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2009-02-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian Navy admits causing Irish oil slick

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Posted by tu3031 2009-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Having a carrier is not the same as operating a carrier.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-02-28 00:57|| 2009-02-28 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 And India is actually paying for a Russian AC Carrier? /s

Posted by tipover 2009-02-28 01:07|| 2009-02-28 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 We need to rehab the Kitty Hawk and freaking give to the Indians for a dollar! At least the Kitty can go on deployment without an unending string of disasters and mishaps.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2009-02-28 02:17|| 2009-02-28 02:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Having a carrier is not the same as operating a carrier.

In 1957, the Russian Defence Minister, Marshal Zhukov, visited India. In Cochin, Rear Admiral RD Katari, the Fleet Commander, invited him to a banquet on board the flagship. In his memoirs, "A Sailor Remembers" he recalls: (Page 83). "From the moment Marshal Zhukov, stepped on board, he virtually impaled me against the centre-line capstan and demanded to know why we were acquiring an aircraft-carrier. Resisting the temptation to tell him that it was none of his business, I tried to explain to him the reasons which induced us to do so, but he could not, or would not, accept them. The discussion was obviously reaching a point of exasperation to both sides but the climax came when Zhukov made the provocative observation that we were buying the carrier at the behest of the British and to please them."

Posted by john frum 2009-02-28 07:23|| 2009-02-28 07:23|| Front Page Top

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