That isn’t a problem at all, sometimes people don’t like you to be giving such comments. It’s not hard for me to adapt to that. I edited the post, and I hope he’ll read it again and answer the new questions!
Thank you in advance.

There we go, of course I cannot miss such a question, so here’s the edit…
(sometimes you can laugh and give such comments, but since you’re running the topic and you do not seem to like these, I will erase the comment)
Can you give me some extra info on that Turkish invasion? And what the Naval forces did back then? Any ships that sank? Any planes got shot down?
How many of such military conflicts have there been on Cyprus?

Here it is: (I think I got it from Koxinga some time ago).
Hmm, it seems I were mistaken, it still has that single missile. I really start doubting about that amount of missiles carried by this ship. I suppose these canisters are just to test-fire from different positions…

hmm Garry, I don’t know whatever you are all talking about buddy. Electrons are the ones making the chainreaction, of course it could be that you have other atoms on your planet… Of course it could also be the old knowledge I have and maybe they discovered things are completely different. AFAIK, if you can shoot an electron inside the nucleus, you’ll create an unstable nucleus, breaking it into two different new atoms, releasing more electrons, or were it protons? Could have made a mistake there though. However, with the creation of these two new elements, more electrons get released.
Increasing the yield has to do with reflectors, materials around the critical mass, these materials have the tendency to release lots of electrons under certain circumstances (the circumstances you create with the explosion). By releasing these electrons, they make the chainreaction go much faster, hence increasing the yield of the explosion.
You really don’t need all those “precise” explosions for a primitive weapon. If you just blow one piece of uranium against another one, the unstable nucleuses will breach and release their electrons, offsetting an explosion.

as for GDL, I mean there is a topic on Acig, it’s already there, the discussion has been long time ago, I think about a year or two… hence I will take a look at it again, maybe there’s something interesting.

I did look at those facts, you would also know that if you turn that crane, elevate it a few degrees, it’ll have much more trouble handling the missile.
Weather, is indeed something with stability, but if you really want to take it that far, I can go a step further. It’s like opening such a heavy watertight door on a ship. One time it seems to weigh nothing, a few seconds later, you get all the weight on top of you and damn that door weighs a ton!
Even in smooth weather, the weather we had when we were about to change those cilinder coolings, a warship would even move much more. The GM (distance Point of Gravity “G”of you ship to Metacenter “M” , measure of stability in small rolling up to 10°) of our tanker was 4.xxm, the one of the warship I sailed on was 1.7m, as you see that’s only half! This means the warship is a lot less stable, hence will very fastly start rolling (and doing smoothly so). Stabilising fins might help, but still…
The Slava crane argument happens to be 100% true… I don’t know where you got the idea of contradicting that, but it happens to be an ex-Soviet Navy commander saying that. (lots of them work for Cobelfret nowadays). There is no obvious reason to doubt that either. About the cranes, I suppose it’s like you mentioned before. You’re contradicting yourself. It was indeed a valuable argument of saying we didn’t have these dedicated cranes, cause indeed we only had the lifting cranes, although having two ofthem next to each other, giving a much better stable movement.
The Slavas do have a dedicated crane, the shore cranes aren’t. They can’t take that cilinder to keep it non-moving. The Slava crane can. I suppose you don’t really want to bang around with missiles too much and slide it in reall smoothly.
And also, Russia doesn’t have all that many cranes available at Naval ports. That’s also the reason why Kursk still had the 650mm torps onboard… 🙁

I suppose for 170 and 171, we should wait and see till a picture comes out where 170 is really handling a SAM with those cranes…

Oh, that could be right indeed, although I have seen that Gepard was seen as the second Akula II… So, maybe they meant Vepr as number one, but by the stern pod indeed, I concluded they could not be the same class. Also Gepard has a lengthened sail, compared to all the others. At acig there is a very interesting thread about that, with the designations of U version etc. Long time since I read that, time to dig it up again I suppose…
Can you show us the pics of Brest?

Some “news” flash from one of my sources. Back in Soviet days, the ships were fully armed, only when fire exercises were done, there was some time they didn’t have full armament, due to administrative problems.
Black Sea and Baltic Fleet are in better shape than Northern and Pacific fleet, due to their infrastructure. The ships are probably almost fully armed there. In the current Russian fleet, it is very well possible that they do lack some weapons for “certain circumstances”.
The exercises are always done by the top units. All of the best fleet units are involved in the exercises, the ships that are not involved are just junk and filling number gaps…

Hmm, We’re working on the Hazegray updates, but by limited time, it goes a bit slowly…
The Problems with these Akulas is of course that you don’t see them on the deployment. “Kuznetsov CVBG left for Sea” in this thread they mention all the surface combattants in that fleet. But in the meanwhile, I’m 100% sure that in one of the other Northern ports some Akulas have left their spot. Russians never do exercises without submarines.
1 Akula II, which is Gepard and maybe the second is still building. I’m sure the second one isn’t in service yet. Then there is something called Improved Akula. We don’t know any numbers, but it may about 4 or 5 of them. I suppose 4 of them are in service (although this is really only based on estimates). It seems that there are still about 3 of them in docks to complete building. I do think they have scrapped two of them to make some slipways free. So at least one should be still ready to be completed, this might be the next Akula II.
What do we have:

Vepr Improved Akul (active in exercises) Northern Fleet
Volk Akula (active in exercises) Northern Fleet
Bars Akula (active in exercises) Northern Fleet
Gepard Akula II (active in exercises) Northern Fleet

Then there are some less active units, or at least their activity is not really known. I suppose the Improved Akula will be in a better state than the original units, although in the Russian Navy lots of things depend on the captain himself and the relations he has. (or sponsoring towns in Case of the Oscars and Deltas)
It may also be noted that all of them are Northern fleet units. The Pacific fleet is less active and gets less funding overall. Although its activities are much less known to us, so it’s hard to make estimates on that…

Tigr Improved Akula (in repairs since ’97, normally should return this year) NF
Samara Improved Akula PF
Rys Akula ?
Pantera Akula ?
Bratsk Akula PF
Narval Akula PF
Morz Improved Akula PF
Leopard Improved Akula NF
Kashalot Akula (unfunded overhaul, so will probably be scrapped or put in reserve)
???? First Akula, (unfunded Overhaul, so probably already scrapped)

There are about 8 Delta III class SSBNs, of which Ryazan and Borisoglebsk are known.

The Oscars, I really don’t have a clue, but probably about half of them are kept. They are seen as really important, but how far that love goes…
It was reported that some of these subs have their airfilters stolen regularily!