Got you.

You know that they sent a man to the space before the US did? Where were you, your dad and all of the US on that one my dear?

Chieftom, after reading your comments here I wanted to add something. You seem to be thinking that having F-14s in the fleet air defence role would garantee carrier's safety in the hypothetical conflict with the Russian naval assets. I personally don't think so ( also the US chief of naval operations in the 70's has…

If I didn't catch the joke right away, I apologize. Lot of sentiment out there nowdays. It reminds me of not so distant past...

I though it was us here in the US who were pretty much the fattest, laziest and often least educated in the industrialized world. If you think otherwise, go to a nearest Applebee's and see yourself.

It is a beautiful plane.

It really depends where the hits are. Some areas are more vulnerable to the missile strike while some others are much less. Remember the story of Bismark hit in the rudder by a torpedo from an obsolete ( in WW II terms ) British Swordfish.

Good one! Lot of typing though

The first one was that battery's command /fire control vehicle. Normally each battery has two of those attached for C3 functions. Its 336th Marines on the exercise.

It looks like a BMD-1 or BMD-2. Russian airborne forces "truck of choice".

There is no definite consensus on who shot it down my friend. My guess if they had it, they would have already presented it It comes from the authorities to which the plane did belong ( in this case Malaysian ). But we all know who shot down Iranian commercial plane in the Gulf in 1988 in Iranian air space. And who…

When I saw this ship in the service of the Soviet Navy docked right next to us as "Baku" it had pretty capable AAW systems. In fact all Soviet/Russian capital ships had plenty of those goodies. I wonder if specifications for the Indian Navy were very different than ours and they omitted them. Who knows.

In theory my friend any Aegis equipped ship can protect itself from any threat. In reality there is a big gap between of what this system said is able to do & what it actually CAN do. Let's take a look at two separate instances when USN ships were faced with the threat of ASM missiles. We all know what happened to…

Overall it would not handle it very well. During my days in the Navy, they figured out that after firing 20-22 high-speed ASM's at the average carrier group it's ability to shot down incoming missiles decreases sharply. So they would practice hitting it with 30-40 units coming at the same time from the different…

It van be a lot of chaos my friend! Just try to be on the pilot bridge of a large destroyer while transiting from the Baltic to the Northern Sea...Absolute madness. The actual battles can get very crazy with many possible errors on both sides. Just watch the Discovery Channel documentary on how USS Vincennes by…

Its either the Kirov ( with 2 100-mm gun mounts aft ) or Kalinin ( with 1 130-mm gun mount aft ). Peter the Great wasn't in the fleet until the late 90's.

I remember those flying over our ship in the North Sea. Good but old machines ( the Buccaneers )

Remember this visit. July 1989. Good old times!

Great picture, buddy! Keep up the good work!

Agree. I spent a few years at this "resort" facility well north of the Arctic Circle. Good times...