Totally agree. The Egyptian Navy has no support ships, necessary infrastructure, crews and experience in blue water navy ops. I also do not know if their doctrine and missions are when it comes to such ships even exist. In a way it makes sense to buy them from France if Russia will later help them to train and operate…

It was also a bone given to France and Sarkozy personally for his unnwavering political support of Russia afer 2008 war with Georgia.

Dmitry Donskoy is still in service with the Northern Fleet. New Borei class subs are coming into service as well, so I hope they continue great traditions.

I hope it will never come to this. We have other problems to worry about.

Not really. Only old Yankee class boats ( commissioned in 67-72 ) had to get within 1000-1200 miles of the US coasts. All other classes, such as Deltas and Typhoons could fire off their loads pretty much docked in the home bases and still hit the targets in North America. The range for their missiles was above 4000…

Toadboy65. When it comes to many things, Stalin was a horrible person, no doubt. On the other side, Crimean Tatars predesposition to work together with Nazis and turned over to them hiding Red Army soldiers in the Nazi-occupied Crimea during WW II ( after which 3.5 million of them were starved to death, sent to gas…

It’s not what Pentagon said last week in its report.

Buzz, what planet did you live on last 20 years? Can you back up your claim with ANY factual info beyond regular jingoistic BS? Militarily nobody is afraid of US anymore. Definately not China nor Russia. When US and Russian pilots met first in the air battles in Korea, they gave USAF a very good run for it’s money.…

Goodness gracious! Why don’t we start a war right now? Just to calm you down a little. On the serious note, aren’t the Russians the same peasants that broke throught the Mannerheim Line in 1940 and took Karelia and Viipuri ( Vyborg now in case you forgot ) from happless Finns ? We all are really scared my friend. And,…

Clutchman83, I just wanted to add a comment on one of your posts here. You said “ I don’t put much faith in 80’s tech Soviet missiles as Tyler does”. I could clearly tell that you are not very familiar with this topic, as well as US military history of the XX century. If you were, you would never make a statement like…

I wouldn't recommend to fly any aircraft over that inflatable thing. You can ask thousands of downed US planes in Vietnam what happens if you do.

I also remeber seeing on youtube somewhere Il-76 taking off from the dirt strips somewhere in Antarctica. Pretty impressive & tons of dust of course

You right! They have quite a few strange traditions and this is one of them. I hope the crew members were fine. No one needs more escalation right now.

And this is why we can't balance our budget for decades now & drowning in debt. Someone forgot to show them the map of the world & tell them that it's too big to control. I think it will be over pretty soon.

Because US Navy leadership is not interested in the new revolutionary concepts. They want to stick with things that are "proven" since WW II. They also big ticket items and therefore able to get lot of money from the Congress which consists of mostly professional lawers with little or no understanding in military…

My eyes would get teary too

Great pic! At 20-30 knots the wind must be blowing pretty strong.

I used to play this one as a kid. Long long time ago...

Sure. That's why NASA still buying Russian produced engines for their Atlas rockets

It is also due to the fundamental differences between the US & Soviet/Russian Navy were meant to operate. The US Navy was designed as a global sea projection force built around the CBG's going anywhere any time. The Soviet/Russian Navy was built primarily as a defensive sea denial force with all of it main striking…