Yes, but by who? Putin and? And what happened to that other signatory soon afterwards?ArmChairCivvy wrote:navy base lease was renewed for another 40 years just prior the 2014 invasion,
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- 12 Nov 2018, 17:59
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Russian Armed Forces
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 68591
Re: Russian Armed Forces
- 12 Nov 2018, 17:18
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Russian Armed Forces
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 68591
Re: Russian Armed Forces
The black sea fleet of Russia is based in Crimea. He certainly wouldn't be independent. If it were independent, we would have seen the same picture as in the DPR and LPR - banditry and poverty. And now everything is very good in Crimea. Problem of these two "republics" is mostly that the ...
- 12 Nov 2018, 17:14
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9744769
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Question should a well designed warship be compartmented to the extent that a single hole below the waterline can lead to immanent sinking when there is no explosion and fire , a warship is supposed to be built to absorb, mitigate, and control damage, or was this a result of a poor warship design. ...
- 12 Nov 2018, 16:59
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Russian Armed Forces
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 68591
Re: Russian Armed Forces
Do not compare the annexation of Crimea to Russia and the attempt to separate Chechnya in a row. Chechnya tried to separate Islamic fanatics and we would have received before the Caliphate in the North Caucasus region. More terrorist attacks and more migrants. Nope, Chechenya and Crimea are exactly...
- 12 Nov 2018, 15:35
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Russian Armed Forces
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 68591
Re: Russian Armed Forces
This was said in 2011; since then the Silovniki faction seems to have completely (?) taken over, and cemented their position since 2014 by fomenting the nationalistic hysteria: He sad the problem of corruption was deeply rooted in the Russian society, "it persisted for centuries and is yet to ...
- 12 Nov 2018, 14:40
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Russian Armed Forces
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 68591
Re: Russian Armed Forces
Russia and vast majority of its people are anything but bad, but it has a vary small group that hold 99% of the power and wealth and think they can do what they want to whoever they want. They control all major media outlets and enjoy taking direct action against anyone who even looks at them funny...
- 12 Nov 2018, 14:38
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9744769
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
So - do you think that we will build a piece of kit (the T26s) at great expense and then not equip it, or do you think it is more likely that another line of kit will simply be eliminated in its entirety, thus making better use of resources? . Considering that's UK MoDs long standing policy ( Type ...
- 12 Nov 2018, 14:17
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9744769
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
NickC wrote:Are you OK, at times you come across in need of help, may be need to book yourself onto an anger management course to keep the blood pressure down.Ron5 wrote:
Utter bollox // Utter bollex // Utter bollex // You are a troll.
- 12 Nov 2018, 14:16
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Boeing E-3D Sentry AEW.1 (AWACS) (RAF)
- Replies: 409
- Views: 184379
Re: Boeing E-3D Sentry AEW.1 (AWACS) (RAF)
if you look at the Saab-Airbus proposal, because of the size of the wing on the A330, it is going to require two radar antennae on top of the aircraft. Are they mad? Saab have a pre-engineered and in production solution on a UK built aircraft, and instead they're proposing a novel solution on an ov...
- 10 Nov 2018, 13:52
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: NORGE/Norway
- Replies: 110
- Views: 9195
Re: NORGE/Norway
Yep.Lord Jim wrote:Regardless of the above, unless terrain was blocking sensors the Frigate should have seen the Tanker.
Also, stealth isn't invisibility, particularly on such ranges where ship collisions are happening...
- 09 Nov 2018, 13:07
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9744769
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Ok, so if T26 at 700-800 mil. is too expensive and T31 at 250 mil. is too cheap (not capable enough), what could we get for say 500 mil. pounds? What capabilities?NickC wrote:back to my mantra the T26 is too costly and class should be terminated after the first three ships.
- 09 Nov 2018, 08:18
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: NORGE/Norway
- Replies: 110
- Views: 9195
Re: NORGE/Norway
Agreed.Dahedd wrote: Looking at the video with the tugs they appear to have made the situation far worse.
- 08 Nov 2018, 13:38
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: NORGE/Norway
- Replies: 110
- Views: 9195
Re: NORGE/Norway
Then the RN is definitly resilient.ArmChairCivvy wrote:Sad, but it is good that they have 5 ships, but crews only for 4-5.
- room for growth. Or added resilience, as this case shows.
- 08 Nov 2018, 12:24
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: NORGE/Norway
- Replies: 110
- Views: 9195
- 08 Nov 2018, 12:23
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 1996
- Views: 568916
Re: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
ArmChairCivvy wrote: On the Wildcat thread we could discuss if some should receive dipping sonar sets for littoral ASW.
That's what I wanted to ask. I didn't know that they are just releasing torpedos cued by ship's sensors...
- 08 Nov 2018, 07:58
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 1996
- Views: 568916
Re: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
was thinking that the RN uses just Merlins in ASW role? I presume it was a timed experiment: Will the torp (dummies) splash into water, within range, before the target is obtained in x-hairs? - and not about ASW tactics but testing self-defence ( HMS Diamond not being a sub-hunter) capabilities. A ...
- 08 Nov 2018, 06:04
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 1996
- Views: 568916
Re: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
That's what I meant to say, optimistic at least. Also, I was thinking that the RN uses just Merlins in ASW role?Simon82 wrote:Optimistic perhaps, but not particularly strange.abc123 wrote:"The destroyer used her sonar and Wildcat helicopter – armed with Sting Ray torpedoes – to hunt the Trafalgar-class boat...”
- 07 Nov 2018, 20:32
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 1996
- Views: 568916
Re: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
Anybody finds this strange? "The destroyer used her sonar and Wildcat helicopter – armed with Sting Ray torpedoes – to hunt the Trafalgar-class boat , which in turn sought to get Diamond in her periscope cross-hairs without being noticed, a challenge made harder by the near-glass like state of ...
- 06 Nov 2018, 13:58
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Australian Defence Force
- Replies: 2630
- Views: 754310
Re: Australian Defence Force
About sending RAN and USCG to secure APEC summit in PNG, I wonder, have Chinese announced sending some of their own ships there for the same purpose?
- 06 Nov 2018, 13:54
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: French Armed Forces
- Replies: 1878
- Views: 144433
Re: French Armed Forces
Yep, rusty indeed... Reminds me of an old WW1 anecdote about German Army in Russia.
- 04 Nov 2018, 12:57
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Russian Armed Forces
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 68591
Re: Russian Armed Forces
About Yasen-class submarines ( and submarines in Russian Navy in general ):
https://russiandefpolicy.blog/2018/11/0 ... et-part-i/
https://russiandefpolicy.blog/2018/11/0 ... et-part-i/
- 01 Nov 2018, 17:34
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9744769
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Poiuytrewq wrote: Strategically, building a large percentage of the T31's in England would be a sensible idea to offset the Scottish Independence threat, could this give an added boost to Cammell Lairds bid?
Yep, Britain/England must avoid what happened to Russia with Ukraine...
- 31 Oct 2018, 18:24
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Russian Armed Forces
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 68591
Re: Russian Armed Forces
Lord Jim wrote:Pride has a big part to play in all this. Russia still needs to be a world naval power as well as on land and in air. Projects like the modernisation of the Kirov class meet this need.
Potemkin-style, as ACC said.
- 31 Oct 2018, 16:24
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Russian Armed Forces
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 68591
Re: Russian Armed Forces
Do I see the great Potemkin act (Patjomkin) in this? - no money/ other priorities as for carrier aviation - we've got the next (nuclear) carrier on the way (appr. 2035) anyway - so never fear (and the current administration will not need to have 'egg' on the face... capability hols do not :) transl...
- 31 Oct 2018, 06:10
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Russian Armed Forces
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 68591
Re: Russian Armed Forces
These large vessels are going to be extremely impressive when they are fully refitted with the new systems that are available. Does any have actually information on what these refit entail? Imagine how many cruise missile they could carry just for starter! Meh, IMHO they are just White Elephants fr...