br />
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I make no claims to the authenticity of this video. I am not certain of the context. It is mostly is Russian (with much NSFW language), partly in English (with NSFW language) and shows several obviously wounded men. <br />
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The explosion at the end is nice though!<br />
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From the description at You Tube: <br />
<blockquote>Yesterday on Tuesday (27 April) at 1812 Moscow time the large antisubmarine ship Admiral Panteleyev captured a pirate ship off of Somalia according to the Ministry of Defense. <br />
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The capture took place at 1812 Moscow time and took place about 15 miles from shore. Inspection of the vessel revealed seven Kalashnikovs, pistols, aluminum boarding ladders, navigation equipment, including satellite navigation, fuel cans and ammunition. <br />
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Twenty nine were detained.</blockquote><br />
Based on the number of pirates in this video, I don't think these were the pirates killed under the auspices of Russia's "catch and release" program.Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-9477504886575113052010-04-26T17:58:00.000-04:002010-04-26T17:58:26.370-04:00And this concludes the winter training cycle...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLav6z0CBQRjY9qmn4bkzg4fENpuaMFP8ogg_g67iCQtrzRVwvl3_ez2ImCPKNhZQWARFAVUFGkgECPJaD6gY8FC2oidaTsQNRCjLJgEvVB8uix3PPFsdtRNWX7kmczMgMPEgtbVKEVnFr/s1600/samun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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Meanwile, in the Black Sea, much the same was happening at the same time last week:<br />
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In the waters around Crimea, a task group repelled an attack by a notional enemy. Cruise missile strikes destroyed targets with direct hits. More than 15 ships participated in the large scale exercises. The strike group consisted of the <a href="http://flot.sevastopol.info/photos/photo_mrk/samum_00.htm">air cushion missile boat Samum</a>, <a href="http://flot.sevastopol.info/photos/photo_mrk/shtil_00.htm">the small missile boat Shtil</a> and two cutters. Naval Aviation helicopters and aircraft supported the exercise. The tactical commander was given complete freedom of action. These have been the first exercises of its kind in almost three years. The agreement to extend the lease of Sevastopol Naval Base has led to better relations between the Slav brothers and means that the Russians plan to hold joint exercises with the Ukrainian Navy.<br />
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And here are some fun <a href="http://forum.sevastopol.info/viewtopic.php?p=4854966#p4854966">eyewitness pics</a> of the Black Sea exercises.<br />
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The Russian Navy Blogger doesn't have those clothes anymore...Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-21893837471714690202010-04-26T17:10:00.000-04:002010-04-26T17:10:34.353-04:00Photos of the day: Alang shipbreakers, India<a href="http://u-96.livejournal.com/2111567.html">Via</a><br />
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Rock on.Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-32896450923522736272010-04-23T23:08:00.000-04:002010-04-23T23:08:14.267-04:00Imagine<a href="http://ephphatha-poetry.blogspot.com/2010/04/imagine-if-tea-party-was-black-tim-wise.html">Imagine: </a><br />
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<blockquote>Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government? Would these protester — these black protesters with guns — be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that’s what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation’s capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country’s political leaders if the need arose.</blockquote> What do I imagine? I imagine a lot of white folk with dirty undies, that's what I imagine!Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-73952219542837790122010-04-23T06:33:00.000-04:002010-04-23T06:33:31.882-04:00Happy Charles Krauthammer Day!<div class="format_text entry-content"> Charles Krauthammer has had seven years.<a href="http://crookedtimber.org/2010/04/22/have-a-blessed-charles-krauthammer-day/"> How's that search going, Chuckie</a>?<br />
<blockquote>Hans Blix had five months to find weapons. He found nothing. We’ve had five weeks. Come back to me in five months. If we haven’t found any, we will have a credibility problem.</blockquote> Yet, that war worshipping pundit continues to have a forum, like Bill Krystal, like Tom Friedman, et. al, while the Dirty Fucking Hippies that were right continue to be Dirty Fucking Hippies.<br />
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It's Fox News' world, we only barely survive in it. <br />
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Rock on.Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-28019739705632943412010-04-20T18:22:00.000-04:002010-04-20T18:22:12.004-04:00Smokers in the Gulf of Aden Anyone remember smokers?<br />
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Rough gist: The flagship of the Black Sea Fleet has reached the Gulf of Aden, one of the most dangerous seas in the world. The cruiser will spend a few days there training. As the cruiser passes through the Bab el Mendab, the Gulf of Aden lies ahead. But the cruiser doesn't have to worry about Somali pirates that the sailors are vigilant against. There have been a couple of times in the past month when Somali pirates mistook warships for civilian ships, with disasterous results. The crew is read history and stories about the region during meals over the 1MC.<br />
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Marines stand four hour watches on deck. After watch in the 40 degree heat, the Marines do PT. Dozens watch as they do hand to hand combat on deck. A Marine explains that long-range combat can turn hand to hand at any minute, so they practice. The gunners' mates won a competition, their Captain lifting a 24kg weight more than 100 times.<br />
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By the end of the week, the ship will be on course for India and they'll start reading up on the Indian Ocean.Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-23505903857638304912010-04-20T18:08:00.000-04:002010-04-20T18:08:02.023-04:00Local old age home turns out to greet USS John L Hall in Sevastopol, Ukraine<object height="353" width="470"><param name="movie" value="http://video.rutube.ru/eac86a502a691ada4299018d85b5ad77"></PARAM><param name="wmode" value="window"></PARAM><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></PARAM><param name="flashVars" value="uid=609833"></PARAM><embed src="http://video.rutube.ru/eac86a502a691ada4299018d85b5ad77" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" width="470" height="353" allowFullScreen="true" flashVars="uid=609833"></EMBED></OBJECT><br />
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Gist: About a hundred activists turned out to greet the USS John L Hall at the pier in Sevastopol. They carried anti-US and anti-NATO signs and shouted "Yankee go home!". The Ukrainian authorities delayed the Hall's entry into port in hopes the small crowd would disperse, but in vain. <br />
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Comment: In contrast to the visits of the USCG Dallas and the USS Mount Whitney back in 2008, right after the Five Day War, the crowds are much smaller and there isn't much discussion of the visit on message boards.<br />
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Just a normal port visit to an almost normal foreign port, like anywhere else in the world.Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991917726704497295.post-25690301493226510012010-04-19T19:13:00.001-04:002010-04-19T19:24:46.869-04:00Is this some sort of anti-ballistic missile maybe?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCINcetdwZbsoPYqDjHNg-OpB6I6P9D-TADmj_s53flQfzg1q0sAd56F4xr9WVMaig5rTLmY-PZ0sD8VDhYoKnZ9jlAxV_rYU-iFHpjwixTCx14Lm00UXeu5-nGtXQVFw-B114jedR0Vct/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCINcetdwZbsoPYqDjHNg-OpB6I6P9D-TADmj_s53flQfzg1q0sAd56F4xr9WVMaig5rTLmY-PZ0sD8VDhYoKnZ9jlAxV_rYU-iFHpjwixTCx14Lm00UXeu5-nGtXQVFw-B114jedR0Vct/s640/1.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTUCoxa74cf704FoFh0Sk_pFSn0-zm6x4T5D2itmZkEfEHAF0rluVmgebn_toL8XUX14IQEzX15LZ0ZPU66Xd1Da-kUIkgPXYtSO66E4ItRvRsnanWNB6BJNIhkQKrf-jk0IZ774Hs4bIZ/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTUCoxa74cf704FoFh0Sk_pFSn0-zm6x4T5D2itmZkEfEHAF0rluVmgebn_toL8XUX14IQEzX15LZ0ZPU66Xd1Da-kUIkgPXYtSO66E4ItRvRsnanWNB6BJNIhkQKrf-jk0IZ774Hs4bIZ/s640/2.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJq-WQN65JHgSgifnuJSs_tZ291R8IOHE_vx6S3gISEVP_SZWeYo0bLwsz7RMOe_lTz8X5yWMPR3osq0nHwZ-0nVuGpr4RTcp4ffgN9exnGhkB-bXvqs7xhnxdyscjxWj60DIclbUOCqnq/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJq-WQN65JHgSgifnuJSs_tZ291R8IOHE_vx6S3gISEVP_SZWeYo0bLwsz7RMOe_lTz8X5yWMPR3osq0nHwZ-0nVuGpr4RTcp4ffgN9exnGhkB-bXvqs7xhnxdyscjxWj60DIclbUOCqnq/s640/3.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglyXKEmHrBxzGE7R_c73ygHGWJqvmSYjOm9WhO4TzqyuvuMl1iyrIOsyElm43GJX7k9zqb4GVhw6oQVBmKwh_Iqfxm6UVsMfD9GYMgoGed-YzU-LaG3Lgksk6ct2el-pxW57M3b1RSsrlQ/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglyXKEmHrBxzGE7R_c73ygHGWJqvmSYjOm9WhO4TzqyuvuMl1iyrIOsyElm43GJX7k9zqb4GVhw6oQVBmKwh_Iqfxm6UVsMfD9GYMgoGed-YzU-LaG3Lgksk6ct2el-pxW57M3b1RSsrlQ/s640/5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga_w2VpLxRnNG4iUagQfK9SpgNtnUKjS9ac_eM48mFLuGV9ZIiewYnOaXcWy1nWd14UJHgofbYe8AgpirVmrwBlIAXMStCdsRRRs4lLUfowaSj4QKFttJWoshX0QRXVXIC6LulfhHHRTv-/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga_w2VpLxRnNG4iUagQfK9SpgNtnUKjS9ac_eM48mFLuGV9ZIiewYnOaXcWy1nWd14UJHgofbYe8AgpirVmrwBlIAXMStCdsRRRs4lLUfowaSj4QKFttJWoshX0QRXVXIC6LulfhHHRTv-/s640/4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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I'm guessing an ABM of some sort...<br />
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Update: Apparently it is an ABM...<br />
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Peter the Great apparently made an uneventful transit through the Suez Canal. Meanwhile, the Moskva is supposed to make a <a href="http://www.navy.ru/news/navy/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=46896">port call in Muscat, Oman</a> on 24 April en route exercises in the Indian Ocean and eventual participation in Vostok-2010. <br />
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In other deployment news, the escort ships Yaroslav Mudriy and Neustrashimyy along with the tanker Olekma <a href="http://www.navy.ru/news/navy/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=46872">returned to their Baltic Fleet base in Baltiysk</a>. The Yaroslav Mudriy was in the Mediterranean on her first deployment when the Neustrashimyy joined her as the Neustrashimyy was returning from her duty off the Horn of Africa.Russian Navy Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119671832425902500noreply@blogger.com0