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gelgoog

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The Avangard is quite expensive but it can be a way to both increase the maneuverability of the warhead and its range.
Personally I think the design is a bit more complicated than strictly needed. It also needs too large of a launch vehicle. Right now I think it uses the UR-100. It is either that or the R-36 family because the warhead is just plain huge. I think those missiles should have been put to pasture already however. Just too complicated and niche a capability to be useful. If they miniaturize the concept to fit into Yars then it can make sense I think.
 
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Under the ABM treaty the US and Russia were allowed two ABM sites but only around one location. The Russians chose Moscow. The US Grand forks ND. The Russians kept theirs the US decommissioned theirs less than 6 months after activation.
100 missiles each. As for the rest of your population well them is the breaks.
The Russians never liked ABM. Throughout the Cold War they were lacking in numbers of weapons until late war. If the threat of nuclear strikes were rendered obsolete against their counterparts then they argued (along with a large number of westerners) the threat of war increases out of desperation.
Personally the idea that we maintain a standoff for peace sounds like abject insanity.
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Under the ABM treaty, the US chose to protect its nuclear missile and the Russians wanted to protect their leadership. However, the US withdrew from the ABM treaty a while ago.

What the Russians say out in public and they argue in treaties is rather different than what they actually believe:

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This is slightly off-topic but...
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Russia gets operating licence for floating plant
27 June 2019

Russia's Rosenergoatom has received an operating licence for its floating nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov, from the country's regulator Rostechnadzor. The facility is 144 metres in length, 30 metres wide and has a displacement of 21,000 tonnes. It has two 35 MWe KLT-40S reactors.

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The newly-painted Akademik Lomonosov in Murmansk (Image: Rosenergoatom)
Rosenergoatom, the nuclear power plant operator subsidiary of state nuclear corporation Rosatom, said yesterday it is now entitled to operate the new facility for 10 years, up to 2029.

Andrey Petrov, Rosenergoatom CEO, said obtaining the licence is the pinnacle of many years of hard work. "This gives us the opportunity to start transporting the vessel to the Pevek port in late August, where it will then undergo trials and operational launch as part of the floating nuclear heat and power plant at the end of 2019," he added.

The floating power unit is scheduled to be transferred from the Baltic Shipyard to Rosenergoatom by the end of this month, with connection to the Chukotenergo power grid and the city's heat networks expected to be completed by year-end. The plant will eventually replace the withdrawn generating capacities of the Chaunskaya combined heat and power plant in the city of Pevek and the Bilibino nuclear power plant in the city of Bilibino.

"As the floating plant is going to be located in Pevek, it will boost the social and economic development of the Chaun municipal district specifically and Chukotka in general, Rosenergoatom said. In addition, it will become one of the key infrastructure elements within the Northern Sea Route development programme," the company said.

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This is basically a floating barge with two 35 MWe (150 MWt) nuclear reactors.
They are derived from the KLT-40 reactors in the older Taymyr-class icebreakers.

They are going to tow the barge by tugboat to a village in Siberia this summer, moor it in port, and use it as a floating power nuclear power plant to supply that remote region. It will replace four smaller older land based nuclear power reactors and a thermal power plant. So people living in the area will have power for years without need for expensive fuel supply missions.

Russia has a more modern larger 55 MWe reactor named the RITM-200 which is used in the newer, larger, Project 22220 Arktika-class icebreakers. There are plans to also use the RITM-200 on future floating nuclear power plants and possibly in military vessels.
 
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That seems kind of unlikely. I suspect that Losharik was made for deep-sea recovery or maybe even tapping into submarine cables.
It is only similar to Status-6 in that it has a similar carrier vehicle attachment scheme. Some also claimed the Losharik was attached to Belgorod but it is rather obvious Belgorod must still be in sea trials. If the objective was to test Status-6 why did they need the deep submersible Losharik?
 
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Not something you hear of a lot.

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Akademik Pashin tanker completes trials
Posted On Monday, 08 July 2019 10:56

The Akademik Pashin tanker of project 23130 completed a stage of trials in late June to test interaction between the crew and a helicopter. The trials were held in the framework of acceptance tests together with the Navy, Nevsky Shipyard said.
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Akademik Pashin tanker of project 23130 (Picture source: TASS)

"The tanker will soon leave for the home port of call in Murmansk. It is the biggest vessel ever floated by the shipyard. The tanker will operate for the Navy," it said.

Project 23130 tanker is a steel single-deck ship with a bow bulb and pram stern. The displacement is 12 thousand tons, the length is 130 meters. The speed is 16 knots and the range is 8 thousand nautical miles. The tanker is designed to carry and store liquid cargoes, including diesel fuel and air kerosene, as well as dry cargo, such as food and materiel. The construction contract was signed in November 2013 and the lead Akademik Pashin was laid in April 2014. Project 23130 ships can supply major warship formations and aircraft carrying groups.
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Like the article says this vessel is atypically large compared with other ships built prior on that shipyard. Also, the Russians are building two slightly larger Project 23131 tanker ships in Crimea.
 
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10 Jul, 13:29
Russian Navy to get nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
A source earlier told TASS that the Defense Ministry had started work to formulate a technical assignment for a future nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

ST. PETERSBURG, July 10. /TASS/. The Russian Navy will have a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in its structure, although this will not happen in the immediate future, Navy Commander-in-Chief Nikolai Yevmenov told reporters at the St. Petersburg international maritime defense show on Wednesday.

"There will be, of course, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier but not in the short-term perspective," the Navy chief said.

Russia will be developing the construction of aircraft carriers proceeding from available possibilities, he said.

A source in the domestic defense industry earlier told TASS that the Defense Ministry had started work to formulate a technical assignment for a future nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

At the St. Petersburg international maritime defense show that runs on July 10-14, the Nevskoye Design Bureau (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) presented the newest Project 11430E ‘Lamantin’ nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

Russia’s Krylov State Scientific Center showed the conceptual project of a medium aircraft carrier with a nuclear reactor and an auxiliary gas turbine unit at the recent Army-2019 international arms show. The aircraft carrier displaces 76,000 tonnes and is capable of carrying up to 100 aircraft.
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