New ship will make Russia superpower on sea, experts say

Ulyanovsk Redux

A Glavkomat source has told Izvestiya the Navy plans to send a draft plan for a 60,000-ton displacement nuclear-powered aircraft carrier back to the designers for revision.
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“They essentially proposed the old Soviet ‘Ulyanovsk’ aircraft carrier to us, which wasn’t built due to the USSR’s collapse. At the end of the 1980s, it was a modern carrier, a worthy answer to the American ‘Nimitz,’ but today it’s literally last century.”

A great example was the V-22 Osprey. Whilst it offered great potential, constant delays meant Marines were still using ancient CH-46s and still do to at least 2014.

The Osprey is to serve till 2050 and if the USMC is to be believed, is the safest aircraft in their fleet. The results of the program will only be revealed with time. Not too long back, there were many calling for scrapping the Harrier, then in development.

I’m not a big fan of service propaganda releases – I work for government and often see truths completely twisted to show a favourable outcome.

OK… the USMC now has 11 operational MV-22B/C* squadrons and 6 operational CH-46E squadrons (and one training squadron for each type).

As of January 2012, this meant 97 MV-22B/C in USMC inventory (and 13 CV-22B/C in USAF inventory) with 39 total of both types to be delivered this year.

Delivery numbers are to drop to the low-mid 20s for the next several years, thanks to a “pay less now but pay more in total” decision by Congress to stretch production out by another year.

Accident rates are compiled in the same manner for every aircraft type, and are public records available to anyone. Kinda hard to twist that into a claim of “service propaganda”.

* Some squadrons have not yet received a full complement of aircraft.
CV-22B Osprey – Standard air force production variant with ramp gun
MV-22B Osprey – Standard naval production variant with ramp gun
CV-22C Osprey – Upgrade program with nose gun pod, avionics upgrade, and countermeasures upgrade for CV-22B
MV-22C Osprey – Upgrade program with nose gun pod, avionics upgrade, and countermeasures upgrade for MV-22B
The MV-22C also features “improved software and cabin temperature controls”.

“Copying US practices” instead of going through the whole process of re-inventing what someone else has already perfected is intelligent.

Starting from nothing and making it up as they went just so they could avoid the natterings of nitpicking numbskulls would be stupid.

Far better to start with a known well-developed procedure, and over time learn what you want to keep and what you want to modify for your particular aircraft, ship, and personnel.

This has given the Chinese a running start, and sped up the process considerably… something I see as a sign of clear and correct thinking, and shows the Chinese are serious about moving ahead with creating an effective capability.

This is no “show” or “prestige” ship… it is the test-bed for future ships which will be the center of Chinese Naval strength..

Indeed, jbs… why the venom directed at Pagen01?

A winking smiley indicates a post that is being made in a friendly fashion, not a snake striking.

No, my copy is in VG-F condition, thank you.

Thanks for the heads-up, though.

West’s Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. says:

Moral Turpitude: A phrase used in Criminal Law to describe conduct that is considered contrary to community standards of justice, honesty, or good morals.

Crimes involving moral turpitude have an inherent quality of baseness, vileness, or depravity with respect to a person’s duty to another or to society in general. Examples include rape, forgery, Robbery, and solicitation by prostitutes.

Many jurisdictions impose penalties, such as deportation of Aliens and disbarment of attorneys, following convictions of crimes involving moral turpitude.

Here is a website that shows what crimes will affect US entry based on that clause:http://www.moralturpitude.org/

Nice to see my old squadron debuting the Lightning II.

Of course, when I was deploying with them aboard USS Ranger in 1985-87 we had A-6E Intruders as VMA(AW)-121.

On December 8, 1989 the Squadron was redesignated as VMFA(AW)-121, becoming the first Marine Corps F/A-18D Night Attack Hornet Squadron. Slightly over one year later, the Squadron deployed in support of Operation Desert Storm.

And now -121 is again chosen to debut a new type for the USMC… the GK Strikes Again!

Article says “The 4200-tonne Soryu-class boats are the only new conventional submarines of the size and capabilities set out in Canberra’s 2009 defence white paper for 12 new submarines to take over from the Collins-class subs from the late 2020s.

Until the Soryu became theoretically available, off-the-shelf submarines included only German, French and Spanish designs of about 2000 tonnes”

However, displacement Type 214: 4,000 metric tonnes

Are you sure about the displacement of the Type 214: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_214_submarine

I’ll go with what the maker of the type 214 says: https://www.hdw.de/en/class-214.html

Surface displacement approx. 1,700 t

Since this matches what Wiki has, then the type 214 is HALF the displacement that you claim, WANSHAN:

Displacement: 1,690 t (surfaced), 1,860 t (submerged)

And no, you don’t add the two together to get a magical mythical number!