Russian Akula Submarines

[twyacht]

Capt. Vasili Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
Captain Ramius: I suppose.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers?
Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state.



This cat and mouse stuff has been going on for how many years?

I think it's great,... we PING them, they disappear, we find them and PING them again... Plus a couple hundred miles offshore, is open ocean,..Our Navy guys play the "game" better than anyone...

Let em' play,...

[Timothy]

Great movie with really bad intelligence....

Technically, we don't need or want to ping them.  That's active sonar and if you let out a ping you've given up your position to the entire fleet!  The only time you use active sonar is when your hunting and intend to kill the target!

Russia still has a couple of Typhoons up in Polyarny, see a previous thread for pictures...basically a rusting bucket of poorly engineered junk like the rest of the Russian Navy....

[tombogan03884]

 During the Yeltsin years some of them actually sank at the dock due to neglect.

[Timothy]

During the Yeltsin years some of them actually sank at the dock due to neglect.

Do a google earth look at Polyarny and Mermansk area and you can still see them sitting at the docks....

[tombogan03884]

Thanks for the tip 

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