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| Russia to launch new nuclear submarine |
| 2007-04-10 |
| MOSCOW - Russia will next weekend launch its first new strategic nuclear submarine since the downfall of the Soviet Union, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov told the Interfax news agency on Monday. ‘This is the first time in 17 years that we are building such a submarine. Another year will be needed to technically equip it in water and to arm it,’ Ivanov said at a government meeting, attended by President Vladimir Putin. The nuclear submarine, named Yuri Dolgoruki, will carry Russia’s latest inter-continental missiles, the Bulava-M, which went into production last year. The naval Bulava ballistic missiles are equipped with 10 nuclear warheads that have a reach of 8,000 kilometres (4,970 miles). The new vessel will be launched on Sunday into the White Sea from the Severodvinsk naval base in northwestern Russia. Russia plans to build three other submarines of the same kind, Ivanov said, adding that the Alexander Nevski and the Vladimir Monomakh were already under construction. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 Hopefully we'll go ahead and pre-position some rescue equipment. I'd hate to see more dead Russian sailors because their politcal class are all crooked. |
| Posted by: AllahHateMe 2007-04-10 10:23 |
| #6 Well, let's see if she floats as well as that other modern submarine, the Kursk. |
| Posted by: gromky 2007-04-10 10:18 |
| #5 ....Yuri Dolgoruki was laid down in 1996, and there's evidence that the keel-laying ceremony was an elaborate show for the rest of the world. Any submarine that has taken 11 years from laydown to launch is an accident waiting to happen. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2007-04-10 09:16 |
| #4 The West must not underestimate Russia's modernizations of her mil land assets, particularly in regards to deployment of strategic mobile ICBMS. Russia's strength historically has been as a land power -wid CHINESE emigration into the Far East, + the Islamic Bomb, Russia's LR focii will be to protect TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, which in turn means in any major powers confrontation in PACOAS over NK-Taiwan, RUSSIA = IRAN = PREVENT/STOP AMER FROM IMMEDIATELY EMPLOYING HER FULL MILPOL MIGHT. Also remember that both Russia-China = Radical Islam > are counting on Amer getting WEAKER over time, NOT STRONGER. THE GLOBALIST AGENDAS OF THE TWO FORMER, SECULAR SOCIALIST + GOD-BASED SOCIALIST, WILL NOT BE ACHIEVED MERELY BY TEMPOR "HURTING" AMERICA FOR ONLY A SHORT TIME. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-04-10 02:57 |
| #3 ooopps make that sinking |
| Posted by: djohn66 2007-04-10 00:44 |
| #2 With they way Russian subs have been sicking, I don't know if I would want to be on it. |
| Posted by: djohn66 2007-04-10 00:43 |
| #1 With the Putin soon to follow these three. Mike N. All you wee folk, get back to caves and toil! |
| Posted by: Glererong Prince of the Wee Folk3750 2007-04-10 00:10 |