Russian 'Lira' ('Alfa') Submarines

[Subnuts]

Really cool imgur gallery on the Alfa with construction pics and diagrams: http://imgur.com/a/WyJ20

[Mr Quatro]

She was used mostly for training and for planing what to do for the next generation of submarines.

They did not use her for following USN FBM's on patrol in the Med they used Novembers for that duty, but from what I know they used her to intercept USN SSN's that were caught or suspected of following Russian FBM's.

Their jet fighter pilots fly by wire with the ground always in control which is why I think she was used by the Arm chair admirals to show off Russians mighty know how.

All gone now both the cold war and the men and weapons systems they designed. The Alfa is too hot with the nuclear reactor removed to be used as a musem memory.

At 44 knots you could hear one a long ways away ... not that I ever heard one lol

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Subnuts

Really cool imgur gallery on the Alfa with construction pics and diagrams: http://imgur.com/a/WyJ20

Your right subnuts, this link leads to some really cool pictures and information about Alfa class submarines.

You know how sometimes a person will save a link, but not really go there?
That's what I did back in February ... this morning I was bored and saw the link in my favorites folder for subsim.

My respect for Russian tech advances went up a bit higher ... how did they ever get the big boys with the money to approve of this I will never understand.

What else is lurking in their minds while the budget is low, ready to produce as soon as they can get more oil money into their banks?

[Kapitan]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Your right subnuts, this link leads to some really cool pictures and information about Alfa class submarines.

You know how sometimes a person will save a link, but not really go there?
That's what I did back in February ... this morning I was bored and saw the link in my favorites folder for subsim.

My respect for Russian tech advances went up a bit higher ... how did they ever get the big boys with the money to approve of this I will never understand.

What else is lurking in their minds while the budget is low, ready to produce as soon as they can get more oil money into their banks?

While the budget is certainly alot lower than in soviet times, the Russian federation still maintains the 3rd largest defence budget in the world and its expect this year to rise to $96bn USD

In contrast the UK budget is $60bn while the american budget is some $630bn

[ikalugin]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

What else is lurking in their minds while the budget is low, ready to produce as soon as they can get more oil money into their banks?

Defense (and other critical) spending is balanced against the stable incomes such as non oil/gas/foreighn trade taxes.

[Kapitan]

Originally Posted by ikalugin

Defense (and other critical) spending is balanced against the stable incomes such as non oil/gas/foreighn trade taxes.

Very correct which means your total spending in percentage to GDP is around 4.5% expected to rise to 4.7% this year.
The USA on the other hand has declined from 4.6% in 2011 to 3.5% in 2014.

Figures obtained from the world bank data pool

At the moment due to low oil prices Russia is hurting plus the sanctions what is it now over there 70ruble to 1 USD ?