Its being talked about in social media that Kuznetsov group is going to have some sort of exercise off Algeria from 3rd Nov 2016.
Its good that (as reported in media) that almost every single refueling station was denied to the Russian fleet. That was badly needed and came at the right time. Russia need to learn some hard lessons for neglecting the basic support sytems. And I hope they did. Now atleast they will open their eyes clearly to see the need for support vessels and secure stations around the world. I’m having a feeling that in the next 6-12 months we might see a new replenishment/refilling station in the Mediterranean.
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Russia is said to have finally transferred gunships to Aleppo after a long wait. This should have happened much earlier. No idea how many gunships has been transferred if at all this has happened. The moderate terrorists welcomes this move with fire on Aleppo airport area which has been quite silent for a while now.
Russia has been cautious (also due to limited frames) in deploying the gunships in Aleppo and areas where the “moderate” terrorists are strong due to the fact that US backed terrorists are armed with manpads. The Russian gunships have been mostly operating in the Homs region where the fight is against ISIS.
The gunship fleet available to service the entire Syrian battlefield is just too small and inadequate and need to be enlarged, unfortunately thats not happening….Wish China could chip in with a few dozen gunships to help the shortages and also gain valuable combat experience. The earlier battles of Aleppo few months back (& the current one) would have greatly benefited from “flying tanks”. Also the raging battle in Hama which is a wast open area (unlike the dense concrete jungle that is Aleppo) would have been good hunting ground for the gunships. But none was employed since the start of that battle untill the 1-2 gunships finally appeared in videos few days back. It clearly was a recent deployment.
Russia transfers attack choppers to Aleppo airport in preparation for upcoming battle
By Leith Fadel – 27/10/2016ALEPPO, SYRIA (12:05 P.M.) – The Russian Air Force launched several flares over the night-sky in Aleppo on Wednesday, allowing their reconnaissance planes to scope the area for any militants.
A military source told Al-Masdar on Thursday morning that the Russians conducted surveillance flights over southern Aleppo for nearly two hours last night, so that they could land two attack choppers at the Nayrab Military Airport.
The military source added that the Russian Air Force will be restoring the Nayrab Airport in order to help protect Aleppo City from the upcoming jihadist offensive.
Prior to the transfer of attack choppers to southern Aleppo last night, Russian air assets were limited to fighter jets because of this province’s distance from their main military base in southwest Latakia.
On the ground…moderate terrorist have launched their second biggest offensive with mixed reaction. Contrary to the earlier reports/propaganda the Al Assad district has not fallen completely even though they took a part of the district. The terrorists have neither managed to capture the rest of 1070 project nor did they manage to capture the 3000 project.
Islamist rebels attack along the entire frontline in western Aleppo – Map update
http://linkis.com/bnmBT
Beginning on Saturday morning, Jaish al-Fateh restarted its assault on western Aleppo following serious gains in the Dahiyat al-Assad district yesterday.
Initially, a Jaish al-Fateh suicide bomber struck a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) outpost at the Family Housing Amusement Park on the northwestern outskirts of Aleppo. Moments later, as Islamist rebels stormed the site, the SAA was forced to withdraw.
However, within an hour of seizing the Family Housing Amusement Park, the SAA conducted an ambush on jihadist militants infiltrating the area, causing tens of casualties. Upon encountering a hail of SAA gunfire, Jaish al-Fateh withdrew from the site, leaving it de facto no-mans land for several hours.
What “reality check”?
Early this morning littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) was making preparations to get underway after a prolonged maintenance period pier side. After the ship’s diesel engines were started, black smoke could be seen emitting from the ship. The black smoke was a result of carbon build-up being burned off after sitting idle for nearly 9 months.
Source:
LT Julianne Holland
Deputy Public Affairs Officer
Commander, U.S. Third Fleethttps://coronadotimes.com/news/2016/02/19/fire-on-navy-ship-in-bay/
Good to see you post that specific part. Almost everyone with even little idea will know about these stuff and doesnt make a big fuss about the thick smoke….
But the problem here is that Kuznetsov is not given that same kind of consideration and almost all the comments running into pages now are just meant to troll. Sort of venting the anger.
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Since most of the experts here have only see the smoking admiral, let me post few snaps from earlier outings when the admiral was not much into smoking.
Regarding the tug itself, Russia navy will be having more of such multi-purpose “tugs” in its inventory and they are going on good steam with these. So the fanboys can cry as much as they want to regarding Russian navy using “tug” boats in its task force and should get used to seeing more of them in the future.
Couple of those “tugs”, though smaller than the Nikolay…
Project MPSV12 is the newest one, first of which will enter soon. Endurance no less than 30 days. Diesel-electric propulsion with 5.2MW overall power. Twin bow thruster, twin main thrusters and a stern thruster.
In the background the new Project 23130 arctic class medium size tanker.
Project MPSV07, earlier model with 20 days endurance. Diesel-electric propulsion with 4MW. Twin bow thruster and twin main 360deg thrusters.
Some snaps of Ka-226 during its trial in India.
No doubt its going to make a big difference in carrying supplies and in evacuation of the wounded/sick. It’s probably a big leap compared to what the Cheetha could carry.
The Kamov’s layout is the single biggest advantage the helo have in terms of volume for “cargo”
English ship spotters have disappointed with not much snaps of the Kuznetsov task group. No “family” photo of that task group… maybe we get some good pictures when it comes down south. Hope so.
Currently unrelated….
Project 667BRDM that got converted to a special purpose submarine going for sea trials. The SLBM silos has been replaced and so does the hump…
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