Russia to buy French Warships!!

TLAM Strike · 04-08-10, 11:22 PM

http://worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=5388

Kazuaki Shimazaki II · 04-09-10, 12:03 AM

Old news. I guess when your own ship design and building complexes can't handle the demand, that's the kind of ship that first gets displaced elsewhere. Even in the Cold War, a lot (most? all?) of Soviet amphibs were built by Poland anyway, so this is just an extension of it.

Jimbuna · 04-09-10, 06:41 AM

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Significantly, the decision to buy the ship from France, rather than build it domestically, represents Moscow's acknowledgment of the pathetic state of Russia's domestic shipbuilding industry.

Sums it up I guess.

Safe-Keeper · 04-09-10, 07:08 AM

Will the ships have to be refit to accomodate the balalaika orchestra?

Jimbuna · 04-09-10, 09:40 AM

LOL

Not forgetting female accomodation

Admiral8Q · 04-09-10, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

LOL

Not forgetting female accomodation

She's beautiful.

But if Russia still has the ability to launch ships into orbit, and the USA doesn't, are we regressing? I think you Americans need to have anouther revolution. I would support it.

04-09-10, 10:30 PM

The Russian Navy leaned on French shipbuilders a lot during the Czarist era for ship designs and ordnance. Then they went through an Italian influenced phase and finally after WW2 designs became mostly indigenous.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, warship development in Russia essentially froze for well over a decade, by purchasing French technology with petro-rubles they can help bridge that gap.

I would not discount the Russian naval design bureau's quite so fast though.

TLAM Strike · 04-09-10, 10:40 PM

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I would not discount the Russian naval design bureau's quite so fast though.

I agree with that. Just today I saw pictures of their new submarine the B-90 of the Serov class.

^Yea thats going to be LWAMI 3.10 don't worry...

They also are building Gepard class frigates for Vietnam and a new FFG for their own navy the Stereguschyy.

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

LOL

Not forgetting female accomodation

I'm not worried about accommodations for her, she can share my bunk...

Jimbuna · 04-10-10, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I'm not worried about accommodations for her, she can share my bunk...

Join the queue ya bugga

bookworm_020 · 04-11-10, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I'm not worried about accommodations for her, she can share my bunk...

I'll see your bunk and raise her to my stateroom!

Jimbuna · 04-11-10, 09:40 AM

LOL

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Kazuaki Shimazaki II Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,140 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Old news. I guess when your own ship design and building complexes can't handle the demand, that's the kind of ship that first gets displaced elsewhere. Even in the Cold War, a lot (most? all?) of Soviet amphibs were built by Poland anyway, so this is just an extension of it.

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Randomizer Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	The Russian Navy leaned on French shipbuilders a lot during the Czarist era for ship designs and ordnance. Then they went through an Italian influenced phase and finally after WW2 designs became mostly indigenous. After the fall of the Soviet Union, warship development in Russia essentially froze for well over a decade, by purchasing French technology with petro-rubles they can help bridge that gap. I would not discount the Russian naval design bureau's quite so fast though.