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The Russian Navy vessel Priazovye has helped to evacuate 308 people from war-torn Yemen. The Russian Defense Ministry stated citizens from 19 countries had been rescued, including Russian, Ukrainian, US and Yemini nationals.

The Russian warship departed the southern Yemeni port of Aden on Sunday night and is due to arrive in Djibouti, on the east coast of Africa on Monday morning.

“Among those evacuated from the zone of hostilities in the Aden area, were citizens of 19 countries, including 45 Russian nationals,” Igor Konashenkov, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.

There were also a number of foreign citizens aboard the Priazovye, including 18 Americans, 14 Ukrainians, nine Belorusians, five UK citizens, as well as 159 Yemeni nationals....
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Interesting class of ships, very little is known about them because of their secretive mission . They still serve in Russian navy, probably upgraded .

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Air Force Brat

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Jura said:
there's one thing (which I didn't translate at first, since I thought nobody would read my post :) here most people don't care about events more than like three days old ...): later they flooded the dock!
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The sub is prolly on a floating dock, when you are welding you need the boat out of the water to do it right? typically the way the Russians fight these large coating/insulation fires?? just flood the floating dock and let the H2O "snuff" it.
 
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thunderchief said:
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Interesting class of ships, very little is known about them because of their secretive mission . They still serve in Russian navy, probably upgraded .
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There's a nice pic at the site of one of these sailing in close proximity to the USS Texas, CGN-39, a US nuclear powered cruiser in 1988.

That's the Soviet AGI Kareliya SSV-535

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These were all commissioned as signals intelligence ships in the 1980s so are in their 30s in terms of service life. Probably do not have that many sea miles on them...but would be interesting to see how many are still active.

As long as the maintained them well, they should be fine.

This one that did the evacuations in Yemen looked in pretty good shape.

And yes, I imagine that they have been upgraded.
 
thunderchief

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Jeff Head said:
There's a nice pic at the site of one of these sailing in close proximity to the USS Texas, CGN-39, a US nuclear powered cruiser in 1988.
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Yup, part of the mission of such ships is to be pretty audacious :D They are lightly armed and usually operate alone and far from friendly vessels . Sometimes they end up being attacked even during peacetime , like USS Pueblo or USS Liberty .
 
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