Welcome, CSSR Ocean Litter, may you sink in Peace.

Stick with vodak and leave the maritime biz to the Big Boys = USN

Took that long to clear the thing of Yeltsin's empties

Man, they've fallen since Ramius's defection.

Kind of like having an airforce of planes designed in the 70s and 80s.

F-22: Construction started in the 1980s. So what? You think we discovered new magical materials in the meantime?

Mandrake, you can start by making me a dring of grain alcohol and rain water

How long does it take to build a nuclear submarine? 17-18 years doesn't seem that bad.

Oldiron_79: Mandrake, you can start by making me a dring of grain alcohol and rain water

One dring only, pleash

natmar_76: Kind of like having an airforce of planes designed in the 70s and 80s.

Comes complete with pre-hung poster in 2nd Captain's quaters:

I'm still waking up. I read "Borei-class submarines" as "Borat-class submarines", due to the smaller typeface from the article...

It remindsh me of the heady daysh of Shputnik and Yuri Gagarin, when the world trembled at the shoundsh of our rocketsh. Well, they will tremble again, at the shound of our shilensh. The order ish: engage the shilent drive.

What's his plan? A Russian doesn't take a dump without a plan.

natmar_76: Kind of like having an airforce of planes designed in the 70s and 80s.



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Because a weapons system designed in the late 1940's, introduced in 1952 and the last one rolled off
the assembly line in 1961 can't be effective...

incendi: spawn73: How long does it take to build a nuclear submarine? 17-18 years doesn't seem that bad.

It's a tad excessive. We just take a couple of years, and could do it faster if we wanted to pay a lot more in overtime costs.

Apparently, the new missle it was originally designed to carry was a failure, so it had to be revamped.

incendi: spawn73: How long does it take to build a nuclear submarine? 17-18 years doesn't seem that bad.

It's a tad excessive. We just take a couple of years, and could do it faster if we wanted to pay a lot more in overtime costs.

It's not like they've been working non-stop for 17 years. This one was moth-balled for years because Russia is poor.

Is this ship pre- or post- ha-gaffen?

jaytkay: "It's not like they've been working non-stop for 17 years. This one was moth-balled for years because Russia is poor."

Weird that a country with a space program so robust it beat America in almost every major milestone is poor. Almost as if there's no connection between tossing things in the air and how rich a country is...

Donnchadha: Quantum Apostrophe: F-22: Construction started in the 1980s. So what? You think we discovered new magical materials in the meantime?

Development of the F-22 began then, but once the plane was designed in full it doesn't take them 12 years to build one plane.

In this case, they laid the keel in 1996 but it wasn't launched until 2008.

Yet, it took the US Army about 12 years to build 50 Sgt York's and turn them into bomb range targets. At least the Russians apparently have a working platform for their effort.

spawn73: How long does it take to build a nuclear submarine? 17-18 years doesn't seem that bad.

From design to water, about eight years. Actually physically assembling the USS Virginia took about five years. Link

UNAUTHORIZED FINGER: jaytkay: It's not like they've been working non-stop for 17 years. This one was moth-balled for years because Russia is poor.

They should cut taxes then.

Russia's got a flat-rate income tax of 13 percent for these things, I guess

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zerkalo: Oldiron_79: Mandrake, you can start by making me a dring of grain alcohol and rain water

One dring only, pleash

I wonder if thats gonna be the new vodak

Forbidden Doughnut: natmar_76: Kind of like having an airforce of planes designed in the 70s and 80s.

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God, how can something be so ugly and so beautiful?

Quantum Apostrophe: F-22: Construction started in the 1980s. So what? You think we discovered new magical materials in the meantime?

That's exactly what I was thinking. The Blackbird began its construction in the 60's. It takes a long time to make these technologically monstrous machnies. Add in validation, and beauracratic red tape...
Yeah, 1995 sounds about right actually.

calbert: it's 'nuclear wessels' subby

This. I'm voting for the headline to be fixed.

Quantum Apostrophe: jaytkay: "It's not like they've been working non-stop for 17 years. This one was moth-balled for years because Russia is poor."

Weird that a country with a space program so robust it beat America in almost every major milestone is poor. Almost as if there's no connection between tossing things in the air and how rich a country is...

I suspect that their social spending is a tad less than ours.

Now, on the one hand, the beast is built from some of the strongest alloys known to man. But you gotta believe that corrosion has made its way into some very tough to find areas....

I hope that they did not put any screen doors on this one like they did the Kursk.

natmar_76: Kind of like having an airforce of planes designed in the 70s and 80s.


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Donnchadha: Quantum Apostrophe: F-22: Construction started in the 1980s. So what? You think we discovered new magical materials in the meantime?

Development of the F-22 began then, but once the plane was designed in full it doesn't take them 12 years to build one plane.

In this case, they laid the keel in 1996 but it wasn't launched until 2008.

They bought it on layaway.

computerguyUT: Quantum Apostrophe: F-22: Construction started in the 1980s. So what? You think we discovered new magical materials in the meantime?

That's exactly what I was thinking. The Blackbird began its construction in the 60's. It takes a long time to make these technologically monstrous machnies. Add in validation, and beauracratic red tape...
Yeah, 1995 sounds about right actually.

USS Virginia, first in her line for the new attack sub class, started construction on September 2nd, 1999 and was delivered to the Navy on October 12, 2004.

Only Russia would bring a watch to a nuclear war.

GAT_00: computerguyUT: Quantum Apostrophe: F-22: Construction started in the 1980s. So what? You think we discovered new magical materials in the meantime?

That's exactly what I was thinking. The Blackbird began its construction in the 60's. It takes a long time to make these technologically monstrous machnies. Add in validation, and beauracratic red tape...
Yeah, 1995 sounds about right actually.

USS Virginia, first in her line for the new attack sub class, started construction on September 2nd, 1999 and was delivered to the Navy on October 12, 2004.

That's incredibly fast....
Still 5 years. Doesn't put the Russians too far behinnd the curve...
What's 12 years between comrades?

I suspect nowadays a F16, first released in 1974, is a more effective weapon than the F35.

jaytkay: incendi: spawn73: How long does it take to build a nuclear submarine? 17-18 years doesn't seem that bad.

It's a tad excessive. We just take a couple of years, and could do it faster if we wanted to pay a lot more in overtime costs.

It's not like they've been working non-stop for 17 years. This one was moth-balled for years because Russia is poor.

They finally realized that you can run up the credit card on weapons and get away with it, because national security and SHUT UP THAT'S WHY.

Just what our planet needs; another arms race.

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I own a piece of that one! I hope to own a piece of that Russian sub someday too!
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Very cool. The best I can claim is a leaf from the Council Oak, some Civil War regalia and a distressed Pennsylvania rifle.

jaytkay: incendi: spawn73: How long does it take to build a nuclear submarine? 17-18 years doesn't seem that bad.

It's a tad excessive. We just take a couple of years, and could do it faster if we wanted to pay a lot more in overtime costs.

It's not like they've been working non-stop for 17 years. This one was moth-balled for years because Russia is poor.

: И цоме фром Руссие; ыоу нот саы Руссие поор!

Just another nuke to abandon on the Kola Peninsula.

They shouldn't be allowed to have nukes until they learn to decommission them properly.