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Old 06-19-09, 01:15 PM   #14
Kazuaki Shimazaki II
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Originally Posted by SteamWake View Post
A little off topic but this is what always bothered me about the movie Hunt for Red October.

Here the russians spent millions of dollars and thousands of man hours on a super secret 'stealth' propulsion system "undectectable" yet a seaman figures out how to track it within a few hours using the gear they already had on the boat.
Get used to this being the fate of Russian equipment in American fiction. They are intrinsically inferior. If they aren't some stupid "American ingenuity" would beat them anyway.
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