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Gerald

01-03-18 11:42 AM

What makes Russia’s new spy ship Yantar special?

https://i.imgur.com/i8daRlb.jpg

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The Russian navy is very proud of its new spy ship, the Yantar, which is now doing Argentina a favour by helping to search for a missing submarine.

Argentina has given up trying to rescue the 44 crew aboard the ARA San Juan, which disappeared on 15 November. But it still wants to find the diesel-electric submarine.

Enter the Yantar, officially an oceanographic research vessel, but actually bristling with surveillance equipment, and the mother ship for manned and unmanned deep-sea submersibles.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe...eporting-story

Spy ship!:hmmm:

Mr Quatro

01-03-18 01:52 PM

Kind of hard to hide what she is in any open waters or harbors ...

I was thinking of the straights of juan de fuca travellled often by SSBN's, not that I live there, but have visited several times when I found this trying to spell the name of:

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepol...l-b-c-premier/

ikalugin

01-04-18 01:17 AM

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What makes Russia’s new spy ship Yantar special?

Same thing that makes Russian hackers special - the passport of the Evill Empire (sarcasm).

We have a bunch of SSBN based mothersubs too, there is a 2nd Yantar class being built, but it will look derpy in comparison:

Rockstar

01-04-18 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ikalugin (Post 2534816)

Couldn't Putin choose another color to paint it besides black? More windows would be nice too.

Reece

01-04-18 06:51 PM

Agree!!:D

ikalugin

01-05-18 04:24 AM

Well,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg

vienna

01-09-18 06:32 PM

Aw, we still beat the Ruskies: anyone else remember the Glomar Explorer, a purpose-built ship created by Howard Hughes to secretly lift a sunken USSR sub during the Cold War?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1p3B-3UX8C...R+EXPLORER.jpg

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...ha_R9TDSQJbGEN

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...gD8nz6TWmPWAwj

At least we sprung for more paint than just black... :D

<O>

ikalugin

01-16-18 05:50 AM

Yea, glomar explorer was cool back in the day.

Today there is a joke that soon GUGI (deep ocean research department of General Staff) would have more assets than the Navy proper.

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