Chavez to buy Russian subs
 

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americ....ap/index.html

Can you all spell Kilo?

Good. Our subs need something to shoot at.

-S

:rotfl:

You just wait! Chavez will get so rich on the oil, he'll buy not Kilos, but Akula Extreme Uber-edition that has more torpedo tubes and towed arrays and towed torpedo tubes than you can shake a stick at.

In fact nay. He'll buy a Typhoon with Catapillar drive. Then it will sink the entire US Navy and Air Force. Ha ha.




Well, I'm sure he'd love to, anyway :roll:

Naw, before that happens the Venezuelans answer to Capt Ramius, along with his officers, will defect to the US bringing their fancy schmancy sub with them. I dreamt it in a hollweird movie... :yep:

I wonder if this will be like South Africa. Buy the Subs and noone knows how to work them then the lights go out.

In their case the oil runs out. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Kilos, I can almost tell

Russians is still a giant without enough food to keep it running. That's why she tries to export arms to different countries to earn extra income.

And, she has already sold missiles to many countries, including North Korea. Remember the Mig-27s?



Of course, they might be paying in terms of hard currency, and that's oil. However, once they get the submarine, they can reverse engineer it or incoperate it's feature in their own submarines. As a result, they no longer need Russia as they can run their sub project.

China gathered a large number of Romeos in the 1950s. She copied that and gave them to the North Koreas in 1970s. China obtained 8 Kilos in the 90s, and now improving their Song Class submarines by incoperating Kilo design.

This is highly likely as anyone smart will not entirely depends on foreign technology.

Another customer for worn out stuff - welcome , welcome!!!! :)

Russians..will always be willing to buy a new weapon or military machine of any kind. :hmm: I've seen alot of HUGE submarines, probably bigger than my house.

Russia is playing a dangerous game with its arms exports, I don't say the UK is clean as a whistle either I was strongly against the arms deal recently signed between Sadi Arabia and BAE Systems. I recall (I may be wrong) that Russia was in the process of selling Skyval's to Iran of all places!!! I can understand selling some arms aborad, nothing wrong with that... but Russia is selling their arms to all the wrong people, I think its pretty obvious the troubles that are occuring near Venezuela and now Russia is going to throw a couple of modern subs their way?! I don't know why Russia would sell more arms to North Korea either, especially with the state North Korea is in. Surely Kim Jong Il should be concentrating on improving the welfare of his own citizens instead of his armed forces. Typical behaviour of autocratic regimes, sell arms to make the world a more unstable place :down:.

We got three subs(south africa), and can barely manage to run one but we manage to run it quite well methinks...mmm?:rotfl:
http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/ex...ews__national/

Countries have a right to defend themselves I suppose, even ones we might not like very much, but to single out Russia is unfair seeing as they aren't doing things any differently to anybody else. Also its not the autocratic regimes that are the biggest arms exporters either its the US and UK and were not too fussy to who well sell to. US miltary aid to Israel ran at some 2.76 billion dollars in 2003. Israel is the most beligerant state in the middle east and the US even concedes that its human rights record is poor in occupied palestinian territories, and thats not the worst of it.

http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/p...ticle_17.shtml

The UK has a very shady past concerning arms deals:

http://www.caat.org.uk/campaigns/she...t/briefing.php

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...unrunners.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/se...tics.armstrade

Looks like we supply quite a few of the 'wrong' countries too.

I did actually point out our past failings, but Russia does it hell of a lot more consistantly than us! Sell sell sell, without thinking of the consequences of their actions... sounds like Putinesque politics to me "I know, to solve a seige on a school we'll ram the walls down with Tanks and use gas!!" Yes... very subtle that! :doh: Not an example of arms sales, but of one where they've not thought their actions through, with very costly consequences! Of course they didn't take the blame for their mistakes in that terrible episode, same with the theatre seige. They administered an "experimental" nerve agent unevenly without a working antidote... very clever! Killed more people than the terrorists did!

Actually the theatre seige in terms of taking out terrorist was a success. I read an article by an anti-terrorist officer that the Russian method though resulting in loss of non-combatant life was a success as considered by western agencies.

It would be interesting to how it would have progressed had it happened here in the west. I bet we'd have offered them tea and biscuits if they came out peacefully a free lottery ticket and a flight out of here plus a group shag with Vanessa Redgrave.

The only failing for Russia in the Beslan siege was not moving faster. Remember, the guys (and gals) taking those poor children hostage were extremists. No different to ones that fly planes into buildings. They have the attitude 'my cause justifies killing you' and that makes them unworthy of any negotiation.

I'm surprised nobody here has mentioned the French in arms exports, those guys usually do really well at competing for global share. There is nothing sinister in Russia selling weapons to countries like Venezuela, it's not like providing them with cluster weapons and military equipment designed to supress and kill in urban theatres. It's a kilo sub, hardly likely to be used to supress opposition supporters on the streets of Caracas :lol: