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Air Force Brat said:

You two characters are not cyber safe either, I bet your women keep an eye on you and the characters you hang out with on Sino Defense??? mine suspects some of you are spys???

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In my defence. I was borrowing the quote. The Original version fits the message just the same.

Hull numbers on several Black Sea Fleet combatants changed as early as Jan 13 – specifically, the middle digit was changed. Over the course of several days, the following changes were noted (old > new): cruiser “Kerch” (713 > 753), frigate “Ladnyy” (801 > 861), frigate “Pytlivyy” (808 > 868), destroyer “Smetlivyy” (810 > 870); no other hull number changes noted in the Black Sea Fleet or any other fleet area

people in Internet noticed the Su-35 in Latakia Base (it's in Syria LOL) with the high-explosive ОФАБ-250-270 bomb (previously the Backfires used these to carpet-bomb Syria:
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it weights 325 kg (filling weight 94 kg), is 1456 mm long (325 mm diamater) according to

TerraN_EmpirE said:

I am not Ridiculing you, I am ridiculing the claim.

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I wonder if for example an Artillery Battery is dug in, the notebook (used to calculate elevations) ends up under dirt ... will it still work?

Ustinov, Slava Class after modernization back soon in the Fleet.

FORBIN said:

Ustinov, Slava Class after modernization back soon in the Fleet.
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These are excellent vessels.

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What was the modernization? Forbin, do you have list of the ugrades and what was impacted?

Tu-160 intercepted by Rafale & M2K:

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Russia's supposed answer to US railgun:
3M22 Zircon Hypersonic Missile in Development Testing for Russian Navy Kirov-class Cruiser

Russian cutting-edge hypersonic missile 3M22 of the 3K22 Zircon system is in the development trials. The Project 11442 (NATO reporting name: Kirov-class) Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered missile cruiser will carry the type following its upgrade, a shipbuilding industry source told TASS on Friday.

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Russian Navy's Tula SSBN (Projet 667BDRM Delfin – Delta-IV) Back to Sea In August After Refit

The Russian Northern Fleet’s Project 667BDRM (NATO reporting name: Delta IV) K-114 Tula nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) will be put afloat in August 2016 after repairs at the Zvyozdochka Shipyard in Severodvinsk in north Russia, the shipyard’s press office told TASS on Thursday.

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Tu-160 intercepted by Rafale & M2K:

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Typhoon my friend

navyreco said:

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3M22 Zircon Hypersonic Missile in Development Testing for Russian Navy Kirov-class Cruiser

Russian cutting-edge hypersonic missile 3M22 of the 3K22 Zircon system is in the development trials. The Project 11442 (NATO reporting name: Kirov-class) Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered missile cruiser will carry the type following its upgrade, a shipbuilding industry source told TASS on Friday.

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... navyreco you're fast that ТАСС article from today:

says

• the Pyotr Vyeliky is to be modernized starting from the end of 2019 until the end of 2022
• she is to get ten 3С14 VLSs (
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  ): each for either four or eight missiles (to be decided later): "Onix" or "Kalibr" or that "Zircon" (parameters classified, but the article mentions M5 speed)
  
  
  

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related to the VLS: