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Bill Nichols
06-25-07, 12:59 PM
Is is just me, or are the Russians always smoking?

http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/webphoto/web_070621-N-5758H-280.jpg

The guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon (DDG 58), HMS Portland (F79) of the United Kingdom, FS La Fayette (F710) of France and RFS Admiral Chabanenko (650) of Russia sail the waters of the Atlantic Ocean as part of FRUKUS 2007. FRUKUS, named after the participating countries was created in 2003 to aid talks between France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The countries will participate in a five-day exercise at Naval Station Norfolk and in the waters off the Virginia and North Carolina coast. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kenneth R. Hendrix (RELEASED)
TLAM Strike
06-25-07, 01:13 PM
I think its so their Helo pilots can find their way back to the boat without having it transmit a signal for them to home in on. :p

EMCON Russian Style. :yep:
Deamon
06-25-07, 01:32 PM
Hey is it just me or is the russian ship painted in a dull black ?
Deamon
06-25-07, 02:14 PM
On this pic it doesn't smoke: http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/070615-N-5758H-266.jpg
Letum
06-25-07, 03:18 PM
Very little wake....are moden war ships designed to reduce wake? :hmm:
fatty
06-25-07, 03:28 PM
Very little wake....are moden war ships designed to reduce wake? :hmm:

I think they're just going slow.
Penelope_Grey
06-25-07, 03:31 PM
For a minute then I thought somebody had caught me having a sneak puff...:|\\:rotfl:
Kapitan
06-25-07, 04:43 PM
i think you will find the sovvy there is cleaning out her stacks either that or its burning a heck of a load of oil !!!

and the hully is pained very very dark grey as its come from the northern fleet, go to the baltic and its battleship grey same colour as the rest of them.
Heibges
06-25-07, 08:43 PM
That's the smoke from the large still on board for making vodka.
bookworm_020
06-25-07, 09:28 PM
Maybe there all having a BBQ, with a shot of vodka trwon into the mix??:hmm:
Jimbuna
06-26-07, 08:51 AM
Don't they still use coal fired boilers? :hmm:
fatty
06-26-07, 08:55 AM
Don't they still use coal fired boilers? :hmm:

COGAG
Jimbuna
06-26-07, 10:30 AM
Don't they still use coal fired boilers? :hmm:

COGAG

Oh, right!....gas from coal ;)
HunterICX
06-26-07, 10:42 AM
nah , the turbines are using a bit of oil so what :lol:
dean_acheson
06-26-07, 11:34 AM
oh Bill....... :hmm:

Wow, that thing looks an'old Pinto a buddy of mine had....
Konovalov
06-26-07, 11:37 AM
Running a bit rich perhaps? :)
bookworm_020
06-26-07, 06:57 PM
They left the choke on???
CCIP
06-26-07, 10:20 PM
Oh none of you have it right. It's one of the crew lighting up a Belomor (infamous ridiculously-smoky Soviet-era papirosa). I could tell right away. :shifty:

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/1476/belomorrv7.jpg
Heibges
06-26-07, 10:49 PM
Oh none of you have it right. It's one of the crew lighting up a Belomor (infamous ridiculously-smoky Soviet-era papirosa). I could tell right away. :shifty:

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/1476/belomorrv7.jpg

We're those also known as Opal's or am I thinking of something else?