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Russian Carrier Plans Part One
Bill Kambic wrote:
:On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:50:28 -0800 (PST), wrote: : :See: : :http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russ...t_One_999.html : :Nice plans, but can they be carried out? : :Very possibly, yes. : :The Russians are swimming in a river of petrodollars and at :$100/barrel they will have the money to do the project. : :The expertise? They've got some "in house" and might just be able to :hire the rest. We're not at war with Russia, and maybe not even in :real competition with them. So if a Russian naval attache' offered a :retired USN/USNR officer/enlisted, say, $150,000USD per year for a two :year gig in some aspect of design, construction, or operation of a CV :what might that person say? (These are tax free dollars, by the way.) : :And also consider that the USN is not the only operator of CVs. How :might an RN, French Navy, Brazilian Navy, or Argentine Navy type :respond to such an offer? : :While this would be a real mountain to climb for the Russian Navy it's ne that could be conquered if enough greenbacks were piled high :enough. Of course there are other "claimants" in Russian society for :the petro-wealth they are generating. Thus it's much more a political :question for them than a technical one. : You can throw all the dollars in the world at the thing and they can't build and field what they're claiming in the time they're claiming. No matter how hard you try, 9 women cannot make a baby in a month. This is essentially what you're saying the Russians can achieve. They can't. -- "Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory." --G. Behn |
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Russian Carrier Plans Part One
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says... "Ray O'Hara" wrote in message ... "Mr.Smartypants" wrote in message ... On Nov 17, 7:09 pm, Fred J. McCall wrote: "Mr.Smartypants" wrote: :On Nov 16, 9:50 pm, wrote: : See: : :http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russ...t_One_999.html : : Nice plans, but can they be carried out? : : :Why not? : :Russia has billions and billions of EUROS worth of oil and gas. : If mere money would do it, Saudi Arabia would have a huge carrier aviation organization. They don't. The United States, with a stronger economy and much more experience in carrier aviation didn't build at anything near the rate the Russians claim they want to. What reason is there to believe they can do it? I guess you didn't notice what they did in WW II. Thousands of tanks. Hundreds of thousands of sub-machine guns. Ammo. and all while under attack. And quite a bit of that stuff came from the US under Lend-Lease Not to mention the food and steel to feed the workers and furnaces |
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Russian Carrier Plans Part One
In article 704fd56f-c3d6-4cf4-b5a1-
, says... On Nov 17, 8:38 pm, Fred J. McCall wrote: "Mr.Smartypants" wrote: :On Nov 17, 7:09 pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:: "Mr.Smartypants" wrote: : : :On Nov 16, 9:50 pm, wrote: : : See: : : : :http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russ...t_One_999.html : : : : Nice plans, but can they be carried out? : : : : : :Why not? : : : :Russia has billions and billions of EUROS worth of oil and gas. : : : : If mere money would do it, Saudi Arabia would have a huge carrier : aviation organization. : : They don't. : : The United States, with a stronger economy and much more experience in : carrier aviation didn't build at anything near the rate the Russians : claim they want to. : : What reason is there to believe they can do it? : : :I guess you didn't notice what they did in WW II. : :Thousands of tanks. : :Hundreds of thousands of sub-machine guns. : :Ammo. : :and all while under attack. : I guess you don't know the difference between manufacturing bullets and building carrier strike groups. I guess you believe that the Soviets never had any kind of navy and now Russia is venturing into naval shipbuilding for the very first time EVER!! Were you to actually study Russia a bit you will find they never really have operated a Blue Water navy successfully... |
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Russian Carrier Plans Part One
tankfixer wrote:
:In article a86ec029-67d2-48c9-916b-4fd3b945b993 , says... : : Now you're trying to tell us that Russia has NO shipyards and no deep : water ports. : : :None with ready access to the worlds oceans..... : Sorry, but you need to buy a map. Once you do, find Murmansk and Vladivostok. Unless you maintain that the Atlantic and Pacific are not part of "the worlds [sic] oceans" your comment above stands shown as false. -- "They made hypocrite judgments after the fact But the name of the game is be hit and hit back." -- "Boom Boom Mancini", Warren Zevon |
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Russian Carrier Plans Part One
tankfixer wrote:
:In article 25981310-6d6d-4057-8871-4fc6e6e776c3 , says... : On Nov 19, 12:07 pm, Fred J. McCall wrote: : "dott.Piergiorgio" wrote: : : :Fred J. McCall ha scritto: : : : : I guess you're just a stupid troll who is unable to correct his own : : ignorance and so has to engage in stupid strawman arguments, as above. : : : : Hint: I know more about the Soviet Navy and Soviet shipbuilding than : : you ever will. : : : : Hint: There's a big difference between 'naval shipbuilding' and : : suddenly building and operating a bunch of carrier battle groups. : : : : Hint: The United States, with a bigger shipbuilding establishment, : : more money, and a long history of carrier aviation and everything : : associated with it, NEVER build at the rate the Russians claim they : : are going to sustain. : : : : Hint: The Russians talk about a lot of things. They actually do very : : few of them. Just think of it as a modern version of Potemkin : : Villages. : : : ear Fred: : : : :Let's return to the topic. I known that you known well about soviet : :Navy, in your opinion, the (relatively) little knowledge in CV : :construction accrued by the soviet, through Moskvas, Kievs and : :Kutnetzovs is lost in the last 15 or so years or not ? : : : : The problem isn't pure construction. However, none of those ships are : actually aircraft carriers. They range from helicopter carriers that : the USSR quickly discovered weren't big enough for the job (hence only : building a pair of Moskvas rather than the 12 originally planned) : through a strike cruiser with aviation assets (Kiev, with a handful of : very limited fixed wing assets) up through what I would call an : aviation-capable strike cruiser (Kutnetzov) with a few dozen : relatively capable fixed-wing aircraft. : : The real issue is that they won't be able to come up with crews and : infrastructure on the scale they're talking about even if they can : design a real carrier and build them that fast (keeping in mind that : they'd also be cranking out escorts and such at the same time). : : Funny how the Allies managed to build literally hundreds of warships : and thousands of freighters and managed to man them all in 6 short : years of war. : : :Funny how the Russians didn't...... : Also funny how there is, from 's view (gotta love those odd Candahoovian names - 'bcpg'), there is apparently no difference between merchants and cheap escorts (both easy to build and relatively easy to man) and an entire carrier aviation organization that doesn't even exist right now. One more time for our stupid Canadian friend's benefit. *NOBODY*, including the United States, has ever produced anything like modern carrier strike groups at the speed Russia claims they're going to produce them. If nations with long histories of carrier aviation are unable to do it, what makes him think the Russians will somehow manage it? -- "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." -- Thomas Jefferson |
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Russian Carrier Plans Part One
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says... tankfixer wrote: :In article a86ec029-67d2-48c9-916b-4fd3b945b993 , says... : : Now you're trying to tell us that Russia has NO shipyards and no deep : water ports. : : :None with ready access to the worlds oceans..... : Sorry, but you need to buy a map. Once you do, find Murmansk and Vladivostok. Unless you maintain that the Atlantic and Pacific are not part of "the worlds [sic] oceans" your comment above stands shown as false. Funny how to transit out of Vladivostok you have to pass through fairly narrow straits not under the control of Russia. One of which has a bit of bad karma when it comes to the Russian Fleet... Murmansk has a bit of a problem with year round access too. |
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Russian Carrier Plans Part One
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:04:28 -0700, Fred J. McCall
wrote: Don't tell them that. They go in and out of there year round. I've been up there in October and November and it all looked pretty ice free from what I could see. The long term Russian goal has been reliable warm water ports. During WWII were there not periods where Murmask could not be used due to ice? IIRC Vladovostok is mostly ice free, but not strategically well situated. Of course, with the Earth getting warmer, maybe Murmask will become a tourist destination and they'll start homesteading in Siberia! :-) |
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