The Transshelf semi-submersible open dock vessel has delivered two decommissioned Victor III class nuclear submarines from a Russian Pacific Fleet base in Kamchatka to the Zvezda shipyard in the town of Bolshoi Kamen in Russia’s Far East for scrapping.
sic transit gloria mundi - from over 300 subs alone, to maybe 2 dozen operational today
ReplyDeleteGoin' the way of William R Ziegfried and the rest of us paper AW's.
ReplyDeleteme, me, me! I tracked them - but not from the comfort of an AQA-7 console, no I did it man-style - http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/systems/an-sqr-18.htm
ReplyDeleteThat would be me.
ReplyDeleteGot me time on F, T, EII, C....and almost a Y...
ReplyDeleteThe ship is conducting a Western Atlantic training mission in international waters....
ReplyDeletePresent and accounted for..
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime...
ReplyDeleteIndia to get Russian Akula II Class SSN "The Akula-II class submarines are equipped with 28 nuclear-capable cruise missiles with a striking range of 3,000 km. The Indian version is reportedly expected to be armed with the 300-km Club nuclear-capable missiles."w/r, SJS
I guess this is their solution against PLAN CVBG...
ReplyDeleteThe whine of the limited slip differential was a sure giveaway.
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Yeah. What he said! ^
ReplyDeleteSniffle. Worthy opponents. Predictable. Not completely batshit crazy. Even operated with a semblance of a code of honor. Those were the good ol' days. Who knew we might come to miss them.
ReplyDeleteIceland. P-3s, Late 80's.
ReplyDeleteCan anyone tell me if the Brass Nut is still there ?
(Brass Nut was a bar in the Deployed VP Squadron BOQ ...something tells me that some of the antics in the 'Nut would not be appreciated in today's kindler, gentler, Navy).
We pulled out of NAS Kef in 2000
ReplyDeleteOr USN...
ReplyDeleteif the trends will continue USN CVBG will be their least worry... but yes, such solutions tend to work the same against targets regardless of their flag (Courageous, Ark Royal, Taiho, Shinano Wasp...)
ReplyDeleteFrom W. Craig Reed's Red November "Thanks to Toshiba and Kongsberg, Victor IIIs sported ultra-quiet tandem four-bladed propellers..."
ReplyDeleteNot many of us heard them unless you were lucky enough to have a Papa 3 drop a buoy on top and then share the decibels with ya (they didn't always share...)
In surface fleet, subs track you.
ReplyDeleteback in the day there was a movement in the Navy machine tool world to NEVER EVER by toshiba machine tools again.
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The Indians for a LONG time wanted to be friends with the chinese but have lately realised thats not happening. To the Chinese there can only be one. Has always been that way....
ReplyDeleteAdd in the PLAN building Naval Bases in PAK territory............yea.
Some folks still won't buy Toshiba anything. Include me in.
ReplyDeleteThat picture was a lot easier and cheaper than the first one taken of those props.
Toshiba bastards tried to kill me.
ReplyDeleteCount me amoung the group that will not buy Toshiba....and I have influenced decisions against Toshiba at a number of companies in my post-Navy career.
I used to LOVE these cuts in FASO or / and ATT exams
ReplyDeleteCount me in on the "never Toshiba" group. I've told the tell to many over the years and have made my (very) small dent in their profit margin. Bastahds...
ReplyDeleteBack in the day, we had a bumper sticker over the door to our (secure) CAD/CAM area thanking Toshiba for making Russian subs quieter. Still don't buy their products even though I am no longer in that biz.
ReplyDeleteFondly remember the look on our FSOs face when we asked if we could attend a "propeller machining symposium" at a Black Sea resort, (all expenses paid IIRC) invitation we received in the mail.
BTW the heavy lift ship aka Flo/Flo ship Transhelf was built for MORFOLT by the Dutch company Wjismuller, now Dockwise. It was largest when built and cost about $100 mil. Compare that to the cost and complexity of the US Navy's MLP for about $400 mil with LESS deck area and flexibity.
ReplyDeleteMLP = corporate welfare IMHO