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Very long ! Helfire one of the best 8 km. But for penetration about 1.1/1.3 m RHAe wow !

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Severodvinsk (Russia) (AFP) - Russian emergency crews late Tuesday doused the fire on a nuclear submarine which had been undergoing repairs in dry dock.


Firefighters had been struggling to put out the flames for several hours before finally resorting to flooding the dock and submerging the submarine.

"At this moment, the fire on submarine Orel, which was under repair, has been completely put out," said Yevgeni Gladychev, spokesman for the Zvyozdochka shipyard.

The vessel -- classified as Oscar-II by NATO -- is a cruise missile type sub which carries nuclear material and has two reactors aboard.

"The nuclear fuel had been unloaded from Orel before it was put up on dry dock. The reactor is turned off," Zhitomirsky told RIA Novosti agency.

"There are no weapons on board. It is clear that if the submarine was armed it would not have been accepted for repairs," said the shipyard's spokesman Nikolai Blinov.

Despite attempts by authorities to downplay the incident, reports said Russia's navy chief Admiral Viktor Chirkov flew out to the scene along with a slew of top naval brass.

A statement by the press service of the Zvyozdochka shipyard said that the fire started at 2:00 pm (1100 GMT) in the stern, when welding works impacted rubber-based hull insulation.

"Employees and crew left the submarine in an organised fashion," it said. "Nobody has been hurt."



- Billowing smoke -



Televised footage from the dock had showed black smoke rising above the giant 155 metre-long (508 feet) submarine.

A representative of the Severodvinsk fire service however told AFP that "you can't smell the smoke in the city" and that municipal firefighters were not being called in to help the shipyard's own fire department.

The website of the Zvyozdochka (Star) shipyard said the Orel -- part of Russia's Northern fleet based in the region of Murmansk in the Barents Sea -- has been under repair since November 2013 and that the work would take two years.

Severodvinsk is located in Russia's northern Arkhangelsk region, on the White Sea.

In 2011, the rubberised coating on another nuclear sub called the Yekaterinburg caught fire while it was under repair in the northern port of Murmansk, injuring nine people who inhaled noxious fumes.

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The fire occurred on board the K-266 of Orel 949A Antey Oscar II project in Zvezdochka shipyard was contained [after flooding the dry dock?]. According to the site, the fire should not have any impact either on the delivery of the submarine [announced for 2016], nor the price of this interview. Source:

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Comments: the submarine K-150 Tomsk the same project had experienced the same fate in September 2013, which had led to the dismissal of the director of Zvezda shipyard by Vice Prime Minister Rogozin. The commission of inquiry was subsequently concluded that the fault was at rest with the crew of the submarine. The cause of these fires is to be found in the presence of foam between the thick outer shells, cast foam for construction to increase the buoyancy of these "monsters" 24 000 t submerged [in comparison is a French Terrible given to 14,000 t]. This foam has probably degraded over time, making it more flammable. Available between the two shells makes it very difficult approach, which complicates the detection of fires and annihilation.

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T-14's 2A82 gun seen in the photos doesn't seem to have a thermal sleeve installed installed?

Also, that smooth and almost silent ride suggests two quite important things (TerraN please correct me if I’m wrong): first, the lack of traditional diesel roar and over-rich mixture's belching smoke, so characteristic of most Russian tanks videos, suggests that a drastically lower power band is used, meaning that the power-to-weight ratio might be better than we suspected. Second, the almost complete lack of track clang makes one think that they've finally used the rubberised hinges in the

Back to bottling my Grenache

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Miragedriver said:

T-14's 2A82 gun seen in the photos doesn't seem to have a thermal sleeve installed installed?

Back to bottling my Grenache

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