That's comforting.

The Bulava (SS-NX-30), developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology, is designed for deployment on Borey-class Project 955 nuclear-powered submarines. The first submarine in the series, the Yury Dolgoruky, was built at the Sevmash shipyard in the northern Arkhangelsk Region and is currently undergoing sea trials.

I wonder if that puppy off shore of Venezuela doing trials with their little "exercises".

I'm hoping all this leads to the band getting back together.

Kamchatka?

MEh. US Tridents have 24 of dem puppies...

Patrick Swayze is dying, and this is your headline?

Good thing that the cold war is over or I would be real scared.

This is a lame attempt at showing their arsenal is still up to par.

Weapons systems sales for Russia/China/France/US are still a big deal, and if you want the advanced stuff, there really are only two shops to go to. This is pretty much a doorbuster advertisement for Russian arms.

In the era of nuclear missles, "better" is really a non-issue. Our nukes have far better accuracy and dependability and everyone knows it. Russia makes up for their shiatty accuracy with their higher yields. It doesn't matter if your nuke is within 1,000 yards if you throw a high enough yield into the mix.

tshetter: Kamchatka?


Kamchatka is game to you?! How bout I take your little board and smash it!!

JesterGirl: tshetter: Kamchatka?


Kamchatka is game to you?! How bout I take your little board and smash it!!

I will take Kamchatka and move south, you cannot stop my invasion!!

JesterGirl: tshetter: Kamchatka?

Kamchatka is game to you?! How bout I take your little board and smash it!!



Never start a land war in Asia

Great.
Now we'll have nuclear non-proliferation vermin again,
and bad doomsday, made for tv movies on ABC.

10 warheads per missile? they forgot to add that mid air (or mid space) the 10 warheads can break off the missile and shoot into 10 different directions...

RAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

SI
YA!

Russia is really making it their business to flex their muscles like a beach going douchebag.

michaeld5:
...and bad doomsday, made for tv movies on ABC.

You say that like it's a bad thing!

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: Russia is really making it their business to flex their muscles like a beach going douchebag.

Next thing you know they'll all be sporting blow out haircuts and orange spray-tan.

michaeld5: Great.
Now we'll have nuclear non-proliferation vermin again,
and bad doomsday, made for tv movies on ABC.

Better than that, doomsday radioactive zombie movies!

Mulva?

Good thing we don't have McCain in the White House, or somebody might put up a fight instead of bending over and surrendeing.

But...
Glorious Leader looked into Putin's eyes, saw his soul....
Saw a kindred spirit...

Oh wait a sec...
shiat

tshetter: Kamchatka?

Came here to make a RISK reference.
See that my work has been done for me.

michaeld5: Great.
Now we'll have nuclear non-proliferation vermin again,
and bad doomsday, made for tv movies on ABC.

The Day after was pretty good for it's time.

And great. It's Cold War II: Nuclear Boogalo.

hardinparamedic: michaeld5: Great.
Now we'll have nuclear non-proliferation vermin again,
and bad doomsday, made for tv movies on ABC.

The Day after was pretty good for it's time.

And great. It's Cold War II: Nuclear Boogalo.

It's only Cold War part II if both sides have the ability and will to make a go of it. The Russians have the political will, but only so much ability- they have to be content to rattle their saber at Eastern Europe now. No more of this spreading their influence globally; they can't project power that far and everybody knows it. Even within Eastern Europe their power only goes so far; many of those countries remember the Soviet hegemony over their lands, and they don't recall those days with much fondness. However, the US doesn't necessarily have the political will to play ball; it remains to be seen how Obama's foreign policy tone will be. He might be a pushover, he might show strength and resolve.

Really, if there is a sequel, it will be a pale shadow of the original.

A Typhoon-class sub in the White Sea? What are the odds we can get it to defect to the US?

/We could take a look at these Bulavas up close.
//And their experimental silent drive.

Union of Concerned Scientists is a good site. Of course, they are biased against nuclear war, so take what they say with a grain of salt.

Just for old time's sake: at the tone the time will be... 5 minutes to midnight.

Arkanaut: A Typhoon-class sub in the White Sea? What are the odds we can get it to defect to the US?

/We could take a look at these Bulavas up close.
//And their experimental silent drive.

One ping only!

Obscure?

I'm trying to understand.... Don't these dumb asses know that all war efforts (cold or otherwise), is over?

There was a time when a Bulova watch was The Shiat. I got one for a first communion present and everybody was like "oooooohhhhh".

Looks like it's time we watch them around the clock.

CasperImproved

I'm trying to understand.... Don't these dumb asses know that all war efforts (cold or otherwise), is over?

Venezuela and the Russians are having a little circle jerk right now, leave them alone.

I came here for the Fallout 3 screenshots, and am fairly disappointed.

This is why we can't have nice things, like puppies, unicorns, and rainbows for everyone. The world is filled with bad people, and Barack Obama will soon find that out. Senator Obama wants us all to think that everyone and everything in the world is good. And there are good people in the world. But there are also a lot of bad people. That is reality. People who want to see us and our way of life destroyed. This is why we can't have nice things.

This is why we have to spend money to ensure our military and our nuclear arsenal are up to par. Not that we necessarily want to use them, but if we had to use them, we can't be caught with our pants down.

It only took them how many test launches to get one right?
Russia is on the way out militarily. If oil prices stay down for any length of time, they won't have the money to support their huge military infrastructure (which is already falling apart).