What makes Russia’s new spy ship Yantar special?

[Gerald]

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

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-42543712?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.com/news/topics/clep2dp7mvkt/argentina-missing-submarine&link_location=live-reporting-story

Spy ship!:hmmm:

[Mr Quatro]

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/seattlepolitics/2014/06/13/stop-using-strait-of-juan-de-fuca-as-toilet-u-s-lawmakers-tell-b-c-premier/

[ikalugin]

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:
http://files.balancer.ru/forums/attaches/2016/06/07-4204971-22010.jpg

[Rockstar]

http://files.balancer.ru/forums/attaches/2016/06/07-4204971-22010.jpg



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

[Reece]

Agree!!:D

[ikalugin]

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

[vienna]

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-3UX8CY/Uy1Ovk8ETwI/AAAAAAAAPfs/T7IwVH0egs0/s1600/GLOMAR+EXPLORER.jpg


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiO9N3fg8zYAhVT0GMKHTotCWAQFggnMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGlomar _Explorer&usg=AOvVaw0UKN3vWcha_R9TDSQJbGEN

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiO9N3fg8zYAhVT0GMKHTotCWAQFggxMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FProjec t_Azorian&usg=AOvVaw2F07GTBvgD8nz6TWmPWAwj


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








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[ikalugin]

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.