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Love the IL-78, and just love "primer birds", SU-35 bort 052 also nice, and the Russian WINNER of the "UGLY CHOOPER" contest,,, kinda looks like a Hiller that we flew in the 50s and 60s doesn't it???
Kamman???
Equation
Lieutenant General
Something's cooking over at a Russian naval yard lately.
Russian Navy “Exercise” Sure Looks Like a Submarine on Fire
Russia claims this video shows an “exercise,” but outside observers aren’t so sure.
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Jan 22, 2018
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Video of what the Russian government claims is merely an “exercise” appears to show a submarine on fire.
The video, shot in the Russian fear eastern city of Vladivostok, shows a large fire and thick, black smoke close to several moored Russian Navy submarines. The Russian government says the fire was part of a planned exercise, but the fire and smoke look way too close to the submarines for comfort.
The video emerged yesterday on . According to Russia’s Pacific Fleet, the incident was part of “damage control exercises.” The video shows five submarines tied up at Vladivostok, with a raging fire close to the stern of one.
Here’s a view of the fire from the opposite direction:
The submarine involved appears to be a Kilo-class diesel electric attack submarine. The Kilos dates back to the early 1980s, and has been the main Soviet/Russian non-nuclear submarine since then. Russia’s Pacific Fleet operates six Kilos and Improved Kilos, although it is unclear which submarine this is. The Russian Navy has used Kilo submarines based in the Black Sea to .
The Improved Kilo-class submarine Komsomolsk-on-Amur alongside another Kilo at Vladivostok, January 2017.
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In addition to Russia the submarines are operated by a number of countries, including India, Iran, Vietnam, and China. In 2013, the Indian submarine INS Sindhurakshak portside in Mumbai. A fire in the forward weapons bay triggered explosions of torpedoes and cruise missile warheads in the fully stocked bay. The accident killed eighteen sailors and rendered the ship unrecoverable, and it was finally stricken from Indian Navy rolls in 2017.
The incident has gone quiet on the Internet in the last eighteen hours and is still a mystery. The large, raging fire is clearly too close to the submarine for comfort, and while it may not be directly on the boat the submarine itself is clearly in danger. If the incident began as an “exercise,” at some point it no longer was one and became a fire emergency.
Jura The idiot
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Jura The idiot
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Nov 16, 2017
and recently it's flown for the first time (LOL for the first time after refurbishing):
Equation
Lieutenant General
Russia gotta do with what little budget they got left due to economic sanctioning.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Not just sanctions, The Russian Economic model being based on Petroleum exports is not helping either. The cost of oil is low which means revenues are down.
factor in the cost of operations in Syria, and needs across the Russian defence portfolio and it's all stretched.