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France shows off cutting-edge navy ship in Russia
AntiPaladin:
Ugh, I hate photo ops, and this is one reason why. Yes, it looks nice... and that's about all. Sort of like the tub in question. Again, the US is using chassis 30 years old that are still better than this bird. And considering there's a total of 10 of those 52s in operation, I think it will be a while before we need to worry about them.
darkjedi:
Russia did not build and buy these ships and gunships with gaining limited superiority over the finer U.S. or European militaries in mind. Russia understands that unilaterally outperforming the conventional warmachines of the militaries of affluent countries in the West will be practically impossible for a long time to come.
It is the less well-trained and less well-equipped militaries of small countries like Estonia and Georgia who might run afoul of Russia's expansionist ambitions in the perceivable future to whom these ships and gunships' latent abilities at quickly undermining their less modern amphibious defense become a matter of concern.
Russia being expected to have easier time launching amphibious assault on their vulnerable sea border can also weaken their conventional military deterrence.
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: relic2279 on November 26, 2009, 01:23:24 PM ---It's not that I am surprised they are, I'm surprised Russia's military tech is behind enough to where they have to purchase their top end stuff from France.
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I guess the real reason is that their only shipyards who were capable to produce big military ship are now physically located in Ukraine which makes shipbuilding a bit of a political problem.
--- Quote ---Overpriced French ships, I say. Russian bastards just don't want to drive the ship all the way from Busan to St. Petersberg. *shakes head*
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Correction: South Korea being a US personal bitch is not allowed to sell their ships to anyone whom the imperialist states of America don't approve ;D
Proin Drakenzol:
Wow... only 19 knots? That's even slower than the Blue Ridge... and we're a 40 year old ship...
AceHigh:
Russians should just design a successor to their Zubr class amphibious landing craft that has a speed of 60 knots....
Actually if those were deployed from some huge slow cargo ship, it would still be effective as hell.
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